recently, the ministry of industry and information technology issued a list of industrial product quality control and technical evaluation labs. bluestar’s guangzhou institute was named an industrial product quality control and technical evaluation lab for synthetic materials aging by the ministry. lehigh was named an industrial product quality control and technical evaluation lab for chemical ores. the distinctions have helped the two institutes gain soft competitiveness in conducting technical evaluation and tests, as well as project overall contracting and design.
bluestar’s chenguang institute was named a lab for plastics and new chemical materials in 2013, meaning bluestar has three labs at the moment.
bluestar has focused on scientific innovation platform construction since 2011 to construct its own science and technology system.
at the moment, its subsidiaries have gained approval for building six scientific innovation platforms. the platforms are the beijing carbon fiber engineering and technological research center (bluestar); shandong new surfactant engineering and technological research center (shandong dongda); hunan potassium and derivatives comprehensive development engineering and technological research center (changsha institute); zhejiang seawater desalination technology research lab (hangzhou water treatment technology development center); jiangsu esterification hydrogenation engineering and technological research center (nanjing new materials); and jiangsu environmentally-friendly microbial agent engineering and technological research center (lehigh institute). all of them have been accredited as high-tech enterprises, paving the way to improve bluestar’s scientific innovation abilities. they have also helped display bluestar’s scientific competitiveness.