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new university partner in China
Premiere in China: Evonik has sealed its first strategic university
partnership in Asia with Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU). The
cooperation agreement was signed by SJTU Vice President Xu Fei
and Dr. Hans-Josef Ritzert, Regional President Greater China, with
Dr. Dahai Yu, Evonik Executive Board Member, and Prof. Zhang
Jie, SJTU President, also in attendance at the ceremony.
Speaking at the event, Dr. Dahai Yu said, “I am delighted about
this strategic cooperation with Jiaotong University. Our partnership
will strengthen research and development cooperation in the
chemicals field and beyond.” Prof. Zhang Jie likewise welcomed
the new partnership, saying, “Innovation is the key to success, both
for Evonik and for Jiaotong University. I am certain that our cooperation
will generate genuine innovative power on both sides.”
As one of Asia’s leading universities for the natural sciences
and technology, SJTU offers modern resources for research and
development. This cooperation deal provides Evonik access to
excellent research facilities, technologies, and high-tech apparatus
at the university. Awarded the title of “Evonik Professor,” three
scientists at SJTU will conduct Evonik-funded R&D projects and
hold scientific lectures for Evonik employees.
Agreement was likewise reached on close cooperation in the
area of intellectual property law. Experts from Evonik are also slotted
to hold an industrial chemicals seminar at SJTU every two
weeks. And Evonik will provide opportunities for students at SJTU
to complete a course of practical training at the company.
The Strategic Partner University Program is an important part
of the strategy pursued by Evonik’s Corporate Innovation Strategy
& Management to develop partnership agreements with leading
universities all over the world.
elements39 Issue 2|2012
evonik and LIKAt
expand research
cooperation in catalysis
Evonik and the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT) are
planning to expand their cooperation in the area of catalysis
research for the long term. The Institute has been
successfully working with Evonik in the field of catalysis
for more than ten years and the parties recently agreed
to extend their long-term cooperation.
For this purpose, the Advanced Intermediates Business
Unit of Evonik has set up a new laboratory in the LIKAT
facility, which will be dedicated to the development of
new catalysts and the optimization of existing production
processes. Evonik agreed to make a large investment
available for this purpose in a framework agreement.
“Our cooperation has generated a large number of
innovations and patents over the past years,” says Prof.
Dr. Stefan Buchholz, head of Innovation Management of
the Evonik Advanced Intermediates Business Unit. “We
plan to follow up on this success by bringing additional
catalysis research products to commercial maturity in the
years to come.”
Catalysis is considered one of the most significant
levers of efficient chemical production and is a key technology
of the 21st century. It helps save energy and re -
sources and reduces by-products and waste in chemical
production. The Advanced Intermediates Business Unit
uses the catalysts for the production of plasticizers in its
integrated C4 technology platform in the Marl Chemical
Park.
LIKAT, the largest European research institute in the
area of applied catalysis, is an internationally leading institute
for the research and development of homogeneous
and heterogeneous catalysts as well as catalytic processes
and technologies. The main focus of its scientific work
is on gaining new insights into basic catalysis research and
studying their application to technical concepts.