Expert Details
Industrial Chemistry Expert: R&D of Materials, Coating, Adhesive, & Sealant Applications
ID: 739830
India
Expert has experience in the development of products from concept to market, and technology transfer from R&D to pilot to production. He's collaborated on product development with internal and external customers, including solving issues related with products, processes, and technologies. He has 11 National and International research publications, and 4 poster presentations at International conferences.
The technologies he's developed and scaled up include: Opaque Polymers, Fluorescent Dispersion, Multifunctional Emulsion, Acrylic Hydrosol, Controlled Radical polymerization (CRP-RAFT) Acrylic and Styrene-acrylic emulsion for leather finishing, High-performance Adhesive, Microencapsulated Adhesive, Wood Working Adhesive, and Multi-substrate Adhesive. Expert also has experience with various methods of Polymerization, including: Mini Emulsion, Dispersion Co-Polymerization, Adiabatic Emulsion Polymerization, Surfactant Free Emulsion Polymerization, Controlled Radical Polymerization, and Bulk, Solution, and Suspension.
Instrumental Skill: Familiar with HPLC, IR, NMR, DSC, TGA, UV-VISIBLE, KF TITRATOR, Brookfield Viscometer, SEM, Particle Size Analyzer, Color Scan Analyzer
Additional experience includes:
- High through put chemistry (carrying out fully automatic multiple emulsion reactions).
- Controlled Release Technology, Medical Device Technology, Leather Chemical Technology, Paint Chemical Technology, Textile Chemical Technology, Fluorescent Pigment Technology, Construction Chemicals
- Building the innovation framework that will bring the best innovation solution that are desirable, feasible and viable.
- Leadership of large-scale growth initiatives.
- Providing strategic input to wood working adhesive on the relevant innovation platforms.
- Developing and championing the external network in the adhesive area.
- Provides subject matter expert leadership in adhesive.
- Works with external partners to develop and leverage strategic suppliers and consulting networks (including Universities) to effectively bring new ideas.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 2003 | Degree: Ph.D. | Subject: Industrial Chemistry | Institution: Sardar Patel University |
| Year: 1998 | Degree: M.Sc. | Subject: Industrial Chemistry | Institution: Sardar Patel University |
| Year: 1996 | Degree: B.Sc. | Subject: Industrial Chemistry | Institution: Sardar Patel University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2023 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: General Manager | Department: R&D |
Responsibilities:General Management of Coating and Specialty division with respect to new product development, commercialisation, scale up, standardisation. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2021 to 2023 | Employer: Anchor Allied Factory LLC | Title: Lead Head Techno Commercial | Department: |
Responsibilities:- Lead design and development of new products (sealant, adhesive, coating)- Develop new vendors, cost reduction, vendor validation, source new raw material - Technical training of internal and external customer, new product launch, sale promotion - Design packaging material for new products - Customer complaint handling, site visit, customer demo - Prepare new MSDS TDS as per various standard requirement, external lab testing and collaboration, test certification of new products - New products application demo video, catalogue preparation - Coordinate with internal and external members for effective commercialisation of new products - Take part in conferences and exhibitions |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2019 to 2021 | Employer: Astral Adhesives Limited | Title: General Manager, R&D | Department: |
Responsibilities:- Responsible for handing wood division, which comprised of water based, rubber-based adhesive for various different substrates application- Responsible for start to end delivery and customer service. (2 new rubber-based product commercialised) |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2014 to 2019 | Employer: Pidilte Industries Limited | Title: Manager, R&D | Department: |
Responsibilities:- Design and development of next generation coating, adhesive, sealant- Project Management via Stage gate - New projects - New to India and New to Company - Innovation management product to market - Outreach program (NCL, IICT, UNH, Lehigh ) - Identify new consultant and expert across the globe - Developing project proposal for academic tie up - Direct work with Chairman for special projects |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2011 to 2014 | Employer: Asian Paints Limited | Title: Manager, Technology | Department: |
Responsibilities:- Technologies Developed: Opaque Polymer, Multifunctional Binder, RAFT based emulsion, Surfactant Free Latex Binder- Training and experience on Chemspeed: High thro- Put Chemistry |
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Career Accomplishments
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Expert has 11 National and International research publications, and 4 poster presentations at International conferences. |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Available upon request. |
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| Instrumental Skill: Familiar with HPLC, IR, NMR, DSC, TGA, UV-VISIBLE, KF TITRATOR, Brookfield Viscometer, SEM, Particle Size Analyzer, Color Scan Analyzer |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| English | Fluent |
| Hindi | Fluent |
| Gujarati | Fluent |