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Carlsberg fined £3m for fatal ammonia leak
CARLSBERG has been fined £3m (US$3.6m) after one contractor died and another was seriously injured in an ammonia leak at its Northampton brewery in the UK in 2016. The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) says industry guidance on safe isolation must be followed.
Type: News
BASF approves investment in €10bn world-scale Chinese chemicals complex
BASF has approved the construction of the core of its €10bn (US$10bn) integrated chemicals site in Zhanjiang, China. The huge complex will become the German company’s third-largest site worldwide after Ludwigshafen in Germany and Antwerp in Belgium.
Type: News
US partners plan 5m t/y DACCS project
CARBONCAPTURE, which deploys direct air capture (DAC) systems, and carbon storage developer Frontier Carbon Solutions have announced an exclusive partnership to permanently remove 5m t/y of CO2 from the atmosphere by 2030.
Type: News
We Must Go Round in the Right Circles
Adam Duckett on the need to go around in the right circles
Type: Feature
Green electricity and electric vehicles: Martin Pitt FIChemE thinks we might have been here before
Type: Feature
Essar Oil UK invests £360m in CCS at Stanlow
ESSAR Oil UK, which produces 16% of the UK’s transport fuels, plans to build a £360m (US$430m) carbon capture plant at its Stanlow refinery, in line with its ambition of becoming a leading low carbon refinery by 2030.
Type: News
Deal to save Britishvolt could see its valuation drop by 90%
UK BATTERY firm Britishvolt has said it is in talks with “a consortium of investors” about a sale that could secure the future of its £3.8bn (US$4.6bn) “gigafactory” in Northumberland.
Type: News
Competition launched to advance low-emission foods
INNOVATE UK and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have jointly launched a £16m (US$19.8m) competition to advance novel, resource-efficient, and low-emission food production.
Type: News
Cutting Through the Noise of Green Hydrogen Projects
Alex Howard and Jonathan Upton offer criteria for determining which projects are likely to succeed
Type: Feature
Ineos announces full chain CCS milestone as emissions are buried offshore
AN INEOS led consortium has for the first time, initiated a cross-border offshore CCS project which takes captured CO2 from Antwerp, Belgium, and transports and stores it under the Danish North Sea.
Type: News
Primark launches its first circular clothing range
CLOTHING retailer Primark has launched its first product range designed to be reused or recycled, as the company moves towards a more circular future. It was designed using the company’s new circular product standard (CPS), which was published alongside the product launch.
Type: News
UK's first industrial scale lithium-ion battery recycling plant to open
UK-based mining company Technology Minerals has said that its battery recycling business, Recyclus, has received final clearance and “approved battery treatment operator status” from the Environment Agency (EA) allowing it to open the UK's first industrial scale lithium-ion battery recycling plant in Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
Type: News
Zheng congratulated by IChemE for insights into Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
ICHEME has congratulated Qingyuan Zheng for publishing a paper in Nature Catalysis based on research he completed during his IChemE Andrew Fellowship.
Type: News
BASF opens centre to research microplastics and biodegradation
BASF has opened a research facility in the US to help understand how plastics disintegrate and biodegrade.
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
Engineering at the Vanguard of Clean Power
Adam Duckett on the ever-evolving timescale for fusion power
Type: Feature
Engineering employers must support neurodivergent people to make sector more inclusive, report says
A REPORT published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) says that there is an urgent need to make engineering and technology more inclusive for neurodivergent people.
Type: News
IChemE Matters – September 2023
Nigel Hirst, Anousha Khan and Alexandra Meldrum have their say on the issues affecting IChemE members
Type: News
Harbour Energy agrees US$11.2bn deal for Wintershall Dea assets
UK OIL producer Harbour Energy has reached an agreement to acquire German rival Wintershall Dea for US$11.2bn in a move expected to transform the firm into one of the world’s largest independent oil and gas companies.
Type: News
