days ago, jiangsu provincial department of science and technology announced lehigh institute as one of the first batch of projects winning the creativity building fund for 2015, receiving the sponsorship of rmb 800,000. it’s an acknowledgement of lehigh institute’s progress in s&t creativity building, and the fund will be earmarked to improve enterprise s&t service vehicles and platforms as well as key laboratories.
in recent years, lehigh institute has highly valued technological innovation, spent more than 4% of its sale revenue on r&d per year, greatly improved its r&d conditions, produced a number of innovation results with proprietary intellectual property, successfully commercialized, promoted and applied them, and become more competitive in the market. as to r&d infrastructure building, lehigh institute has built laboratories and pilot plants for the beneficiation process, eco-friendly process r&d, reagent for beneficiation, eco-friendly extraction agent, and development of microbial agents.
as to eco-friendly technology r&d, it has undertaken several national, provincial and own r&d projects in the past couple of years, produced several innovation results with proprietary intellectual property in the treatment of waste water with high content of ammonia nitrogen and salt, and recycling of waste water containing organic acid and that with high content of phenol, extended into new business areas, and generated over rmb 10 million from eco-friendly technology r&d.
as to testing business, jiangsu lehigh test co., ltd. under lehigh institute received china metrology accreditation for environmental testing and chemical ore testing at the end of 2014. in august 2015, jiangsu lehigh test was listed among the second batch of social environmental test agencies announced by jiangsu provincial department of environmental protection.
from 2013 to 2014, lehigh institute won 16 awards for its r&d and services, including the first prize of national science and technology progress award (once), china outstanding patent award (once), and jiangsu business technological innovation award (once), chaired the drafting of national standards potassium chloride (gb 6549-2011), and won the honorary title national outstanding standard project in the petroleum and chemical industry. it has built the service center for environmental and safety technology in lianyungang high-tech development zone, eco-friendly microbial agent engineering technology r&d center, and key enterprise r&d agencies in jiangsu and is recognized as the enterprise technology center of jiangsu.
