The industry partners were Newreka Green Synth Technologies; Aurobindo Pharma; Dr Reddy’s Laboratories and Natco Pharma. The media partner for the event was Express Pharma.
The objective of the seminar and exhibition was to bring together the pharma industry, especially the API and API intermediate manufacturers in and around Hyderabad region, to create awareness on the various opportunities of implementing green chemistry and engineering practices to address environmental challenges in their respective manufacturing units. It als helped to connect the technical representatives (R&D, Plant/Operations and EHS) with the potential environmental solution providers to facilitate collaboration for implementing green chemistry and engineering-based solutions in their respective firms.
The event was inaugurated by key representatives from partnering organisations comprising Shiva Reddy, Sr Environment Engineer, APPCB; Arun Kumar, Chief Environment Engineer, APPCB; Madhsudan Rao, Joint. Chief Environment Engineer, APPCB; Dr Vilas Dhanukar, Global Process R&D Head, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories; Anil Jain, President Operations (API division) Aurobindo Pharma; Radha Krishna Murthy, Advisor, BDMA and Nitesh Mehta, Founder Director, Newreka Green Synth Technologies and Green ChemisTree Foundation.
The event comprised two sessions and the first one consisted of presentations aimed to orient the participants on the overall context of implementing green chemistry and engineering, highlight the environmental challenges; deliberate on the emerging trends in regulations; and the profit-centric approach in ‘managing’ effluents. A panel discussion on the theme of ‘Barriers to implement green chemistry and potential strategies’ with presentations on successful case-studies by pharma companies and learn from experience sharing, ended the session.
The second session was the ‘Technology Showcase’ which consisted of presentations by six technology solution provider companies. They shared details of their products, services and technologies and demonstrated how these technologies can be be commercially evaluated for their implementation to address some of the immediate and mid-term environmental challenges in the areas of green process alternatives; bio-based ‘greener’ alternative catalysts; solvent recovery solutions; recycling-at-source technologies for reducing the e-factor (i.e.: kgs of waste generated behind per kg of production); zero liquid effluents discharge facilities; green engineering through homogeneous and micro-reactor technologies.
Speakers at the seminar and exhibition also included Dr Dhileep Krishnamurthy, Vice President and Head of R&D – API Services, Piramal Enterprises; Dr N Lingaiah, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology; Dr Kushal Manudhane, Manager, Process Engineering, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories; Dr Naveen Kolla, DGM – R&D, Mylan Pharmaceuticals; Sandeep Bijamwar, Business Head API, Advanced Enzymes Technologies; Shailesh Dhume, Manager – Process lead, Bayer Technologies Services; Dr Sanjiv Bachal, Managing Partner, Equinox Services, Dr Raghu Palle, Business Partner, Ecologic Technologies; Dr Komal Maheshwari Joshi, Green R&D Manager, Newreka Green Synth Technologies; Amit Udgirkar and Senior Manager – Environmental Engineering, Praj Industries.
EP News Bureau – Mumbai