UditVani, Jamshedpur: The two- day International Conference on Corrosion and Coatings (i3C) organised by The Indian Institute of Metals, Jamshedpur Chapter in association with Tata Steel, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory ( NML ) and National Institute of Technology ( NIT ) kicked – off at
Hotel Vivanta here today.
The conference was inaugurated by the chief guest Sandip Ghosh Chowdhury, Director, NML; Guest of Honour, A K Manohar, Executive Director National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd. (NTPC); Ashok Kumar, Chairman, IIM Jamshedpur Chapter & Head, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering; Raghuvir Singh, Chairman, i3C-2025; Tapan Rout, Convenor, i3C-2025 alongwith the other important dignitaries.
Sudhanshu Pathak, Ex-Vice President, Steel Manufacturing, Tata Steel Limited; Ramanuj Narayan, Director, CSIR-IMMT, Praveen Thampi, Chief CRM TSK, Cold Rolling Mill, Atul Srivastav, Vice president, Wulspun Group, were also present
The conference souvenir was also released during the inaugural function.
Raghuvir Singh, Chairman, i3C-2025 welcomed the delegates and highlighted on the two days technical programme of the conference.
This conference also features four plenary lectures and 15 keynotes lectures and 40 contributory lectures. We have more than 15 postures along with technical stalls have been shown to all delegates and participants for the exposure.
Ashok Kumar, Chairman, IIM Jamshedpur Chapter briefed about the IIM overview and its activities throughout the year.
He has emphasized, how IIM Jamshedpur is playing an important role in organizing this type prestigious conference in the need of hours.
Chief guest Sandip Ghosh Chowdhury, Director, CSIR-NML said ” Corrosion is a silent enemy and because of corrosion we lose more than 2-3 % of GDP every year. This is the time all scientist, engineers and technologists to work in a team to combat against corrosion. Steel is playing an important role to take our nation forward however protection of corrosion to steel structure needs immediate attention.”
Guest of Honour A K Manohar, Executive Director NTPC, New Delhi gave a thoughtful address over corrosion and how corrosion is ruining the entire structure of the power plants which require protective coatings solution from scientist of this Nations. We also work in collaborations with scientist and engineers and academicians though various focused consortium.
Tapan Kumar Rout, Principal Scientist, Surface Engineering Research Group, R&D, Tata Steel Limited and Convenor, i3C 2025 expressed thanks to all guests, sponsors and speakers, participants and attendees.
More than 100 delegates and speakers from 34 reputed institutes from different parts of county and aboard (hybrid model) are participating in the conference.
The two- day deliberations will focus on advances in coatings and high temperature corrosion in oil and gas, chemical, nuclear and thermal power plants, construction, and mobility industries.
The conference provides a unique platform for all researchers, engineers, academia and industry experts to discuss over challenges and solutions about corrosion and coating.
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