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Resumo: O presente trabalho investiga o gerenciamento de resíduos sólidos em uma empresa moveleira sediada no município de Cariacica, ES. Primeiro, foram obtidas informações acerca do setor moveleiro da região, por meio de material bibliográfico, junto à Associação de Indústrias e Produtos de Insumos do Setor Mobiliário de Cariacica (AMOVEL), à Secretaria Municipal de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Turismo (SEDETUR) da Prefeitura de Cariacica e ao Sindicato das Indústrias de Madeira e Atividades Correlatas em Geral da Região Centro Sul do Estado do Espírito Santo (SINDMADEIRA/ES). Em seguida, elaborou-se um questionário para coleta de informações. Depois, escolheu-se uma marcenaria para a análise em questão. Feito isso, por meio de visitas técnicas e entrevistas com o coordenador de produção da empresa, coletaram-se informações sobre o processo produtivo de móveis, com foco na utilização da matéria-prima e insumos, geração de resíduos sólidos, presença de técnicas de Produção mais Limpa, Licença Ambiental e Sistema de Gestão Ambiental. Ao final, constatou-se que, mesmo a empresa possuindo várias técnicas de Produção mais Limpa, há uma elevada quantidade de resíduos sólidos gerados ao longo da cadeia produtiva e que o percentual de perda de matéria-prima é superior a 20%, acima dos 10% estimados inicialmente. Com vistas nisso, alternativas com base no conceito de Produção mais Limpa foram propostas, para melhor aproveitamento e destinação dos resíduos sólidos gerados.

A new computer program called MoCalc (Molecular Calculations) has been designed to help the computational chemistry practitioner in the task of performing and analyzing molecular calculations. MoCalc is a graphical user interface for the MO calculation programs Gamess and Mopac, and uses Rasmol and Babel for molecule display and file conversion, respectively. In its initial version, MoCalc can execute the following operations: (a) create and handle Gamess and Mopac input files; (b) import any kind of molecular geometry supported by Babel and paste it as Cartesian, internal, or Gaussian-type coordinates on the input file; (c) convert Gamess and Mopac output files to inputs of both programs; (d) edit and validate the keywords that control the Gamess and Mopac calculation procedure; (e) display the input (Mopac) and output (Gamess and Mopac) molecular geometries; (f) run single or multiple (batch) calculations, either interactively or in background; (g) automatically open the output files as soon as the calculation finishes; (h) extract results from the output files, such as energy, charges, dipole, population analysis, wave function, bond orders, and valence analysis, and display them in spreadsheets; (i) calculate reactivity indices derived from the frontier orbital theory and the root-mean-square (rms) deviation of input and output geometries. All the results generated by MoCalc can be promptly transferred to text editors and electronic spreadsheets, which facilitate a detailed subsequent analysis and the publication of the results. MoCalc can also perform graphical and numerical comparative analysis of the some results when more than one output file is loaded. The program was coded in Visual Basic and runs in Windows 95/98/NT4/ME/2000/XP environments.

Innovations are sources of competitive advantage for companies, regions, and countries. At the beginning of this century, the growth of the public sector's participation in financing innovation was observed in Brazil. With the regulation of the Brazilian Innovation Law in 2005, the Governments started to execute grants for innovation, meaning non-reimbursable financial support to companies in order to develop innovative activities, in partnership with the Federal Government. In 2013, the Government of Espírito Santo State, performed the grants in the state, through TECNOVA-ES Program. A total of R$13.5 million has been injected into 38 companies with the aim of developing innovative products and services to expand the competitiveness of these companies. This article evaluates the impacts of TECNOVA-ES with emphasis on the commercialization of products/services. The main results revealed 27 companies participating in the evaluation (71% of the population) have developed 65 products, of which 46 have reached the market, resulting in a commercialization rate of 70%. In terms of turnover, more than 55% of the companies participating in this study had no impact on their turnover due to TECNOVA-ES. However, the program allowed almost 15% of the companies participating in the evaluation to increase their revenues by more than 100%. Future studies are recommended to evaluate the impacts of TECNOVA-ES considering other variables such as cooperation relations, social and environmental impacts.