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Adam Duckett on the changes being forced upon us by Covid-19.
Adam Duckett on the changes being forced upon us by Covid-19.
How far has the technology come, asks Parminder Bansal
Chris Lucas speaks to Adam Duckett about accelerating the UK’s emergency vaccine production capab...
Conor Crowley looks at how his team has adapted to conduct good HAZOPs amidst pandemic and lockdown
Timothy Clayton reviews the myriad of considerations faced by IChemE volunteers seeking to suppor...
Six digital technologies that can be implemented now to achieve greater visibility and insights f...
Esther Ventura-Medina wonders what will the future look like after Covid-19?
Paige Marie Morse explains how companies have been using digital technologies to adapt to the cor...
Amanda Jasi speaks to companies that have begun producing hand sanitiser, to help prevent the spr...
Zeb Ahmed and Nick Geary talk to Adam Duckett about the projects they are facilitating to help fi...
Matthew Duchars and John Challenger describe the plans to design and build a facility that the UK...
Testing provides the essential information needed for key decisions such as when to relax lockdow...
Withthe UK Government having announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare th...
Joan Cordiner looks at how operations have adapted to the pandemic
IChemE has accelerated plans to offer many of its most popular training courses virtually in resp...
CPI discusses the importance of bringing an engineering mindset to collaborate with biologists on...
Patients made severely ill may have difficulty breathing and require treatment with machines such...
Amanda Doyle looks at how the crisis of coronavirus is impacting the pressing need to go green
Adam Duckett on engineering coming to the fore
It is a key part of our professional engineering responsibility that we use our skills and expert...
We asked our reader feedback panel to tell us how they have been impacted by the coronavirus pand...
Stephen Richardson on IChemE and the effect of the coronavirus
BIONTECH has said that it aims to produce 2bn doses of its vaccine this year through increased ma...
CUREVAC has agreed to work with Bayer to accelerate the development and supply of its Covid-19 va...
STEVE Bagshaw, a Fellow of IChemE, has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours List for his se...
WITH the editorial team having shut down their laptops until 4 January, we wanted to close with a...
ASTRAZENECA has agreed to buy US biotech firm Alexion for US$39bn in a move that will expand its ...
FOLLOWING three highly-encouraging Covid-19 vaccine trials, the light at the end of the tunnel su...
A PROCESS being developed by researchers in the UK and India to convert medical waste – such as P...
UK PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has announced £12bn (US$15.87bn) in funding for a ten-point plan ...
ICHEME’s Covid-19 Response Team has welcomed the early results on the Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-1...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it will cut 1,900 US jobs as part of ongoing global efforts to achi...
SERVICES company BES has been appointed to fit out the UK’s new Vaccine Manufacturing Innovation ...
DESPITE global efforts to develop and deploy a successful Covid-19 vaccine to end the current pan...
SCIENCE company Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced plans to expand sterile filling capacity f...
SOLVAY has recently launched two new products that could help prevent the spread of coronavirus –...
SERIOUS consideration should be given to decontaminating and reusing PPE to alleviate shortages a...
SHELL will cut 7,000 – 9,000 jobs as the company is reorganised to transition to a lower-carbon b...
EUROPE’S chemicals industry trade body, Cefic, has called for the EU to use its rescue funding to...
EARLIER this month, ExxonMobil announced that it had launched a voluntary redundancy programme fo...
ENERGY-RELATED CO2 emissions have peaked due to the pandemic, but the world is still on track to ...
A PARTNERSHIP between researchers at Aston University, UK, and EcoMotive has developed alcohol-fr...
THE UK Government has increased the nation’s Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity. It has agre...
INEOS has launched Ineos Hygienics as part of its pandemic response to produce hand gel and sanit...
THE UK Government has announced a £100m (US$127.7m) investment to fund a state-of-the-art facilit...
THE UK Government has announced £350m (US$445m) in funding for a green recovery from the Covid-19...
A BLOOD test has been developed by researchers in Australia which can detect Covid-19 antibodies ...
A PROFESSOR at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), US has develo...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cincinnati (UC), US, have been awarded about US$200,000 in fundi...
ICHEME has compiled a list of manufacturing sites in the UK and Ireland that have the potential c...
