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Arkema to focus on specialty materials business
ARKEMA is to exit the intermediate chemicals business as it seeks to realise its ambition of becoming a world leader in specialty materials. By 2024, it aims to be a pure specialty materials player with a resilient and focussed portfolio.
Type: News
Ineos launches new healthcare business
INEOS has launched Ineos Hygienics as part of its pandemic response to produce hand gel and sanitiser sprays at scale.
Type: News
Ebola vaccine stockpile established
A STOCKPILE of Ebola vaccine has been established by humanitarian organisations to help better prepare against future outbreaks.
Type: News
Researchers look to recover waste anaesthetics
A TEAM of chemical engineers and doctors are developing a new membrane to capture and reuse anaesthetic gas that is currently vented from hospitals.
Type: News
Firefighter injured at US chemical plant explosion
ONE firefighter was injured while responding to a large fire at a chemical plant in Affton, St Louis County, Missouri.
Type: News
Readers of the Lost Safety Case
In the fourth article in his series, David Jamieson looks at what we can learn from Indiana Jones
Type: Feature
Shell to use BASF adsorption technology for CCS
AS both companies work to accelerate to a net zero emissions world, Shell has now added BASF’s Sorbead adsorption technology to its portfolio for pre- and post-combustion carbon capture and storage (CCS) applications.
Type: News
Equinor submits plans for Humber hydrogen facility
EQUINOR has submitted plans for its proposed Humber hydrogen production facility to the UK Government as part of the next phase in developing CCUS clusters.
Type: News
Engineers Assemble: Royal Academy of Engineering calls meeting on ethics
ENGINEERS from across disciplines are being invited to attend the launch of a new report and panel discussion on ethics in the profession, led by IChemE Deputy President David Bogle.
Type: News
GSK to buy biopharmaceutical company Affinivax
GLAXOSMITHKLINE (GSK) has announced it will buy biopharmaceutical company Affinivax, in a deal worth approximately US$3.3bn
Type: News
Company fined £800,000 for near-fatal 2020 explosion
COATINGS company International Paint has been fined £800,000 (US$976,512) for a near-fatal 2020 explosion that caused a worker “life-changing injuries”.
Type: News
Tata Steel to close Port Talbot coke ovens over ‘worsened’ condition
TATA STEEL’S beleaguered Port Talbot steelworks in Wales has suffered a further operational blow with the unexpected closure of its Morfa coke ovens.
Type: News
Investigation launched into fatal hydrogen sulfide leak that killed two US workers
THE US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has launched an investigation into a hydrogen sulfide leak at a Texas refinery that killed two workers and injured more than a dozen others.
Type: News
UK invests £50m in “lifesaving” medicine manufacturing facility
THE NHS is set to benefit from an increased supply of oncology and autoimmune disease treatments thanks to the government’s £50m (US$64m) investment into a “lifesaving” manufacturing facility.
Type: News
Tokyo University researchers find critical conditions for embryo development using rubber rings
TOKYO University researchers have discovered some of the conditions that cause human cells in embryo development to transform from solid to liquid.
Type: News
Personal perspective from Sam Ash, a young technician working offshore
Type: Feature
Getting around the limitations of battery devices with clever ways of teaming different technologies together. Hugh Sutherland, Head of Development at ZapGo speaks to Neil Clark
Type: Feature
Claudia Flavell-While speaks with Yoshio Nishi, the Sony engineer who led the development of the ubiquitous lithium ion battery
Type: Feature
The prospects at birth for Edward Charles Howard and Norbert Rillieux could scarcely have been more different, yet these men have been recognised as two of the most significant figures in the ‘prehistory’ of chemical engineering. The former was born, in 1774, a scion of England’s premier ducal family, the younger brother of the12th Duke of Norfolk. In stark contrast, the latter, born thirty years later, was a ‘quadroon libre’, the son of the slave Constance Vivant, who was the ‘placée’ or common-law wife of Vincent Rilleux, owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation.
Type: Feature
