New edition of the 'Sustainable chemistry, innovative and competitive companies' Conference, in February of 2011

On 18 and 19 of February of the year 2011, held the 2nd Edition of the 'Sustainable chemistry, innovative and competitive companies' Conference, organized by the Spanish platform for sustainable chemistry, Suschem Spain, together with the chemical Forum and society and the Iese business school. This meeting will explore, through case studies and specific examples, how the chemical and pharmaceutical industries may use new solutions and implement new processes to improve their profitability through innovation under sustainability criteria. This edition will revolve around three axes: new designs of plants, reactions and processes to increase efficiency and the flexibility; technology of materials for the demands of the technology of tomorrow and industrial biotechnology for the transformation of renewable resources and more efficient conversion of conventional raw. Industries need to modify their processes of production, the use of raw materials and consumption patterns to ensure a more sustainable development. The chemical sector present at the base of the greater part of value chains and whose products it supplies to all fields of the economy, it is in the advance of the transition to more sustainable development; the move to precise sustainability of transformations that require knowledge and skills of the current European chemical industry and its derivatives.

As epilogue to the second edition of the Conference, and with the aim of contribute to the commemoration of the international year of chemistry, international experts will take on the challenge of forecasting and presenting future scenarios in which this industry will pan out in the next few decades, over a 90-minute session. On December 30, 2008 was declared international year of chemistry by the United Nations General Assembly an initiative of the IUPAC (International Union of pure and applied, English chemistry) and Unesco.