Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002 |
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Events Chemcon-2002 from tomorrow Our Bureau
HYDERABAD, Dec. 17 A FOUR-day Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (Chemcon) - 2002 is scheduled to be held here from December 19 under the auspices of the Hyderabad Regional Centre of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), Osmania University College of Technology and the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology with the theme, "Chemical engineering stewardship to chemical process industries' new technological perspectives". The theme has been specially chosen to evolve cost-effective and durable solutions to the problems of industry, especially pharmaceuticals, which has been facing intense pressure in the current product patenting and IPR regime and competition from China in the international market, according to Prof S. K. Sharma, President of IIChE. He told newspersons here on Tuesday that the event would provide the lifeline to chemical engineering as technologies had to be developed in-house. Chemical engineering was the core of any field, be it plastics, agriculture, energy, cement or pharmaceuticals. It took off from where chemistry ended to scale up processes and make products competitive. In Dr Reddy's Laboratories, effluents were brought down to zero level by chemical engineers, he said. Dr K.V. Raghavan, Director of IICT, said that an international symposium on chemical engineering, pharma knowledge networking and an industrial exhibition would be held at the congress. Dr Reddy's Laboratories was the main sponsor of the event and among the co-sponsors were Aurobindo Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Enfab Industries, Godrej Industries and Matrix Labs from Mumbai, CSIR, ONGC and Reliance. He said that leading IT companies were looking for opportunities for IT applications in manufacturing industries. The event was designed to address all relevant issues and generate new ideas in chemical engineering-intensive areas. More than 1,000 people representing the industry, research and academic institutions were expected to take part in the event. Experts from the US, the Netherlands, Australia and India would deliver lectures at the congress.
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