Kings (and Queens) of Kaizen

  Kaizen is a process of making lots of small, ongoing changes that contribute to more significant overall improvements. From the Japanese meaning ‘change for better’, Kaizen utilises a combination of problem solving, waste identification and standardised working...

Ho-Ho-Hopening Hours over Christmas

It’s fast-approaching the holiday season and we want to give you all the information you need to make the most of us. Use the following information for a day-by-day breakdown of how Chemtech will be operating for the final few weeks of 2023. The laboratory will...

Waste Wood: Test or Not to Test?

The waste wood industry has been under Regulatory Position Statement (RPS) 250 since 2021, which applied to hazardous waste wood removed from domestic premises and demolition sites and its route of disposal. On 1 September 2023, RPS 250 was removed, leading to changes...

Coal Tar Testing: It’s a Sticky Business

Whether RPS211 is withdrawn or not next month (answers on a postcard please), there’s little doubt that the analysis and detection of coal tar has seen a significant increase in the last few years. In the latest issue of the AGS Magazine, Will Fardon, Technical...