Microplastics Explainer
MICROPLASTICS are being found across the world and even in our bodies. Want to know what they are...
MICROPLASTICS are being found across the world and even in our bodies. Want to know what they are...
With today’s Earth Day campaign calling for action on plastic production, Adam Duckett talks to J...
Kerry Hebden speaks to innovators who have developed processes to artificially age whisky
Thiago Ramos talks about his role at L’Oréal, coordinating and implementing the company’s health ...
In the first of a series, members of IChemE’s National Early Careers Committee talk to Claire Nna...
Malcolm Staves explains the importance of applying the highest safety standards regardless of reg...
Estefania Lopez-Quiroga and colleagues look at the potential upsides of scaled-down, decentralis...
Séamus Higgins and Ellie Cooke look at a century’s evolution of food and processes, in the form o...
Jeremy Chignell speaks to Amanda Jasi about the promise of alternative proteins
Fiona Ragan talks about her role in process control at Amazon
Arie Abo speaks to Amanda Jasi about using microorganisms as ‘cell factories’
Brian Williamson and Chris Jackson talk to Adam Duckett about zero emission closed-loop steam
Paul Hodges discusses the challenges that companies should consider on the path to a sustainabl...
Experts gather to discuss our discipline’s future in terms of sustainability and the environment
Todd Cline talks about his role in designing sustainable products
Liz Hallifax talks about her role at Unilever as Global Process Risk Authority with a focus on di...
Tahani Kaldéus talks about her work towards a greener fashion industry
Qua Kiat Seng charts the evolution of vegetable oil production
Constantine Tsounis, Bijil Subhash, and Khushal Polepalle chart their journey from undergrad desi...
Protein sources are gaining increasing attention due to concerns about the sustainability of tr...
Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that ...
David Smith discusses the importance of product packing and filling for formulated dry products
A topic often overlooked and misunderstood, Grant Wellwood looks at the prevalence of bulk solids...
Using chemical recycling to tackle the problem of plastics waste
John Blackie; ISBN: 978-1-9993700-0-8; Dyes Publishing; 2019; £15
Conclusions from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s summit on future waste science policy.
Visiting the home of the inventor of a novel, continuous process for juicing and straining. Amand...
Bringing multi-product distilling to Australia
Standard routines and their place in continuous improvement
Hydroponic technology could help us sustainably meet growing food demand
A analysis of a fire caused by spontaneous combustion of food waste at a factory in Texas.
Adam Duckett reports from the launch of the University of Sheffield’s new continuous powder proce...
The Loss Prevention Bulletin's special issue on food processing uncovers hazards you might find s...
Getting around the limitations of battery devices with clever ways of teaming different technolo...
LEGO has announced that plant-based plastic sourced from sugarcane will be used in pieces such as...
Claudia Flavell-While charts the contribution of P&G’s Victor Mills
Ancient methodologies, such as fermentation and cold pressing, are finding new uses in natural co...
The BioFutures Programme will address the opportunities and challenges faced by the chemical engi...
The route from coffee waste to biofuel: Dickon Posnett, Argent Energy Director of Corporate Affai...
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
The prospects at birth for Edward Charles Howard and Norbert Rillieux could scarcely have been mo...
CARLSBERG has agreed to buy UK drinks manufacturer Britvic for £3.3bn (US$4.2bn) as it pushes ahe...
“I WANT the stuff I work on to make an impact. That’s everything I think engineering should be.”
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 has banned the use of PFAS in cosmetic products from the end of 2026 to protect consu...
A NEW drinks manufacturing facility being built in Queensland, Australia will source all its elec...
UNIVERSITY of Birmingham spinout Rheality and investment company Clean Engineering have partnered...
THE UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is calling for the Government to support a national rem...
MAJOR producers of food, ceramics, glass, paper and cars – including PepsiCo and Jaguar Land Rove...
FOLLOWING nine months of collaboration, partners Solenis and Zume have open-sourced a recipe and ...
A PARTNERSHIP between Unilever, LanzaTech, and India Glycols has commercialised what they claim i...
CPI, an independent technology centre, has announced the launch of a programme aiming to support ...
GOOGLE and WWF Sweden are partnering to create a data-driven platform to enable the fashion indus...
BAYER has announced a US$10bn settlement for thousands of lawsuits claiming that that its Roundup...
MORE than 100 public and private partners, including from the chemical sector, have signed the De...
GEOLOGISTS could one day determine the age of rocks by measuring the amount of plastic found in s...
BELGIAN brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) has agreed to sell its Australian subsidiar...
PEPSICO, Nestlé Waters, and Suntory Beverage and Food Europe have joined a consortium to help bri...
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published a comprehensive inventory of all of the high-v...
ICHEME, the University of Chester, and major employers in the region are working together to offe...
NOURYON has launched the 3rd edition of Imagine Chemistry, a collaborative challenge which aims t...
