Agilent Technologies joins sponsors of GreenCentre Canada

Agilent Technologies has joined the sponsors of GreenCentre Canada, a national centre of excellence for commercializing green chemistry discoveries generated by academic researchers and industry.

“I am extremely excited to have Agilent join our group of industry sponsors,” said Dr Rui Resendes, executive director of GreenCentre Canada. “As a global leader in the development of analytical technologies, Agilent brings expertise that will be invaluable in the support of all our commercialization activities.”

“Agilent is very excited to become a GreenCentre industry sponsor,” said Kathy Moffatt, country manager for Agilent’s chemical analysis group in Canada. “We share the same vision to advance green chemistry and our products and our people will continue to reflect this commitment.”

GreenCentre’s commercialization model is unprecedented for the way that it involves industry partners in centre governance and in the assessment and selection of technologies to be commercialized. The not-for-profit centre offers an all-in-one commercialization ecosystem that includes everything from assessment, scale-up and testing to intellectual property protection, business management and financial resources.

In addition to Agilent, GreenCentre’s industrial partners to date include Ford Motor, Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies, NexCycle Plastics, Stepan, Fielding Chemical Technologies, NOVA Chemical Corp, Polycorp, and Pressure Chemical.