SABIC to collaborate on chemical research in India
Petrochemical company SABIC has announced strategic collaborations with two of India’s premier government institutions, the Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
SABIC’s master umbrella advisor program agreement with CIPET will leverage its expertise and infrastructural facilities for an increased pace of research in specific areas of polymer processing like computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering, and mold design for plastics and allied industries.
The collaboration agreement also supports skills development through an academic research partnership that provides for an annual scholarship for Ph.D. students researching in the area of SABIC’s interest; support in designing of CIPET’s curriculum, including the latest technology developments; guest faculty from SABIC; and a six-month internship opportunity to CIPET’s plastic engineering students at the SABIC Technology Center, Bengaluru, one of India’s most premier, state-of-the-art research facilities.
The master research alliance agreement with CSIR paves the way for collaborative research leveraging competencies of CSIR laboratories – in particular, the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune; the Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Dehradun; and the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad. CSIR chemical laboratories are focused on catalysis, polymer rheology, reaction engineering and petroleum processing, among others. The tie-up also provides for funding to CSIR for chemicals and petrochemical polymer research.
SABIC currently has research collaborations with IITB Monash in Mumbai; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US; Cambridge University in the UK; the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in China; ETH Zurich in Switzerland; the National Research Council in Italy; and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany. It also has similar collaborations with several universities in Saudi Arabia: such as King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, King Saud University, King Abdulaziz University, and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
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