GSK and Pfizer are merging their consumer healthcare businesses in a move that will create a mark...
COCA-COLA HBC Switzerland has teamed up with Climeworks to pioneer the use of air-captured carbon...
BAYER, the German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company, has announced plans to ...
AKZONOBEL Specialty Chemicals has been renamed Nouryon following its sale to the Carlyle Croup an...
CHEMICAL engineer Frances Arnold has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pione...
CLIMEWORKS has raised CHF30.5m (US$30.8m) to further industrialise its technology which directly ...
THE UK Chancellor has warned that the chemicals sector will be one of the hardest hit by a ‘no de...
RESEARCHERS at TU Wien, Austria, have discovered a novel, highly efficient, ‘green’ method of syn...
A JURY has ruled in favour of a terminally ill cancer patient who claimed that Monsanto’s glyphos...
CARBON capture and storage (CCS) could fuel the fizz in UK lager and help guard against a future ...
RESEARCHERS at Monash University in Australia, along with academic collaborators in China, France...
FANS of fast food know how tricky it is trying to squeeze out the last drops of ketchup from thos...
A substance in trees that is usually discarded by paper manufacturers has been used to create adh...
NESTLÉ South Africa is transforming its Mossel Bay dairy factory into a “zero water” site by re-u...
BEER, fizzy drinks, and poultry supplies are at risk of disruption in the UK following a shortage...
A REPORT from the Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Network (LBNet) has identified ten biochemicals whe...
A CHEMICAL engineer from the University of Queensland has created a new type of micro distillery ...
ALUMINIUM producers Alcoa and Rio Tinto have announced a new joint venture, called Elysis, which ...
DUPONT and ADM have announced the opening of a pilot plant in that will be the world’s first prod...
BAYER has agreed to sell its entire vegetable seeds business to BASF for €1.7bn (US$2bn), as it s...
PROCTER & GAMBLE has agreed to buy German drugmaker Merck’s consumer healthcare unit for €3.4bn (...
NESTLÉ has announced it is launching its first product containing a new form of natural sugar tha...
AS we peel the foil off our Easter eggs this Sunday, chemical engineers are urging us to consider...
GSK will pay US$13bn to take full control of its consumer healthcare venture with Novartis.
LEGO has announced that plant-based plastic sourced from sugarcane will be used in pieces such as...
A FACILITY that will convert non-recyclable wastes into biofuels and chemicals for industrial use...
PLASTICS company LyondellBasell has announced that it will merge with A. Schulman as part of a US...
Green Lizard Technologies (GLT) will use dimethyl carbonate and unpurified waste glycerol for env...
DO you want to do your bit for the climate at lunchtime? If so, chemical engineers say you should...
THE UK government has launched a 25-year plan to protect the environment and reduce “avoidable” p...
THAI Beverages (ThaiBev) has won an auction to buy a US$4.84bn majority stake in Vietnam’s top br...
CAMPBELL Soup has agreed to buy pretzel and chip manufacturer Snyder’s-Lance for US$4.87bn as it ...
UNILEVER has sold its spreads business, including margarine brands such as Flora, Becel and ProAc...
“INSTANTANEOUS” 3D printing using holograms could provide an alternative to layer-by-layer additi...
TOFU whey, a byproduct from tofu manufacture, has been fermented into a new alcoholic drink, whic...
EMULSIONS that can stay stable for months have been created using a low-cost, low-energy process ...
A PROJECT seeking to explore turning jellyfish blooms into new products such as biofilters, ferti...
BAYER has agreed to sell some of its crop science businesses to BASF for €5.9bn (US$7bn), as it s...
ANDREW Liveris will take a board position at an Australian battery company when he steps down fro...
SEVEN British universities have been named as founding partners of the £65m Faraday Battery Insti...
AGRIBUSINESS and food giant Bunge has bought a 70% controlling stake in IOI Loders Croklaan from ...
A MEMORANDUM of understanding between three industry giants and Singapore’s public sector was sig...
A SAFER, easier process to apply colour-changing conjugated polymer films to consumer goods such ...
“CYBORG” bacteria covered in tiny solar panels have been demonstrated to produce acetic acid from...
BASF is to establish a new group company to develop and expand 3D printing materials, systems, co...
A GASTRONOMIC delight in Asia could be making its way to the western world, thanks to a new proce...
AN ADHESIVE inspired by a species of slug has been described by researchers, who say it adheres f...
RESEARCHERS in Finland have successfully produced a batch of single-cell protein using electricit...
BIOCOMPATIBLE, biodegradable silk cocoons capable of being accurately spun on a nano-scale could ...
BASF has described how digitalisation is affecting all areas of its business, from product develo...
CHEMISTS at the University of Bath, UK, have developed a process to create polycarbonate plastic ...
CIGARETTES giant Philip Morris (PMI) has unveiled plans to build a US$320m facility to produce sm...
ONE day, fuel stations could become little more than a wall coated with a special catalytic paint...
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