National DNA Day

by Jo Williams | Apr 25, 2018 | General, News

National DNA Day is a holiday celebrated on April 25th. It commemorates the day in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, and colleagues published papers in the journal ‘Nature’ on the structure of DNA. In the United States, DNA Day...

The First Chemical Database – Gmelin’s Handbook

by Jo Williams | Apr 24, 2018 | General, News

It has been over 200 years since the German Chemist, Leopold Gmelin, first published his handbook – Gmelin released the Handbook of theoretical chemistry, which was continued as the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry until 1997 in about 800 volumes by the Gmelin...

April 22 is Earth Day

by Jo Williams | Apr 20, 2018 | General, News

This year’s campaign is to End Plastic Pollution. From poisoning and injuring marine life to disrupting human hormones, from littering our beaches and landscapes to clogging our waste streams and landfills, the exponential growth of plastics is now threatening the...

Clinical Sterilisation

by Claire Tily | Apr 17, 2018 | General, News

The Sterimelt – a “world first” solution for recycling clinical sterilisation wrap for the healthcare industry – not only diverts large amounts away from landfill and/ or incineration, but it also reduces the carbon footprint and costs created by transporting this...

Yuri’s Night

by Jo Williams | Apr 11, 2018 | General, News

Yuri’s Night is an international celebration held every April 12th to commemorate milestones in space exploration. Yuri’s Night is named for the first human to launch into space. Yuri Gagarin, who flew the Vosok 1 spaceship on 12th April 1961. The launch of STS-1, the...

Banish Wipes to the Bin

by Jo Williams | Apr 10, 2018 | General, News

Spread the word about the scourge of “flushable” wet wipes and help avoid blockages in your community. Britain resolves approximately 13,000 blockages a year on our public sewers with thousands more on customers’ own private drains. Research shows that wet wipes are...