Figura Analytics

根据特文特水中心的一项重要的新分析，今天全球至少有三分之二的人口，超过40亿人，每年至少有一个月的时间生活在严重缺水的环境中。我们不断鼓励产品或服务严重依赖水的公司实施尽可能减少水浪费的解决方案。这推动了能够提供此类解决方案的新技术的发展。我们的建议是开发一种低成本的技术，可以成为这些解决方案的一部分。软饮料自然会感染一系列细菌、霉菌和酵母菌，其中一些对人类食用有害。筛选细菌的一种行之有效的方法是使用微生物测试，这可能需要3-5天的时间才能得到结果。这样的等待时间可能会导致产品上架的严重延误。此外，目前的微生物学方法在生产过程的后期为制造商提供了信息，在这些信息中，特定批次不能做太多，但可以为未来的批次进行调整。因此，被污染的批次将直接浪费，宝贵的资源将损失。Figura的方法将使软饮料制造商能够拥有快速的质量控制设备，使他们能够在产品批量生产期间采取纠正措施。这项技术可以让饮料更快地上架，并限制饮料行业因污染而产生的浪费量。该技术可以在不需要样品制备的情况下处理脏样品。这是一个非破坏性的分析平台，可以测量污染，而不考虑溶液的浊度-目前不可能用光学技术。该技术占地面积小，可以轻松集成到当前的制造工作流程中，并将干扰降到最低。商业潜力巨大——2019年，英国饮料和果汁市场估计每年价值160亿英镑（统计数据，2019年）。2016年，全球食品和饮料微生物检测市场总计11.4亿次，年增长率约为5.0%（统计数据）。2020)。创新和项目是及时的。Figura的技术可以强有力地颠覆一个成熟的市场，同时也减少了饮料生产运输中反映在碳足迹上的水浪费的环境负荷。

Today at least two-thirds of the global population, over 4 billion people, live with severe water scarcity for at least one month every year, according to a major new analysis by the Twente Water Centre. Companies that heavily rely in water for their products or services are constantly encouraged to implement solutions that can address the reduction of water wastage whenever possible. This drives the development of new technologies that can offer such solutions. Our proposition here is to develop a low-cost technology that can be part of such solutions.Soft drinks can naturally get infected with a range of bacteria, moulds and yeast, some of them are harmful to human consumption. A well-established route to screening for bacteria is the use of microbiology testing which can take anything between 3-5 days to get results back. Such waiting times can carry significant delays in getting the product to the shelves. Also, current microbiology methods provide information to manufacturers late in the manufacturing process where not much can be done for that specific batch, but can be adjusted for future batches. Therefore, a contaminated batch will go straight to waste and valuable resources will be lost.Figura's approach will enable soft drink manufacturers to have a rapid quality control device that allows them to take corrective measures during a batch production of product. The technology allows for the drinks to reach shelves quicker and limits the amount of waste that occurs from the drinks industry as a result of contamination. The technology can work with dirty samples with no sample preparation required. It is non-destructive analysis platform that can measure contamination regardless of the solution turbidity -- currently not possible with optical techniques. The technology's small footprint would enable easy integration into current manufacturing workflows with minimal disruption.The business potential is significant -- In 2019 the drinks and juice markets estimated to be worth £16bn a year in the UK (statistica,2019). While the global food and drinks microbiology testing market totalled 1.14 bn tests in 2016, growing at approximately 5.0 percent annually (statistica. 2020).The innovation and project are timely. Figura's technology can strongly position itself to disrupt a well-established market, while also reducing the environmental load of water wastage in drinks production transportation reflected in carbon footprint.