News & Resources
Zero Waste Scotland
April 22, 2019
Thanks to Louise McGregor, Head of Circular Economy Zero Waste Scotland for visiting Drochaid Research Services labs last week. We look forward to pursuing the various opportunities we identified. At Drochaid Research Services we believe that catalysis has a critical role in delivering the circular economy, this could potentially involve enabling the use of …
Bright SCIdea Challenge
April 2, 2019
Non-Executive Director Dr David Prest recently attended the final of Bright SCIdea Challenge, a competition for teams of students to pitch a business idea to a panel of industrialists, organised by the Society of Chemical Industry. Drochaid Research Services is a corporate supporter, providing training to the students for the event; David spoke about market …
Bob Tooze -EPSRC
March 8, 2019
Managing Director Bob Tooze has been appointed to serve on two EPSRC Strategic Advisory Teams (SATs), Manufacturing the Future and Physical Sciences (https://epsrc.ukri.org/about/governance/sats/) . Bob attended his first meeting of the Manufacturing the Future SAT this week, he commented “this is a time of great change both for the EPSRC and of course more widely, …
National Apprenticeship Week
March 5, 2019
I am Jonathan McLeish I am an apprentice Laboratory Technician here at Drochaid Research Services. I have been in this position for 6 months and I am currently working toward my SVQ level 2 and 3. I am gaining practical laboratory skills whilst working with gasses and on our fixed bed reactors. I am also …
Bob Tooze visits Oxis Energy
February 27, 2019
Bob Tooze, Drochaid Research Services Managing Director, visited Oxis Energy’s main site in Culham and was impressed with the progress made in commercialising their lithium-sulfur battery technology. Drochaid Research Services look forward to maintaining and strengthening our links with this innovative company. To read more about Oxis Energy see their website https://oxisenergy.com/ …
Drochaid announced as partner in Oxicfm (Oxford Inorganic Chemistry for Future Manufacturing)
February 26, 2019
Bob Tooze attended the launch of Oxicfm (Oxford Inorganic Chemistry for Future Manufacturing http://www.oxicfm.ox.ac.uk) a new £10.4 million EPSRC centre which will train the next generation of synthesis scientists. Drochaid Research Services are pleased to be a partner in this enterprise and believe this will provide fantastic training opportunities for students in this critical …
