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Immigration and Engineering in the UK

What does the latest Immigration White Paper mean for the UK engineering industry?

Type: Feature

Royal Charter and By-law changes approved at IChemE AGM

VOTING Members (Fellows and Chartered Members) of IChemE have approved changes to its Royal Charter and By-laws, with the results announced at the AGM on 20 May.

Type: News

The Problem Solver

Solving a serious environmental problem on a maleic anhydride plant

Type: Feature

HeidelbergCement sets Paris-aligned emissions targets

HEIDELBERGCEMENT has set targets to reduce its emissions in line with the Paris Agreement climate goals, becoming the first cement company to have its targets validated under an independent assessment scheme.

Type: News

Cattle feed and dye membranes win MIT water prize

ENTREPRENEURS who are developing process technologies to remove dyes from industrial wastewater and help reduce methane emissions from cattle have been recognised with prizes from MIT.

Type: News

A tougher bioplastic for food packaging

ADDING rubber to bioplastic to make it less brittle has led to the development of a new type of bioplastic that may provide a suitable alternative to petroleum-based plastic for food packaging.

Type: News

LPB: Learning from Incidents

A look at how the Loss Prevention Bulletin and its Editorial Panel operate

Type: Feature

Wood awarded Evonik contract

SPECIALTY chemicals company Evonik has awarded Wood a contract to deliver services for a new polyamide 12 (PA12) production complex, to be built at Marl Chemical Park in Marl, Germany.

Type: News

US CSB calls for review to improve HF safety

THE US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), has released a letter calling on the US Environmental Protect Agency (EPA) to review and update its 1993 study of hydrofluoric acid (HF) to improve safety.

Type: News

ExxonMobil stops unplanned flaring at UK plant

EXXONMOBIL has announced that it has ceased unplanned flaring at its Fife Ethylene Plant (FEP) at Mossmorran, in Fife, UK. The flaring lasted six days and led to record levels of complaints from those living nearby.

Type: News

Wood secures SABIC engineering design contract

WOOD has secured a contract with SABIC to design a world-class petrochemicals research centre in Saudi Arabia.

Type: News

A Clean Bill of Health

James Finn describes the development of an award-winning setup for sterile filtration of APIs

Type: Feature

Keeping it Local

David Simmonds explains the challenges of pursuing major projects sustainably

Type: Feature

Transforming Asset Maintenance

Digitisation is helping to improve predictive intelligence and transform asset management, says Matthew Hurst

Type: Feature

Are Your Preventive Maintenance Routines Effective?

Michael Dixey and Pete Hibbs outline ways to optimise preventive maintenance routines

Type: Feature

IChemE as a Learned Society  

Jarka Glassey and Claudia Flavell-While explain plans to achieve the Institution’s learned society ambitions

Type: Feature

IChemE Members to vote on Royal Charter and by-law changes

ICHEME Voting Members, ie Fellows and Chartered Members, are being invited to vote on proposed changes to the Institution’s Royal Charter and by-laws. The vote will be ahead of IChemE’s upcoming 2019 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 20 May.

Type: News

Aramco buys Shell’s 50% stake in SASREF

SAUDI ARAMCO is buying Shell’s 50% share of the SASREF joint venture in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia for US$631m.

Type: News

Carbon-negative concrete wins inaugural CCUS prize

A CARBON-NEGATIVE form of concrete has won an inaugural prize that recognises the potential of using carbon dioxide as an industrial feedstock.

Type: News

The New Normal

Don’t let your organisation drift into failure through normalisation of deviance

Type: Feature