Amirkabir University of Technology in Iran to Host ‘Petrochemical Industry Clinic’

With the aim of a long-term and fruitful cooperation in the field of innovation and technology, an Iranian company active in the petrochemical industry which is the largest methanol producer in Iran (4th in the world) and Amirkabir University of Technology decided to establish Zagros Petrochemical Company’s Innovation Center at the premises of the University.

Based on the agreement among the two parties, they also decided to cooperate in meeting the needs of the country's petrochemical industry, specially the methanol production industry, and to establish a ‘petrochemical industry clinic’.

This clinic will be set up with the aim of increasing the capacity of process units, reducing feed and energy consumption, developing green technology in the methanol industry and expanding downstream industries through joint industrial projects.

In a relevant development in March, a knowledge-based company operating in the field of production and exports of different types of catalysts in Iran had opened the country's first Catalyst Innovation and Technology Center at the Tehran-based Amirkabir University of Technology.

“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.”

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