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Full-bore Biotech

Adam Duckett speaks to the University of Warwick researchers who are recoding microbes into competitive chemical factories

Type: Feature

UK bioethanol plant warns of imminent closure after US trade deal

THE UK’s largest bioethanol manufacturing plant will close “in the next few weeks” if it does not receive financial support from the government, its operator has threatened, putting 160 jobs at risk.

Type: News

Phosphate Rocks Chapter 2: John

Chapter 2 in the serialisation of Fiona Erskine's novel Phosphate Rocks, a compelling mystery set in the world of industry

Type: Feature

Imperial professor ‘honoured’ to have given Danckwerts Lecture on molecular systems engineering in Lisbon

ICHEME Fellow and Imperial College London professor Claire Adjiman delivered the prestigious Danckwerts Lecture at the 15th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE) in Lisbon, Portugal, describing the experience as an “honour”.

Type: News

UK TiO2 producer accused of ‘betrayal’ as 270 jobs lost days after China deal

UK TITANIUM dioxide (TiO2) producer Venator Materials has cut more than 270 jobs after placing the business into administration. The news comes just days after a deal was struck to sell one of its idle plants in northeast England to Chinese TiO2 producer LB Group.

Type: News

Phosphate Rocks Chapter 23: Nutmeg Grater

Chapter 23 in the serialisation of Fiona Erskine's novel Phosphate Rocks, a compelling mystery set in the world of industry

Type: Feature

Phosphate Rocks Chapter 27: Broken Sunglasses

Chapter 27 in the serialisation of Fiona Erskine's novel Phosphate Rocks, a compelling mystery set in the world of industry

Type: Feature

IChemE Matters – December 2025/January 2026

Raffaella Ocone reflects on 30 years of AIChE meetings, Duncan Lugton talks policy and IChemE 2025 in numbers

Type: News

Tables Turned

MPs answer questions posed by scientists and engineers

Type: Feature

The Case for Safety

ICHEME and the Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) collaborated to bring a local edition of the leading process safety conference series Hazards, to Singapore’s shores in May. The conference theme, “making safety case a reality” echoed Singapore’s intention to implement the safety case regime by Q3 2017.

Type: Feature

A Risk Renaissance

A FEW years back I arrived in New Zealand to help set up the High Hazards Unit at WorkSafe New Zealand, the country’s health and safety regulator. Pretty soon, it struck me that work being done in the occupational health and safety sphere was a part of a greater ‘risk renaissance’ that Kiwis have been undergoing in recent years. Awareness is growing in New Zealand that we need to do more to stop the misery caused by preventable incidents in the workplace, and from events arising in the workplace that affect off-site populations.

Type: Feature

An urgent request: new decommissioning head must bring fresh-thinking to wrong-headed plans

THE appointment this week of a new head of decommissioning at the UK’s Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) raises hope that a fresh pair of eyes might take a different view on current decommissioning plans, which to my mind are entirely wrong-headed.

Type: Feature

Clean Drinking Water Appeal

IChemE's Water SIG needs your help to raise money to fund a clean drinking water project in Cambodia.

Type: Feature

Air Separation: Cryogenic or Not?

Separating air into oxygen and nitrogen using non-cryogenic and cryogenic processes

Type: Feature

Tastes Good, Can’t Hurt? It Ain’t Necessarily So

The Loss Prevention Bulletin's special issue on food processing uncovers hazards you might find surprising

Type: Feature

Shahana Buchanan: IChemE Special Interest Group Chair

Shahana Buchanan, chair of IChemE's Safety & Loss Prevention Special Interest Group discusses how Piper Alpha has shaped her career overseas

Type: Feature

LPB: Learning from Incidents

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

Type: Feature

The Problem Solver

Solving a serious environmental problem on a maleic anhydride plant

Type: Feature

IChemE Members recognised with RAEng Major Project Award 2019

TWO IChemE members, as part of an engineering team, have been awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering’s 2019 Major Project Award for their collaboration to deliver Shah Deniz 2, a “complex major offshore, onshore and pipeline gas development project”. The award was presented at the Academy Awards Dinner, hosted in London on 11 July.

Type: Feature

Presidential Review: Restating and Reinvigorating IChemE

Ken Rivers reflects on his 18 months as IChemE President

Type: Feature