BASF has been using its supercomputer to help identify molecules that might help in the fight aga...
The UK’s Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced two major supp...
SIEMENS has formed a partnership with process plant designer Exyte to quickly deliver turnkey bio...
A STUDY examining prospects for activity in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) has projected a sharp...
THE IChemE Covid-19 Response Team is supporting efforts to increase the availability of drugs tha...
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has published a rapid review of engineering control...
BP has announced that it will cut 10,000 jobs by the end of the year due to the economic impact o...
ASTRAZENECA is beginning to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine candidate, following a commitment f...
THE Royal Academy of Engineering will make a special series of awards to engineers who are have b...
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK, have sourced and developed personal respirator equipm...
THE COP26 climate change summit has been delayed for a full year until November 2021 due to the C...
THE UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Hydrogen has called for submissions to inform an...
THE Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC) has received funding from the UK Governme...
ICHEME is calling on members and their employers to donate any unused PPE they can spare to a vol...
EVONIK is spending €25m (US$27.1m) on the first stage of a long-term project to increase contract...
MORE than 20 scientists, campaigners, and politicians have signed a letter in which they warned t...
THE Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is investing US$338m to develop and ma...
A US$130trn investment to 2050 could help to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2060, according t...
A GAS leak at an Indian chemical factory has killed at least 11 people and hospitalised hundreds....
ASTRAZENECA says it could begin production of a vaccine for Covid-19 by the end of the year after...
SOUTH African integrated energy and chemicals company Sasol has announced production cuts to help...
UPTO 30,000 jobs in the UK's oil and gas industry are at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic and...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalised changes to a rule that requires coal a...
EXXONMOBIL and the Global Center of Medical Innovation (GCMI) have initiated multi-sector and joi...
FOLLOWING a decision last month to reduce capital spending by 20%, Shell has postponed a number o...
ICHEME’S volunteer Covid-19 Response Team has divided into distinct workstreams, including on dia...
SHELL has announced that it aims to cut emissions from its operations to net zero by 2050 or soon...
CHEMICAL engineer Andrew Liveris, former CEO of Dow Chemical, has joined a commission established...
SHELL and PetroChina have approved the first stage of their A$10bn (US$6.3bn) Surat Basin coal-se...
ONE hundred and one environmental and public health organisations have sent a letter to the US Go...
THE UK Government has today announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare the...
OPEC has agreed to cut global oil output by around 10% in response to the coronavirus pandemic, e...
AROUND 6.6m t/y – or 26% – of Europe’s ethylene production capacity is threatened by reduced acti...
LIFE science company Bayer has boosted Germany’s coronavirus analysis capacity by several thousan...
EXXONMOBIL is cutting capital spending this year by 30% and operating expenses by 15% in response...
INEOS has extended plans to postpone the shutdown of the Forties oil pipeline which transports to...
THE UK risks a shortage in material for vital packaging needed to protect food and medical suppli...
WOODSIDE says it will add a carbon capture project to its Browse gas project off the coast of Wes...
THE UK Government and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have relaxed rules over the manufactu...
THE COP26 climate change summit, which was due to take place in Glasgow, UK, in November, has bee...
BP has announced that it will not be cutting any jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic.
INEOS is postponing the shutdown of the Forties oil pipeline which transports to shore around 40%...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced temporary policy that will allow non-c...
INEOS has completed construction of two new hand sanitiser production plants in the UK and German...
A CONSORTIUM of life sciences companies including GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Pfizer, is c...
BRITISH multinational pharma company GSK is helping to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, including...
IMI Precision Engineering, a pneumatic motion and fluid control technology company, has rapidly a...
Industry reacts to keep staff and plants running during pandemic
THE INSTITUTION of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) has written to the UK Government to offer support ...
IN its response to the coronavirus crisis, BP has said that it will ensure supplies of energy, fu...
INEOS has announced that it will start to make hand sanitiser and will build plants in the UK and...
ICHEME’s Pharma Special Interest Group (SIG) has called for members to come forward and help supp...
IN the fight against the spread of coronavirus, chemical companies and distilleries are stepping ...
THE UK Government has announced that the children of those working in the healthcare supply chain...
WITH more than 75,000 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection having killed more than 2,0...
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