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History Society was founded by prof.
dr.sc. Franjo Hanaman who had become, after graduating on
Polytechnic in Vienna, world recognized innovator of the
first applied light bulb with metal (wolfram) string,
working as an assisstant with Alexander Justt. In the
year 1922 he had been called to take a professorship of
anorganic chemistry at the Tecnical faculty in Zagreb. He
initiatied, in 1928, the founding of the Chemist's Club
within Society of Yugoslavian Engineers and Architects,
and this Society had been derived from The Club of
Engineers and Technicians founded in Zagreb even in 1878.
The first president had been prof. dr.sc. Franjo Hanaman. Club had been formed with the aim
for advancement of the chemical engineers' activities in
industry and the university. At this time, activity of
the Club had been the organizing of the lectures and
meetings of chemical engineers and also to encourage its
memebers to publish in Arhiv za kemiju i farmaciju
(Archive for Chemistry and Pharmacy) which had changed
its name into Arhiv za kemiju i kemijsku tehnologiju
(Archive for Chemistry and Chemical Technology) in 1937.
and, in 1939, into Arhiv za kemiju i tehnologiju (Archive
for Chemistry and Technology). Editor had been Franjo
Hanaman from 1934 to 1939. Participants in the activities
of the club were professors of Technical faculty - for
example – prof. Richard Podhorsky, prof. Matija
Krajčinović, prof. Vladimir Njegovan and others. The
Chemist's Club also supported the founding of the
Department of Chemistry on the Technical faculty in
Zagreb. Chemist's club was active until 1939. During the
hard years of WWII, the members of the club were active
within Croatian Chemical Society which had this name from
1939 and they upheld its activities until the end of the
war when, on the initiative of the Society of Engineers
and Technicians of Croatia, the Section of Chemists had
been found in 1947. The first president was prof. dr.sc.
Ivan Brihta, honorary lecturer of the Tecnical Faculty in
Zagreb who held the courses Tecnical Catalysis and
Technology of the Catalytic Processes. Section had at
this time 109 members. Section had organized lectures and
consultations and supported the journal Arhiv za kemiju i
kemijsku tehnologiju (Archive for Chemistry and Chemical
Technology) which had become the joint bulletin of the
Section and the Croatian Chemical Society. The Section
has begun to publish its own bulletin Kemija u industriji
(Chemistry in Industry) in 1952 which is still being
published today. The Section ceased to exist when the
Society of Chemists and Technologists of Croatia was
founded on July 6th 1953. The first president had been
Jovan Dugošević. The Society continued with the
activities of the Section. Beside lectures, colloquiums
and consultations, it promoted the application of
chemistry in the industry. Regional societies are founded
within the Society in Zagreb, Rijeka, Split etc. On the
5th regular meeting of the General Assembly, on March
18th 1962 in Zagreb, it was decided that the Society
should be transformed into the Association. New Statute
was brought and the new name was the Association of
Chemists and Technologists of Croatia. The first
president was prof. dr.sc. Marijan Lačan, professor of
organic chemistry at the Department for Biotechnology at
the Technological Faculty in Zagreb. statute of the
Association has been changed several times: February 10th
1967, November 10th 1972, July 12th 1980, July 25th 1992.
