
The Pharmaceutical Industry: Engineering Frustrations
Hedley Rees and Keith Plumb discuss how current methods of drug development are impeding engineer...
Hedley Rees and Keith Plumb discuss how current methods of drug development are impeding engineer...
A look at Tesla's exciting innovations in battery chemistry, cell design, and manufacturing methods.
John de Mello explains how scientific instrumentation is becoming more open, more affordable and ...
Tony Hasting discusses process and equipment design for food safety
A topic often overlooked and misunderstood, Grant Wellwood looks at the prevalence of bulk solids...
Merck's free-to-all method for product sustainability scoring
Adrian Tombling explains why drug developers need AI
Barry Perlmutter explains developments in containment for eliminating worker exposure during soli...
How digital systems can make shift handover processes more efficient, and safer
How atmospheric gases will be key to future additive manufacturing.
HELD on 23 June, International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) is a global awareness campaign wh...
ON 25 June, The Chemical Engineer will host a webinar looking at how Tata Steel has used experime...
ON 18 June, The Chemical Engineer will host a webinar looking at how chemicals major BASF has use...
The UK’s Royal Mail has revealed ten new special stamps which feature “marvels” of British engine...
Dyllon Randall explains how bio-bricks can be grown from human urine
Yasmin Ali interviews Olivia Sweeney about how chemical engineering led her to a career with cosm...
Amanda Doyle visits SaMI to learn about the next steps for steel research
Other methods of producing hydrogen, not from natural gas
We should sell Lean Manufacturing to the food industry, says Ian Madden
The challenge for chemical engineers of producing graphene at scale
Ahead of our coming webinar on 9 October, the presenters from JMP and GSK discuss using data to i...
How 3D printing of reactors can help chemical engineers with process intensification
Back to basics on theory and equipment
One radar level gauge can provide two separate and independent layers of protection
A analysis of a fire caused by spontaneous combustion of food waste at a factory in Texas.
Bryden Wood is a technology and design company that designs residential, commercial, and process ...
Ahead of our coming webinar on 19 June, Stan Higgins says we are not getting the value from our d...
The Loss Prevention Bulletin's special issue on food processing uncovers hazards you might find s...
How advanced level measurement technology increases plant efficiency and safety
New reactor promises continuous processing of biotherapeutics
A solution to the world’s plastic problem could be right under our feet. Toby McCartney, MacRebur...
How chemical engineering developed in Nigeria
How an award-winning ensilication technology could remove the need to refrigerate life-saving vac...
Unwrapping the explosion pentagon to reduce risk
How augmented reality is ticking all the boxes for the process sector. Simon Clarke, Director at ...
What’s coming, and why the process industries will have to be more nimble. Simon Coombs, Managing...
The promise of AI for industrial automation
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...
Next-generation batch technologies drive productivity and profitability
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Helen Tunnicliffe visits the 2017 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) conference to find out the latest i...
Managing the safe discharge of active pharmaceutical ingredients during drug production
BIONTECH has partnered with Merck and Evonik to expand lipid production for its Covid-19 vaccine.
ASTRAZENECA has signed a deal with IDT Biologika to explore options to accelerate manufacturing o...
EXXONMOBIL is closing its Altona refinery in Victoria, Australia. The decision comes hot on the h...
CUREVAC, which is developing an mRNA vaccine for Covid-19, will boost its manufacturing capacity ...
WITH Covid-19 vaccine manufacture making headlines for all the wrong reasons, I spoke with expert...
VALNEVA has announced that it has started manufacturing its Covid-19 vaccine as clinical trials a...
Members of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering UK Affiliate (ISPE UK) and IC...
THE UK Government has commissioned PA Consulting to develop plans to scale up manufacturing of la...
Businesses and industry groups warn of costly administrative burdens and the impacts on supply ch...
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...
ENGINEERS from Air Liquide who are 3D printing reactors for the purpose of process intensificatio...
FOLLOWING three highly-encouraging Covid-19 vaccine trials, the light at the end of the tunnel su...
MINING company Vale has opened a pilot plant that will make products for civil construction using...
SHELL Catalysts & Technologies, which licenses technologies and brings capabilities to market, ha...
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...
UK COMPANY Carbon8 Systems will run its first energy-from-waste (EfW) pilot project at an AVR sit...
CEMEX has signed an agreement with carbon capture tech company Carbon Clean that will see them jo...
UNILEVER has announced that it will invest €1bn (US$1.18bn) over the next ten years, as it seeks ...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Liverpool, UK, are making significant progress in developing new...
