Establishing a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology and Certification Partnership with Global Leader AVL
Combining Infrastructure and Global Certification Systems
Accelerating Pohang's Leap Toward Becoming a Global Hydrogen City
On August 26, Pohang City and Pohang Technopark signed a business agreement with AVL headquarters and AVL KOREA, leading global mobility technology companies based in Graz, Austria, to collaborate in the fields of hydrogen fuel cell technology and certification.
From the left, Hankyungman, CEO of AVL KOREA; Matthias Dank, Vice President of AVL; Helmut List, Chairman of AVL; Kim Jungpyo, Director of Job and Economy Bureau of Pohang City; Shin Kyungjong, Head of Energy Business Division at Pohang Technopark; Kim Youngheon and Choi Kwangyeol, Councilors of Pohang City. Provided by Pohang City
The signing ceremony was attended by Kim Jungpyo, Director of the Job and Economy Bureau of Pohang City; Shin Kyungjong, Head of the Energy Business Division at Pohang Technopark; Helmut List, Chairman of AVL; Hankyungman, CEO of AVL KOREA; and about 20 key figures from Korea and Austria. They discussed ways to cooperate for the expansion of the global hydrogen industry ecosystem.
This agreement is the result of discussions held during the visit of AVL's senior management to Pohang in July, which have now led to concrete outcomes.
AVL is a world-leading technology company headquartered in Austria, pioneering research and development as well as testing and evaluation in the mobility industry. The company possesses unrivaled technological expertise, especially in the fields of hydrogen fuel cells and testing equipment.
Under the agreement, Pohang City and Pohang Technopark will cooperate in various areas, including ▲hydrogen fuel cell technology development and testing and evaluation ▲information exchange and consulting on domestic and international certification systems ▲promotion of joint industry-academia-research-government projects within the Pohang Hydrogen Specialized Complex.
Pohang City expects that this agreement will accelerate the establishment of a global hydrogen technology certification system and the integration with local industries, providing an opportunity for Pohang to emerge as a world-class hydrogen city.
Additionally, Pohang City plans to regularize exchanges with AVL, benchmark AVL's hydrogen fuel cell test centers, and expand joint research and development (R&D) projects. The city will also strengthen the industry-academia-research collaboration network involving local universities, research institutes, and companies to ensure the rapid application of research outcomes in the industrial field.
Kim Jungpyo, Director of the Job and Economy Bureau of Pohang City, stated, "Cooperation with AVL will serve as an opportunity to combine Pohang's industrial infrastructure with a global-level certification system," adding, "We will focus all our capabilities to ensure that innovative research outcomes can be swiftly applied to the industrial field."
They are taking a commemorative photo in front of the AVL headquarters.
© The Asia Business Daily(www.asiae.co.kr). All rights reserved.
