Expo Promotes Green Products and Technologies in Vietnam

The National Environmentally Friendly Products and Technologies Exhibition and Conference was recently concluded in Vietnam. Highlighting the affair was the talk of the Minister of Industry and Trade Dr. Vu Hut Hoang who said that "Environmentally friendly products and technologies are gradually becoming the goal of every company and country to enhance capacity for competition and improve national prestige and image." The four- day event featured experts who discussed measures on how to live in an age of increasingly scarce natural resources, climate change and environmental pollution. Developing countries, like Vietnam, are at the forefront of these issues, he attested.

The exhibition and conference attracted a number of major companies and corporations, members of the academe and consumers. The exposition also included exhibitions of environmentally friendly industrial products like air pollution control, water treatment and processing chemicals, solid-waste processing and management equipment,monitoring systems and prevention technology. It was also a good opportunity for international and domestic manufacturers and businesses to improve collaboration, investment, exchange of science and technology and trade promotion.

For details see the press release at:http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/03/836855/. For information on biotechnology in Vietnam, contact Phuong Ha of Vietnam BIC at phuongha_2403@yahoo.com