InnoVenton has focused on engagements with industry and SME’s in the area of technology development for products and processes as part of the path to commercialization.

By Louise Hamilton and Dr Gary Dugmore

From the 1950s South Africa began to utilise its coal reserves through commercialising coal gasification using Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (Sasol’s coal-to-liquid processes) to produce liquid fuels and form a basis for the country’s chemical industry.