Research leading to more sustainable steel production could result from a new agreement signed by one of the world’s top steel producers and four Australian universities.
Shanghai-based Baosteel Group, one of the world's top three steel producers, has partnered with The University of Queensland (UQ), University of New South Wales, Monash University, and the University of Wollongong to establish the Baosteel-Australia Joint Research and Development Centre.
The centre will seek to create fundamental knowledge and exploitable technologies with commercial relevance to steel industry. It will focus on metallurgy and new materials, energy utilisation, environmental sustainability and other new technologies.
Baosteel will provide up to $25 million over five years for research and development projects at the centre.
The Joint R&D Centre will be headquartered at UQ’s St Lucia campus in Brisbane. Its Technical Advisory Committee is chaired by Scientia Professor Aibing Yu, of the UNSW School of Materials Science and Engineering.
"We will now start to assess research proposals from the four universities and we hope the funding to research in the centre will start from July 2011," says Professor Yu.
For more info, please refer to:
http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2011/apr/Baosteel_research_centre.html
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