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Kranunion.: World Market Leaders United
Kranunion.: World Market Leaders United
Leipzig helps Middle Eastern countries The environment and transfer centre,
solve problems with lack of water your partner for friendly solutions, for
national and international markets
S ustainable water management is increasingly is becoming more and more
important in Germany and abroad. While declining population figures in
eastern Germany call for individual solutions instead of big sewage plants,
countries with extremely dry climates such as Israel have to make use of
L eipzig's Environment and Transfer Centre at the Chamber of Trade
is both a services provider and a source of inspiration for the 12,000
crafts and trade businesses in the region. For more than ten years, the
their precious water resources as efficiently as possible. A new advice and
Centre has been supporting local crafts and medium-sized businesses
information centre for topics such as these opened in Leipzig last year.
in developing new markets for ecological products and services. The
In twelve demonstration boxes the BDZ, an initiative for the promotion of Centre's portfolio has a strong focus on ecological construction and the
decentralised wastewater treatment, presents small, fully functional sewage implementation of environmentally friendly waste disposal solutions. Other
plants which have been integrated into the waste water cycle. As a stakeholder important fields are construction with renewable raw materials and the use
in more than 60,000 regional businesses, Leipzig's Chamber of Commerce of alternative materials for products and services.
and Industry has been supporting the construction of the centre from the In the light of the current global warming debate the question of energy
outset. It makes a contribution both to the protection of the environment and efficiency of buildings is becoming increasingly important. Topics such as
to water pollution control, and strengthens the small and medium-sized waste zero-energy housing, photovoltaics and solar thermal energy are setting
water businesses in the region at the same time. trends in the activities of small and medium-sized construction companies.
The Environment and Transfer Centre supports these companies in their
Wolf-Michael Hirschfeld, chairman of the board of the governing association work and trains company owners and their staff in the competent use of
of the BDZ and director of the environmental working group of the chamber, these technologies. This includes building diagnostics such as Blower
emphasises the international orientation of the centre: "Members of the BDZ Door Testing and infrared thermography.
also work in Israel as part of the integrated water resource management
project of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The aim of the Decentralized supply and disposal solutions are a particularly interesting
project is to give countries of the Middle East access to technologies with field for the Centre, not least when considering the type of companies
which they can make cost-effective use of their water." Project manager presently located in the region around Leipzig. The Environment and
Roland Müller of Leipzig's Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Transfer Centre develops training concepts to help specialists qualify in
adds, "While the focus in other countries of the Middle East is on waste water fields related to building and maintaining small biological sewage treatment
disposal, in Israel it is all about the effective provision of water. We are in plants. In view of international market trends, the Centre is also working on
touch with the government there, and BDZ companies have already made solutions for independent water supply and waste water disposal systems
presentations at a trade show in Tel Aviv." for households and industrial plants. The Centre collaborates closely with
manufacturers and fitters in conceiving strategies for developing German
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