Prior
expectations:
I think GSK is going to be really exciting and
cool. It’ll most likely be like the 3M visit, which was really cool, but this time
they have one big land area with all the awesome equipment. The tour experience
is going to be very different from the 3M journey!
I am also expecting to visit some of the labs there to see what goes on, like how products are invented or how the manufacturing process is improved. This will be fun!
I am also expecting to visit some of the labs there to see what goes on, like how products are invented or how the manufacturing process is improved. This will be fun!
Post-journey
reflections:
GSK certainly didn’t let me down!
We were given a short introduction about the company, much like 3M. However, what struck me was their “Future Factory” project or something like that. To figure that such an industrial facility is planning to cut down up to 30% of its carbon footprint is certainly ambitious but achievable. Since manufacturing facilities like this produce so many waste products, especially since GSK deals with organic chemicals, doing their best to reduce wastage and pollution would certainly have a very good impact on the global environment. I’m relieved to see such a company taking steps to reduce global warming!
We were then given tours of their labs, namely their Technical Applications lab and Quality Test lab. The equipment was super-cool, unlike any I have seen in the SRC labs back here in HCI. From HAZMAT suits to spin coolers, these bad boys were “armed to the teeth”! This is the sort of place I want to work at in the future!
We were given a short introduction about the company, much like 3M. However, what struck me was their “Future Factory” project or something like that. To figure that such an industrial facility is planning to cut down up to 30% of its carbon footprint is certainly ambitious but achievable. Since manufacturing facilities like this produce so many waste products, especially since GSK deals with organic chemicals, doing their best to reduce wastage and pollution would certainly have a very good impact on the global environment. I’m relieved to see such a company taking steps to reduce global warming!
We were then given tours of their labs, namely their Technical Applications lab and Quality Test lab. The equipment was super-cool, unlike any I have seen in the SRC labs back here in HCI. From HAZMAT suits to spin coolers, these bad boys were “armed to the teeth”! This is the sort of place I want to work at in the future!
We met one of the scientists there. Can’t
remember his name, but I think it went somewhere along the lines of “Andrew” or
something. This guy is quite awesome, and I found it quite comical for him to
have scribbled notes and calculations on his protective glass shield where his
experiments were situated at. I thought he would use paper or something.
Lastly, we had a tour of the manufacturing facilities, and it was a blast! The tour guide told us that some of the stuff here they made were so expensive that when you dropped a small pinch on the floor, you could buy a condominium with the money that was wasted. Really expensive! I imagine the workers there have to be super-careful here or risk being sacked for wasting a condominium’s worth of chemicals. Some of the products here were also made in a kilo-scale, which means demand was only at a few kilos annually. These products mostly consist of active ingredients for medicines of rare diseases. These must be absurdly expensive, then. The facility was mostly automated: we were told that Production Building 2 could be operated with 7 people at minimum! And they had so much equipment there. I’m really impressed with this.
Turns out this place is also really high on safety as well. We had to surrender our phones so none of the chemicals in the plant would explode and potentially kill us all. They also handle extremely volatile chemicals that need to be “isolated” so that no one and nothing makes contact with it aside from the intended chemicals. I’m quite relieved that this company takes care of workers’ safety.
Lastly, we had a tour of the manufacturing facilities, and it was a blast! The tour guide told us that some of the stuff here they made were so expensive that when you dropped a small pinch on the floor, you could buy a condominium with the money that was wasted. Really expensive! I imagine the workers there have to be super-careful here or risk being sacked for wasting a condominium’s worth of chemicals. Some of the products here were also made in a kilo-scale, which means demand was only at a few kilos annually. These products mostly consist of active ingredients for medicines of rare diseases. These must be absurdly expensive, then. The facility was mostly automated: we were told that Production Building 2 could be operated with 7 people at minimum! And they had so much equipment there. I’m really impressed with this.
Turns out this place is also really high on safety as well. We had to surrender our phones so none of the chemicals in the plant would explode and potentially kill us all. They also handle extremely volatile chemicals that need to be “isolated” so that no one and nothing makes contact with it aside from the intended chemicals. I’m quite relieved that this company takes care of workers’ safety.
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