Growing Old, Fast
Kerry Hebden speaks to innovators who have developed processes to artificially age whisky
Features
Where Beauty Meets Safety
Thiago Ramos talks about his role at L’Oréal, coordinating and implementing the company’s health ...
The Benefits of a PhD: An Industry Perspective
In the first of a series, members of IChemE’s National Early Careers Committee talk to Claire Nna...
Ethics: No Room for Relativity
Malcolm Staves explains the importance of applying the highest safety standards regardless of reg...
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread?
Estefania Lopez-Quiroga and colleagues look at the potential upsides of scaled-down, decentralis...
100 Years? Piece of Cake
Séamus Higgins and Ellie Cooke look at a century’s evolution of food and processes, in the form o...
Precision Fermentation: A green route for protein production
Jeremy Chignell speaks to Amanda Jasi about the promise of alternative proteins
Working Hard. Having Fun. Making History
Fiona Ragan talks about her role in process control at Amazon
Cow-Free: A possible future for dairy
Arie Abo speaks to Amanda Jasi about using microorganisms as ‘cell factories’
Clean Steam: Greener distillation processes
Brian Williamson and Chris Jackson talk to Adam Duckett about zero emission closed-loop steam
Sustainable Business Decisions
Paul Hodges discusses the challenges that companies should consider on the path to a sustainabl...
Question Time: Sustainability
Experts gather to discuss our discipline’s future in terms of sustainability and the environment
The Cold Treatment
Todd Cline talks about his role in designing sustainable products
Future Fit
Liz Hallifax talks about her role at Unilever as Global Process Risk Authority with a focus on di...
A Change of Clothes
Tahani Kaldéus talks about her work towards a greener fashion industry
Oils & Fats: Essential Engineering
Qua Kiat Seng charts the evolution of vegetable oil production
Brewing Up Energy
Constantine Tsounis, Bijil Subhash, and Khushal Polepalle chart their journey from undergrad desi...
Novel Meat for a New Age
Protein sources are gaining increasing attention due to concerns about the sustainability of tr...
Pyrolysis Gets Personal
Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that ...
Packing a Punch
David Smith discusses the importance of product packing and filling for formulated dry products
Bulk Solids Handling: Perspective on a Professional Blind Spot
A topic often overlooked and misunderstood, Grant Wellwood looks at the prevalence of bulk solids...
Plastics: Towards a Circular Economy
Using chemical recycling to tackle the problem of plastics waste
Book review: The Dyes – Scotland’s dyestuff pioneers and a century of chemical manufacturing in Grangemouth
John Blackie; ISBN: 978-1-9993700-0-8; Dyes Publishing; 2019; £15
What to do About Waste?
Conclusions from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s summit on future waste science policy.
Chemical Engineering in the Kitchen
Visiting the home of the inventor of a novel, continuous process for juicing and straining. Amand...
The Rum Diary
Bringing multi-product distilling to Australia
Pet Projects
Standard routines and their place in continuous improvement
Ditch the Dirt
Hydroponic technology could help us sustainably meet growing food demand
Spontaneous Combustion of Tortilla Chip Waste: an Unknown Known?
A analysis of a fire caused by spontaneous combustion of food waste at a factory in Texas.
Hands On
Adam Duckett reports from the launch of the University of Sheffield’s new continuous powder proce...
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 s...
A Battery Olympics
Getting around the limitations of battery devices with clever ways of teaming different technolo...
Lego makes plants from plants
LEGO has announced that plant-based plastic sourced from sugarcane will be used in pieces such as...
Victor Mills – A 'Pampered' Career
Claudia Flavell-While charts the contribution of P&G’s Victor Mills
Cosmetics Industry: Making More of Ancient Methodologies
Ancient methodologies, such as fermentation and cold pressing, are finding new uses in natural co...
A Greener Future for IChemE
The BioFutures Programme will address the opportunities and challenges faced by the chemical engi...
Buses Full of Beans
The route from coffee waste to biofuel: Dickon Posnett, Argent Energy Director of Corporate Affai...
Solar-Powered Water Purification Wins Top Prize
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Edward Charles Howard and Norbert Rillieux – Sugar plantation slavery and the birth of chemical engineering
The prospects at birth for Edward Charles Howard and Norbert Rillieux could scarcely have been mo...
News
Mondi agrees £5bn deal for DS Smith in bid to create packaging heavyweight
MONDI has agreed to buy rival DS Smith for £5.1bn (US$6.5bn) in a deal which will create one of t...
New Zealand bans PFAS in cosmetics
NEW ZEALAND has banned the use of PFAS in cosmetic products from the end of 2026 to protect consu...
Frucor Suntory Queensland plant buys into green power
A NEW drinks manufacturing facility being built in Queensland, Australia will source all its elec...
