BGF continues to keep busy with further developments in the rubber arena, which has been reinforced with recent capital expenditure on the MDR 3000 Professional and REP injection moulding equipment. The MDR 3000 is designed for measuring the viscoelastic properties of polymers and elastomeric compounds before, during and after cure. This will allow BGF...
NASA Ames Research Center Director, Dr. Simon Worden, recently led a 5-affiliate delegation on a 3-day tour of Lithuanian high tech research facilities and institutions. He also had interviews with Lietuvos Rytas IQ, and Ekonomika.lt, and gave a speech on the search for extraterrestrial life and space exploration to more than 300 students at Vilnius...
With the Baltic Nordic summit taking place in January 2011 it will be missing out by not having Scotland’s involvement. Nobody knows what impact this will have but we will find out in January many can speculate. The main query is shouldn’t the Baltic (especially Latvia) and Nordic countries have a choice in this...
During the inaugural conference in Vilnius, Lithuania on 19th November 2010 of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Laszlo Andor, EU Commissioner Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, discussed the best way forward for the Baltic States of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania to rectify GDP decline suffered during 2008-09 and growing numbers of the...
European Governments in the East need to improve bank management reducing spending to stop another boom in credit indicated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Businesses need to survive the crisis. The IMF’s head of Emerging Europe division Bas Bakker said, “It’s important to prevent the re-emergence of credit booms.” So where do we...
BGF (Baltijas Gumijas Fabrika) the leader in Latvia and the Baltic States for the manufacture of rubber compounds has a database of more than 2000 formulations, based on natural rubber and different types of synthetic rubbers. The Quality Management System of BGF does correspond to the requirements of standards ISO 9001 in the manufacturing...
