Vol. 35, Issue 2 June 2016

Shaping the FUTUREShaping the FUTURE

Contents

Highlights

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Wedding Bells

TPM

4

Global EWAC

8

Long Service Award

8

6

News Gallery

Seminar

11

Words of Appreciation

Top Performers 4

Dr. Rene Wasserman Centre Reaps Major Benefits from TPM 4

News Gallery 5

Long Service Award 7

Global EWAC 8

Seminars 10

Words of Appreciation 22

From the desk of Chief Executive

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to address you all through our very own magazine - SPARK.

As you are aware, the Indian economy is facing challenging times. We hope the economy advances into revival mode in the months ahead.

To seize the emerging opportunities and to get back our past glory, let us re-infuse value-addition into all we offer to our customers. I am sure you will agree that the best way to add value is to re-invent the concept of ‘BACK TO BASICS’ (B2B). It is imperative to focus on our core strength - selling solutions through M&R products and services.

I am confident that we will be able to shape the future of EWAC with a combination of sharper focus, enhanced emphasis on basics and increased face time with our customers. Teamwork, commitment and wholehearted dedication to our core values will definitely give an edge over competition.

Let us devote ourselves to our business goals and be passionate in achieving profitable growth during 2016-17 and beyond.

Let your spark shine through and lead our business into the warm glow of success.

Best regards,

M. NachimuthuChief Executive

Let us devote ourselves to our business goals and be passionate in achieving profitable growth during 2016-17 and beyond.

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Top Performers

As on June 30, 2016

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APS (EWAC Invoicing & Order Booking)

Name Rank Place

1

2

3

B Pawan Kumar

Kuldeep Gautam

Shiva Kumar

Vizag

Ghaziabad

Gandhidham II

With a view to streamline and optimize its manufacturing processes, in December 2014, EWAC Alloys Limited at Ankleshwar embarked on an ambitious journey of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).

The initiative launched by Mr. M. Nachimuthu, GM -Head, Manufacturing featured six main goals for the application engineered welding solutions provider viz., (i) Optimizing Manufacturing Costs (ii) Improving Product Quality (iii) Reducing Waste (iv) Improving Productivity (v) Zero Breakdown (vi) Zero Defect.One and half years on and the TPM initiative which required an exhaustive cross-functional collaboration effort has thrown up some pretty impressive results for the unit. a significant margin. Specifically, each of the pillars had

the following benefits.The TPM journey was undertaken in two distinct phases. In Phase 1 all the EWAC employees including Autonomous Maintenance (AM): Increased machine the contract workmen were trained on the criticality of uptime from 95% to 97%TPM, its objective and the eight pillars of TM and what

Planned Maintenance (PM): Reduced breakdown each pillar encompasses. Phase 2 of the TPM journey frequency by 10% involved formation of the TPM Committee which

comprised the TPM coordinator and eight TPM Pillar in- Focused Improvement (FI) :Reduced power charge. consumption by 5%

While Mr. M. Nachimuthu, GM-Head Manufacturing Early Equipment Management (EEM): Reduced repair took on the role of the TPM coordinator, other eight and maintenance cost by 7%pillar in-charge and their roles included Mr. Manish Training and Education (T&E): Training imparted Trivedi (Autonomous Maintenance), Mr. Krishna Rao (3.9 man days per employee) to upgrade skill and (Planned Maintenance), Mr. Walmik Suravase (Focused knowledgeImprovement), Mr. Mahendra Champaneria (Early

Quality Maintenance (QM): Product quality improved Equipment Management), Mrs. Reeta Patel (Training and customer complaints reduced by 30%and Education), Mr. Rajib Bhowmik (Quality

Maintenance), Mr. Pritesh Bare (Safety, Health and Safety, Health and Environment (SHE): Improved SHE Environment) and Mr. Santosh Kootingal (Office/Adm. awareness of employees which resulted into Zero TPM). accident at work placeEach of the eight pillars had a clearly defined set of Office TPM: Reduced non-moving inventory by 23 lacsobjectives and mandated a specific set of actions. The

Besides these, the initiative has also brought in certain pillars helped EWAC Alloys to bring about a number of intangible benefits by way of improving the employees’ significant improvements into the manufacturing outlook towards change and innovation as they are now processes, helping the unit to lower downtime and receptive to strategic thinking and innovative ideas. wastages and increase uptime and production quality by

Dr. Rene Wasserman Centre Reaps Major Benefits from TPM

TSE (EWAC Invoicing & Order Booking)

Name Rank Place

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2

3

Gemon Fernandez

Shivesh Paliwal

T Oommen Varghese

Vadodara

Rajkot

Bangalore

ERB (EWAC Invoicing & Order Booking)

Name Rank Place

1 Deepankar M Mumbai

Contributed by: Mrs. Reeta Patel - Executive HR

Knowledge Sharing Sessions were conducted at • Mr. Pawan Gupta on ‘Submarines’ on June 5, 2016. Dr. Rene Wasserman Centre, Ankleshwar as follows: Total 34 EWACians participated.

