Praxair to collaborate on environmental research with top China university
Industrial gases major Praxair has entered into a long-term environmental research collaboration with the State Key Lab of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse Study at Tongji University in Shanghai.
Praxair will cooperate with Tongji University on the development of environmental technologies at the United Nations Environmental Program - Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development in Shanghai, it said.
Praxair has also established environmental scholarships to support study and research by Chinese students in several key environmental areas including water treatment.
This collaboration agreement was signed by Prof. Wu Jiang, vice president of Tongji University, and Ray Roberge, Praxair’s senior vice president and chief technology officer.
Prof. Zhou Qi, dean of the College of Environmental Science and Engineering at Tongji University, and Minda Ho, president of Praxair China, and other leaders from both organizations also were present at the signing ceremony.
“We’re pleased to join hands with Tongji University to support their outstanding program on environmental research,” said Roberge.
“Praxair is strongly committed to sustainable development and looks forward to advances in technologies that will benefit the environmental protection and sustainable growth of the Chinese economy.”
“It’s also our great pleasure and honor to cooperate with Praxair on the environmental research. As a leading university in the environmental field, Tongji devotes tremendous efforts to the green economy. Let’s make this agreement a starting point, fully display our strengths and seek out further cooperative opportunities on the environmental protection,” said Prof. Wu Jiang.
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