Upcoming Editions
Preview forthcoming editions, their editorial focus and scheduled publication dates.
The New Chemistry of Industry: How Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Are Entering a New Era
Chemicals and pharmaceuticals sit behind an extraordinary range of products, industries and technologies. The sector is now evolving through advances in process engineering, specialty chemistry, pharmaceutical manufacturing, biotechnology, materials science and digital technology. This edition examines the changing landscape across chemicals and pharma, exploring how scientific innovation and modern manufacturing are reshaping the development of molecules, medicines and materials while creating new possibilities across the industries that depend upon them.
Inside the Modern Chemical Plant: How Technology Is Transforming Process Manufacturing
Chemical plants depend on carefully controlled processes where temperature, pressure, flow, composition and countless other variables influence production. Modern instrumentation, automation and advanced process control are giving operators greater visibility into these conditions while digital systems connect information across the plant. This edition examines the technologies transforming process manufacturing, from reactors and control systems to continuous monitoring and optimisation, and explores how better process understanding can improve efficiency, consistency, safety and plant performance.
Chemicals & Pharma in 2026: The Technologies and Shifts Reshaping the Industry
The chemicals and pharmaceutical industries continued to evolve during 2026 as manufacturing technology advanced, sustainability influenced process decisions and digital tools entered laboratories and production environments. Developments in specialty chemicals, APIs, biotechnology and advanced materials further expanded the industry's technological landscape. This edition brings together the important shifts across chemicals and pharma during the year, examining how science, engineering, regulation and manufacturing continued to influence the sector's direction.
The Chemicals & Pharma Outlook 2027: Science, Manufacturing and Markets in Transition
Chemicals and pharmaceuticals enter 2027 amid continuing changes in science, manufacturing, supply chains, sustainability and technology. Specialty materials are enabling new applications, pharmaceutical production is becoming increasingly sophisticated and biotechnology is expanding the possibilities of industrial and medical innovation. This edition examines the landscape at the beginning of the year across chemicals and pharma, connecting scientific developments with the manufacturing capabilities, regulatory environment and market forces influencing how the industry evolves.
The Molecules Behind Modern Life: Understanding the Chemistry That Powers Everyday Products
Chemistry is embedded in products people encounter every day, even when the molecules behind them remain invisible. Medicines depend on carefully designed compounds, electronics require specialised materials, buildings use coatings and additives, agriculture relies on crop inputs and mobility depends on polymers, lubricants and advanced materials. This edition explores the chemistry behind modern life across industries and applications, showing how chemical science transforms molecular properties into useful performance and enables products that society increasingly takes for granted.
The Future of Drug Manufacturing: How Technology Is Changing the Pharmaceutical Factory
Pharmaceutical manufacturing combines complex chemistry and formulation with demanding requirements for quality, consistency and traceability. Automation, process analytical technology, continuous manufacturing and increasingly connected production systems are creating new possibilities for how medicines are produced. This edition examines the changing pharmaceutical factory across APIs and formulations, exploring how technology can improve process understanding and control while supporting the rigorous quality systems required to manufacture medicines reliably and consistently at scale.
Specialty Chemicals at the Centre: The High-Performance Materials Enabling Modern Industry
Specialty chemicals may be produced in smaller volumes than many commodity chemicals, but their performance can determine how products function across numerous industries. Coatings protect surfaces, catalysts enable reactions, additives modify materials and specialised chemistries support electronics, construction, mobility and consumer products. This edition examines the world of specialty chemicals and how application-specific molecular design creates value, exploring the relationship between chemical performance, formulation, manufacturing and the increasingly demanding requirements of modern products.
From Laboratory to Production: Turning Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science Into Manufacturing
A successful experiment in a laboratory is only the beginning of the journey toward commercial production. Processes must be scaled, equipment selected, operating conditions understood and product quality maintained as quantities increase. In pharmaceuticals, technology transfer and validation add further requirements to this transition. This edition examines the path from laboratory development through pilot operations to full-scale manufacturing across chemicals and pharma, exploring how scientists and engineers translate promising chemistry into processes that can operate safely, consistently and economically.
