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Sweden discovers Europe’s largest rare earths deposit
SWEDEN’S state mining firm has discovered what could be Europe’s largest rare earths deposit, and says it could help the bloc reduce its reliance on imports of minerals needed to manufacture clean technologies and meet climate targets.
Type: News
Linde joins Coolbrook in push to turbocharge greener cracking
LINDE has formed a strategic partnership with Coolbrook to develop and deploy a turbomachine designed to replace steam cracking with a greener alternative powered by renewable energy.
Type: News
Rio Tinto announces manufacturing research lab in Australia as it charges ahead with batteries push
RIO TINTO is building a battery manufacturing laboratory at its research facility in Bundoora, Melbourne, the latest move in the company’s efforts to make headway in the global battery metals sector.
Type: News
Lanxess to cut 870 jobs amid German chemical industry downturn
GERMAN speciality chemicals group Lanxess plans to cut 870 jobs worldwide. The firm has blamed a deepening crisis in the country's chemicals sector due to rising energy prices brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Type: News
Amgen buys Horizon Therapeutics for US$27.8bn
US BIOTECH company Amgen has completed its US$27.8bn acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics after a legal challenge by the US antitrust watchdog was dropped.
Type: News
46 miners killed in methane gas explosion at ArcelorMittal mine in Kazakhstan
A METHANE explosion at a mine in Kazakhstan run by ArcelorMittal Temirtau has killed 46 workers. The tragedy, which occurred at the firm’s Kostenco coal mine on Saturday, is the country’s worst mining disaster for more than a decade.
Type: News
AUSTRALIAN iron ore majors BHP and Rio Tinto have partnered with a leading steelmaker in the country, BlueScope, to investigate the development of an ironmaking electric smelting furnace (ESF) pilot plant.
Type: News
Norfolk Southern bill for East Palestine train derailment hits US$1.7bn
THE US government and freight operator Norfolk Southern (NS) have reached an agreement to resolve federal claims and investigations over the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
Type: News
Three UK water companies face £168m fines for sewage spills
Thames Water, Yorkshire Water, and Northumbrian Water face hefty fines after a “catalogue of failure” was uncovered in Ofwat’s biggest-ever investigation.
Type: News
Burst water main ‘probable’ cause of Surrey sinkhole, geologists say
GEOLOGISTS have said a burst water main is the “probable” cause of a sinkhole that led to the collapse of a road in a village in Surrey, southeast England.
Type: News
Elsevier launches new AI service designed to speed up R&D
ICHEME’s journals publisher Elsevier has launched a new AI tool to help engineers extract, summarise, and compare information from millions of peer-reviewed papers and book chapters to speed up their R&D.
Type: News
Ocean carbon capture raises concerns over marine stress, say UK scientists
CAPTURING CO2 directly from seawater could negatively impact marine organisms and put them under stress, according to research from the University of Exeter and Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
Type: News
Veolia unveils £1bn pipeline of low-carbon heat networks for the UK
FRENCH utilities giant Veolia is developing a £1bn (US$1.3bn) pipeline of low-carbon heat network projects it aims to deliver across the UK by 2030.
Type: News
Immigration and Engineering in the UK
What does the latest Immigration White Paper mean for the UK engineering industry?
Type: Feature
Using wood waste to produce biochemicals: green chemistry for a green future
Amanda Doyle speaks to Florence Gschwend, CEO and Co-founder of Lixea, about the company's new process to turn wood waste into biochemicals, bioplastics, and biofuels.
Type: Feature
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Judy Raper
Yasmin Ali speaks to Judy Raper, Dean and CEO of TEDI-London, a startup providing engineering higher education in London.
Type: Feature
How the various aspects of theory are essential in arriving at a reactor design in practice.
Type: Feature
