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Tata Steel puts 2,800 jobs at risk with Port Talbot blast furnace closures
INDIAN-OWNED Tata Steel has confirmed plans to close two of the UK’s few remaining blast furnaces in what has been described as a “devastating” decision for the country’s steel industry. The jobs of up to 2,800 UK workers are now at risk as the company moves to decarbonise its Port Talbot site in Wales.
Type: News
Blyth Decision Means UK’s Industrial Reboot Loses Another Site of National Importance
Northumberland County Council today approved plans to put a data centre on a site previously earmarked for a £2.6bn gigafactory. Chris McDonald, the former CEO of the Materials Processing Institute, outlines why the decision has the potential to create long-lasting economic damage for the region – and the country
Type: Feature
Fight for Port Talbot steel jobs ‘is not over’ say unions despite Tata Steel final decision
UNIONS have promised strike action after Tata Steel rejected their plan to keep one blast furnace open at its Port Talbot site in South Wales, the largest steelworks in the UK.
Type: News
Producing fuels from 1,500 degrees of solar heat: world’s first plant opens in Germany
THE WORLD’S first industrial plant using solar heat to make fuels has been opened in Germany. Using a vast array of mirrors that focus the sun’s heat onto a tower, the technology’s developer Synhelion plans to use its process to produce greener fuel for planes, ships and cars, and even low-carbon cement.
Type: News
Unions hold on to hope as Tata Steel begins decommissioning Port Talbot blast furnace
TATA STEEL UK has begun decommissioning blast furnace 5 in Port Talbot, Wales. The closure, described as “the end of an era”, means unions have now switched their focus to safeguarding jobs and preventing a further blast furnace closure.
Type: News
Cemex to install world-first hydrogen process at UK cement plant
CEMEX is set to trial a process developed by Hiiroc that uses plasma to produce hydrogen for greener industrial heat at its cement plant in Rugby, UK.
Type: News
Court: Jackdaw and Rosebank oil field approvals were unlawful
A COURT has ruled that consent given for two UK oil and gas fields was unlawful, but that development of the projects can continue while the government finalises new approval rules. It moves the government a step further along the tightrope it’s walking to bolster the economy while meeting climate targets.
Type: News
Johnson Matthey slashes green hydrogen spending by 83% under investor pressure
JOHNSON MATTHEY is cutting its investment in green hydrogen technologies by 83% following pressure from shareholders to offload the business.
Type: News
THE UK government is “confident” the supply of coke over the coming days will be sufficient for British Steel to continue operations at the Scunthorpe blast furnaces it took control of over the weekend.
Type: News
Next-generation batch technologies drive productivity and profitability
Type: Feature
Refinery Safety Failures – Attitude or Engineering?
How proper design is key to avoiding process accidents
Type: Feature
Where Next for AI in Drug Discovery?
Adrian Tombling explains why drug developers need AI
Type: Feature
John Bewsey describes a new ion exchange process for cleaning up acid mines and brackish water
Type: Feature
IPCC climate change report signals ‘code red for humanity’
THE frequency and intensity of extreme weather events associated with human-caused climate change is going to get worse as the world reaches 1.5oC of warming in the next 20 years, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However, there is, it says, still time to limit the damage.
Type: News
Andrew Livingston, Shaista Bibi and Conor Crowley provide practical advice on this key risk management technique
Type: Feature
Food & Water: Water from Unconventional Resources
With clean water scarcity a major problem, Kerry Hebden looks at unconventional options for obtaining water that range from fog harvesting to iceberg towing.
Type: Feature
Microbes, Microwaves, and Mixes: Eco-friendly Plastics Solutions
Amanda Jasi speaks to innovators striving to improve plastics sustainability and reduce their environmental impact
Type: Feature
Practical Process Control Part 22: Monitoring
In the last article we looked at the assessment of a potential inferential. Here we cover techniques for monitoring its performance and automatically updating it to maintain its accuracy
Type: Feature
Teaching artisanal gold miners to go mercury-free using a century-old technique.
Type: Feature
Andy Brown looks at the options and challenges of moving hydrogen from A to B in bulk
Type: Feature
