Manufacturing products and drugs will be safer and more efficient in the future, thanks to the use of microreactors being developed at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

The invention promises to make it possible to manufacture drugs, cosmetics and household products in a safer and more efficient manner, using a new kind of microreactor for industry that reinvents how chemical reactions are designed to be done on a large scale.

When perfumes, creams, shampoos and other similar products are manufactured, the chemical reactions involved typically take place in big, agitated containers called reactors.