SGVC

The specialist technical group wants to ensure that plant construction is carried out as cost-effectively as possible for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry and satisfies the latest requirements with regard to manufacturing and the environment. It therefore promotes:

• Exchanges of experience within the industry
• Integral project management and system-integrating plant construction through the appropriate training in schools and further education
• Personal development into interdisciplinary teamwork
• Awareness of the social, economic and ecological responsibility of the plant constructor
• Identification of changes in the local and global environment and the latter’s effects on plant construction
• Notification of the latest technical and statutory changes.

• The specialist technical group promotes contact between speakers in process technology, chemical engineering technology and bio-processing technology in Switzerland and abroad.
• It is a discussion forum for adjustments and changes to courses, which become necessary following reforms and general standardisations.
• It promotes the exchange of information between universities and industry to identify the relevant requirements at an early stage.
• It promotes relevant careers to students.

• The specialist technical group provides specialist knowledge in further education courses and seminars and arranges visits to new installations.
• It offers a platform for exchanges of experiences regarding systems and components and promotes networking among automation specialists.
• It compiles resources, specialist literature, rules and standards.

• The specialist technical group promotes the next generation in biotechnological research.
• It exchanges information about projects and the latest research results.
• It promotes networks and contacts between specialist fields of interest to biotechnologists and engineers.
• It organises workshops, lectures and site inspections.

The specialist technical group deals with current, important topics regarding energy efficiency.

• Technological developments are presented and discussed.
• Know-how and practical exchanges of experience are necessary for sustainable development in the energy sector, which is to be facilitated by the specialist technical group.
• The energy industry is also undergoing change as a result of the political framework conditions. There is also room for such topics at seminars and events run by the specialist technical group.

• The specialist technical group promotes chemical reaction technology in practice.
• It exchanges details about the latest research results and new technologies.
• It promotes networking among reaction technology specialists.
• It organises international seminars and conferences.

• The group provides the latest specialist knowledge in workshops and presentations to its members who are working or studying.
• It analyses new procedures and systems in close collaboration with universities of applied sciences and other research institutes. The focus is on heat/chemical and impulse exchange, chemical conversion and thermal and mechanical unit operations. It notifies interested members and other groups of findings from these procedures.