Research & Development
Research and Development and PGS
Innovations: Always and Ever more
Regularly pushing for research and innovation is a priority at PGS-BEYNEL. For many years, we have been encouraging this culture of Research and Development, as it is the best way to open up to new perspectives in order to advance quickly with the launching of ideas of development. Going beyond technological innovation, centered around our products and production processes, we have however integrated innovation in our management, marketing and business development activities.
Innovation allows us to benefit from an added value, to differentiate ourselves from our competitors and therefore not only develop customer loyalty but also acquire new customers. Innovation is a shared way of thinking within a company in order to succeed and develop our industrial competitiveness.
Applied research not basic
Original research work, which we undertake, aim at acquiring scientific information or techniques that will be used for practical and specific applications. They take into consideration existing knowledge and all connecting information, in order to resolve particular problems.
This applied research is always committed, before anything else, to initiating the production of new products, procedures, services or for their substantial improvement.
A Research ad Development unit within the Group
Any R&D activity demands human and financial resources, as well as a defined work frame. An R&D unit (coordinator Gérard Vierge - +33 (0)5 56 88 05 56) has therefore been created within PGS-BEYNEL and brings together job and product experts. They are responsible for a research approach that associates the companys skills with our customers expectations, by considering their present and future needs.
Four main research activities have been defined; they target:
- The competitiveness of wooden material by improving transformation and value adding procedures;
- The fine tuning of new innovative products.
These functions are the following:
- Supply: rationing stocking methods- adding value to forest resources
- Conception/Construction: binding or sticking green wood in order to obtain long planks of wood (Project ABOVE)
- Long lasting: Protecting wood and improving its long lasting nature by conserving its integrity- (Project PLASMAPAL)-wood microbiology for food contact.
- Sustainable development:
This structure is further completed by an active participation from numerous employment federations, organizations and professional trade unions which PGS belongs to: FNB,SYPAL,SEILA,FIBA,ASLOG etc
For more information: download our subject file on maritime pine.