Informex, the leading meeting place for buyers and sellers of high-value chemistry for a broad range of applications has announced that next year’s event, the 28th instalment of the show, will return to the home of Bourbon Street, Mardi Gras and Cajun food for 2012.

The event will take place from February 14-17, 2012 at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans with the Hilton Riverside as the hosting hotel. Interest in the 2012 event has been so great that 67 exhibitors, including Albemarle Corporation, BASF, Piramal Healthcare and WeylChem Corporation, had already re-booked before the 2011 show opened its doors in Charlotte this week.

New Orleans has hosted InformexUSA many times, most recently in 2008. The advanced manufacturing industry in the region has the advantage of perfect location, unparalleled infrastructure, lucrative incentives and a talented workforce, making it an ideal location to host the annual event.

The Chemistry Innovations Poster Pavilion will return in New Orleans featuring innovators and academia. It is designed to allow companies to display their latest innovations, new products, technologies and services to influential industry players.  Open to both exhibitors and non-exhibitors, the Poster Pavilion is sure to attract notice from attendees in diverse sectors ranging from discovery stage innovations to new technology platforms.

For 2012, Informex will again present an educational conference program, which will run alongside the trade show. The conference sessions serve to provide an added information resource to attendees, as well as to provide a place for quality networking.

 Also for 2012, show organizers will bring back the technology showcases. These sessions will offer sponsors a forum to display and present advances in their technologies. For the third time, InformexUSA will feature the Profiles in Sustainability Award, which was created to celebrate organizations that are at the forefront of innovation in sustainable chemistry. The award winning organizations will be chosen and announced by a panel of judges from the American Chemical Society, SOCMA, the leading trade press and academia.

In addition to the regular networking receptions, on Monday February 13, InformexUSA will feature an exciting off-site networking event, similar to the event in Napa wine country when the show was held in San Francisco in 2010. Details of this event will be announced soon.