Colourful comebacks – How coloured plastics can participate in the circular economy
Updating pigment and polymer processes will boost your sustainability credentials, says Genevieve Pugh, Associate, Patent Attorney, Mewburn Ellis LLP.
Single-use plastic, particularly for packaging of...
MOF specialist raises £8m to scale up UK manufacturing facility
Promethean Particles, a chemical manufacturing company specialising in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), has closed a £8m financing round. The investment was led by Mercia Ventures...
A diamond solution to PFAS
Element Six (E6), a pioneer in the development and manufacturing of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond solutions, and Lummus Technology, a global provider of...
Chemical group invests £250m at key industrial cluster
Mitsubishi Chemical Group UK Ltd, part of one of the world’s largest chemical producers, has committed to invest in a new production line at...
Use process safety management with mechanical integrity to drive operational excellence
Process safety management delivers significant benefits for any chemical processing plant. Yet all too often, organisations view risk from a compliance angle. Javier Castro,...
Energy density breakthrough in Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate cell chemistry
Integrals Power has made a breakthrough in Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate (LMFP) cathode active materials for battery cells. Applying its propriety materials technology and...
Ethernet-APL: Revolutionising Process Automation for the Chemical Industry
The chemical industry, like many other process industries, is undergoing a digital transformation. Ethernet-APL (Advanced Physical Layer) is at the forefront of this evolution,...
When did you last review your Hazardous Area Classification?
On the 1st of October 2024, the Energy Institute published the 5th edition of their ‘Model Code of Safe Practice Part 15: Area Classification...
The Third Dimension of Risk: using organisational maturity to assess and mitigate risk
Mike Meen, Technical Director at Bureau Veritas, assesses whether the traditional two-dimensional approach to risk is adequate in today’s complex society, and highlights the...
CLP Regulation Update for Selling Chemicals into the EU
The revised Classification, Labelling, and Packaging (CLP) Regulation, enacted by the European Union, introduces updated guidelines impacting businesses in the chemical sector. Initially proposed...