By this Statute the Association of Chemists and
Technologists of Croatia has changed the name into
Croatian Society of Chemical Engineers and Technologists
(HDKI – short for the name in Croatian). In the year
1993 HKDI has become the member of European Federation
for Chemical Engineering and the member of European
Polymere Federation. Accepting the Statute on April 24th
1998 the Society has become a unique organization. Within
Association of the Chemists and Technologists of Croatia
there are regional societies in Belišće, Koprivnica,
Kutina, Požega, Rijeka, Split and Zagreb and the society
of Borovo is associated to the HKDI Zagreb because of
well known state of affairs. There are also professional
sections. Croatian Society of
Chemical Engineers and Technologists (HKDI – short for
Croatian name - Hrvatsko društvo kemijskih inženjera i
tehnologa) is a unique association of chemists, chemical
engineers and technologists, persons and legal subjects,
which functions in the Repulic of Croatia. The seat of
the HKDI is in Zagreb, Berislavićeva 6 tel: +385 1 4872
499. HKDI gathers together chemists, chemical engineers
and technologists in the aim of improving chemical and
chemical engineering professions and also the similar
professions. It is permanently acting on the improvement
of natural and technical sciences and their application
in practice.It is also always in contact with the
development in science and technology; it provides the
opinions on technical and technological solutions to
problems and about the planning of building, regulating
and protecting the environment. It encourages all kinds
of engineering activities aiming to optimization of
technical and economical development, welfare, security,
health, environmental protection and good society. It
helps and encourages engineers in professional work and
in organizing corresponding forms of professional
education. It nourishes and develops the ethics of
engineers' profession. It encourages, edits and publishes
scientific and professional publications. Its goals and
aims HKDI relizes through organizing congresses,
meetings, conferences, seminars, consultations,
colloquiums, round tables, lectures, discussions, talks
and by other means of getting the members together.
Member list The following regional societies are members
as legal subjects: Society of Chemical Engineers and
Technologists, Borovo Society of Chemists and
Technologists, Koprivnica Society of Chemists and
Technologists, Kutina Society of Chemists and
Technologists, Požega Society of Chemists and
Technologists, Belišće Society of Chemical Engineers
and Technologists, Rijeka Society of Chemical Engineers,
Split.Within HKDI, except regional societies, there are
also sections which gather engineers and technologists
who share interests in special fields. They also work
within plans and programs of HKDI. The following sections
are now active: Section for Education and Personnel
(president: prof. dr.sc. Ivica Štern) Section for
Chromatography (president: prof. dr.sc. Štefica
Cerjan-Stefanović) Section for Chemical Engineering
(president: prof. dr.sc. Antun Glasnović) Section for
Biochemical Engineering (president: prof. dr.sc. Nediljko
Pavlović) Section for Organic Chemistry Nomenclature
(president: prof. dr.sc. Vladimir Rapić) Section for
Ecological Engineering (president: prof. dr.sc. Natalija
Koprivanec) Section for Macromolecules (president: prof.
dr.sc. Marica Mlinac Mišak) Section for Electrochemistry
and Electrohemical Engineering (president: dr.sc. Božena
Ćosović) The bodies of the Society are: General
Assembly, Executive Committee, Supervising Committee and
Court of Honor. President of the Society is Prof.
dr.sc.Antun Glasnović , elected on elections on April
26th 2001; deputy president is prof. dr.sc. Ratimir
Žanetić. Executive Committee is principal executive
body of the General Assembly which coordinates all
activities and takes care about the execution of
decisions of the General Assembly; it undertakes other
activities in accordance with the Statute as well.
Members of the Executive Committee are: 1. Zoran Bunčić
– Pliva d.d. Zagreb 2. Božena Ćosović – IRB,
Zagreb 3. Natalija Koprivanac – FKIT, Zagreb 4. Ivan
Losso – Petrokemija, Kutina 5. Jasmina Ranilović –
Podravka, Koprivnica 6. Nikola Šegudović – INA d.d.,
Zagreb 7. Srećko Tomas – PTF, Osijek Organization of the conferences HKDI is the organizer of
scientific and professional national and international
conferences. There is a tradition of organizing “The
Croatian Conference of Chemists and Chemical
Engineeers” every second year, the “Meeting of Young
Chemical Engineers”, international symposium “New
Achievments in Chromatography” and conferences in the
fields of electrochemistry and electrochemical
engeneering. Croatian Society of
Chemical Engineers and Technologists (HDKI – short for
the name in Croatian) has been awarded and praised many
times during its existence. Several of the prizes and
awards are: Prize of the regional Society of Engineers
and Tecnicians "Borovo" for help and continuing
cooperation in professional and social activities, 1982.
Golden medal of the hotel "Intercontinental"
Zagreb, for successful cooperatin over many years, 1985.
