Phil Townsend, Sustainable Raw Materials Specialist for Marks & Spencer.
Following years of research and testing, Cambridge-based materials specialist David Ball Group Ltd has launched Cemfree.
He is an industrials and materials specialist in the securities division of Morgan Stanley in New York.
"This is not just consumer focused; it is also producer-led," said Mark Sumner, sustainable raw materials specialist for Marks & Spencer.
But as Phil Townsend, sustainable raw materials specialist from M&S, explains, an important part of the innovation process is to work with suppliers to find new ways round some of the technical restrictions.
The system can eliminate the risky and time-consuming process of sending out a hazardous-materials specialist in a special suit to take a sample and rushing the sample to a lab, where an analysis might take days.
A materials specialist whose products are saving the French police from blowing themselves up, a golf game that uses balls which you cannot lose, and a fledgling chain of upmarket children's shoe shops are among Britain's fastest growing, venture capital-backed companies.
In the Book Review, Elizabeth Bird, the New York Public Library's youth materials specialist, said Ms. Child's new book "clearly draws inspiration from the hard-boiled American crime novels of yore" and offers a "nice pastiche of the spy genre for younger readers".
Minneapolis-based Stratasys bought Israeli multi-material specialist Objet in April 2012.
Fluorinated materials specialist Solvay Solexis has introduced a perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) polymer, characterised by short and light side chains, specifically designed for today's fuel cell industry.
