OREANDA-NEWS. September 17, 2013. Sinochem Group  granted the Science and Technology Award 2013, including one Technology Invention Award and several Science and Technology Advancement Awards covering such areas as pesticide, fluorine chemical industry, oil exploration, chemical fertilizer and fine chemistry.

In order to commend the teams which have made outstanding contributions in scientific research and accelerated the commercialization of the scientific and technological achievements, Sinochem Group has awarded Science and Technology Award each year since 2010. So far, five Technology Invention Awards and 42 Science and Technology Advancement Awards have been presented to nearly 400 people from R&D teams of 25 subsidies under Sinochem Group.

This year, the rubber antioxidant project of Sinochem International won the Second Prize of Technology Invention Award in Sinochem Group. This project has got three invention patents including one American patent as it realized cleaner production among the  congeneric products.
The green production  technology project of fungicide flumorph jointly implemented by Shenyang Research Institute of Chemical Industry and Shenyang NovPharm Technology Co., Ltd., and the HFC-125 project launched by Sinochem Modern Environmental Protection Chemicals (Xi’an) Co., Ltd. were awarded the First Prize of Science and Technology Advancement Award in Sinochem Group. The former has completed several preparation registrations both at home and abroad, and developed high-efficient, safe and environment-friendly production  technology while the latter one has invented a catalyst with independent intellectual property of advanced level in the world.

Sinochem Petroleum Exploration & Production Co., Ltd. effectively raised its success rate of well exploration and helped the company make major exploration discoveries in Colombia through the Colombia Exploration Potential Research Project. Sinochem Fuling Chongqing Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. introduced heat-exchanging gas reforming process to domestic large and medium-sized synthetic ammonia installations for the first time, which remarkably improved energy-saving and emission-reduction level. Those two projects were both awarded the Second Prize of Science and Technology Advancement Award in Sinochem Group.

Besides, the national standard project – 4-aminoazobenzene in dye products undertaken by Shenyang Research Institute of Chemical Industry and the coated slow-release fertilizer project undertaken by Sinochem Shandong Fertilizer Co., Ltd. were awarded the Third Prize of Science and Technology Advancement Award.