23.04.2013
- Britain has blocked efforts by oil major Royal Dutch Shell to settle a $2.3 billion debt it owes Iran by paying in kind with grains or pharmaceuticals, industry sources said. Shell...
19.04.2013
- Britain's competition body accused GlaxoSmithKline of market abuse for striking deals with three generic drugmakers that paid them to delay launching cheap copies of its...
18.03.2013
- AstraZeneca is to cut around 1,600 jobs as it overhauls research operations and consolidates drug development work in three major centres in Britain, the United States and Sweden...
17.01.2013
- Industry and business in the UK may be rejecting valuable raw materials worth £700 million by failing to capitalise on the potential of recycled materials. Experts say that UK...
14.12.2012
- IChemE is backing a UK government decision to lift an embargo on hydraulic fracturing (better known as fracking) after creating new regulations that it says will reduce the chance...
13.12.2012
- Britain lifted its ban on shale gas exploration on Thursday as it aims to become a European leader in a sector that has transformed the U.S. energy market and counter a fall in the...
29.11.2012
- Britain plans to exempt industrial energy users from extra costs arising from its electricity market reform following complaints from industry that the costs would harm their...
11.10.2012
- Tracts of bare ground dot the vast Wilton chemical complex, a reminder of long-demolished plants that bear ghostly witness to the industrial decline of the world's first...