Chemical Industry Journal

19/06/2026

Chemicals Regulation: Our Position on the recent HSE Survey on CLP

Before setting out our views on the specific measures under consideration, we want to register a significant overarching concern: the regulatory uncertainty created by the EU’s Chemicals Omnibus process. Several of the measures in this consultation originate in or closely track EU CLP amendments, ...

19/06/2026

Free E-book – Advanced Solutions for Polymer Processing and Analysis.

New guide provides practical insights into extrusion optimisation, quality control, material characterisation, and sustainable polymer manufacturing. As the plastics and polymer industry continues to evolve, manufacturers and researchers face increasing pressure to improve efficiency, ensure product...

19/06/2026

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.

Read more: https://www.chemicalindustryjournal.co.uk/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 difficult-to-treat cancers. Scientists at the D...

18/06/2026

Metrohm will be hosting a live online demonstration of its i-Raman NxG on the 8th of July at 2:00 PM https://www.chemicalindustryjournal.co.uk/metrohms-new-live-demo-see-the-i-raman-nxg-in-action

Metrohm will be hosting a live online demonstration of its i-Raman NxG on the 8th of July at 2:00 PM. The session will showcase how Raman spectroscopy can support rapid material identification and analysis across research, quality control, and a variety of industrial applications. The demonstration....

18/06/2026

Felix Wei, IDTechEx, delves into two of the key market drivers for industrial biomanufacturing: government policy and technology advancement.

Read more: https://www.chemicalindustryjournal.co.uk/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 and technology advancement. Supp...

18/06/2026

Yordas Group Launches Helix Connect, A Dedicated Client Engagement Platform For Regulatory Services

Centralised Expert Access, Project Communications, and Service Delivery In A Single Structured Environment. Yordas Group, the regulatory consultancy and scientific services firm awarded the King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade, today announces the launch of Helix Connect, a purposebu...

18/06/2026

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 University of Edinburgh study.

Full story: https://www.chemicalindustryjournal.co.uk/breadcrumbs-could-offer-fossil-free-production-of-everyday-goods

17/06/2026

A large new proprietary library of wild yeast strains aims to accelerate the discovery and commercialisation of natural yeast species.

Read more: https://www.chemicalindustryjournal.co.uk/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 environmenta...

16/06/2026

Florence Luyten, Account Manager at Indaver for precious metal recycling from liquids, explains how advances in recycling technologies are enabling a circular economy for precious metals used as homogenous catalysts.

Full story: https://www.chemicalindustryjournal.co.uk/homogeneous-catalyst-recycling-in-practice

16/06/2026

Remote Monitoring Cuts Waste Management Costs by up to 57% for Multi-Site Operators

Industrial organisations operating multiple sites with oil-water separators could reduce waste management costs by more than half by adopting remote monitoring technology, according to new findings from Aquasentry. The results follow a multi-site rollout of battery-powered separator alarms, which en...