Innovation and Dissemination of Innovation
Our research and development activities are focused on the development of new products, improving the efficiency of our production processes, and reducing our energy consumption to create the innovation of product and process. Innovation for this purpose means the creation of things using new methods and may also mean the change of ideas or improvement to work procedures for added value of the business. The objective of an innovation is to cause a positive change for better and for the maximized benefit of the society. The Company adopts the following guidelines on innovation:
- Business procedures of the Company will be reviewed to identify any possible risks or negative impact on the society or the environment. Then a solution for the reduction of such impact will be identified. The Company and its subsidiaries will also thoroughly study, review and analyze all aspects of work procedures to improve the chance of developing a business innovation.
- New innovations that are beneficial for the society and the environment are disclosed to the public to encourage other business operators to follow.
- Solutions will be analyzed, and innovations will be regularly and continuously studied to increase the chance of new innovations being developed to respond to the need of the customers and business growth.
The Company has the 3 main objectives and goals of R&D as follows:
| Innovation Development Project in Year 2021 | |
|---|---|
| - To increase competitive efficiency (increase production efficiency and reduce costs) | 13 projects |
| - To promote sustainability and environmental friendliness | 2 projects |
| - To create business opportunities and support new businesses | 1 projects |
| Total projects | 16 projects |
Our research and development expenses for the years ended 31 December 2019, 2020 and 2021 were as follows:
| Year 2019 | Year 2020 | Year 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R&D expenses (THB million) | 49.0 | 62.7 | 16.2 |
Development of New Products
Rubber gloves are used in a wide variety of industries. In addition to the medical industry, they can also be used in other industries such as the food, electronics, and beauty industries. Given the wide range of application, we seek to develop rubber gloves to meet the needs of consumers across various industries, both in terms of quality, such as the thinness of the rubber gloves, which affects durability and comfort, and in terms of appearance, such as the use of different colors for variety. Including the allergen-free proteins of natural rubber gloves. According to some natural rubber glove users, there have an allergic reaction to proteins in natural rubber. In addition, we seek to continually improve the quality of our gloves in accordance with international quality standards and the particular quality standards of specific countries.
We had developed the new gloves as follows:
- Natural rubber glove, Low Protein
- Nitrile rubber glove 2.5 grams
- Natural rubber glove with various colors such as Ocean Blue, Violet Blue, Pink, Black.
- Nitrile rubber gloves with various colors such as Orchid, Oyster, Lilac, Slate, Dark Violet Blue.
Automation
We are promoting and invests in automation and smart to improve the efficiency of our production processes, reduce our reliance on manual labor, reduce the production costs and make it competitive. Including the introduction of Automation to develop and replace for use in various heavy-duty jobs and promote the safety of the production process as well. We are using of automation in our process such as automatic warehousing system, auto mixing system, auto packing system, a centralized Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system etc.
Environment friendly Project
We are designed the Natural rubber gloves that are clean and friendly to the consumers and the environment. The manufacturing processes that focus on cleanliness in all aspect to reducing energy consumption, reduce energy use, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce wastes, reducing chemicals usage and consumer safety. They are according to the concept of Clean World Clean Gloves (CWCG). And we are finding the way to reduce the waste from production process and decrease the unnecessary chemical usage to reduce the environment impact and waste in factory. Such as the project to improve the stability of chemical and prolong the lifecycle, increase the efficiency of online former cleaning process that can be reduce the offline cleaning frequency, formulating for overuse of chemicals while keeping glove quality.
In additional, in the development of intellectual property, we have encouraged patent processing with the Department of Intellectual Property and Trademark registration for our medical rubber gloves in Thailand and abroad such as;
Before
The Venturi Scrubber system is a front dish where when the pump sends water into the system, it forms a water curtain. and when the hot gas that ran into this area will be forced to pass water to remove the ash before releasing it into the atmosphere but due to the temperature of hot water and gas are different when they meet, resulting in steam mixed with hot gas emission from the stack.
Idea
Cancel Venturi Scrubber and designed Water Spray by installed 1.Water Jet system and 2.Water Spray system
After the improvement, air quality emission from the boiler chimney was pass the standard.
Conclusion
