Chemicals

The Universities of Surrey and Bristol are to develop super batteries - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

How do you solve a problem like lead battery recycling?

Cars rolling along the production line

Have your say on the most pressing issues facing UK manufacturing in 2020

Power Generation Electricity Bills Energy Increase Non-Commodity Costs Charges - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

£480m joint investment will fund Europe’s largest waste-to-energy plant

Oil refinery factory - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

Digital Transformation

IIoT is helping to build the ‘Refinery of the Future’

Business Meeting Investment Finance Money - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

Digitalisation: Investing in your Future

Smart factories are set to improve productivity and labor cost hugely over the next 5 years - image courtesy of APS

Smart factories set to contribute up to £1.13 trillion to the global economy

An artist's impression of the robot manipulating a molecule. Image courtesy of the University of Manchester.

UK scientists develop world’s first molecular robot

One of the experimental aqueous lithium-ion batteries. Image courtesy of US Army Laboratory.

Researchers build non-explosive lithium battery

The Ashington plant uses a variety of renewable energy sources, including photovoltaic (PV) cells and a biomass boiler – image courtesy of AkzoNobel.

AkzoNobel opens £100m paint factory of the future

A 3D printer uses filament to fabricate and object. Image courtesy of Wikipedia - Z22.

BASF expands in 3D printing with new acquisition

Trump campaigned extensively on bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

Trump kills Manufacturing Council as CEOs pull out