Henley's primary businesses are chemicals, engineering and construction, and medical instruments.
In consequence, the UK today possesses relatively minor positions in industries where it once owned major strongholds: steel, cars, shipbuilding, civil aviation, chemicals, engineering, computing and so on.
Heavy industry has dominated the economy since the 19th century and includes chemicals, engineering, electrical and aluminum industries, truck and bus manufacture, railway equipment, food processing, and textiles.
Several industrial estates, however, were built in the suburbs around the city and, with the help of government grants and general economic improvement in the 1990s, attracted new enterprises, notably information technology, electronics, chemicals, engineering, and financial services firms.
As an important transition metal catalyst, palladium is extensively used in many areas including electronics industry, petroleum industry, automobile industry and fine chemicals engineering.
In this article, we describe a novel evaluation-supported model for an interdisciplinary undergraduate research program in the field of biorenewable chemicals engineering, which encourages undergraduates to build upon basic research skills to propose creative, innovative, and adaptable solutions to chemical engineering problems.
