First Catalyst Innovation, Technology Center in Iran Inaugurated at AUT
“The advanced catalyst industry of the country, as a strategic industry, has made great achievements in the country over the past decade. It’s become self-sufficient and has met domestic needs. We have seen the exports of advanced and highly specialized catalyst products by our knowledge-based company to foreign countries,” Ehsan Ebrahimi, the executive director of the knowledge-based company based at the AUT said about the opening of the first innovation and technology center in the country.
“As a knowledge-based company, our firm produces and exports various types of catalysts used in the petrochemical, oil refining and steel industries. With the aim of attracting talented workforces, formation of knowledge cores and strengthening the ecosystem of innovation, and in line with goal of fulfilling social responsibilities and entering innovative fields of action, we have formed an innovation and technology center in cooperation with the country's top universities,” he added.
“This innovation and technology center is built over an area of about 200 square meters in one of the buildings of the AUT Faculty of Chemistry and it is being renovated and equipped by our company. We are ready to accept university teams and startups in engineering and management fields.”
“We have a space for work for startups in this center. Business evaluation, providing consulting and mentoring services and supporting ideas and technologies in the field of chemical engineering and catalysts are other services that will be offered by catalyst innovation hub (Center).”
“We support all projects in this center that are at different levels of technological maturity and readiness,” said Ebrahim, adding, “We are ready to provide integrated knowledge-based services to the academic community and activists in this field.”
The center was inaugurated by Iran’s Deputy Oil Minister and Managing Director of the National Petrochemical Company (NPC) Morteza Shahmirzaei on Sunday March 10, 2024.
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