INDUSTRY SECTORS
Chemical logistics: turning volatility into advantage
Markus Kanis, Global SVP – Chemicals at DP World, spends his days working at the intersection of global trade, infrastructure and supply chain strategy for chemical producers navigating a far more complex operating environment. In this exclusive, he reveals...
Under pressure: The state of the chemical supply chain
The global chemical supply chain is facing unprecedented disruption. Tim Doggett, CEO of the Chemical Business Association (CBA), reflects on the current state of the sector.
The global chemical supply chain is under sustained pressure from multiple directions, and while...
The evolving challenges facing the chemical sector
Ongoing geopolitical instability, trade complexity and logistics disruption are placing increasing strain on the UK chemical sector. Ben Beattie, Director of Forbeats, examines how these pressures are impacting manufacturers across the industry.
In recent years, the chemical sector has been...
What happens when the cold chain breaks?
As therapies become more sensitive and supply chains more complex, the margin for error is shrinking, says Delphine Perridy, Chief Commercial Officer at Envirotainer.
Often overlooked, the global pharmaceutical cold chain plays a vital role in delivering some of the...
Chemical manufacturing struggling with F-Gas compliance
94% of UK manufacturers say F-Gas legislation will moderately or majorly impact their ability to maintain and upgrade cooling equipment.
Chemical manufacturing faces significant pressure to comply with F-Gas legislation, a challenge exacerbated by widespread ageing cooling infrastructure, volatile market...
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...
The wireless revolution in level monitoring
Jenny Leion, senior chemical industry manager at Emerson, explains how an expanding range of wireless level technologies is helping chemical manufacturers extend measurement coverage and improve operational efficiency across even the most remote assets.
Accurate and reliable level monitoring is...
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....
Creating the experts of the future: Carving Your Own Path in a Competitive and Complex Industry
Aimee Russell, Senior Process Safety Analyst at RAS Ltd, has marked 10 years with the company. Joining as a graduate, she has built deep process safety expertise and now leads RAS’s approach to managing natural hazards in the high-hazard...
Phasing out forever chemicals in filtration
Inês Ferreira, Product Manager EMEA, Cleanova, considers the practical challenges raised by the growing clampdown on PFAS chemicals.
The list of chemicals discovered to have long-term environmental and health effects continues to grow.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are under...
Standard toxicology tests don’t tell the whole story
For decades, toxicology has relied on a relatively small set of laboratory tests to understand how chemicals cause toxicity. Edgar Trelles Sticken, Advancing Toxicology Manager at Imperial Brands Science, explains what High Content Screening reveals about cellular responses.
These techniques...
Kimia attains EXCiPACT GMP certification for supply of high purity alcohols
At Kimia, everything starts with you. Whether you operate in pharmaceuticals, personal care, food and beverage, flavours and fragrances, specialist sectors – or anywhere high-purity alcohols play a critical role – you expect products you can trust and a...
Genome project plans to build proprietary wild yeast discovery platform
A large new proprietary library of wild yeast strains aims to accelerate the discovery and commercialisation of natural yeast species for a wide variety of high-value industrial applications.
Renaissance BioScience Corp. are specialists in bioengineered yeast that provides solutions for...
Breadcrumbs could offer fossil-free production of everyday goods
The humble breadcrumb could hold the key to cutting out fossil fuels from one of the chemical industry’s most widely used reactions, according to a new study.
Scientists have found a one-pot microbial formula that uses waste bread to replace...
White biotechnology is being shaped by regulation and tech
White biotechnology is a key step in a circular economy, enabling the transformation of waste to industrially useful chemicals via a sustainable process. Felix Wei, IDTechEx, delves into two of the key market drivers for industrial biomanufacturing: government policy...
Chemically ‘stapled’ peptides used to target difficult-to-treat cancers
Researchers at the University of Bath have developed a new technology that uses bacteria to build, chemically stabilise, and test millions of potential drug molecules inside living cells, making it much quicker and easier to discover new treatments for...
Unlocking ultra-high-pressure reserves: a milestone for advanced chemistry
When Beacon Offshore Energy’s Shenandoah field achieved 100,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) after 75 days, it didn’t just exceed all regional ramp-up benchmarks and set a new performance standard for deepwater operations.
It validated decades of innovation in...
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...
New CDOIF Risk Assessment Guidance is coming – Are you ready?
This year, a keenly anticipated new guidance on risk assessment is due to be published by the Chemical and Downstream Oil Industries Forum (CDOIF) titled ‘Understanding Major Hazard Human Harm Risk Assessment (MHHHRA) for COMAH ‘. At RAS, we have been...
What You Should Know Before Shipping UN 3373 Specimens
When it comes to transporting UN 3373 Category B Biological Substances, choosing the right biohazard bag isn’t just about convenience, it’s about compliance and safety.
Many biohazard bags claim to be ‘95 kPa compliant,’ but from our research few can...
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...
Nature’s Palette Reimagined: A New Era of Circular Colour Chemistry
By Dr Benjamin Droguet, Founder and CEO of Sparxell.
The vivid blue of a Morpho butterfly’s wing is more than a visual wonder. It is a lesson in how colour can exist without chemistry as we currently define it....
Chemical supply chains hit by $12bn annual disruption as volatility surges
Report reveals 17,500 incidents a year and escalating operational risks for an industry underpinning 96% of global manufacturing.
Global chemicals supply chains are facing unprecedented levels of disruption, with new analysis from DP World showing more than 17,500 serious global...
