Dear Colleagues and Partners!

On July 2, 2022, in Yerevan, the Republic of Armenia, the Forum CHEMEX-2022: “CHEMISTRY. PHARMA. BIOTECH. NEW CHALLENGES» completed its work.

The event was attended by more than 70 representatives of state authorities, chemical and pharmaceutical companies, engineering, research and trade companies, specialized unions and associations of Russia, the Republic of Armenia and Iran.

The Forum was organized by the information and analytical journal "CHEMICAL EXPERT".

The forum was supported by FSI «SID and GP» of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Russian Union of Enterprises and Organizations of the Chemical Complex, the Department of Chemistry and Earth Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, the Association of Drug Manufacturers of the Republic of Armenia, the ROSKHIMREAKTIV Association.

The partners of the Forum were REATORG LLC and LIQVOR Pharmaceuticals.

Information support was provided by GxP News media project, Pharmtech & Ingredients international exhibition, ARMENPRESS news agency, 24News.am news agency, Republic of Armenia newspaper.

The Minister of Economy of the Republic of Armenia Vagan Kerobyan, Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Alexander Mazhuga, President of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia Ashot Sagyan, Director of the FSI «SID and GP» Vladislav Shestakov addressed the Forum participants with a welcoming speech.

The CHEMEX-2022 Forum was moderated by Georgy Khachiyan, General Director of REATORG LLC, Editor-in-Chief of the "CHEMICAL EXPERT" journal.

The business part of the Forum was attended by Alexey Alekhin (Advisor to the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation), Ilya Vorotyntsev (Rector of the Mendeleev Russian Chemical Technical University), Vigen Goginyan (Deputy General Director for Science, SPC Armbiotechnology), Akhbar Godari (Trade Attaché of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Republic of Armenia), Vladimir Gegechkori (Deputy General Director for Production and Strategic Development of NTs SO LLC), Ratmir Dashkin (General Director of MIC LLC), Viktor Dmitriev (General Director of the Association of Russian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers), Maria Ivanova (Vice President of the Russian Union of Chemists), Vagan Kerobyan (Minister of Economy of the Republic of Armenia), Boris Lalaev (Head of the Department of Chemical Technology of Medicinal Substances of the SFFEI HE SPCPU of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation), Sergey Matevosyan (General Director of LIQVOR CJSC), Pavel Pikula (Director of the Rostov plant for the production of API JSC "R-Pharm”), Taguhi Piruzyan (President of the Association of Drug Manufacturers of the Republic of Armenia), Alexandr Pshenichny (General Director of Polisintez LLC), Vyacheslav Savinov (Executive Director of the Russian Union of Chemists), Irina Spichak (Executive Director of the Eurasian Academy of Good Practices), Anton Tsetsinovsky (Head of the Department of Special Issues of Trade Regulation of the Trade Policy Department of the EEU of the Ministry of Economic Developmentof the Russian Federation), Mkrtych Shakaryan (Head of the Department of Good Pharmaceutical Practice of the Scientific Center for Expertise of Drugs and Medical Technologies named after A. Academician E. Gabrielyan" of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia), Daria Shevyakina (Deputy Director of the Department of Chemical-Technological Complex and Bioengineering Technologies of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia), Vladislav Shestakov (Director of the FSI «SID and GP») and others.

The main topics of the business program of the CHEMEX-2022 Forum were:

1. Chemical and pharmaceutical clusters. Interaction within the EAEU. Export potential

• Vertically integrated structures. Responsibility and efficiency.

• Technoparks and engineering centers. From development to implementation.

2. Regulation of the EAEU: towards the creation of a single legal field

• International cooperation. Experience of cooperation.

3. Present and future of biotechnologies

• Products and producers

• Technology and engineering

• Industry prospects for the EAEU

4. Pharmaceutical industry of Armenia

5. Pharmaceutical standards and chemical reagents

• Production needs and opportunities in Russia and the EAEU

• Chemical reagents. Manufacturers. Support measures

• Participation of educational and scientific institutes in the formation of the reagent base

6. Special economic Zones of Armenia. Tax preferences.

Also, as part of the business program of the Forum, a presentation of the project "Immersive Technologies" from AIAPRICOT and the premiere screening of the documentary film "KOSTANDOV. The chemical formula of success", shot by order of the REATORG LLC and the journal "CHEMICAL EXPERT", took place.

The business part was continued by an informal program that allowed the Forum participants to feel the atmosphere and plunge into the rich culture and history of Armenia.

A detailed overview of the Forum CHEMEX-2022: "CHEMISTRY. PHARMA. BIOTECH. NEW CHALLENGES" will be published in the next issue of the information and analytical journal "CHEMICAL EXPERT".