Chemical supply programme continues to grow
Industry body NEPIC has announced that its programme to support smaller businesses working within the chemical industry supply chain is to continue.
Following a successful European Development fund bid via the North East LEP, NEPIC...
Scientific Professionals Launches the Scientific Academy
Scientific Professionals, part of the Clinical Professionals Group, are proud to announce the launch of the Scientific Academy in collaboration with Barts Health Pharmaceuticals.
Scientific Professionals will be assessing and fully funding some of the...
Cautious optimism for sector
The latest survey of UK chemical and pharmaceutical companies reported a strong start to 2016 and an optimistic feeling about the future.
The Chemical Industries Association quarterly business survey of member companies showed 95% saying...
New research units are opened
UK Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson opened two specialist hi-tech facilties when he visited Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire.
The units at the Abingdon centre are being developed by the UK Atomic Energy Authority...
Silver could solve touch-screen challenges
Physicists at the University of Sussex are developing a new material for touch-screen devices that has already proved to be more flexible and to have higher conductivity than current technologies.
Working in collaboration with M-SOLV Ltd,...
Research breakthrough made at the University of Warwick
University of Warwick spin-out Interface Polymers Ltd is pioneering a new way of making plastic alloys and composite materials.
The work uses the company’s patented range of polymer additives named Polarfins, which modify the surface...
Reviews call for better education for young scientists
Two eminent British academics have published recommendations to improve the job prospects of graduates in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) degrees.
A stronger focus on employment outcomes and more real-life work experience were among...
Team announce reaction breakthrough
Scientists at the universities of Bristol and Newcastle have uncovered the secret of an elusive chemical reaction in a bacterium that lives at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
The research team hopes that the...
Educational charity supports chemicals industry
The Outward Bound Trust is working with Cogent Skills and the Science Industry Partnership (SIP) to develop apprenticeship training programmes based on the Life Sciences and Industrial Science (LS&IS) Trailblazer assessment plans.
John McCarthy, a...
Report suggests Brexit could hit UK chemicals industry hard
A hard-hitting report has suggested that the British chemicals sector could face a £7bn loss of exports in the worst case event of a Brexit without a replacement Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the...