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The International Meeting on Radiation Processing 2024

The iia invites you to the 21st International Meeting on Radiation Processing (IMRP 2024), taking place 4-8 November 2024 in Costa Rica. The IMRP 2024 theme will be ‘Irradiation Technologies – Available, Sustainable and Growing’. The exhibition space will be at the core of the conference, offering a...

The triennial International Conference on the Development and Application of Nuclear Technologies will take place in Krakow, Poland in September 2023. For more information visit the iiaglobal.com events page....

The Society for Sterility Assurance Professionals made significant progress during 2022. The latest newsletter highlights some of the progress that has been achieved. January 2023 Newsletter ...

Texas A&M university are hosting two hands-on e-beam technology workshop during 2023.  The first focuses on the use of eBeam and X-ray technologies in the medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries. The second is focused on the use of eBeam and X-ray technologies in the fresh food,...

The International Irradiation Association plans to introduce a leadership program early in 2023. The leadership program will act as a bridge between academic studies and the irradiation industry. Focused on graduates nearing the end of their studies the program will give participants a broad overview of...

The iia is pleased to welcome Meissner Consulting GmbH as its newest member.  Meissner Consulting offers complete solutions for facility engineering and process development to users and prospective users of particle accelerators.  With executive management experience and a PhD in nuclear physics, Dr. Jörn Meissner...

It was a huge pleasure to welcome over 350 people from 40+ countries who registered to attended the latest International Meeting on Radiation Processing (IMRP) in Bangkok from the 7 - 11 November. In order to appeal to the largest number of people and to address...

The pre-conference training course Radiation Processing for Advanced and Renewable Materials: From Basics to Industrialisation is being held at the Faculty of Science at Kasetsart university in Bangkok this week. 24 students from 13 countries are attending the course which runs from 2-4 November 2022. Lecturers...

Professor Xavier Coqueret, a polymer chemist from the Universite de Reims Champagne Ardenne in France, has been appointed to the board of the International Irradiation Association. Xavier is a well known and well respected member international irradiation community.    ...

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Alan Tallentire, a much-loved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather on October 6th 2022. Alan Tallentire was a Microbiologist, Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences, Division of Pharmacy & Optometry. He was a prominent...

The use of low energy electron beams keeps expanding and more applications are emerging. Our member Fraunhofer FEP just announced that they succeeded in producing anti-adhesive coatings on plastic film by applying low energy accelerated electrons without the use of additional chemical crosslinking agents. Electrons functionalize...

The IAEA just published the Final Report of the work undertaken under coordinated research project (CRP) D61024 on the Development of Electron Beam and X ray Applications for Food Irradiation (DEXAFI). The coordinated research project was implemented by the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques...

The latest iia publication - The development of radiation processing in Latin America and the Caribbean Region is now available in the publications section of our website. Latin America and the Caribbean Region have an established history of scientific research and the commercial application of radiation processing....

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