The Sustainable Chemistry Challenge: Making Molecules, Processes and Plants Cleaner
Sustainability in chemicals and pharmaceuticals extends from the molecules being designed to the processes and plants used to manufacture them. Green chemistry principles can reduce hazardous inputs, process optimisation can lower energy and solvent consumption and circular approaches can recover materials that would otherwise become waste. This edition examines the technologies and scientific approaches supporting cleaner chemistry, exploring alternative feedstocks, solvent reduction, resource efficiency and waste recovery while recognising the technical and economic realities of industrial-scale production.
The API Equation: Inside the Science and Manufacturing Behind Modern Medicines
Active pharmaceutical ingredients form the therapeutic foundation of medicines, connecting medicinal chemistry with sophisticated industrial manufacturing. Producing APIs can involve multiple reaction stages, intermediates, purification steps and analytical controls before a material is ready for formulation. This edition examines the science and manufacturing behind APIs, from process chemistry and synthesis to quality and scale-up. It also explores the importance of reliable supply chains and manufacturing capability in maintaining consistent access to essential pharmaceutical ingredients.
The Intelligent Laboratory: How Automation and Digital Technology Are Changing Scientific Work
Laboratories are becoming increasingly connected as analytical instruments, automation systems and digital platforms change how scientific work is performed and recorded. Laboratory information systems can organise data, robotics can automate repetitive procedures and computational tools can help researchers interpret increasingly complex results. This edition examines the evolving chemical and pharmaceutical laboratory, exploring analytical technology, digital records, automation and artificial intelligence while considering how these tools can support scientists without replacing the judgment and experimental discipline fundamental to research.
Engineering Safer Chemistry: Building Safety Into Processes, Plants and Production
Chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing can involve reactive substances, pressure, temperature and materials requiring careful containment and control. Effective process safety therefore begins with understanding hazards and designing systems capable of preventing incidents before they occur. This edition examines how engineering, instrumentation, monitoring and operating practices contribute to safer chemical production. It explores hazard identification, containment, process control and plant design while emphasising the importance of building safety into processes rather than treating it as an additional layer.
The Biotechnology Convergence: Where Biology, Chemistry and Manufacturing Meet
Biotechnology is bringing biological systems into areas traditionally shaped by chemistry and industrial processing. Fermentation, enzymes, engineered microorganisms and advanced bioprocesses can produce pharmaceuticals, ingredients, materials and specialised molecules through new manufacturing pathways. This edition examines the growing convergence of biology, chemistry and production, from biopharmaceuticals and biologics to industrial biotechnology. It explores how bioprocessing expands the manufacturing toolkit while introducing different requirements for control, scale-up and product quality.
Materials That Change What Is Possible: The Advanced Chemistry Behind the Next Generation of Products
Many advances in technology depend on materials engineered to provide properties that conventional alternatives cannot deliver. Advanced polymers can reduce weight, specialised coatings can protect surfaces and electronic and battery materials can enable entirely new device capabilities. This edition examines the chemistry behind advanced materials across energy, electronics, mobility, construction and industrial applications. It explores how molecular design, formulation and processing translate into functional performance and why materials innovation often becomes the foundation for innovation elsewhere.
The Future of Molecules: How Chemistry and Pharma Will Shape the Next Decade
The next decade of chemicals and pharmaceuticals will be influenced by developments occurring across molecular science, biotechnology, materials, digital technology and manufacturing. New analytical and computational capabilities are changing research while advanced processes are creating new possibilities for how molecules are produced at scale. This edition brings these developments together to examine the future of chemicals and pharma beyond 2027, exploring how science, engineering and increasingly connected production could reshape medicines, materials and industrial chemistry.