Bi Shi receives IULTCS Merit Award

30/11/2015
The International Union of Leather Technologists’ and Chemists’ Societies (IULTCS) presented Professor Bi Shi of Sichuan University in China with its Merit Award for 2015 at the IULTCS Congress in Novo Hamburgo at the end of November.

An influential figure in the leather industry globally, and particularly in China, for many years, Professor Shi was announced as this year’s recipient of the award in May.

Awarded every two years by the IULTCS executive committee, the Merit Award goes to an individual whose past or current endeavours have had “an extraordinary impact on our industry and provide an example for others to follow”.