Program Details
Day 110th August 2016
08:00
Registration & Coffee
BUSINESS SESSION I – KEYNOTE
09:00 – 09:15

Inaugural Lamp Lighting

09:15 – 09:45

Keynote Address – I
Celebrating 75 years of polyester
Mr. Ian Woodcock
Regional Licensing Manager
INVISTA Performance Technologies, UK

09:45 – 10:15

Keynote Address – II
Celebrating 75 years of polyester
Mr. Prashant Agarwal
Jt. Managing Director
Wazir Advisors

10:15 – 10:45

Polyester value chain update
Mr. Ashish Pujari
Senior Director, Aromatics & Fibers
IHS Chemical, Singapore

10:45 – 11:15

Paraxylene: Lower for longer?
Mr. Steve Jenkins
Vice President, Consulting – Chemicals, Polymers & Fibres
PCI Wood Mackenzie, Malaysia

11:15 – 11:45
Coffee Break
BUSINESS SESSION II – FEEDSTOCKS
11:45 – 12:15

Dynamics of the US Gasoline & PX markets – Impact on Asian PX
Mr. Sanjeev Vora
Vice President – Global Aromatics
CHEMIUM International Corporation, USA

12:15 – 12:45

Polyester/ PTA industry adjust to changed demand drivers
Mr. Y. J. Kim
Senior Consultant – Asia PTA, DMT, Polyesters
PCI Wood Mackenzie, Malaysia

12:45 – 13:15

Evaluation and evolution of MEG in 2016: Shifts in the power balance
Mr. Eric Su
Markets Editor
ICIS

13:15 – 13:45

Innovative double reslurry technology for paraxylene production
Mr. Abhishek Agrawal
Senior Process Engineer
CB&I

13:45 – 15:00
Lunch Break
BUSINESS SESSION III – PET
15:00 – 15:30

PET global overview
Mr. Vipin Kumar
Sr. Vice President (Head Asia PET Business)
Indorama Ventures Thailand

15:30 – 16:00

Growth of Film industry in India
Mr. Ashish Gupta
Partnerflexstreet

16:00 – 16:30

PET & Plastics – Used but vilified
An overview on perception management
Dr. Vijay Habbu
Senior Vice President
Reliance Industries

16:30 – 17:00

PET: Trends & Innovations
Mr. Rajesh Gera
Asst. Vice President
Reliance Industries

16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break
PANEL DISCUSSION
17:30 – 18:30

Future growth in Apparel exports
Chairman
Mr. Prashant Agarwal, Jt. Managing Director, Wazir Advisors


Panel

  • Mr. Rajagopal Chinraj, President, Suditi Industries
  • Mr. Varun Mittal, Director, Kudu Knits Process
  • Mr. Rajkumar Agarwal, Managing Director – Fashion Fabric & Apparels, SVG Fashions

 

 

19:00
Networking Cocktails & Dinner
Day 211th August 2016
BUSINESS SESSION V – TECHNOLOGY
09:30 – 10:00

Technology integration opportunities along the value chain
Mr. Martin Hittorff
Head – Process Engineering
Uhde Inventa-Fischer, Switzerland

10:00 – 10:30

Innovative polyester and recycling technologies
Mr. Wolf Karasiak
Managing Director
AQUAFIL Engineering, Germany

10:30 – 11:00

How can Polyester change the world?
Mr. Francis Baud
Head of Global Marketing – Fibers
BU Masterbatches
Clariant International

11:00 – 11:30

PX Dynamics in South Asia
– A case for supply driven polyester growth
Mr. Vikram Sampat
Sr. Vice President, SBU Head PX/OX
Reliance Industries

11:30 – 12:00
Coffee Break
BUSINESS SESSION – VI – POLYESTER MARKETS
12:00 – 12:30

Indian FDY markets
Mr. Bhadresh Dodhia
Director – Exports
Dodhia Synthetics

12:30 – 13:00

Innovative trends in textile applications – Performance textiles
Mr. Yogesh Kusumgar
President & CEO
Kusumgar Corporates

13:00 – 13:30

India’s future prospects in apparel exports
Mr. Ajay Srinivasan
Director
CRISIL Research

13:30
Closing Remarks
13:45
Networking Lunch