Braskem is a $15B global plastic manufacturer in Brazil. They are looking to manufacture Plastic/composite ties that will outlast wood, ideally using recycled material. They currently have this capability but are looking for product advantage/benefits around: rail/wheel interaction; ballast’s maintenance consumption; Life Cycle cost of the tie; Environment requisitions; and pavement’s levels design.
Trond Undheim, PhD, Program Director, MIT Startup Exchange in collaboration with Anne Deconinck, PhD, Executive Director, MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Finance, IT, data analytics / big data, NLP, real-time analysis, AI, marketing
Here at MIT, sustainability can mean many things. New materials for everything from electronics to infrastructure which are both functional and kind to the environment. “Green” government and corporate policies which regulate energy and greenhouse gas production. Innovative urban planning for a city of the future which is efficient, but also accessible and abundant. Whether stated in economic, environmental, social, or technological terms, sustainability is the capacity to endure – to consume, grow, and thrive – but not to be consumed and perish in the process. Join us for 2022 MIT Sustainability Conference: Technologies and Industry which explores how MIT and its community of researchers and corporate members are leading the way in sustainability research.
Recently, Elbit Systems of America has decided to make a new push into the small and medium sized UAV market. Elbit’s Director of Research and Development and several of our Chief Engineers & Scientists will be in Cambridge the afternoon of October 7th for in-person meetings.