Teijin honoured in ICIS Awards
10/01/2011
“Much of the world’s innovation will come directly from the chemical industry, helping to create a more environmentally sustainable world, while simultaneously offering practical solutions to the challenges faced in developing regions,” said Gregg Zank, Dow Corning’s senior vice-president and chief technology officer. “This is why Dow Corning continues to support the ICIS Innovation awards. Today more than ever, we need to recognise the great ideas from our industry that will help to shape the lives of the next generation.”
Overall winner and winner of the best product category for 2010 is Indian firm Tata Chemicals, which created a water purifying system that combines waste rice hull ash with nanosilver.
Among the other award winners, the prize for best environmental innovation went to Teijin Fibers, who developed a closed-loop recycling technology and downstream collection system (ECO CIRCLE) for polyester fibers which would have been bound for land-fill.
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