Program Details
 12th April 2023
08:30 onwards
Registration & Coffee
OPENING SESSION
09:15

Inaugural Lamp Lighting

09:30

Keynote Address – I
Mr. Arvindar Singh Sahney
Executive Director (Petrochemicals)
Indian Oil Corporation

10:00

Keynote Address – II
Integration from up to down, and back up: The Chinese way of surviving the polyester glut
Mr. Salmon Lee
Global Head of Polyesters
Wood Mackenzie, Singapore

10:30
Coffee Break
POLYESTER MARKETS
11:00

Asia PTA: Impact of changing trade flows, margins on prices
Ms. Stuti Chawla
Senior Analyst, Price assessments/pricing
S&P Global Commodity Insights

11:30

Indian polyester market: Growth and opportunities
Mr. Prashant Agarwal
Co-Founder & Jt. Managing Director
Wazir Advisors

12:00

Polyester recycling technology
Mr. Debabrata Ghosh
Vice President & Sales Director
Oerlikon Textile

12:30

New dynamics in the Asian polyester feedstocks market
Mr. Jimmy Zhang
Industry Analyst
ICIS

12:50
Lunch Break
SUSTAINABLE PET GROWTH
13:45

Indian PET market outlook
Mr. Abhijit Datey
Senior Vice President (PET SBU Head)
Reliance Industries

14:10

How to improve properties of recycled PET
Mr. A. K. Sahoo
Head of Liquid Masterbatch Business
Avient Corporation

14:35

PET recycling developments
Mr. Bharat Mehta
Vice President – PET Marketing
Reliance Industries

15:00

Non-Woven technologies and applications
Mr. Yogesh Garg
Mananging Director
Dilo India

15:25

PET recycling machinery
Mr. Paul Niedl
Commercial Head – Recycling Technology
Starlinger & Co, Austria

16:00
Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:15
PANEL DISCUSSION

“Roadmap for growth in filament markets”

Moderator:
Mr. J. Raghunath, SBU Head – Filaments Business, Reliance Industries

Panelist:
Mr. Bhadresh Dodhia, Head – International Sales & Finance, Dodhia Synthetics
Mr. Amitava Banerjee, Chief Operating Officer, Garden Silk Mills
Mr. Sanjay Arora, Business Director, Wazir Advisors

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
17:15

Texturizing & Non-woven technologies in filament
Mr. Sudipto Mandal
Manager – Sales & Marketing
Oerlikon Textile

17:40

Chemical recycling technologies
Mr. Suman Basu
Commercial Manager – India (Plastics)
Eastman Chemical Company

18:05

Value generation through CBA conversion and emission control in PTA plants with BASF Catalysts
Mr. Sanjay Bineewale
Head of Sales – Process Catalyst, South Asia
BASF India

18:20

Advanced chemical recycling makes plastic circular
Mr. Jutesh Gupta
Deputy Country Sales Manager
Axens India

18:45
Closing Remarks
19:00 onwards
Networking Cocktails