How Composites Are Powering Innovation

Q1. Could you start by giving us a brief overview of your professional background, particularly focusing on your expertise in the industry?

By default, I am a Mechanical Engineer but driven by passion and zeal to learn something totally unknown to me, I then veered into the field of Polymer Chemistry/Engineering in the late 1970s. I liked the subject and have continued in the same field to this day (having worked in the Middle East for 13 years).

Was in active employment till mid-2019 and thereafter adopted the role of a Freelance Consultant helping entrepreneurs to set up new projects, technology upgradation, process, as well as material optimization, and so on.

While in active employment, I have worked in prominent sectors of composites application e.g., Infrastructure, Mass Transport, Renewable Energy, Automobile, Marine, Electrical, Building and Construction, and many more. Starting at the shop floor in-charge level, responsibilities have risen to senior management decision-making level, have run profit centers of operations management e.g., Manufacturing, Product Development, R&D, Sales & Marketing, Purchase & Materials Management, Project Implementation (from concept to commercialization), HR Management, and so on.

Q2. What is the current global and regional market size of the carbon fiber and hybrid …