The Asian Environmental Market in Focus

IE expo, Asia´s leading trade fair for environmental technology (May 5 to 7, 2016, Shanghai New International Expo Centre) will again this year be featuring a top-class supporting program. In panel discussions, lectures on specialist topics and case studies, this program focuses closely on the needs of the environmental market in Asia. Among the themes covered in 2016 are the new Five-Year Plan of the Chinese government.

The supporting program at IE expo kicks off on May 5 with an international round-table discussion. Under the title of “Environmental Technologies for China” the questions explored here by the participants will include: What are the challenges facing the Chinese environmental market? And: Which solutions and technologies will be needed to tackle these challenges? On the panel in this discussion are well known experts from business and politics, for example: Julia Xu, President of Alba Asia, Philipp von Waldenfels, Managing Partner of BWF Group and Jakob Riemenschneider, responsible partner for environmental technology at Taylor Wessing’s China Group. The round-table discussion is being chaired by Bruno Rudnik, an expert in environmental technology from the German-Chinese Business Association (Deutsch-Chinesische Wirtschaftsvereinigung – DCW).

As well as technological aspects, this year´s conference program also looks at current political themes that have an impact on the Asian environmental market: At the IE expo 2016 Summit Forum, for example, the “One Belt, One Road” initiative of the Chinese government will play a role, while the new Five-Year Plan of the People´s Republic and the potential it represents for suppliers of environmental solutions in the area of soil decontamination will be discussed at the 4th International Forum & Exhibition on Contaminated Site Remediation.

Water and sludge treatment will be topics under discussion at a technical and scientific conference organized by the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall – DWA) and The National Engineering Research Center for Urban Pollution Control (NERC) of China. Both of these themes are of particular interest for the Chinese environmental market. Another highlight – on May 7 – is the famous University Challenge: Ten teams of students will be competing against each other and putting their engineering know-how to the test.