Medal of the City Musem of Vukovar on the occasion of
opening of the memorial musem of the Nobel Prize winner
Lavoslav Ružička. Award – diplom of the Petrokem,
Zagreb, for succesful cooperation. Golden medal of the
regional Society of Engineers and Tecnicians
"Borovo" to prof. dr.sc. Vera Johanides for
initiating the organization of "Ružička Days"
in general organization of HDKI. Gratitude of the
Archbishop of Zagreb, Josip Bozanić, for a gift for
renovating of the Zagreb Cathedral, 1998. Award of the
Croatian Chemical Society Rijeka for successful
cooperation over many years, 1998. Croatian Society of Chemical Engineers and Technologists publishes the journal “Kemija u industriji” (Chemistry in Industry) for almost 50 years. Editor-in-chief is dr.sc. Danko Škare. Association of Chemists and Technologists of Croatia has begun to publish international journal in English language “Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Qurterly” in 1987, which is issued four times per year. Editor-in-chief is prof. dr.sc. Želimir Kurtanjek Beside the journals, HKDI
publishes scientific and professional books in the fields
of chemistry and chemical engineering. You are kindly
invited to view the list of published issues on the
invoice. If you would like to order some of the issues,
you could fill the order, print it out and send it by the
post to our address; or, you can
order journals via the e-mail
. All the issues
can be seen in our shop-window. HKDI is a member of Croatian Engineering Association; it closely cooperates with croatian Chemical Society which publishes the journal Croatica Chemica Acta and with and Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology which publishes the journal Food Technology and Biotechnology, European Federation for Biotechnology – EFB from 1998, European Federation for Chemical Engeneering – EFCE from 1992, and European Polymere federation – EPF from 1992 and with other similar professional national and international societies. HKDI is initiating the founding of the workgroup for separation sciences in Central Europe (CEGSS) It is especially important to emphasize extremely well cooperation with the following regional societies: Society of Chemical Engineers and Technologists, Borovo “Borovo”, Aleja
oslobođenja b.b. 32010 Vukovar Society of Chemists and Technologists, Koprivnica A. Starčevića 32, 48000
Koprivnica Society of Chemists and Technologists, Kutina Aleja Vukovar 4, 44320
Kutina , tel:044 647 122, fax: 044 625 863 Society of Chemists and Technologists, Požega Kralja Zvonimira 1, 34000
Požega Society of Chemical Engineers and Technologists, Rijeka Braće Branchetta 20,
51000 Rijeka Society of Chemical Engineers, Split Starčevićeva 24c, 21000
Split Conferences Conferences organzed by HKDI Two conferences are being in organization. There are preparations for 18th Croatian Conference of Chemists and Chemical Engineering which will be held on Februar 16-19, 2003 in Zagreb. The next will be 2nd Croatian Symposium on Electrochemistry which will be held September 17-20, 2001 in Primošten, hotel “Zora”. Conferences organized by other national or international associations Institute of Material Research of The Slovak Academy of Sciemnce and Branch of Slovak Metallurgical Society on Faculty of Metallurgy of The Technical University of Kosice, The Association of Metallurgy, Mining Industry and Geology of the Slovak Republic, Slovak Silicate Society, Slovak Glass Society kindly invite you to the 4th conference Preparation of Ceramic Materials, Herlany, June 26-28 2001. The Exhibition Office,
Step Exhibition Ltd., organizes Congress on
Personal Care Technology & Technique – Personal
Care 2002, which will be held February 19-21 2002
in Paris, France. All information are available on: http://www.stepex.co.uk/ Awards to scientists in the field of chemistry Here you can find regulations about the proedure and the conditions under which HKDI deliver awards. Financial support of other associations EcoLinks Partnership Grants is a program of financial grants for pre-investment partnership projects in environmental protection. Details: www.ecolinks.org , or e-mail ecolinks@zamir.net or tel: +385 1 4873 622, Ms Sandra Balent. 1 Sij /
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