Industry news

Plan are afoot to digitally optimise ironmaking and steelmaking at the Rourkela Steel Plant in the Odisha state, India.

The Solar Stewardship Initiative (SSI) seeks to act as the global ESG and traceability assurance mechanism for the solar industry.

The Stockholm Declaration on Chemistry for the Future is launched at the Nobel Prize Museum.

Scalable, nanotechnology-based ceramic lightsails could speed up space travel.

A three-point plan from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) aims to boost industry.

The Engineering Polymer Shapes for Machining Association hopes to establish clarity across Europe.

Store-bought tape can be turned into a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) to power small devices like a biosensor.

The Transition Pathway Initiative has evaluated the route to net-zero within the oil and gas and diversified mining sectors.

The pilot-project pyrolysis technology can be integrated with existing natural gas supplies to cut carbon emissions.

Delivering 140 new jobs for north Wales.

An electrochemical process sequesters carbon dioxide to create resilient, self-healing and fire-resistant mineral-polymer materials.

BASF mining solutions is to intensify its efforts in developing the next generation of leaching aids with enhanced efficiency.

A free, online platform from the Open University, UK, is to save manufacturers time and costs in product testing.

A £15mln investment in the centre will take place over 10 years.

Ardagh Glass Packaging-Europe has completed an industrial fuel switching trial to produce glass packaging using biofuel.

‘Roliner’ could allow amputees to change the shape, volume and stiffness of the liner that attaches a prosthetic limb’s socket to a residual leg.

Studies of soil from the Nile Delta has unearthed accelerating carbon release with rising temperatures.

Lynas Rare Earths claims to be the only commercial producer to have separated heavy rare-earth products outside China.

'Start-up' funding for researchers establishing laboratories or teams in Europe will be now up to €2mln.

NanoPE reportedly enhances thermal radiation emission from LED surfaces to reduce their operating temperature.