Manufacturing
Puragen: Advanced activated carbon solutions for chemical, environmental and industrial purification
Puragen combines advanced, full service activated carbon filtration services and PFAS destruction technologies to deliver integrated purification solutions across the global chemical and process industries.
Supporting applications in air, wastewater, biogas and industrial processing, Puragen brings together materials science expertise...
Your Partner in Process Safety, Efficiency, and Measurement | VEGA at CHEMUK 2026
VEGA are exhibiting at CHEMUK 2026 on 20th–21st May at Stand G20. Discover VEGA cutting-edge process instrumentation for level, pressure, interface, and density measurement and control.
Trusted across the chemical industry, our sensors ensure precision, efficiency, and safety in applications...
From crop protection to cleaning products: why adjacent markets matter in specialty chemical manufacturing
Seasonality has always shaped specialty chemical manufacturing. What has changed is the level of strain it places on operations, says Chris Storer, General Manager at JT Grosvenor.
In many parts of the sector, demand still rises and falls in predictable...
Gallium Oxide: A Promising Ultra-Wide Bandgap Material with the potential to redefine power electronics
Gallium oxide (Ga2₂O3) — especially in its most stable β phase — is attracting strong interest as an ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductor with the potential to redefine power electronics beyond the limits of silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride...
Argon recycling: the missing link in reducing Scope 3 emissions for high-temperature and inert-gas-dependent manufacturing
For sectors that rely heavily on controlled atmospheres - such as chemical processing, advanced materials and metallurgy - closed-loop gas recovery presents a practical and commercially viable route to reducing emissions, improving supply chain resilience, and lowering operational costs....
Maintenance as a Strategic Lever
Achieving highly reliable operations is a key competitive advantage in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing, and maintenance plays a far more strategic role than is often recognised. Planned maintenance is not just about avoiding the direct costs associated with failed...
Scaling the circular bioeconomy: why scientific talent is now a competitive advantage
By Dr Vivek Narisetty, of Bedford-based clean-tech company, C-Source Renewables Limited.
As the UK accelerates toward a more resource-efficient and low-carbon economy, much of the conversation around the circular bioeconomy has focused on technology.
From advanced biorefinery platforms to waste-to-resource conversion...
Plastics made to order – thanks to level and pressure measurement technology from VEGA
Optimisation of production processes is an ongoing task in plastics manufacturing, and this is also the case at RENOLIT. Traceability and reproducibility of processes are therefore key requirements for the manufacturer. With innovative level and pressure measurement technology from...
Vital Grangemouth investment ‘secures’ future of British industry
INEOS has invested £150m in the long-term future of its Grangemouth site, with support from the UK government.
Viewed as a critical hub for national manufacturing and energy sectors – and one of the UK’s most important industrial assets –...
How simply turning up the heat could transform chemical manufacturing
Scientists have developed a simple, low-cost method to drive key chemical reactions, which could make large-scale drug manufacturing, faster, more accessible and affordable.
The new study, published in the journal Nature Synthesis by The University of Manchester, describes how complex...
Europe’s first Commercial Direct Lithium Extraction Plant Switches On in the UK
The first commercially operating Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) plant has opened in Runcorn, Cheshire, marking the first commercial deployment of the technology in Europe.
Watercycle Technologies has scaled up its proprietary DLECTM technology to profitably produce hundreds of kilograms of lithium...





