
Making Every Molecule Matter: The Technology Journey
Nick Flinn describes the technologies that may play a crucial role as the energy transition develops
Nick Flinn describes the technologies that may play a crucial role as the energy transition develops
What’s standing in the way of us closing the loop on plastics? Mark Vester discusses
Malaysia has much to do, say Kok Siew Ng and Eleni Iacovidou
Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that ...
A bright future awaits chemengers in the water industry, say Richard Hill and Chris Short
Samson Yosef explains how IChemE is supporting members to influence policy
Conclusions from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s summit on future waste science policy.
How do you dismantle a chemical plant for re-erection at the other side of the world? Richard Van...
Standard routines and their place in continuous improvement
Building the UK’s first captured-carbon polymerisation plant
Richard Jansen-Parkes looks into the life and times of Nathaniel Wyeth, inventor of the PET bottle
How landfill might be the better option for disposal of low-grade plastics
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...
A solution to the world’s plastic problem could be right under our feet. Toby McCartney, MacRebur...
Project turns plastic waste in the sea into vehicle fuels
Adam Duckett on ushering in a new era
Leo Hendrik Baekeland, the inventor of Bakelite, whose work ushered in the age of polymers
The commercial success of PE starts with Reginald Gibson, Eric Fawcett, Michael Perrin and Dermot...
Waldo Semon has a lot to answer for, finds Claudia Flavell-While
EXXONMOBIL is closing its Altona refinery in Victoria, Australia. The decision comes hot on the h...
KBR has signed an agreement with Mura Technology under which KBR will be an exclusive licencing p...
BASF has completed the first phase of its push to double production of MDI at its integrated chem...
NESTE has acquired a minority stake in plastics recycling company Alterra Energy. The companies w...
LYONDELLBASELL and SUEZ have jointly acquired plastics recycling company TIVACO, which will becom...
A PROCESS to chemically recycle plastic waste that cannot be mechanically recycled won IChemE’s t...
LYONDELLBASELL has released its 2020 Sustainability Report in which it sets the target of produci...
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has invested £20m (US$26m) in four proposed plastic recycling p...
SASOL has sold half its stake in its Lake Charles petrochemicals complex in the US to LyondellBas...
TECHNOLOGY company Loop Industries and environmental services company SUEZ have announced that th...
LYONDELLBASELL has started operation of a new pilot plant for a pyrolysis process that it is deve...
ENERGY-RELATED CO2 emissions have peaked due to the pandemic, but the world is still on track to ...
PACKAGING company Sealed Air has announced a partnership with advanced recycling technology compa...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Liverpool, UK, are making significant progress in developing new...
TECHNOLGY developer Avantium has awarded Worley the front-end engineering design (FEED) contract ...
INEOS Styrolution has reported the final results of research project ResolVe, showing that waste ...
DOW has set a target to be carbon neutral by 2050 and that all the packaging its chemicals produc...
DOXA Plast, a stretch film manufacturing company, is commercialising a family of bio-based high p...
MORE than 20 scientists, campaigners, and politicians have signed a letter in which they warned t...
INEOS and recycling technology company Plastic Energy are collaborating to construct a new plant ...
SPECIALIST plastic recycling technology provider Recycling Technologies has signed an agreement w...
AROUND 6.6m t/y – or 26% – of Europe’s ethylene production capacity is threatened by reduced acti...
THE UK risks a shortage in material for vital packaging needed to protect food and medical suppli...
THE UK’s first plastic-to-hydrogen facility has received planning consent at a site near Ellesmer...
A CONSORTIUM operated by BP is pitching for the UK Government to support the development of a net...
INEOS has signed an agreement to use naphtha derived from wood pulp processing to manufacture bio...
DRAX has announced a partnership with cleantech company Econic Technologies, to explore the poten...
RESEARCHERS at the University of New South Wales, Australia, have developed a process to turn ban...
INEOS Styrolution, a global styrenics supplier, is to build a 600,000 t/y greenfield acrylonitril...
A PROCESS has been developed for steam cracking of plastic waste to produce new plastic, which co...
RESEARCHERS at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia have ...
MATERIALS science company Dow and Vietnamese industrial zone developer DEEP C Industrial Zones ha...
NESTE will provide its renewable propane to Borealis for production of polypropylene as part of a...
MORE than 100 public and private partners, including from the chemical sector, have signed the De...
SIX companies with European petrochemical operations have established a consortium that will join...
GEOLOGISTS could one day determine the age of rocks by measuring the amount of plastic found in s...
BASF, Solvay, and Domo Chemicals have reached an agreement for the acquisition of Solvay’s polyam...
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has partnered with BASF in a pilot research project to trial plastic recy...
