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Writing wrongs

Digitalisation progress in pharmaceutical manufacturing has been too slow. David Margetts looks at what can engineers do to speed up adoption

Type: Feature

Moving From Art to Science

The big data revolution is happening, and we must harness its potential to develop formulated products better, faster and cheaper than ever before

Type: Feature

Open Heart Surgery

Air Products shares how it replaced the cryogenic distillation columns at an ageing industrial gas plant without compromising supplies

Type: Feature

Waste to jet fuels project set for take off

Velocys is a company that has developed technology to convert feedstocks such as household waste into aviation fuel, and plans are underway for a commercial-scale plant in Immingham, UK. I spoke to Neville Hargreaves, Vice President of Waste to Fuels at Velocys, about how the company can contribute to the decarbonisation of the aviation industry with its renewable jet fuel.

Type: Feature

UK nuclear faces prospect of Euratom exit

Expert warns leaving would be a “tactical own goal”

Type: News

VW: When the ‘Smoke’ Clears

Under pressure to take shortcuts, when should engineers draw the line?

Type: Feature

Sweet Dreams

IT’S no secret that each year, eye-watering amounts of food go to waste. With that as a starting point, in 2014 we formed TerraServ, a South African company based in the town of Secunda. The aim was fairly simple, to develop processing of waste sugary foodstuffs – discarded mostly for ‘cosmetic’ reasons – into bio-ethanol based products such as hand sanitisers and cleaning products, under the EcoEth brand.

Type: Feature

Safety Investigations are Prone to Bias

Bias can have a significant safety effect, both in the causes of accidents and in the way we investigate them.

Type: Feature

Break it Down

Adam Duckett on responding to calls for a new biodegradable wrapper

Type: Feature

Rigs-to-Reef: Policy Waters Muddied

UK Government needs to take a lead on forming evidence-based policy on rigs-to-reef decommissioning of oil rigs

Type: Feature

Time Has Run Out on CCS Delays

Adam Duckett urges action on CCS

Type: Feature

New Zealand's Cadbury plant set to close

Mondel?z plans shift to Australia to cut costs

Type: News

UK carbon capture and storage funding announced

Research Centre funded until 2022

Type: News

UK MPs warn of damaging CCS cancellation

Committee urges government to set out CCS plans

Type: News

Get smarter with data

Restructuring risks valuable IP being lost

Type: News

Vattenfall sells German lignite assets

Business suffers due to Germany’s renewables focus

Type: News

IOI contests sustainable palm oil suspension

Takes RPSO to court in Switzerland

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Shell commits to chemicals growth

Will double deepwater output; exit ten countries

Type: News

OPEC agrees to cut output by 1.2m bbl/d

Global oil prices already beginning to rise

Type: News

Fighting ageing with AI

AS FAR as humans go, doctor-turned-investor Gregory Bailey is pretty good at spotting patterns and trends.

Type: News