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Neste acquires stake in plastics recycling company
NESTE has acquired a minority stake in plastics recycling company Alterra Energy. The companies will work together to achieve global rollout of Alterra’s recycling technology.
Type: News
Christmas Past: A Historical Christmas Stocking
Martin Pitt reminisces on Christmases past, and brings with him a sackful of facts and figures
Type: Feature
Cyborg bacteria make chemicals from sunlight
“CYBORG” bacteria covered in tiny solar panels have been demonstrated to produce acetic acid from sunlight, water and air – providing a potential feedstock for biosynthesis of fuels and plastics.
Type: News
Six killed in Chinese chemicals plant explosion
FOLLOWING an explosion at a Tianjiayi chemicals plant in Yancheng, eastern China, six people are confirmed dead, and 30 have been seriously injured.
Type: News
Centenary Themes: Sustainability
At-a-glance information on what's in the first of our centenary theme specials
Type: Feature
Fire at Chinese plant kills 38
A FIRE which broke out yesterday at a goods factory in China has killed 38 people and injured two others. The New York Times called it “one of the most deadly fires in the country in recent years”.
Type: News
Adam Duckett asks whether or not your company has a digitalisation strategy
Type: Feature
Novel particles for photocatalytic water treatment
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, have developed novel micrometre-sized, titanium dioxide (TiO2) particles that can trap and degrade bisphenol A (BPA). Further development could lead to a novel water treatment.
Type: News
EXXONMOBIL has been awarded IChemE Gold Corporate Partner status for its UK sites in Fawley, Hampshire, and Fife.
Type: News
Get more from your data, increase yields and reduce costs
Ahead of our coming webinar on 19 June, Stan Higgins says we are not getting the value from our data, and the big gains to be had in increasing yields and reducing costs
Type: Feature
Treatment project seeks boost for bioenergy
Cleaning feedstocks will increase efficiencies
Type: News
Axens wins work on giant paraxylene project
Hengli continues push for superlative island complex
Type: News
Lab explosion seriously injures researcher
Hawaii researcher working with high-pressure gases
Type: News
Sensor bracelet can improve steel quality
Composition and conductivity monitored in real time
Type: News
3D printing to improve membrane technology
Method will allow rapid prototyping and testing
Type: News
LEDs on foil hint at portable water treatment
Ohio researchers herald breakthrough development
Type: News
Book Review: Risk Analysis and Control for Industrial Processes - Gas, Oil and Chemicals
This textbook states that it provides an analysis of current approaches for preventing disasters, providing an overview of which methods to adopt. To a certain extent this is true; however, overall the book does not achieve this ambitious aim.
Type: Feature
