Complete Itinerary of 27th International Conference on Non-ferrous Metals - 2023

Two days to go to the 27th International Conference on Non-ferrous Metals and here is the complete itinerary of the 2-day event at Hotel Chanakya BNR, Ranchi, India. The event, organised by Corporate Monitor in association with JNARDDC, will begin on July 7 with an inaugural session starting at 10 AM followed by a welcome speech by Dr Anupam Agnihotri, Conference Organising Committee & Director, JNARDDC; and Sanjay Kumar Verma, Chairman, Conference Advisory Committee.

Other eminent personalities from metal industries like Sadashiv Samantaray, Director (Commercial), NALCO; Sanjay Sarkar, CEO & Executive Director, Indo Asia Copper Ltd; Abhijit Pati, Chief Transformation Officer, Vedanta Limited - Aluminium Business; S. Kanakanand, Head – McoE, Hindalco Industries; and Aboobackar Siddique P. (I.A.S),Secretary Department of  Mines & Geology,Govt. of Jharkhand will also deliver speech at the inaugural session.

Going forward, industry leaders will also talk about their respective industries’ developments and future agendas in the Theme Address Session – Chaired by Shri A K Dayal and co-chaired by Manmohan Saha, starting from 11:55 AM.

• Making India - The Aluminium Capital of the World: Abhijit Pati, Chief Transformation Officer, Vedanta Limited - Aluminium Business
• Copper as an Economic Indicator: Sanjay Sarkar,   CEO & Executive Director,  Indo Asia Copper Ltd 
• Future of Aluminium Industry- a paradigm shift on anvil: Sadashiv Samantaray: Director (Commercial), NALCO
• Advances in Aluminium & Copper Smelter Technologies : Vilas Tathavadkar,Chief Technology Officer, Hindalco Industries
• Sustainable Way of Handling Aluminium Plant Hazardous Waste in Cement and Steel Industries: Nitin Kumar Tiwari, COO-Metal, Vedanta, Jharsuguda

There will be live and virtual paper presentations by international players on the same day from 2:30 to 6 PM.

2:30 : Virtual presentation: Stirring of Furnaces  Using Air Cooled Electromagnetic Technology: Simon Peter Laycock –   ALTEK Europe

2:55 :Virtual presentation:   “Flow Control Automation System” for Slab Casting: Patrik Patsson: Precimeter

3:20: Virtual presentation:  Hycast DFF (Drain Free Filter) - A New CFF Technology: Terje Haugen, Hycast

3:45: Virtual Presentation:   Ground Breaking Aspiration Systems: Zalim Nastaev, Head of  International Business, Virotech

4 10: Live Presentation:  Ducon’s expertise in FGD Systems & Alumina Handling Systems: Harish Shetty, Manoj Lohor, Ducon Infratechnologies

 4:35: Sponsored Presentation: Advanced technologies for environment management: G Sridhar, Ion Exchange (India)

5:00: Live Presentation By Danieli

5:25: Virtual presentation: Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of   the Alouette Primary Aluminium Smelter: Les Edwards, Rain Carbon Inc.

Day 2 of the event will be packed with Satellite Session on Basic & Applied Research activities for energy-efficient and Non-ferrous metal manufacturing in India. Speakers will be Sanjay Kumar from Metal Extraction & Recycling Division CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory; Dr. Amit Chatterjee from Vedanta, Jharsuguda; Gautam Das from Hirakud P&S, Hindalco; and Dr Upendra Singh, JNARDDC.

Post Satellite Session, there will be two simultaneous Technical Sessions participated by Hindalco, NALCO, BALCO, CSIR-NML, JNARDDC, IMMT Bhubaneswar, IIT Kanpur, Aditya Aluminium, and Vedanta.