Cleaner Production in the Foundry Industry of the People's Republic of China (2003 - 2005)

The project aimed to improve the environmental and economical performance of Chinese industry based on EU best practice and technologies.
-- Pilot implementation of Cleaner Production in representative Chinese industries.
-- Increase Chinese capacity on consultancy level and provide a guideline for replication in the larger scale.

From understanding to implementation the project provided a number of 12 logically combined training, consulting and assessment activities:
-- Instruction training for Chinese consultants;
-- Nine workshops followed by company visits to implement the first time Cleaner Production in selected foundries;
-- Home based technology assessment followed by a business match making mission to EU;
-- Evaluation and audit of achieved results honoured by a final award event in China;
-- Saving project experiences in a handbook owned by the Chinese partner to ease replication.

Local partner of CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL was the TIANJIN FOUNDRY AND FORGING INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION, who was supported by our Chinese member INTERTECH Corporation.

The project was funded by the European Commission and the governments of Austria and of the People's Republic of China.

More information can be found in the project web page under http://centric.conovio.com/project-websites/cp-china