Lean R&D benefits
Manufacturing processes focused on maximising value while minimising waste are the key to maintaining business competitiveness. Modern Lean Manufacturing focuses on streamlining production processes, reducing waste, time, and labour, and ensuring consistent quality in a repeatable environment. It emphasises standardised workflows, just-in-time production and minimising variability in output.
Booming market for sulfone polymers
Mega trends that will continue to drive sulfone polymer consumption include, but are not limited to, a sustained and increased penetration of sulfone polymers in aircraft and automobiles, supported by ongoing efforts in reducing weight to improve fuel efficiency and meet CO2 emission standards.
Are mushrooms plants?
Sometimes. At least, that is the answer to the question posed in this feature headline, according to a new court ruling. The ruling recently emerged from the new Unified Patent Court (UPC) opened in June 2023. It concerns a provisional injunction by US headquartered mushroom producer Amycel against an individual in Poland alleged to have infringed Amycel’s patent EP 1993350 concerning mushroom strain BR06 marketed by Amycel under the name Heirloom [1]. According to the UPC’s decision, Heirloom is currently the number one selling brown mushroom strain in the world.
A safer workplace?
British Safety Council recently commissioned a YouGov survey, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Health and Safety at Work Act, considering what lies ahead for health, safety and wellbeing, and the impact new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) might have on their workplace.