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Polzyme mulch

Dirty rotten plastic? Biodegradable film cuts pollution and costs

A new Spanish firm hopes to end agricultural plastic waste with an environmentally friendly product. HAL WILLIAMS speaks to the founders… PLASTIC is pretty much...
AI bot

AI bots are wooing Britain … for better or worse

MORE than a quarter of UK adults have used generative AI, according to research from accounting group Deloitte, and about four million of them...
Climate Change

4 ways business is stepping up to meet global climate goals

Non-state actors like businesses are essential to meeting the ambitious goals outlined in the Paris Agreement. A panel discussion at the recent ECOCITY World...
Arm processor

Job-loss fears as UK’s Arm Holdings is sold to Nvidia

JAPAN’S Softbank is selling the UK’s Arm Holdings, whose technology powers most smartphones, to American chip company Nvidia. The California-headquartered firm, known for its gaming...
Warehouse interior

Warehouse? There house! Sector thinks laterally

Commercial proptech is facing challenges and changing demands, writes PAULIUS KVEDARAS THE RECESSION is raising interest rates, causing property yields and prices to shrink. With...
Volvo ECR25 electric compact excavator and Volvo FE electric truck

EV News Round-up Winter 2020-21

By RICHARD THOMAS SALES of electric vehicles rose by 43 percent last year — while overall car sales slumped by 20 percent. The boom is on,...
DNA gene

Sweet gene victory around the corner? Therapeutic advances come rolling in

As the UK Government opens its new ‘Catapult’ centre devoted to gene therapy manufacturing, could 2018 be the year of its mainstream commercialisation? BV’s...
ABSA Bank Botswana branch

Booming in Botswana: Absa has taken inclusive banking to its heart

ABSA BANK Botswana — formerly Barclays Bank of Botswana Ltd — has been through some exciting times just lately. The adoption of the new...
Black Mass, RS Bruce

Black Mass — not as creepy as it sounds…

UK firms extract vital minerals from solid mixture of metals and impurities in ‘game-changer’ for EVs A BRITISH deep-tech company focused on sustainable mineral extraction...
Emma Walmsley - CEO of GSK

Emma’s marvellous medicine

GlaxoSmithKline’s mighty empire faces a new chapter with the retirement of Sir Andrew Witty A MOTHER-of-four from the gritty industrial town of Barrow-in-Furness will create...