The 7th Edition of the Flow Chemistry India conference & exhibition was held in Mumbai, September 12-13 2019.  As in previous years, the event boasted excellent quality talks & networking opportunities, proving to be a highlight in our event calendar!

For those new to the field, a pre-event training session was delivered by Prof. Anil Kumar (IIT Bombay), bringing everyone up to speed on terminology & techniques.

The conference itself brought together a wide range of speakers & attendee’s from across fine chemical, agrochemical, specialty chemical & pharmaceutical sectors, demonstrating an appetite in India to transform the way that processes are developed & implemented at an Industrial scale.

More pronounced that at other events this year was the sheer number of cases that were demonstrating successful industrial implementation, across the pharma, specialty & CDMO space.  Clear business case development was another area where India seems to be ahead of other Countries when it comes to continuous manufacturing – identifying early on the low-hanging fruit that is ripe for development using this emerging technology.

Highlights included presentations from Dr. Malcolm Berry (Director of Chemistry, GSK), Dr. Karuna Gnanavelu (Deputy General Manager, Anthem Biosciences), Dr. Ganesan Balakrishnan (Research Director, Syngene International Ltd) & Dr. Atul Dubey (Director PCM, USP).

To add to the many fruitful discussions we were involved in during the session breaks, attendees also had the opportunity to take part in break-out sessions – allowing participants to ask questions that they otherwise may not have raised during the formal presentation sessions.  

This is an established event that brings together like-minded people from across the European & Indian chemical industries to present & discuss state-of-the-art developments in continuous manufacturing.  We are already looking forward to next years’ event!