Mr. Mihir Banerji is an independent technical consultant in the field of plastics. His work area is packaging, home appliances, automotive and recycling. He has over 45 years of industry experience and has worked in organizations such as, ICI (India) Limited, Indian Petrochemicals Corporations Limited and Reliance Industries Ltd.
Prof. Sanjay K Nayak a distinguished scientist and renowned academician in the field of polymer technology. He is the Vice Chancellor of Ravenshaw University, Odisha and Former Director General of Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering & Technology (CIPET), Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Govt. of India. Prof. Nayak has more than 34 years of experience in Teaching, Research and Technical Consultancy. He has been the author of 500 International Publications, Editor/Authors of 30 Books / Book Chapters with leading International Publishers & several Patents Designs.
Prof. Nayak is a Ph. D (Science & Engineering) and DSc degree holder. He is also the recipient of several prestigious Awards like; 'Distinguished Scientist Award' in appreciation to his contribution to Polymer Science & Technology by Asian Polymer Association (APA), 'Commendable Faculty Award' for Research in Material Science & High Citation Index (as per Scopus), National Awards for Technology Innovations in Petrochemicals and Downstream Plastics Processing Industry, Lifetime Achievement Award by FICCI Chemicals & Petrochemicals in 2018.
Total 18 years of experience in the fields of Chemical Engineering, Paper Technology, Polymer Engineering, and Packaging,8 years experience in MNCs like Jubilant, Quarkcity, etc.9 years experience in Teaching, Research and Administration. Awarded Research Associate-ship from CSIR for a Research Project funded by CSIR, Prior to joining IIP in 2016, I was working as Associate Professor & Head of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Department at Chandigarh University, Punjab. Presently serving as Joint Director, IIP-Hyderabad
Dr. Anomitra Chakravarty is an independent technical consultant and works in the area of Biodegradable & bio-plastics, Recycling of Plastics & Rubber, Natural Fiber Plastic Composites and plastic products for Building Construction and Packaging sector. He has more than 25 years industry experience and has worked in organizations such as Reliance Industries Ltd., IndoRama Synthetics & others.
Mr. Manas Kumar Sarkar is an HR professional with over 25 years of experience in HR/IR/Coaching/Sustainability initiatives across diverse businesses and across geographies. He is an MBA / LLB and a PhD scholar. Presently he Head People ( flexi packaging business ) at Uflex.
Mr. Rahul Dubey is an experienced technical professional in field of packaging development , process validation, sustainability ,recyclability and Quality management system . His core work area is development of packaging structures for different product applications and its end to end validation. He has over 30 years of industry experience and has worked in organizations such S.B. Packaging and Nina Plastic Inc. USA and currently working as General Manager (R&D/QMS) IN Uflex Ltd . He is post graduate in chemistry and Diploma in plastics
Sanjay is a seasoned plastic technologist with around 25 years of experience , innovation being at the core of his expertise. He is working as DGM with Uflex.Presently he is in the core team of application development & new projects like PCR – Pet recycling, PCPR-MLP recycling, easy tear films, window metallized bio degradable/compostable project.
Jeevaraj Pillai is a Mechanical Engineer and an MBA. He has been working with UFlex for the past 24 years. He has over 35 years of experience in Packaging covering the entire gamut of packaging technology from Pre-press and cylinder making, different types and grades of film making, to high end conversion of flexible packaging material. His skills include sound understanding of web handling, extrusion and coating technology and bag making for varied applications.
On the sustainability front, he has been working for over a decade to address issues of the damage caused to the environment by plastic-litter, by implementing various measures including Recycling of Multi-Layer Plastics. He has been actively involved in the development of a viable Bio-degradable options for the packaging industry including that under Litter conditions. His contribution in implementing the Energy Curing Technology in flexible packaging has resulted in a substantial reduction in carbon footprint.
He also has an active participation in introducing value added products in packaging industry like Cast and Cure systems, Hot Foil Stamping on Flexibles, 3D-Hologram Embossing, Actively Modified Atmosphere Packaging Technology, Easy tear PET, OPP, PE and new generation Flexi-Tubes. He has presented paper on Plastic Packaging and Environment, Application of E-beam Technology, Anti-counterfeiting options and Anti-Microbial Films to name a few.
Jeeveraj is also an integral part of CII Western Uttar Pradesh Core Group on Sustainability.
Mr. Swapan Ray is the Honorary Secretary, Indian Center for Plastics in the Environment, a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization supported by the industry. Mentoring the newly formed “Sustainability Team” of Reliance Industries Limited from 2018. Past Chairman of the Governing Council of Indian Institute of Packaging. He is over 45 years in Polymer Industry in various capacity. A graduate in Mechanical Engineering with PGDM from IIM-Bangalore. Worked with Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited and Reliance Industries Limited
Mr. Rajeev Dwivedi is the Director, Technical Training & Research Centre, A Division of Lohia Corporation. Past 32 years he is in the field of polymers as an academician and imparting technology to new projects in India as well as in other countries. Rajeev is actively involved in developing new standards for Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and International Organization for Standards (ISO). He coordinated a study on “Biodegradable Plastics-Impact on Environment” for Central Pollution Control Board, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India.
Rajeev is a master’s degree holder in Engineering and an awardee of United Nation Industrial Development Organisation Fellowship. Prior to joining TTRC, he has worked for Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering in various capacities.
Prof. Anup K. Ghosh is a distinguished and renowned Professor in the field of polymer science & engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India and Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India. He held the prestigious Reliance Chair Professor at IIT Delhi. Prof. Ghosh has over 30 years of research and teaching experience, and has 12 patents to his credit.
Prof. Ghosh is a M.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Prof. (Dr.) V.P.Sharma is serving as Chief Scientist & Professor - Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research [AcSIR] at CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow. His area of expertise is Regulatory Toxicology. He was one of the expert members for Indian Pharmacopeia guidelines for primary packaging in PET Plastics and was advisory member for National Scientific Panel. He is recipient of several awards and patent holder.
He has 34 year's of experience in teaching and R & D and serving as expert for thesis evaluation and examinations.