Green investor partners with spinout for novel fluid flow characterisation technology
UNIVERSITY of Birmingham spinout Rheality and investment company Clean Engineering have partnered...
RSC calls for action to reuse huge volumes of leftover paint
THE UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is calling for the Government to support a national rem...
HyNet secures new hydrogen customers
MAJOR producers of food, ceramics, glass, paper and cars – including PepsiCo and Jaguar Land Rove...
Partners share open-source PFAS-free packaging technique
FOLLOWING nine months of collaboration, partners Solenis and Zume have open-sourced a recipe and ...
First carbon capture laundry product on the market
A PARTNERSHIP between Unilever, LanzaTech, and India Glycols has commercialised what they claim i...
CPI launches programme to support SMEs
CPI, an independent technology centre, has announced the launch of a programme aiming to support ...
Partnership to develop environmental decision-making platform for the fashion industry
GOOGLE and WWF Sweden are partnering to create a data-driven platform to enable the fashion indus...
Bayer pays US$10bn to settle Roundup cancer lawsuits
BAYER has announced a US$10bn settlement for thousands of lawsuits claiming that that its Roundup...
100+ partners commit to the Circular Plastics Alliance
MORE than 100 public and private partners, including from the chemical sector, have signed the De...
Behold the Plastic Age: synthetic fibres found in fossil record
GEOLOGISTS could one day determine the age of rocks by measuring the amount of plastic found in s...
Asahi to acquire Carlton and United Breweries for US$10.8bn
BELGIAN brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) has agreed to sell its Australian subsidiar...
Consortium aims to bring world-first PET recycling technology to market
PEPSICO, Nestlé Waters, and Suntory Beverage and Food Europe have joined a consortium to help bri...
ECHA publishes comprehensive plastic additive inventory
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published a comprehensive inventory of all of the high-v...
IChemE, Chester Uni and industry join forces on first chemeng apprenticeship
ICHEME, the University of Chester, and major employers in the region are working together to offe...
Unilever joins Nouryon’s Imagine Chemistry
NOURYON has launched the 3rd edition of Imagine Chemistry, a collaborative challenge which aims t...
GSK and Pfizer merge consumer healthcare businesses
GSK and Pfizer are merging their consumer healthcare businesses in a move that will create a mark...
Climeworks pioneering air-captured CO2 for drinks carbonation
COCA-COLA HBC Switzerland has teamed up with Climeworks to pioneer the use of air-captured carbon...
Bayer to sell businesses and cut 12,000 jobs
BAYER, the German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company, has announced plans to ...
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals renamed Nouryon
AKZONOBEL Specialty Chemicals has been renamed Nouryon following its sale to the Carlyle Croup an...
Caltech chemical engineer Frances Arnold wins Nobel Prize
CHEMICAL engineer Frances Arnold has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pione...
Climeworks raises funds to expand direct air capture business
CLIMEWORKS has raised CHF30.5m (US$30.8m) to further industrialise its technology which directly ...
No deal Brexit will hit chemicals sector hard, government warns
THE UK Chancellor has warned that the chemicals sector will be one of the hardest hit by a ‘no de...
‘Green’ high-tech dye synthesis
RESEARCHERS at TU Wien, Austria, have discovered a novel, highly efficient, ‘green’ method of syn...
Monsanto ordered to pay US$289m to cancer patient
A JURY has ruled in favour of a terminally ill cancer patient who claimed that Monsanto’s glyphos...
CCS could fuel the fizz in UK lager
CARBON capture and storage (CCS) could fuel the fizz in UK lager and help guard against a future ...
Novel smart drying technology
RESEARCHERS at Monash University in Australia, along with academic collaborators in China, France...
New packaging: cheap and slippery
FANS of fast food know how tricky it is trying to squeeze out the last drops of ketchup from thos...
Turning wood waste into adhesives
A substance in trees that is usually discarded by paper manufacturers has been used to create adh...
Nestlé reduces water consumption in South African dairy factory
NESTLÉ South Africa is transforming its Mossel Bay dairy factory into a “zero water” site by re-u...
CO2 shortage sparks concerns over food and drinks supplies
BEER, fizzy drinks, and poultry supplies are at risk of disruption in the UK following a shortage...
Top ten bio-based chemicals for UK economic growth
A REPORT from the Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Network (LBNet) has identified ten biochemicals whe...
That’s the spirit: chemical engineer develops flexible micro-distillery
A CHEMICAL engineer from the University of Queensland has created a new type of micro distillery ...
New aluminium smelting process will cut carbon emissions
ALUMINIUM producers Alcoa and Rio Tinto have announced a new joint venture, called Elysis, which ...
DuPont and ADM launch bioplastic pilot plant
DUPONT and ADM have announced the opening of a pilot plant in that will be the world’s first prod...
