Thinking Business

Eventually, in the late 1990 the Cardiff departments of zoology, botany, microbiology and applied biology were merged. Tired of an undproductive administrative load and endless search for diminishing departmental resources, I took early retirement as Emeritus Professor and set up my own business consulting in pharmacology, environmental management and computer assisted learning. It was being involved with creating the Cardiff University Industry Centre (CUIC) that had given me the confidence to ‘think business’.

My biggest contribution to CUIC had been as part of an interdepartmental teach doing R&D on microbial systems for treating waste. The system was known as BIOPLEX and was based on the idea that it was theoretically possible to take organic waste and process it to produce useful products that could be recycled with the end product being clean water.

The above pictures come from the sales brochure which was based on the commercial unit erected at Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk, where CUIC had an R&D field laboratory in association with Chediston Agricultural Systems.