Swiss Chemical Society

Photos Best Poster Presentation Awards Ceremony at the Fall Meeting 2016

In collaboration with DSM Nutritional Products, SCS offered again the very attractive and prestigious Fall Meeting Best Poster Award program. Combined with the Best Oral Presentation Awards program this is probably the most higly renumerated award program in the field, and we are very proud and happy to cooperate with our sponsoring partner. We wish to express our sincere gratitude to DSM Nutritional Products Ltd for their generous support.

Dr. Roman Imhof, representative of DSM, awarded a total of 22 winners at the end of the SCS Fall Meeting at University of Zurich on September 15, 2016.

Click here for the list of winners 2016

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Photos: Simeon Lüthi

David Spichiger, SCS
30.09.2016

Photos Best Oral Presentation Awards Ceremony at the Fall Meeting 2016

In collaboration with Metrohm AG, SCS offered again the very attractive and prestigious Fall Meeting Best Oral Presentation Award program. Combined with the Best Poster Presentation Awards this is probably the most higly renumerated award program in the field, and we are very proud and happy to cooperate with our sponsoring partners. We wish to express our sincere gratitude to Metrohm AG and Metrohm Foundation respectively for their generous support.

Dr. Markus Steinke, representative of Metrohm, awarded a total of 15 winners at the end of the SCS Fall Meeting at University of Zurich on September 15, 2016.

Click here for the list of winners 2016

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Photos: Simeon Lüthi

David Spichiger, SCS
30.09.2016

Clariant Chemistry Day 2016 at Uni Basel, 12.10.2016

Clariant Chemistry Day,
October 12, 2016, 13.00-21.00

Kollegienhaus, University of Basel
Petersplatz 1, 4001 Basel

Website: http://scg.ch/ccd/2016

The half-day event, densely packed with interesting presentations reporting the latest achievements, is the frame of the awarding ceremony for the “Clariant CleanTech Award Switzerland”, the “Clariant Chemistry Award at the University of Basel”, and the “Clariant CleanTech Lecture”. The cross-fertilization between industrial and academic research will further strengthen the knowledge base of CleanTech in Switzerland and pave the way to an improved and environmental friendly future.

We hope that you will enjoy your stay at the “Clariant Chemistry Day, University of Basel” and that the event will be the inspiration for numerous innovative solutions.

Registrations as participants are possible until next Monday, October 3, 12.00h

Program

13.00	Welcome & refreshments, Poster Session I
14.00	Conference opening and Welcome message Dr. Martin Vollmer, Prof. Marcel Mayor
14.15	*Dr. Martin Vollmer*, CTO Clariant «Research for tomorrow’s markets – how to fill the innovation pipeline?»
14.45	CleanTech Award Lecture I *Markus Jeschek*, ETH Zürich/University of Basel
15.00	CleanTech Award Lecture II *Jingshan Luo*, EPF Lausanne
15.15	Andreas Geisenbauer, Normen Szesni, Clariant «Clariant EleMaxTM catalysts for Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers: the next level in catalysis for safe and economic storage, transport and release of hydrogen»
15.30	Poster session II & refreshments
16.30	CleanTech Award Lecture III *Amit Nagarkar*, University of Fribourg
16.45	CleanTech Award Lecture IV *Fang Song*, EPF Lausanne
17.00	*Georg Schirrmacher*, Clariant «Lipids and surfactants from marine biomass (LIPOMAR)»
17.15	Award Lecture of the Chemistry Award at University of Basel *Laura Allegra Büldt*, University of Basel
17.30	Ceremony of the CleanTech Awards, Poster Awards and the Chemistry Award at Uni Basel Members of the Clariant Executive Board
17.45	3^rd Clariant Clean Tech Lecture Prof. Ronny Neumann, Catalysis, Green Chemistry and Renewable Energy Lab, Weizmann Institute of Science «Polyoxometalates for Catalytic Oxidation and Reduction and their use for Sustainable Transformations»
18.45	Closing remarks
19.00	Opening of buffet
21.00	End

David Spichiger, SCS
25.09.2016

ILMAC 2016 a convincing industry meeting point and specialist trade fair for process and lab tech

ILMAC, Switzerland’s most important specialist trade fair for process and laboratory technology, came to an end on Friday, 23 September 2016. In the course of the four-day event, more than 12 000 professional visitors obtained information about product innovations, technological applications and process solutions. The issue of “Industrie 4.0”, a topical one affecting the entire sector, was the central subject dealt with at the ILMAC Forum and was examined from both the theoretical and practical perspectives. The “Lunch & Learn” sessions, in particular, organised by the Swiss Chemical Society aroused intense interest amongst the audience. The 20th ILMAC, held from 20 to 23 September 2016 at Messe Basel, has been an encouraging event. The issue of “Industrie 4.0” has definitely arrived in process and laboratory technology and will keep on exercising the specialists for a long time to come. The sector is, however, displaying dynamism and interest in facing up to the current challenges of automation and digitisation. The 12 000 and more specialists from the pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology, cosmetics, food and drinks segments attended their “in-house trade fair” at the very heart of the life science cluster in the Basel region. On the final day of the trade fair, high-ranking representatives from government and the chemical industry in the Upper Rhine region visited ILMAC in person and were convinced by what they experienced there.

Mirroring the market
For the first time, the stands of the exhibitors presenting process and laboratory technology were interspersed. In that way, ILMAC reflected the trend of technological applications moving closer to one another on the market and the holistic planning of processes. That concept turned out to be successful, and the trade fair came in for praise on account of its clear arrangement and top quality.

First-hand information
Visitors were able to use the ILMAC Forum, the Lunch & Learn sessions, the LabTec 4.0 and the Cleanroom Control Forum to benefit from the practical experience and valuable knowledge of successful business people and experts from research, development and education and to experience live demonstrations.

Networking event well attended
The networking event held on the Wednesday, in conjunction with longer opening hours, encouraged many visitors, including expats, who would not have been familiar with the trade fair from their training days, to spend the evening at ILMAC after finishing work.

The military as an innovation driver in the kitchen
The Swiss Armed Forces Culinary Team surprised the ILMAC visitors with the performance they put on. The innovative Cooks’ Training Corps demonstrated that chemical processes also play a role in the kitchen and distributed samples of molecular military cuisine.

SCS as partner of ILMAC
In 1957 SCS founded ILMAC and since then a fruitful collaboration between SCS and the Messe Basel was established. For the 2016 edition SCS and the Chemistry Departments of the Univiversities of Applied Sciences (UAS) in Wädenswil, Muttenz, Fribourg and Sion shared a large booth and presented interesting joint projects between UAS and industrial partners in a poster exhibition.
SCS also organized several sessions in the ILMAC Forum and supported the know-how transfer from experts to the fair visitors.

The next ILMAC will be staged at Messe Basel from 24 to 27 September 2019.

ILMAC and SCS (David Spichiger)
25.09.2016

Pictures from ILMAC 2016

ILMAC, the Swiss fair for Process and Laboratory Technology took place at Messe Basel from 20 to 23 September 2016. With hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of visitors, the fair is one of the most interesting and exciting events for the lab community in Switzerland.
More information about the fair is available on the website www.ilmac.ch.

SCS is an active partner of ILMAC since 1957 organized an interesting and diversified program in the ILMAC Forum. In addition, SCS collaborated with the Chemistry Departments of the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) and was on site the full four days with a large booth where UAS project were presented in a poster exhibition.

Enjoy the pictures that were taken during one of the ILMAC Forum sessions or that are showing the SCS/UAS booth.