Highways to hell
Every time it rains, a toxic cocktail of pollutants runs off the UK’s road network and into our rivers and water sources. The pollution comes from tyre particles, fuel spills and other vehicle fluids, road surface fragments, sediment and herbicides. These contain heavy metals and toxic chemicals such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), known to be carcinogenic and hormone disrupting to aquatic life.
Sustainable packaging
Plastic packaging waste is a problem that isn’t getting smaller. Despite the many initiatives, targets and corporate ESG commitments, plastic packaging on the market in the UK totals 2.3m t, according to charity WRAP, with plastic packaging now accounting for nearly 70% of the UK’s plastic waste. This figure is unsustainable and doing untold damage to the environment.
Personalised QR codes
Technology should be a means of easing frustration and confusion, but in today’s digital world consumers increasingly report feeling overwhelmed and exhausted by their digital lives and turned off by all but the most seamless digital interactions.
Bioprinted stents
If you discovered your country was losing up to £78bn a year, you would want to do something about it, right? Well, that is how much the UK loses to workplace sickness and ill-health each year.
Manifesto for wellbeing
If you discovered your country was losing up to £78bn a year, you would want to do something about it, right? Well, that is how much the UK loses to workplace sickness and ill-health each year.
Policy for generics
Getting the right medicine, to the right patient, at the right time, has long been the central mantra of those involved in the generic and biosimilar industries. The UK has been regarded with envy by other countries due to the success of its competitive off-patent medicines market, which has consistently delivered huge savings to the NHS while also guaranteeing security of supply. Four out of every five prescription medicines are met by generics or biosimilars and they are fundamental to the safe running of the NHS as well as the health and well-being of its patients.
Protecting innovation
Developing a comprehensive strategy for protecting your innovation is essential to protecting your company’s assets. Many innovations protected by applying for a patent could also be protected as trade secrets. A granted patent provides rights to exclude others from using the patented invention for a period of up to 20 years from filing. By contrast, there is no fixed term of protection for trade secrets. A trade secret may retain the exclusive innovation of a company for as long as it remains secret.
Supply chain resiliency
The past 18-24 months have seen seismic challenges to global supply chains. From a scarcity of ocean freight, a proliferation of force majeures and a blocked Suez Canal – we have often seen the ‘unprecedented’ in recent times. As a result, procurement strategies have become a growing focus for many businesses, and it is vital robust, effective, and efficient supply chains can be relied upon.
Navigating sustainability
The European chemical industry showed remarkable resilience amid the economic turbulence and supply chain disruptions of the post-pandemic period, cushioning the impacts of global crises such as the Ukraine war and energy security issues. Yet, inevitably, growth has been impacted.
CO2-derived e-fuels milestone
On 28 November 2023, a plane flew from London to New York. For the first time in history, this transatlantic flight was 100% powered by sustainable alternative fuels. This rounded off a promising year for sustainable fuels in aviation. Earlier in 2023, the ReFuelEU Aviation Regulation was adopted by the European Union, mandating a 70% sustainable aviation fuel blending obligation by 2050.