IHI and A*STAR sign MoU to launch the IHI-ISCE² Sustainable Innovation Centre

On screen: Dr Nobuhiko Kubota, Executive Officer, General Manager of Technology & Intelligence Integration of IHI Corporation.
Seated, Left to Right: Mr Hiroki Kobayashi, Chief Executive Officer of IHI Asia Pacific PTE. LTD. and Professor Yeoh Lean Weng, Chief Sustainability Officer, A*STAR and Executive Committee Member, ISCE².
Standing, Left to Right: Mr Dennis Ling, Group Director, Enterprise, A*STAR, Professor Tan Sze Wee, Assistant Chief Executive, Enterprise, A*STAR, and Dr David Low, Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre, A*STAR.

10 March 2022: Japanese heavy industry manufacturer IHI Corporation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with A*STAR’s Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2) on 10 March 2022 to launch a joint R&D centre.

Named the IHI-ISCE2 Joint Sustainable Innovation Centre, it aims to accelerate joint development in decarbonisation projects such as methanation, lower olefin production, or sustainable aviation fuel. The joint centre is planned to become a hub for collaborative and co-creation research as well as co-commercialisation with potential partners worldwide.

A*STAR and IHI first signed a Master Research Collaboration Agreement in 2014, and the partnership has grown from strength to strength since then, with significant milestones achieved such as IHI’s 2021 delivery of its first commercial methanation unit, jointly developed with ISCE2, to the Japanese MNC Asahi Group, and now the MoU for the IHI-ISCE2 Joint Sustainable Innovation Centre.

Click here to read the original release on IHI’s website.

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