Industry News
WO: Tata Steel has restarted its second blast furnace at the Port Talbot steelworks in the UK following the completion of a £185m rebuilding project. Marking the announcement, Secretary of State for Wales, David Jones said: “The lighting of blast furnace four not only marks the completion of a sophisticated £185million engineering effort, but also signals Tata’s commitment to the future of steel-making in Wales”.
ACE: Libraries are being given the chance to bid to become key business support hubs in communities across England. £1.2m will be awarded to support thousands of people to start up their own business as part of a new scheme funded by Arts Council England, the British Library and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) called Enterprising Libraries.
This money will enable 6 patent libraries to extend their reach by working with local library services to ensure that high quality business support can be accessed in the communities that they serve.
A competition will be held in summer 2013 and local library services will bid to work with the patent libraries in our major cities to support their work in communities across the country to increase their business and intellectual property capacity.
A competition will be held in summer 2013 and local library services will bid to work with the patent libraries in our major cities to support their work in communities across the country to increase their business and intellectual property capacity.
STFC: Science and Technology Facilities Council supported research at the University of Glasgow into a novel method for creating & handling ozone is being exploited by spin out company Anacail which has recently received over £750,000 of seed funding. Their revolutionary development provides an innovative way of sterilising packaged consumer goods.
Ozone is a highly effective germicidal sterilising agent, but its toxicity has hampered its use beyond the classical function of large-scale water sterilisation. However, Glasgow’s novel concept is able to use ozone as a decontaminant of material inside sealed packages, by striking a plasma in a thin layer on the inside of the container.
This plasma generates ozone, which circulates around the contents and acts as a sterilising germicide. Unused ozone quickly decays back to conventional oxygen, leaving no toxic residues.
This plasma generates ozone, which circulates around the contents and acts as a sterilising germicide. Unused ozone quickly decays back to conventional oxygen, leaving no toxic residues.
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