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World Tribology Congress Held in China for the First Time

18 Sep 26,2017 Industry News

The Sixth World Tribology Congress was held in Beijing International Convention Center, China during September 18 to 22, 2017.

The World Tribology Congress is the highest-level international event in the field of tribology. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the World Tribology Congress. The Congress was held in China for the first time.More than 2000 persons engaging in tribology presented on the Congress, exploring the sustainable development of world's tribology science, engineering and technology.

The Congress was sponsored by China Machinery Industry Federation, Tribology Sub-committee and undertaken by Tsinghua University. On the opening ceremony, Chen Xu (Party Secretary and Director of Intramural Affairs Committee of Tsinghua University), Academician Yang Wei (Director of National Natural Science Foundation), Academician Luo Jianbin (Conference Chairman, Dean of Tsinghua University School of Mechanical Engineering),Professor Ali Erdemir (New elected next Chairman of (International Tribology Council) respectively delivered a speech.

This event was lasted for 5 days for the purpose of summarizing achievements in scientific research in areas of tribology, exploring future research subjects of tribology, and enhancing connection between the tribology basics and application researches and the industrial community. 2022 persons engaging in tribology from universities, research institutes, companies and enterprises of China, USA, Japan, UK, Germany, France, etc. registered and participated the event, and 1186 were from China and 836 from the countries other than China, including top experts in the tribology field, academicians of Chinese Academy of Science, specially employed professors of 1,000 Talents Plan, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Chang Jiang scholars, experts and scholars from enterprises, and graduates from universities and research institutes.

During the event, sci-tech show was held for tribology. 38 exhibitors, including 30 from China and 8 from the countries other than China, presented on the exhibition. Of them, the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Thermal Energy Engineering of Tsinghua University participated the event as nonprofit exhibitors. As a representative of the lubrication industry, hengzhou Autol Technology Co., Ltd. attended the Congress.

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