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Bumrungrad – first hospital to achieve Certification of Conformance for Medical Travel

Bumrungrad International Hospital is the first hospital in the world to be awarded the Certification of Conformance with Covid-19 Guidelines for Medical Travel Programs by the Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program for Medical Travel Services.

The GHA Program For Medical Travel Services issued the free guidelines in early July of this year to assist organizations in the medical tourism and health tourism sector in seeking to mitigate the risk of Covid-19 infection for both domestic and travelling patients and their companions. The guidelines are unique in that they focus on the entire care continuum, including providing guidance for travel, interactions with healthcare organisation, hotels and ground transportation.

Ms. Artirat Charukitpipat, Bumrungrad’s Chief Executive Officer, explained that “from the very start of the spread of the coronavirus, Bumrungrad moved quickly to implement internal as well as national and international protocols and guidelines designed to mitigate the risk of Covid-19 infection for patients and staff”.

“While the pandemic continues to be an ongoing challenge, I am extremely proud of the work our entire team has done, and continues to do, to keep patients and staff safe. Achieving GHA’s Certification of Conformance with Covid-19 Guidelines for Medical Travel Programs is a very important step for us to help increase patient trust in our medical travel services and to validate the work we are doing to keep medical travelers safe during this difficult time.”

IMPACT’s 11 restaurants awarded Amazing Thailand Safety & Health Administration certificate

The 11 restaurants managed by IMPACT were recently awarded Amazing Thailand Safety & Health Administration (SHA) certificates. The SHA certification project , which is the result of co-operation between the Ministry of Tourism and Sports and the Ministry of Public Health, aims to elevate Thailand’s tourism industry standards and make sure that the industry’s players are in line with the health and sanitation requirements.

This project will help to accelerate recovery in the tourism sector as the Covid-19 situation in Thailand continues to ease. Among the restaurants that passed the evaluation are Breeze Café and Bar, Terrazza, and Retro Bar & Café. IMPACT is also delighted to announce that the IMPACT Speed Park also passed the evaluation. The best and biggest news is that the IMPACT Arena, Exhibition and Convention Centre has also received the SHA certification.

Krones has won the German Packaging Award 2020 in the “Sustainability” category

On 25 August 2020, the German Packaging Institute announced the German Packaging Award 2020 winners. Both Krones AG and its subsidiary, Dekron, now look forward to receiving an award in the “Sustainability” category. The prize-winning entry involves a beverage bottle, the design and lifecycle of which were comprehensively created in accordance with sustainability criteria.

Both the bottle and all of the related technologies are already available as marketable products. With the “3 Circles” bottle, all of the individual elements and its entire lifecycle were designed to be sustainable. It is made from 100 per cent recycled PET and it can becompletely recycled again after use.

Instead of having a label which normally cannot be recycled, the bottle is decorated Batch I on “Demo Day” The National Innovation Agency (Public Organization (NIA), together with Thai Union Group PCL (Thai Union) and Mahidol University hosted the ‘SPACE-F Batch 1 Incubator Demo Day’ on 8 September 2020 to showcase incubator startups under the first food-tech incubator and accelerator programme in Thailand and South East Asia. Seven startups participated in the SPACE-F Demo Day: Anrich3D (3D-printed food for personalized nutrition); Let’s Plant Meat (a plant-based meat suitable for Asian food); Artificial Anything (EIS) (an IoT sensor for beverage manufacturing); Qualifresh (temperature sensor for food storage and transportation); Advanced Green Farm (cultivation technology for premium-grade Wolffia globosa or ‘phum’, a high protein vegetable); More Meat (a plant-based meat delivered directly to restaurants and consumers); and Sesamilk (an alternative milk made from sesame). SPACE-F announced earlier that Thai Beverage PLC (ThaiBev), Betagro Group and Deloitte had joined the programme this year. using a digital direct print. The inks used here dissolve in the recycling process without leaving any residues, meaning that the bottle material can be used once again in subsequent lifecycles of food packaging without loss. A tethered cap was selected for the closure. This cap remains firmly attached to the body of the bottle after opening and thus meets the requirements of EU directive 2019/904.

According to the German Packaging Institute, the variety of submissions was the greatest ever and the quality of innovations was at a very high level. The competition is open to companies, individuals and institutions, both domestic and abroad. The submitted entries are assessed by an independent jury. The 22 members originate from the industrial, trade, branded product and research sectors.

The internationally advertised German Packaging Prize is sponsored by the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, and is viewed as being Europe’s greatest performance showcase in the field of packaging.

SPACE-F showcases food-tech startup

The National Innovation Agency (Public Organization (NIA), together with Thai Union Group PCL (Thai Union) and Mahidol University hosted the ‘SPACE-F Batch 1 Incubator Demo Day’ on 8 September 2020 to showcase incubator startups under the first food-tech incubator and accelerator programme in Thailand and South East Asia.

Seven startups participated in the SPACE-F Demo Day: Anrich3D (3D-printed food for personalized nutrition); Let’s Plant Meat (a plant-based meat suitable for Asian food); Artificial Anything (EIS) (an IoT sensor for beverage manufacturing); Qualifresh (temperature sensor for food storage and transportation); Advanced Green Farm (cultivation technology for premium-grade Wolffia globosa or ‘phum’, a high protein vegetable); More Meat (a plant-based meat delivered directly to restaurants and consumers); and Sesamilk (an alternative milk made from sesame).

SPACE-F announced earlier that Thai Beverage PLC (ThaiBev), Betagro Group and Deloitte had joined the programme this year.