COVESTRO is working to scale up the production of a resin developed by Silicon Valley firm Carbon...
NESTE and LyondellBasell are claiming an industry-first with the parallel, commercial-scale produ...
CHEMICALS company Avantium is commercialising production of polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a 100% ...
PETRONAS Chemicals is investigating building a plant to turn plastic waste into virgin feedstock ...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Toronto (UoT), Canada have developed a novel electrochemical pat...
SCIENTISTS at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) hav...
BASF is to build an engineering plastics compounding plant and a thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU...
FOLLOWING a plant expansion ExxonMobil has doubled the manufacturing capacity of a plant in Newpo...
ADDING rubber to bioplastic to make it less brittle has led to the development of a new type of b...
PEPSICO, Nestlé Waters, and Suntory Beverage and Food Europe have joined a consortium to help bri...
BP has formed a partnership with Virent and Johnson Matthey to commercialise a process that produ...
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published a comprehensive inventory of all of the high-v...
IN a reversal of roles, chemical engineers took the opportunity yesterday to quiz UK policy leade...
EVONIK is selling its methacrylates business to private equity firm Advent International for €3bn...
A NEW process has been developed that uses supercritical water to transform polypropylene plastic...
THE European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem) has released a report identi...
SCIENTISTS led by the University of Liverpool, UK have discovered a novel catalytic process for t...
NEARLY 30 companies from across the plastic value-chain, including BASF, Dow Chemical, Shell, and...
THE Coca-Cola Company has announced an agreement extending a loan to Ioniqa Technologies, a start...
THE UK government has announced the launch of a £60m (US$76m) innovation fund to accelerate the d...
COVESTRO’s carbon dioxide-based polyols have been used to produce synthetic sports flooring. The ...
RESEARCHERS in the UK have undertaken a project which aims to develop new technologies for dealin...
RESEARCHERS have developed a metal-organic framework (MOF) containing iron-peroxo (Fe2(O2)) sites...
A PROCESS has been developed to convert waste plastic into hydrogen which could be used as fuel.
INEOS has awarded McDermott a contract for the licence and engineering of a new propane dehydroge...
CRISP packets, chocolate wrappers, and blister packets for pills are all extremely difficult to r...
NESTE, a producer of renewable diesel, is developing ways to turn liquified plastic waste into a ...
RESEARCHERS have developed a new polymerisation process involving a light-activated catalyst that...
EUROPE has proposed a law banning or restricting single-use plastics, the UN has released a polic...
A REPORT from the Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Network (LBNet) has identified ten biochemicals whe...
DUPONT and ADM have announced the opening of a pilot plant in that will be the world’s first prod...
A PLASTIC has been developed that can dissipate heat instead of trapping it, which could be used ...
AN EXPERIMENT to study a plastic-eating bacterium accidentally created a mutant enzyme that degra...
UNILEVER has formed a partnership with processing pioneer Ioniqa and Indorama, the world’s larges...
SHELL has released photos showing its progress building the world’s largest alpha olefins product...
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...
RESEARCHERS at MIT have simplified the process of creating microfluidics prototypes by building t...
GENOMATICA is working with nylon-maker Aquafil to produce one of its key feedstocks – caprolactam...
THE UK government has launched a 25-year plan to protect the environment and reduce “avoidable” p...
THE UK’S recycling industry says it may not be able to cope with an increase in plastic waste, as...
ADDING plastic bottles to concrete could lead not only to lower carbon emissions, but improve str...
EVONIK has developed a more efficient process to produce methyl methacrylate (MMA), a widely-used...
PETRONAS CHEMICALS GROUP has sold a 50% stake in its PRPC Polymers subsidiary to Saudi Aramco for...
A COMPOSTABLE biomaterial made of derivatives from lobster shells and wood could sustainably repl...
SOLVAY is selling its integrated polyamides business to BASF for €1.6bn (US$1.92bn) as it continu...
RESEARCHERS in Germany say that research earlier this year showing that waxworms can chemically b...
ARKEMA has reported a chemical fire at its organic peroxide (OP) plant in Crosby, Texas, amid flo...
A CHEMICAL fire or explosion is expected within days at Arkema’s organic peroxide plant in Crosby...
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...
SAUDI-based Sadara Chemical Company has commissioned the last of 26 plants at its US$20bn petroch...
BLUE light has been used by researchers to create an interpenetrating polymeric network (IPN) in ...
RESEARCHERS using so-called “click chemistry” say they have developed a fast, easy way to make su...
A WORLD-first study of the production, use and fate of all plastics ever made has shown that 8.3 ...
CHEMISTS at the University of Bath, UK, have developed a process to create polycarbonate plastic ...
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