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Green Biologics closes biochemicals plant in US
GREEN Biologics (GBL), a biobased chemical firm headquartered in the UK, has announced that it will close its plant in Minnesota, US, due to financial difficulties.
Type: News
Neste expands Singapore biofuels refinery
NESTE is investing US$1.4bn in an expansion to its Singapore renewable fuels refinery.
Type: News
Reliance agrees to sell 20% refining stake to Saudi Aramco
RELIANCE Industries has agreed to sell a 20% stake – worth US$15bn – in its refining and petrochemicals business to Saudi Aramco.
Type: News
Two die in explosion at former SSI UK steelworks site
TWO contract workers have been killed after an explosion at a former SSI UK steelworks site in South Bank, Teesside, UK.
Type: News
IChemE announces finalists for Malaysia Awards
ICHEME has announced 31 finalists in eight categories for its virtual Malaysia Awards.
Type: News
IChemE calls on community to nominate peers for prizes
ICHEME is calling on the chemical engineering community to make nominations for its annual medals and prizes.
Type: News
Robert Gore, inventor of Gore-Tex, has died aged 83
ROBERT “Bob” Gore, chemical engineer and renowned inventor of Gore-Tex has died at the age of 83.
Type: News
New recycling facility in Europe will recycle plastic repeatedly
TECHNOLOGY company Loop Industries and environmental services company SUEZ have announced that they will build a recycling facility in Europe using Loop’s technology which can recycle plastic repeatedly without quality degradation.
Type: News
US$130m facility to expand Asia Pacific sterile filling capacity
SCIENCE company Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced plans to expand sterile filling capacity for therapies and vaccines in the Asia-Pacific region, with a US$130m facility in Singapore.
Type: News
IChemE’s partnership with SAIChE ends
THE South African Institution of Chemical Engineers (SAIChE) has advised IChemE it no longer wishes to become an IChemE Branch and so will cease to offer dual membership to its members.
Type: News
Partnership to produce Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in South Africa
PFIZER and BioNTech have signed a letter of intent with South African biopharmaceutical company Biovac to produce the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Cape Town.
Type: News
CRI will build second Chinese plant to produce methanol from industrial emissions
CARBON Recycling International (CRI) has agreed to design a plant to produce methanol from captured carbon dioxide for Chinese chemicals producer Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemicals.
Type: News
Ineos joins NEXTLOOPP polypropylene recycling project
INEOS Olefins and Polymers (O&P) has announced that it is joining the NEXTLOOPP project, which is a UK collaboration to create food-grade recycled polypropylene.
Type: News
Linde starts up hydrogen extraction pilot
LINDE has started up its full-scale pilot plant for extracting hydrogen from natural gas pipelines using membrane technology.
Type: News
Neste studies plastic waste processing facility
AS IT works to commercialise chemical recycling of plastic waste, Neste is conducting a feasibility study as it considers investing in liquefied waste plastic processing capacity at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland.
Type: News
Jon Prichard to step down as IChemE CEO
JON PRICHARD will step down as CEO of IChemE on 30 September to take up a new appointment at the Mineral Products Association.
Type: News
Folayan awarded MBE in New Year Honours
ICHEME Fellow Oluwole Olawale Folayan has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the King’s 2023 New Year Honours List for services to equality, diversity and inclusion in engineering.
Type: News
CNOOC commissions China’s first offshore CCS demo project
CHINESE oil and gas company CNOOC has announced that a carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project at the Enping 15-1 oilfield development has officially started operating. The project is the first of its kind in the country, the firm said.
Type: News
ICHEME has successfully bid to bring the 2027 European Congresses of Chemical Engineering (ECCE) and Applied Biotechnology (ECAB) to Edinburgh, Scotland.
Type: News
Huge blast at oil terminal in Guinea's capital kills at least 18 people
AT LEAST 18 people are dead and 178 have been injured following a huge explosion, and subsequent fire at Guinea’s main oil terminal in the capital of Conakry. The total number of casualties and fatalities could still rise as according to a government spokesman, officials “still haven't finished counting the number of victims", the BBC said.
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