THE UK Government has announced a £100m (US$127.7m) investment to fund a state-of-the-art facilit...
TECHNOLGY developer Avantium has awarded Worley the front-end engineering design (FEED) contract ...
GOOGLE and WWF Sweden are partnering to create a data-driven platform to enable the fashion indus...
ICHEME has compiled a list of manufacturing sites in the UK and Ireland that have the potential c...
MATERIALS science company Dow and Shell have agreed to jointly accelerate technology to electrify...
BASF has announced that in 2021 it will close its manufacturing facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, w...
THE IChemE Covid-19 Response Team is supporting efforts to increase the availability of drugs tha...
ASTRAZENECA is beginning to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine candidate, following a commitment f...
EVONIK is spending €25m (US$27.1m) on the first stage of a long-term project to increase contract...
INEOS and recycling technology company Plastic Energy are collaborating to construct a new plant ...
ASTRAZENECA says it could begin production of a vaccine for Covid-19 by the end of the year after...
A CONSORTIUM of three Japanese companies is to jointly research effective recycling of carbon dio...
EXXONMOBIL and the Global Center of Medical Innovation (GCMI) have initiated multi-sector and joi...
SYNTHETIC biology will develop over the next decade from creating niche, environmentally friendly...
SPECIALIST plastic recycling technology provider Recycling Technologies has signed an agreement w...
NET-ZERO goals and policies are needed to allow hydrogen to help address hard-to-abate greenhouse...
THE UK Government has today announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare the...
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...
TECHNOLOGY innovation centre CPI and the University of Oxford, UK have partnered to scale up tech...
BASF and German startup JenaBatteries are cooperating to produce battery technology suitable for ...
SPECIALTY chemicals company Evonik and catalysis research institute Leibniz Institute for Catalys...
DRAX has announced a partnership with cleantech company Econic Technologies, to explore the poten...
GULF Coast Ammonia (GCA), owned by a joint venture (JV) of Starwood Energy and Mabanaft, has reac...
INEOS Styrolution, a global styrenics supplier, is to build a 600,000 t/y greenfield acrylonitril...
CHINESE steel firm Jingye is buying British Steel’s business and assets, including its steelworks...
EVONIK and Siemens have launched the second phase of their joint research project Rheticus, in wh...
MINING giant Rio Tinto has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s largest steel ...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a factual update on the explosion and fire which ...
BASF, Solvay, and Domo Chemicals have reached an agreement for the acquisition of Solvay’s polyam...
CHEVRON and Woodside Energy are to supply South32-operated joint venture (JV) Worsley Alumina wit...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Tsukuba, Japan have developed a novel, damage-free process for r...
COVESTRO is working to scale up the production of a resin developed by Silicon Valley firm Carbon...
BP has invested US$30m in startup Calysta’s “breakthrough” technology, which uses bacteria to pro...
Qatar Petrochemical and Chevron Phillips Chemical have signed agreements to jointly develop petro...
CHEMICALS company Avantium is commercialising production of polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a 100% ...
BASF has developed a climate-friendly process for methanol production, which if implemented could...
WABASH Valley Resources (WVR) has closed an investment from Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI)...
BASF is to build an engineering plastics compounding plant and a thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU...
ENTREPRENEURS who are developing process technologies to remove dyes from industrial wastewater a...
FOLLOWING a plant expansion ExxonMobil has doubled the manufacturing capacity of a plant in Newpo...
A Swedish consortium is to begin construction on a pilot plant that will use biofuel to achieve f...
TECHNOLOGY company Sunfire, the Salzgitter Group, and their international partners are to build t...
ON 25 March the death toll following an explosion at a Chinese chemicals plant rose to 78, report...
SHELL has partnered with world-leading companies to build Europe’s first advanced waste-to-chemic...
RESEARCHERS in Singapore are to build a pilot membrane filtration plant to treat industrial waste...
BP and SOCAR Turkey have signed a heads of agreement (HoA) to evaluate the creation of a joint ve...
THE Coca-Cola Company has announced an agreement extending a loan to Ioniqa Technologies, a start...
BAYER, the German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company, has announced plans to ...
COVESTRO’s carbon dioxide-based polyols have been used to produce synthetic sports flooring. The ...
RESEARCHERS have developed a metal-organic framework (MOF) containing iron-peroxo (Fe2(O2)) sites...
