Playhouse Gallery on GEL Complex, Ranchi Main Road, has put the capital on the world’s LEGO map. LEGO construction sets, popularly known as blocks, are manufactured in Denmark and marketed in India by Funskool India Limited. Basically interlocking toy bricks, they are a global phenomenon since 1949. Over the decades, LEGO has launched themes starting from vehicle, town and city designs to those based on film franchisees such as Star Wars, Spiderman, Indiana Jones and Harry Potter. Since 1998, its robotic line of toys, the Mindstorm range, has been hugely successful. Global leader LEGO also hosted a workshop for children at Playhouse Gallery, which happens to be Ranchi’s only exclusive toyshop. The capital store, which is celebrating its sil ver jubilee this year, also stocks leading toy brands such as Mattel, Chota Bheem, Fisher Price and others

Tata Steel vice-president Partha Sengupta (centre) with other employee innovators at the Intellectual Property Awards Ceremony, Steelenium Hall, Jamshedpur, on May 8. The event recognised employees who contributed towards building an intellectual portfolio (IP) of over 200 patents. Besides giving 12 awards, the company celebrated Intellectual Property Week from April 22 to 27. “We need to leverage our IP portfolio by creating market differentiation,” Sengupta stressed. Telegraph picture

Top-notch industrial test

Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) recently recognised Ranchi-based Sun-Tech Laboratory, which tests building and road materials, ores and minerals, environmental norms and food products. Over the next three years, BIS will use testing facilities at Sun-Tech to decide which industrial products deserve the ISI tag. “We are happy with the honour. National accreditation board for testing and calibration laboratories, under the Union government, also accredited us in 2008 for chemical and mechanical testing,” said laboratory director Pranay Kumar

Logistic logic

eTrans Solutions Pvt Ltd, which provides logistics process automation, recently hosted an interactive session at Hotel Alcor in Jamshedpur, for clients from across business verticals. “Freight gives mobility to business,” said managing director S.K. Acharya. “We provide vehicle tracking systems through card-based and GPS technologies,” he added. Headquartered in Calcutta, with branches in Jamshedpur and Delhi, eTrans has 21 site offices across India and clients such as Tata Steel, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd, Hindalco and Linde Group

Steel that cares

SAIL units located at Ranchi — R&D Centre for Iron and Steel (RDCIS), Centre for Engineering Technology and Sail Safety Organisations — donated an ambulance to Yogoda Satsang Society of India to ferry villagers with eye ailments to cataract operation camps. “The medical ambulance will add value to lives of many people hailing from the weaker sections of society” Sridhar Vardarjan of executive director in-charge of RDCIS, SAIL in Ranchi, said