Primasonics Blog

It is great to have some hot, dry weather in the UK lately instead of our usual rain filled grey skies! It gave me the chance to get out into the garden, if not to work then at least to sit in it. I always find it relaxing to watch the bees extracting the pollen from the flowers. However, such weather also brings a couple of unwelcome visitors, namely flies and wasps. They can be as troublesome as cement blocking in a silo or fly ash building up on boiler tubes.

Question for you – how many living languages exits throughout the world today?

100? – 500? – 1,000? – well actually the answer is of over 7,000! With 90% of these languages used by less than 100,000 people. Indeed, over a million people converse in 150 – 200 languages and 46 languages have just a single speaker!

 There is something beautiful and majestic about an iceberg floating in the sea, unless you happen to be the captain of the Titanic. What perhaps we do not appreciate is the tenth that is visible to all above the surface is supported by an invisible nine tenths below the surface.

As Primasonics International enters its 20th year, we can look back with some pride at how the company has developed and grown.

Sometimes I think that we should change the name of our company from Primasonics to Globalsonics – why?