Product Development

A scientist, Bill McIntyre, working in a pharmaceutical company has tackled the challenge of finding a replacement rubber for latex because many health care staff have developed severe allergies to the latex in prophylactic gloves. Bill turns to UWP, either the volumes or Alluse database, for a list of plants with the appropriate chemical profile for a new rubber. Product developers like Bill McIntyre are the people that bring us the next perfume, a new soda-pop, a new pain-reliever, new dyes, and almost any commodity that can be identified. A major objective of UWP is to get make this information available to product developers searching for ideas.