Ref. No. : CA - 10774 - (Management – with 47.5 years in Plastic Industry)

Education

Diploma in Plastic Engineering from S.B.M. Polytechnic, Mumbai in 1979.

Skill Sets

Four year Diploma course with One year training at Polyset Plastics Ltd and at Nilkamal Plastics in the field of Injection and Blow Molding departments.
Leadership management course for Personality Development and Managerial Skills from Texas, U.S.A., known as L.M.I. completed in 1999

Work Experience

Plastics Processing And Product Development Via Most Suitable Raw Material.
August 2012 till date

Vice President - Technology Support and Development
From Feb. 2010
Company Profile: Manufacturer of Drums, Syringes, HDPE pipes, Furniture, Artificial Floorings, Automobile parts.
Job Profile:
My key role is to support day to day manufacturing activities, sort out moldings / process related problems, new suggestions, new product development and support for expansion activity.
Successfully launched Conductive Drum or ESD drums and Multilayer IBC for transportation of specialty chemicals for zone II A and B atmosphere.

Asst Vice President
July 2004 - Jan. 2010
Responsible for installation of manufacturing Plastics Fuel Tank project.
Company Profile: Undertakes Business and Project Development works, involving Process Plants, Industrial & Engineering Projects and Energy, Environment and Infrastructure Projects
Job Profile:-
Dismantling and Setting up “JSW NB120” (EBM) manufacturing Plant. The Plant was based on “Extrusion Blow Molding” with shuttle mechanism. This EBM was designed to produce either Mono layer or Multi-layer based product as per OEM’s requirement. Main product made was an multilayer Plastic fuel tank which was suitable for 4WD automotive segment.
All project related Technical activities like correspondence for auxiliary equipments (Indian as well as international), raw material, new grade development and correspondence with equipment suppliers for refurbishing and commissioning.
Business Development and Technical Marketing Support to OEM.

Achievements:
Given my best for the successful commissioning of the equipment as well as marketable product over the years.
With the help of other organization team members we have completed the installation of JSW NB 120 by July 2008.
Visited Germany, France and Italy for discussion and to understand tool geometry, processing, and its requirement as per ECE34 R .
Metal Tank to Plastics Fuel tank modification was carried out successfully before making prototype model.
During assembly and fitment of PFT, a query was raised by Ford for Fiesta, which was successfully resolved to OEM’s satisfaction.
Received Enquiry / RFQ for PFT from OEM manufacturers like Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, VW.
In June 2010 production activity started at Chennai.

General Manager - Business Development
Sept, 1990 - June, 2004
Bhansali Engineering Polymers Ltd.
Company Profile:Leading manufacturer of engineering polymers
Job Profile:
Lead the Business Development Department for more than 13 years, nationwide. During my tenure, company’s market share of ABS increased to 40%. I was also looking after technical services for White Goods Industry, Automobile Industry, Business Machine Industry, Novelty Items, Electrical and Electronics Industry.
Job Profile.:-
Understanding the needs of customers by analyzing their product and its end-use application. Based on this analysis, our plant used to manufacture the tailor made material for trial and approval.
Technical Service was rendered to our Customers having various processing techniques like Injection Moulding, Extrusion, Blow moulding, Painting of moulded product, Electroplating and Vacuum Metalizing, Gas Assist Injection Molding.
The job also included helping Customers in Mould Design.
Visited Germany to attend K Fair during 1995.
Problems in processing at customer’s moulding facility were solved by demonstrating processing of Styrene Polymer including GPPS, SAN, ABS and its alloy like Glass Filled, ABS-PVC, ABS-PC and FR ABS in Injection moulding as well as Extrusion processing.
Current trends were also absorbed to cope up with overall development in the Industry. Matt ABS was one such area that was attracting the Industry. Successful developments were done by developing new grade for Injection moulding as well as for Extrusion based applications like Thermoforming for Luggage and Seat Back Panel for Bus Body Building applications.
The tenure in Bhansali Engineering Polymers Ltd has been immensely useful & successful considering the fact that I was promoted from the post of Manager to General Manager over the years.

Asstt. Manager - Technical Services and Application Development
June, 1985 to Aug, 1990
B.M. Thakkar & Co. Ltd - Tipco
Job Profile:
The main objective was to support the Marketing Department.
The Company had newly launched Filled Polypropylene material in the market. Product development was carried out in the areas of Electrical Industry, Woven sack, Washing machine, Automobile industry and Furniture Industry.
Excellency in processing of thermoplastic material was demonstrated to serve the industry well.
Metal to Plastics replacement: Non-plastic items were replaced by Polymer as per performance criteria needed by the product in various industries. Bajaj Auto Rotary Fan with Glass filled PP.
First mono block chair was produced in India with 30% filled PP for M/s Blow Plast Ltd.
The tenure at TIPCO gave a varied experience in new developments, which were done for the first time in the country.

Senior Officer - Development
Aug, 1984 - May, 1985
Blow Plast Ltd – Leo Toys Division
Job Profile:
Job responsibilities were-Third party development, mould making for various Toys, Assembly and Quality Assurance of various toys.
The job also included developments for VIP Luggage, which was a division of the Company in luggage industry.
Major success achieved when the Company assigned new responsibility at its plant in Jalgoan, for proper launching of the newly developed toys in the market.
Successfully developed more than 20 types of toys.
The job also included working with Furniture Division of the Company for development of “MODERNA chair.”

Plant in Charge / Production Engineer/R & D
Sept, 1979 - July, 1984
Pioneer Tools & Appliances Pvt Ltd –ETAK Toys
Job Profile:
Initial appointment was as a Supervisor. The job included carrying out maintenance of Injection moulding machines, Product Engineering, Mould Development & Third party product development
Major success achieved by developing videocassette, VHF for Star Electronics, Mumbai.
Deputed at Hong Kong & Taiwan for the project as well as for developing new toys for Indian market. During this period, the Company had achieved Two National awards for excellent toys.

Extra Curricular Activities:
Was a visiting faculty member for 5th and 7th Semester students for Plastics Engg course.

At present working on the board of studies BOS (technical) committee for Plastics Eng. Course, In S.B.M. Polytechnic. (last more than 15 years)

Member of Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) during 1994 to 2002 having GOLD level membership witch help to give guidance to our customers for other Polymers.

During Plast-India 2000, delivered a lecture on ‘Processing of ABS Plastics’ in one of the technical seminar organized by PIF.(Plast india Foundation )

Knowledge of Electrical and Electronics, which helps to understand the problems on the shop floor and product development.

Knowledge of Mould design and trouble-shooting helps industry to guide skilled and unskilled employees on shop floor.

Knowledge of basic machine maintenance.

Future Goals

Management

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