8-Jul-2025
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Mario Pagliaro has been invited to
give a lecture to the students and researchers of Australia's
ARC
Training Centre for Green Chemistry in Manufacturing.
The lecture was held online at 4:00 pm AEST (8:00 am Rome's time)
on July 8, 2025 and is
freely and
openly accessible online.
Enhanced profitability, due to waste reduction and milder reaction
conditions, has been and continues to be the main drivers of the
uptake of Green Chemistry in the fine chemical industry.
Pollution prevention via reduction or altogether elimination of
waste and by-products has a
direct and immediate impact on any
chemical company’s bottom line.
Following biocatalysis, for over two decades the main green
chemistry synthetic technology adopted by the fine chemical
industry, continuous manufacturing has become routinely employed
by the industry.
The latter technology, and economically viable green synthetic
processes in general, will be instrumental in facilitating
reshoring of fine chemical productions in the countries where the
fine chemical industry first emerged.
In this lecture, Dr Pagliaro provided
a concrete analysis of
the concrete situation.
Its outcomes may be useful to either chemical industry's
researchers, managers, and entrepreneurs.
ARC Training Centre for Green Chemistry in Manufacturing
Established at Monash University in 2020, the ARC Training Centre
for Green Chemistry in Manufacturing is an interdisciplinary
research and training environment centred on green and sustainable
chemistry.
The Centre, comprising of
university,
industry,
government authorities and key industry bodies, aims to evitalise
Australian manufacturing through the adoption of
green and
sustainable chemical technologies.
Besides shaping "PhD graduates and post-doctoral fellows with
strong experience in the theory and practice of green and
sustainable chemistry, the Centre provides postgraduate
researchers and post-doctoral fellows with industry relevant
skills, capabilities and strategies
bringing together
industry, researchers and associations to lead a four year program
developing a high quality, industry relevant cohort and network of
graduates and researchers.
The previous webinars of 2025 were held on July 2 by
Philip
Jessop on June 12 by
Enrico
Rubaltelli and on May 21 by
Stephen Schunk.
Previous years' speakers
include the likes of
Bert Sels, Timothy Noël, Doug MacFarlane, Paul Anastas, and Maria
Forsyth.
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