COVESTRO, a leading supplier of high-tech polymer materials, is to invest €1.5bn (US$1.73bn) to b...
LIMITING global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid and unprecedented changes to society, UN climate ...
CHEMICAL engineer Frances Arnold has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pione...
NUSCALE Power has selected BWX Technologies (BWXT) to manufacture NuScale’s small modular reactor...
NOVARTIS, the pharmaceuticals group, has announced plans to cut more than 2,000 jobs in the UK an...
SWANSEA University, in partnership with Tata Steel and Warwick Manufacturing Group at the Univers...
EVONIK, a world leader in specialty chemicals, is to build a new silicones plant at its Geesthach...
RESEARCHERS at the Institute of Catalysis at Hokkaido University, Japan, have created an improved...
The Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) have released a joint report outli...
IN a collaboration between Imperial College London, University College London (UCL), and global p...
THE UK Chancellor has warned that the chemicals sector will be one of the hardest hit by a ‘no de...
AIR Products, a world-leading industrial gases company, headquartered in Pennsylvania, US, has be...
RESEARCHERS at TU Wien, Austria, have discovered a novel, highly efficient, ‘green’ method of syn...
CABOT Microelectronics, the world’s leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarisation (CMP) p...
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...
A NEW technique for manufacturing perovskite solar cells improves their efficiency and solves pre...
NEW laser technology will allow steelworkers to monitor the condition of molten metal furnaces in...
THE University of Huddersfield has signed a memorandum of understanding with Shanghai Jiao Tong U...
A REPORT from the Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Network (LBNet) has identified ten biochemicals whe...
NESTLÉ has announced it is launching its first product containing a new form of natural sugar tha...
SAUDI ARABIA and Japan’s Softbank have agreed to build the world’s largest solar power project, w...
AS we peel the foil off our Easter eggs this Sunday, chemical engineers are urging us to consider...
A BREAKTHROUGH has been made in the manufacturing of carbon nanotube membranes which will lead to...
CHEMICAL engineer Andrew Liveris will step down in April as executive chair of DowDuPont, the hol...
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics are starting field trails for their joint algae...
TOYOTA has developed a new magnet for electric car motors that requires less neodymium than conve...
His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, has formally restarted an idle furnace at a Liberty Stee...
The UK’s Swansea University, in collaboration with Tata Steel, has opened a new Steel and Metal I...
ENGINEERS at the University of Maryland have developed a way to make wood more than ten times str...
Green Lizard Technologies (GLT) will use dimethyl carbonate and unpurified waste glycerol for env...
DNV GL has set up an R&D centre in Singapore to accelerate the use of 3D-printed technology by th...
Angola’s state oil company Sonangol has announced plans to reduce the country’s fuel imports by b...
AN INDUSTRIAL consortium in Sweden will build a pilot plant to test a steel production process th...
EXXONMOBIL says there is little risk that climate change policies will force it to leave its prov...
EMERSON will install industrial internet of things (IIoT) technologies at Covestro production pla...
GENOMATICA is working with nylon-maker Aquafil to produce one of its key feedstocks – caprolactam...
DO you want to do your bit for the climate at lunchtime? If so, chemical engineers say you should...
“INSTANTANEOUS” 3D printing using holograms could provide an alternative to layer-by-layer additi...
THE UK’s largest bioethanol producer has halted production at its plant in East Yorkshire, blamin...
UK BUSINESS secretary Greg Clark has announced that Coventry and Warwickshire will host the UK’s ...
THE UNIVERSITY of Sheffield plans to launch the UK’s first continuous powder processing plant, wh...
THE UK government has published its long-awaited Industrial Strategy as it seeks to boost industr...
MAJOR issues that could face industry, society and the environment as a result of the growing bio...
EMULSIONS that can stay stable for months have been created using a low-cost, low-energy process ...
BIO-SOLAR panels have been printed to resemble wallpaper, and could lead to new types of electric...
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION has rejected a takeover offer worth around US$28bn from Emerson Electric.
ICHEME SINGAPORE has joined a unique alliance with the country’s government and industrial trade ...
SINGAPORE has put innovation and building skills at the heart of a new strategy to boost its ener...
A NEW report from engineering major Arup says that organic waste such as that from bananas, potat...
THE UK government has outlined a raft of plans for low-carbon investment, setting out how £2.5bn ...
SINGAPORE’S first 'model factory' has been launched, which will allow SMEs to gain experience of ...
UK-BASED G2O Water Technologies is to scale up production and field-test its patented graphene ox...
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