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The Institute of Indian Foundrymen (Western Region) is offering opportunities for Business Beyond Boundaries. 70th Indian Foundry Congress, IFEX and Cast India Expo is a three-day integrated conference and exhibition being organized at Helipad Ground Exhibition Center, Gandhinagar, Gujarat from 17th to 19th April, 2022.
Western Region has a proven track record of hosting grand scale events successfully in the past giving value of time & money to delegates, exhibitors and visitors. This time also, Team Ahmedabad, Mumbai & Western Region with overwhelming support from all over India is working towards the success of this grand event.
Gandhinagar
President, IIF
“UNITED INDIA, UNITED FOUNDRYMEN”
Foundry industry like all other industries has been facing a challenging time since the beginning of the pandemic….
Organizing Chairman
We are Back, with Business Beyond Boundaries
Once again, on behalf of The Organizing Team I extend a warm and cordial invitation to 70th IFC...
Chairman IFEX 2022
Welcome to the Largest Foundry Exhibition
The Western Region of IIF has taken the challenge of creating a platform of IFEX-22 from 17-19 April 2022.
Chairman Western Region
IIF Western Region Welcomes you
On behalf of Western region of IIF, welcome to 70th Indian Foundry Congress & IFEX 2022. The three day event is full of ….
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Opportunity to shake hands & make business deals at the Largest Foundry Exhibition at the largest venue of India with more than One Lakh Sq.mts display area…
Western Region has always given innovative & creative slots. This time also, we have carefully selected & planned exciting sessions to keep in tune with the emerging technologies…
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| SUNDAY, 17 APRIL 2022: | ||||
| TIME | HALL - 1 | HALL - 2 | ||
| 1000 - 1100 | INAUGURATION OF IFEX – 2022 by Shri JAGDISH VISHWAKARMA, Hon. Minister of State, Industries & Mines | |||
| 1100 - 1130 | TEA-BREAK | |||
| 1130 - 1330 | SESSION – 1 CHAIRMAN – Mr. N. P. Sinha |
SESSION – 2 CHAIRMAN – Mr. S. P. Oudhia |
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| Speaker | Topic | Speaker | Topic | |
| 1. | Mr. Sandeep Rege, Head Foundry, Automotive Unit, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. | Best Practises in my Foundry | Mr. Deepak Chowdhary, Founder, Inventor, MD - MPM Infosoft P. Ltd., Nagpur | Machine Learning based variable compactibility set-point control solution for improved castings |
| 2. | Ms. Jaya Dave, Group Head – HRD, Bhagwati Group of Foundries |
How to Retain Employees | Mr. Gelson Montero, Head R&D, International Sales Mgr., Künkel Wagner, Germany | Improvement of metallic yield on ductile iron castings by understanding properties of graphite expansion |
| 3. | Dr. Indira Parikh, President, Antardisha | Transforming SME’s to Unicorn organisations, opportunities / challenges |
Dr. NithyanandanDevaraaj, E.D., Amex Alloys P. Ltd. | Why do foundries fail? |
| 4. | Mr. Iyer Srinivasan, MD, Elkem South Asia P. Ltd. | How to face challenges arising out of pandemic | Mr. Sameer Kelkar, CEO, R&D, Grind Master Machines P. Ltd. | Grinding for complex ferrous castings |
| 5. | Mr. Brajesh Kumar Singh Tata Motors, Jamshedpur | A Case study on ‘Zero discharge of hazardous waste’ | Mr. Klous Oosterhof & Mr. Holgar Barth Hüttenes Albertus, Germany |
Additive manufacturing designed for Foundry needs |
| 1330 - 1430 | LUNCH | |||
| 1430 - 1700 | VISIT TO IFEX 2022 | |||
| 1700 - 1900 | BREAK | |||
| 1900 - 2030 | INAUGURAL FUNCTION: * Welcome * About IIF * About IFC – 2022 * Keynote Address by: Mr. SRIRAM VIJI, MD, Brakes India Group on ‘Aiming Higher, Reaching Further’ * Inauguration by Chief Guest: Shri BHUPENDRABHAI PATEL, Hon. Chief Minister of Gujarat * Inaugural Speech * Award Ceremony * Vote of Thanks |
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| 2030 onwards | ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM & DINNER | |||
| MONDAY, 18 APRIL 2022: | ||||
| TIME | HALL - 1 | HALL - 2 | ||
| 1000 - 1200 | SESSION – 3 CHAIRMAN – Mr. Vijay Menon |
VIDEO PRESENTATIONS CHAIRMAN – Mr. Sanjay Desai |
