Since its first edition in 1969, the meeting has been traditionally organized every two years by the Croatian Society of Chemical Engineers and the Croatian Chemical Society. It gathers around 400–500 chemists and chemical engineers from Croatia and neighbouring countries that, coming from academia, institutes and industry, actively participate and contribute to the success of the meeting with posters and oral presentations. An exhibition of chemical industrial and laboratory equipment and instrumentation, computer software and hardware, literature and other relevant material, will be organized as an accompanying manifestation.

The conference is attended by domestic and international scientists through poster presentations or lectures. Plenary and invited speakers are from Croatia and abroad. The conference is attended by scientists from various fields, mainly from the natural sciences – chemistry, biotechnical sciences and technical sciences – chemical engineering