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Production at proposed gigafactory put on hold until 2025
BRITISHVOLT, a startup which says it intends to “create a world-class battery cell ecosystem” and help build a domestic electric car industry at its £3.8bn (US$4.4bn) “gigafactory” in Northumbria, will now not deliver batteries for another three years due to soaring energy costs, its co-founder has said.
Type: News
Alessandro Viola explains how magnets can filter out metal particle contamination in pharmaceutical manufacturing
Type: Feature
Health: Taking nanopharmaceuticals from the lab to clinics
Amanda Jasi spoke to Camden Cutright and Nazende Günday-Türeli on the challenges involved in developing nanopharmaceutical technologies
Type: Feature
The challenges of managing interfaces and integration at a complex, world-scale refinery and petrochemicals project.
Type: Feature
Why we must harness the power of horizontal innovation in the formulation sector
Type: Feature
Whitehaven Coal says it will survive lower-carbon future
WHITEHAVEN Coal, Australia’s largest independent coal producer, expects to survive a range of lower-carbon policy scenarios, according to findings in its inaugural holistic sustainability report.
Type: News
UK coal mine approval: ‘I don’t understand why we’re doing this,’ says CCC Chair
THE UK Government has approved the first coal mine in 30 years, despite widespread climate concerns and an apparent lack of need.
Type: News
2018 – The Year of Engineering
Adam Duckett speaks to engineers, schoolchildren and teachers who took part in the UK government’s outreach initiative
Type: Feature
UK’s first industrial-scale carbon capture plant
THE UK Government has announced funding for nine carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) projects, including the UK’s first industrial-scale CCU plant which will be built by Tata Chemicals Europe (TCE) at its site in Northwich, Cheshire.
Type: News
Teesside industry evolves its CCS pitch and pushes plans to host net zero cluster
A CONSORTIUM operated by BP is pitching for the UK Government to support the development of a net zero cluster in Teesside that could capture up to 6m t/y of industrial emissions.
Type: News
UK to rival Russia with £196m advanced nuclear fuels plant at Urenco site in Cheshire
THE UK government is awarding £196m (US$244m) to Urenco to build a uranium enrichment facility in Cheshire that will help produce fuel for advanced nuclear reactors in a bid to ease security concerns about supplies from Russia.
Type: News
Cornish Lithium gets greenlight to build UK’s first plant to recover lithium from hot water
THE UK’S first commercial geothermal lithium production plant has been approved as Cornish Lithium seeks to demonstrate it can recover valuable battery materials and heat from the rocks beneath Cornwall.
Type: News
Sir David Harrison, an educationalist who co-published leading literature on fluidisation, died on 27 March, aged 92.
Type: News
How Are You Feeling Today? No, How Are You REALLY Feeling?
In International Week of Happiness at Work, we look at why asking ourselves (and others) how we're REALLY feeling is business, and safety-critical.
Type: Feature
Graham Herries on the guardrails that must be established to ensure the fair and responsible integration of this AI into our society
Type: Feature
A Greener Way to Treat Industrial Wastewater
With restrictions on fossil fuel-based filters expected in Europe, Aniqah Majid visits the University of Bath to learn about a plant-based alternative for wastewater treatment
Type: Feature
Piper Alpha conference: oil industry urged to maintain a chronic sense of unease
THE oil and gas community has been urged to “maintain a chronic sense of unease” at a conference marking the 30th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster.
Type: News
Parties reach US$7.02bn settlement for fatal Brazil dam collapse
MINING giant Vale and Brazilian authorities have agreed on a global settlement of about R$37.69bn (US$7.02bn) to repair the environmental and social damage that resulted from the fatal collapse of a Vale dam in 2019.
Type: News
