Oct 25 2005
Faraday Plastics reports on a continuing need to resource research and development activities for the UK's plastics industries.
Earlier this month, Faraday Plastics exhibited at Interplas 05. Director Richard Simpson says that 'we had a worthwhile presence at the show and made upwards of sixty useful contacts that we are now currently following through.'
Simpson notes that 'the comment made from most of our industrial and commercial Interplas 05 visitors is that UK Plastics definitely stands in need of investment in its research and development activities. While this feedback is a welcome confirmation for the purpose and role of our own organisation it also sends out a clear signal to the industry and infrastructure at large that we need to sustain and improve that effort.'
Faraday Plastics used Interplas 05 to promote the research and development agenda for companies; providing much needed tools, information and resources for visitors to the show. The new science of nano-materials and nano-composites was of high interest - as was information and help in recycling and energy conservation.
Faraday Plastics is currently setting out its stall for its next TRM activity for the plastics sector. The Technology Road Map (TRM) tool has worked well for Faraday Plastics thus far. It can be applied to the future of individual companies or to sectors as a whole (such as nano-composites or engineering plastics) or to issues within the sector such as energy consumption or machine utilization and cost.
The next Faraday Plastics TRM activity will be on the future of recycling for the plastics sector. The first TRM meeting takes place on October 26th - and dissemination of the findings and further meetings on the topic will take place thereafter.
As a matter of course, Simpson urges all in plastics to use Faraday Plastics to check out their R&D plans, modus operandi and development needs in strictest confidence. ‘Every part of our plastics industry, like it or not, cannot stand still – has to innovate. Most undertake this work alone, not realising perhaps that they have resources in organisations such as ourselves. We may be able to make all the difference to the life of an R&D plastics project in the waiting.'
Further details of Faraday Plastics from Richard Simpson Tel. 01939 250 383
http://www.faraday-plastics.com and http://www.rapra.net/