Award Winners Host Fact Finding Mission for China
The mission by the six officials from the Tianjin area in China forms part of a four-year project Implementing Industrial Symbiosis and Environmental Management Systems in Tianjin Binhai New Area.
The project, funded by the European Commission through its Switch Asia fund, is being led by the award winning Kings Norton based International Synergies Limited in conjunction with the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) Administration Commission and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation Investment and Technology Promotion Office.
The project kicked off in March to establish an industrial symbiosis network in TEDA, based on the UK's National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) that initiated in the West Midlands in 2003 and for which International Synergies recently won the edie.net award for Environmental Excellence for the best carbon reduction project.
Other partners in the project who took part in the fact-finding trip include the Tianjin Municipal Economic and Information Technology Commission, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone Administration Commission and the Tianjin Harbour Industrial Park Administrative Commission.
The purpose of the visit was to gain a greater insight into UK environmental and energy policies for adoption in the Tianjin district of China in order to increase the potential for industrial symbiosis links between companies there. The approach used by International Synergies through its projects involves identifying underused resources (including materials, water and energy) from companies and finding innovative value added uses with others.
The project, funded by the European Commission through its Switch Asia fund, is being led by the award winning Kings Norton based International Synergies Limited in conjunction with the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) Administration Commission and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation Investment and Technology Promotion Office.
The project kicked off in March to establish an industrial symbiosis network in TEDA, based on the UK's National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) that initiated in the West Midlands in 2003 and for which International Synergies recently won the edie.net award for Environmental Excellence for the best carbon reduction project.
Other partners in the project who took part in the fact-finding trip include the Tianjin Municipal Economic and Information Technology Commission, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone Administration Commission and the Tianjin Harbour Industrial Park Administrative Commission.
The purpose of the visit was to gain a greater insight into UK environmental and energy policies for adoption in the Tianjin district of China in order to increase the potential for industrial symbiosis links between companies there. The approach used by International Synergies through its projects involves identifying underused resources (including materials, water and energy) from companies and finding innovative value added uses with others.
