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Pharmaceutical companies talk to suppliers on how to provide them better services

Submitted on 2 April 2007 - 11:00am

This article is reproduced by CienciaPR with permission from the original source.

During the seminar “How to do business with the pharmaceutical industry”, where many Puerto Rican entrepreneurs with small and medium businesses that supply that industry participated, it was emphasized how business has changed, due to the dramatic changes in the structure of the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical companies buy $5,000 million in products and services a year. This sector of the economy represents 26% of the national gross product and generates 30,000 direct and 96,000 indirect jobs. The pharmaceutical industry is constantly looking for companies committed to quality and excellence and the goal for supplies should be to make the pharmaceutical company more cost efficient, and provide them quality and innovation.

Guayacan is ready

Submitted on 2 April 2007 - 9:50am

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Guayacán, a robot that will represent Puerto Rico in the Bots IQ contest, to be held in Miami from April 9, is ready for the battle. This robot is product of the creativity of a team of Puerto Rican high schools students that will compete against teams of more than 30 high schools from the United States. The purpose of this competition is to use engineering in a novel way and it evaluates design, construction, management, and application.

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Possible solution for the waste management problem

Submitted on 2 April 2007 - 9:41am

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An adapted plasma machine could be an alternative to turn solid waste into energy and construction materials. As of today, Puerto Rico has not accepted any of the proposals to establish this kind of plants to manage solid waste. Among the reasons for this are the high costs of this technology, the number of requirements and the time that installing a facility like this would require. The key difference between incineration and plasma torch machines is that this new technology disintegrates molecules and does not generate combustion. They don’t generate CO2, the main contributor to greenhouse gases. The CO2 molecule dissociates at approximately 1,500 degrees Celsius and the plasma machines work at 5,000 degrees Celsius.

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