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| DISCUSSION ON FUTURE DEMAND OF CASTINGS | ||||
| 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. |
CNH Industrial (I) P. Ltd. Daimler India Commercial Vehicles P. Ltd. Dana India P. Ltd. John Deere India P. Ltd. Meritor Commercial Vehicle Systems (I) Ltd. |
Mr. Pritiman Panigrahi, GM (Purchasing) Mr. Suresh Shivalingam, Head, Procurement Mr. Mohan Kadam, GM - Purchasing Mr. Shrikrishna Kulkarni, Commodity Lead Mr. Rajesh Edlabadkar, Supply Chain Manager Mr. Amit Ghildiyal, Head, Supply Management Mr. Praveen V. Katte, Director - Purchasing |
1. Mr. Michael Fanz-Huster, Manager Sales, Inductotherm Ltd. 2. Kuk Hyun Han, President, Samyoung Machinery Co. Ltd. Korea |
Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) - Big Data processing in Industrial environment Study on applicability of Sand 3D printing cores & moulds for casting applications |
| 1200 - 1215 | TEA-BREAK | |||
| 1215 - 1415 | SESSION – 3 contd. CHAIRMAN – Mr. Krishana Samaraj |
VIDEO PRESENTATIONS contd. CHAIRMAN – Mr. Sanjay Desai |
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| 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. |
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. TAFE Ltd. Atlas Copco (I) Ltd. Sandvik Mining & Construction Simpson and Co. Ltd. |
Mr. VikasNadgir, DGM Strategic Sourcing Unit Mr. Asokan Natarajan, Manager Mr. Chandrakant Bande, SQA Manager Mr. Mustafa Patel, DGM-Sourcing Mr. N. Santhanagopalan, SGM Mr. Mahendran Kamaraj, SGM - (QA) |
3. Dr. Heinz Jürgen Büchner, MD, Industrials & Automotive Germany 4. Prof. Jan Jezierski, Silesian University of Technology, Poland |
Global Foundry Industry – Future chances & challenges Metallurgical quality of melt as a key of sound castings |
| TUESDAY, 19 APRIL 2022: | ||||
| TIME | HALL - 1 | HALL - 2 | ||
| 1000 - 1140 | SESSION – 4 CHAIRMAN – Mr. Sushil Sharma |
SESSION – 5 CHAIRMAN – Mr. B. S. Govind |
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| 1. | Mr. Anil Patel, Plant Manager, Sanand, Ford Motor Co. |
Future trends of castings and area of opportunities | Mr. Balaji D. Loganathan & Mr. P. A. Jayaraman, Spritle Software | How Artificial Intelligence & computer vision can help foundries achieve better performance results |
| 2. | Mr. Deepak Anaghan, Engineer, R&D, Metso (I) P.Ltd. | Environmental effect of Foundry operations and technological solutions | Mr. Santosh Kumar A.S., GM, Pro-SIM R&D P. Ltd. | Prediction on effect of resin bonded percentage on casting quality using simulation |
| 3. | Mr. Adhitya K., Sr. Engineer R&D, Peekay Steels P. Ltd., Coimbatore | Amalgamation of metallurgical theories and Foundry tradition of ASTM -A295 / A995M Super Duplex Stainless Steel | Mr. Dipak Ghosh, Director – Technical, Forace Polymers P. Ltd. | Inorganic sand binders system – No longer a choice but compulsion |
| 4. | Mr. Satyanarayana V. N. VP Foundry Sales, DISA | Non-ferrous castings on Moulding Systems | Mr. Chandan Panda, VP, Gargi (HA) P. Ltd. | High performance cold box system to optimise quality |
| 1140 - 1200 | TEA-BREAK | |||
| 1200 - 1300 | SESSION – 6 CHAIRMAN – Mr. Vijay Purohit |
SESSION – 7 CHAIRMAN –Mr. Amar Patil |
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| 1. | Mr. Vinayak Ghatge, VP Forace Polymers P. Ltd. | In-situ preparation - A latest trend in Refractory Coating | Mr. Rajesh Goel, Vice President, Sage Metals |
Cost of quality – A window to economic sustainability |
| 2. | Mr. Jitendra Lakhotia, Aakar Foundry, Pune | Effect of EV rollout on Aluminium Castings Demand | Mr. Himanshu Mishra, Foundry Division, Tata Motors | Use of silicon carbide in place of ferro –silicon alloys during induction Furnace Melting |
| 1300 - 1400 | LUNCH | |||
| 1400 - 1500 | CHAIRMAN – Mr. Devendra Jain / Mr. Subodh Panchal - FOUNDRYMEN’S HOUR – Open house on burning issues… | |||
| Valedictory: Chief Guest Shri Vijay Menon, MD, Menon & Menon P. Ltd. on “How Indian Foundry can survive… | ||||
Helipad Exhibition Center
Swarnim Park, Near Jilla Panchayat,
Sector 17, Gandhinagar, Gujarat - 382016, India
215 A, Sakar IX, Opp. Times of India
Ashram Road, Ahmedabad - 380009
+91 98240 15380
