Reshoring fine chemical and pharmaceutical productions - Invited lecture of Mario Pagliaro at the the first Symposium on New Technologies for the Synthesis and Application of Biomass Based Fine Chemicals, Xi'an, China.

Chaired by Professors Zicheng Zhang and Christophe Len, the Conference was held on Jiaotong University i-Harbour campus from August 31st to September 4th.

In his lecture broadcasted online, Dr Pagliaro first outlined the main economic and policy drivers emerging from selected cases of for pharmaceutical production reshoring to Europe. Hence, broadening the analysis to include selected cases in China and India, he addressed the issue of industrial uptake of continuous manufacturing in fine chemicals production from an economic and industrial viewpoint.

He concluded presenting the three main findings emerging from the present concrete analysis of the concrete situation.

Co-authored with Rosaria Ciriminna, Rafael Luque and Cristina Della Pina, a full study further illustrating the topic of his lecture was published a few days before the Conference by Organic Process Research & Development.

Eminent speakers at the Conference (full program) included the likes of Changwei Hu, Gianvito Vilè, Adam Lee, Sunil Sharma, Sho Yamaguchi and many others.