BASF agrees to buy Bayer’s vegetable seeds business for €1.7bn
BAYER has agreed to sell its entire vegetable seeds business to BASF for €1.7bn (US$2bn), as it s...
P&G agrees to buy Merck’s consumer healthcare business
PROCTER & GAMBLE has agreed to buy German drugmaker Merck’s consumer healthcare unit for €3.4bn (...
Nestlé launches first product containing breakthrough form of sugar
NESTLÉ has announced it is launching its first product containing a new form of natural sugar tha...
Easter eggsperts: chemical engineers have chocolate eco-ratings licked
AS we peel the foil off our Easter eggs this Sunday, chemical engineers are urging us to consider...
GSK buys Novartis out of consumer healthcare venture
GSK will pay US$13bn to take full control of its consumer healthcare venture with Novartis.
Green LEGO gets greener
LEGO has announced that plant-based plastic sourced from sugarcane will be used in pieces such as...
Europe's first waste-to-chemistry facility provides solution for non-recyclable plastics
A FACILITY that will convert non-recyclable wastes into biofuels and chemicals for industrial use...
LyondellBasell announce plans to acquire A. Schulman
PLASTICS company LyondellBasell has announced that it will merge with A. Schulman as part of a US...
Green glycidol pilot plant in the UK
Green Lizard Technologies (GLT) will use dimethyl carbonate and unpurified waste glycerol for env...
Bread alert: chemical engineers reveal worst sandwiches for the climate
DO you want to do your bit for the climate at lunchtime? If so, chemical engineers say you should...
UK launches 25-year plastic waste plan
THE UK government has launched a 25-year plan to protect the environment and reduce “avoidable” p...
ThaiBev buys US$4.8bn stake in Sabeco
THAI Beverages (ThaiBev) has won an auction to buy a US$4.84bn majority stake in Vietnam’s top br...
Campbell Soup to buy Snyder’s-Lance for US$4.87bn
CAMPBELL Soup has agreed to buy pretzel and chip manufacturer Snyder’s-Lance for US$4.87bn as it ...
Unilever sells spreads business to KKR for €6.8bn
UNILEVER has sold its spreads business, including margarine brands such as Flora, Becel and ProAc...
3D printing with holograms
“INSTANTANEOUS” 3D printing using holograms could provide an alternative to layer-by-layer additi...
A new whey to drink
TOFU whey, a byproduct from tofu manufacture, has been fermented into a new alcoholic drink, whic...
Keeping oil and water mixed for months
EMULSIONS that can stay stable for months have been created using a low-cost, low-energy process ...
EU launches €6m project to valorise jellyfish
A PROJECT seeking to explore turning jellyfish blooms into new products such as biofilters, ferti...
BASF to enter seeds business with €5.9bn Bayer deal
BAYER has agreed to sell some of its crop science businesses to BASF for €5.9bn (US$7bn), as it s...
Liveris to leave Dow for battery firm Novonix
ANDREW Liveris will take a board position at an Australian battery company when he steps down fro...
Founders of £65m UK battery research institute named
SEVEN British universities have been named as founding partners of the £65m Faraday Battery Insti...
Bunge buys 70% of IOI Loders Croklaan for US$946m
AGRIBUSINESS and food giant Bunge has bought a 70% controlling stake in IOI Loders Croklaan from ...
Singapore pharma innovation programme launched
A MEMORANDUM of understanding between three industry giants and Singapore’s public sector was sig...
Spraying electric rainbows
A SAFER, easier process to apply colour-changing conjugated polymer films to consumer goods such ...
Cyborg bacteria make chemicals from sunlight
“CYBORG” bacteria covered in tiny solar panels have been demonstrated to produce acetic acid from...
BASF to set up 3D printing company
BASF is to establish a new group company to develop and expand 3D printing materials, systems, co...
Jellyfish and prawn cocktail
A GASTRONOMIC delight in Asia could be making its way to the western world, thanks to a new proce...
Medical adhesive inspired by slugs
AN ADHESIVE inspired by a species of slug has been described by researchers, who say it adheres f...
Protein made using CO2 and electricity
RESEARCHERS in Finland have successfully produced a batch of single-cell protein using electricit...
Spinning silkworm cocoons
BIOCOMPATIBLE, biodegradable silk cocoons capable of being accurately spun on a nano-scale could ...
Industry 4.0 in R&D
BASF has described how digitalisation is affecting all areas of its business, from product develo...
Making polycarbonate from sugar and CO2
CHEMISTS at the University of Bath, UK, have developed a process to create polycarbonate plastic ...
PMI invests US$320m in smoke-free factory
CIGARETTES giant Philip Morris (PMI) has unveiled plans to build a US$320m facility to produce sm...
Solar paint turns wall into a fuel station
ONE day, fuel stations could become little more than a wall coated with a special catalytic paint...
