The first International Conference on the Occurrence, Properties, and Utilization of Natural Zeolites was Zeolite ’76, held in Tucson, Arizona. It was during this conference that the International Committee on Natural Zeolites (ICNZ) was created “to promote and encourage the growing interest in natural zeolite materials throughout the scientific and technical community.” ICNZ was renamed INZA in 2004. The previous international conferences were:
- Zeolite ’76 – Tucson, Arizona USA
- Zeolite ’85 – Budapest, Hungary
- Zeolite ’91 – Havana, Cuba
- Zeolite ’93 – Boise, Idaho USA
- Zeolite ’97 – Ischia (Naples), Italy
- Zeolite ’02 – Thessaloniki, Greece
- Zeolite ’06 – Socorro, New Mexico USA
- Zeolite 2010 – Sofia, Bulgaria
- Zeolite 2014 – Belgrade, Serbia
- Inza 2014 Business
- Zeolite 2014 – Report
- Zeolite 2018, Kraków, Poland
- Zeolite 2022, Ischia, Italy
The ’97, ’02, and ’06 conferences averaged 160 attendees representing more than 30 countries from all continents.
