ICI was a late comer to the ranks of the giant multi-sectoral chemical companies, which emerged before and after World War I. The company was set up in 1926 through the merger of four of Britain's leading chemical companies.
Fertilisation always starts with an egg, right? Well maybe not anymore, according to the results of a new landmark study in the journal Nature Communications in September.
The emergence and success of the US chemical industry has its roots in chemical research, but over the last 40 years, these programmes have been radically reduced, leading to the death of chemical research.
Sustainable and sustainability are terms applied to an increasing number of situations, but what do they really mean? Does introducing a renewable feedstock render a process sustainable?
Ian Shott has something of a reputation for turning around businesses. But I've usually done more than that, he says. I've usually injected quite a lot into the technology.