• Mr. Sanjay Sahay on ‘Imact of Commodity Price on • Mr. Rupesh Mishra on “How to read Balance Sheet” EWAC’ on May 1, 2016. Total 42 EWACians on June 26, 2016. Total 35 EWACians Participated. participated.

• Mr. Rajib Bhowmik on ‘Manufacturing of Solid Wires’ on May 15, 2016. Total 27 EWACians participated.

Knowledge Sharing Session

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News Gallery

Training on IMS (EAM & OHSAS) was scheduled at Dr. Rene Wassermann Centre, Ankleshwar on April 8, 2016. Total 69 EWACians participated.

Training Program

Yoga sessions were scheduled at Dr. Rene Wasserman Centre, Ankleshwar in two batches by Sri Sri Yoga. First batch started from April 29 to May 3, 2016 and second batch started from May 6 - 10, 2016. Total 30 EWACians participated.

Yoga for Fitness

Contributed by: Mrs. Reeta Patel - Executive HR

Contributed by: Mrs. Reeta Patel - Executive HR

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News Gallery

As a part of EWAC’s commitment to sustainability of Unlike every year this year too WED was celebrated with resources, “World Environment Day” (WED) was distribution of WED theme batches, display of WED celebrated on June 5, 2016 to raise awareness on banners, circulation of WED toolkit published by UNEP, environment and to mobilise action for environment and tree plantation by all employees. The campaign was protection. WED is one of the principal vehicles through well participated by all department heads, union which United Nations stimulate worldwide awareness leaders, workers and staff members.of environment and mobilises action by all stakeholders. Here are some of the glimpse of celebration:It also serves as ‘People’s Day’ for doing something positive towards environment, galvanizing individual actions for protecting environment.

World Environment Day

With deep regret, we inform you of the sad demise of our business partner Mr. Anil Bajaj of Bajaj Hardwares, Durgapur on July 3, 2016.

Mr. Anil Bajaj partnered with EWAC in the year 1982 as M&R products business partner in Durgapur region. Bajaj Hardware and EWAC had a strong bonding of 34 years under the leadership of Mr. Bajaj.

The Company’s management and staff offer their deepest condolence to the bereaved family.

Bereavement

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Mr. B Krishna Kumar - Support Staff, South - East being felicitated by Mr. N Suneel Kumar - ZM, South - East on completion of 30 years of service.

Long Service Award

Mr. Arvindbhai M Vasava - Vice President, Union at Dr. Rene Wasserman Centre - Ankleshwar being felicitated by Mr. M Nachimuthu - Chief Executive EWAC and Mr. Pawan Gupta - Head Manufacturing on completion of 25 years of service.

Mr. Krupananda Babu, joined as Asst. General Manager - R&D at Dr. Rene Wasserman Centre, Ankleshwar. Mr. Babu has done Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and have 20 years of work experience. Before joining EWAC he worked with Welding Alloys South Asia Pvt. Ltd.

Welcome Abroad

Mr. Piyush Gupta, TSE - Satna is blessed with girl Nivedita on May 13, 2016.

New Arrival

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Global EWAC

Al Fanar EWAC’s Reclamation ServiceEWAC is in its endeavor to enter into the Reclamation Presentations were made by both the parties on their Services Business in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia & GCC respective capabilities and leadership positions in their Countries. A meeting with shortlisted vendor Al Fanar respective field. Followed by meeting and discussion on Technical Services, Jubail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was EWAC Service agreement. Al Fanar Technical Services scheduled on March 13, 2016. expressed their keenness to join hands with EWAC

Alloys Limited for Services Business in Kingdom of EWAC represented by Mr. Umesh Marigeri - Head Saudi Arabia.International Business and Mr. Davinder Singh Sohi -

Territory Manager. Al Fanar Technical Services For Consumables Business Al Fanar Technical Services represented by Mr. Jalapathy - Operations Head; entered into Memorandum of Understanding with Mr. Adil Aslam - Production Manager & Mr. Nilesh EWAC for buying all welding consumables from single Maruti - Workshop Incharge. source - EWAC Alloys Limited in KSA.

Contributed by: Mr. Davinder Singh Sohi - Territory Manager-Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait

Maaden Phosphate, Saudi ArabiaSeminar cum training program was organised at Maaden EWAC represented by Mr. Umesh Marigeri - Head Phosphate Company (one of the world’s largest International Business; Mr. Davinder Singh Sohi, Phosphate Manufacturer), Ras Al Khair Plant in Saudi Territory Manager - Saudi Arabia & Mr. Ziya-Ul- Haque, Arabia on March 14, 2016. Khushiem Welding Services, Dammam - our business

partner.28 engineers, welders and supervisors attainted the program in presence of Mr. Mohammed Ashfaq - Customer appreciated the initiative of EWAC & Maintenance Head. Training was divided into two approved EWAC’s product for blanket purchase sessions - first session on breakdown job handling for agreement as welding supplier.engineers and supervisors and second session on execution of job and basics of welding for welders.

Contributed by: Mr. Davinder Singh Sohi, Territory Manager - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait

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Qatar Technical International Company, QatarIn continuation to expansion of EWAC business in Manager to take us through the next 2 days program Middle East, a meeting was scheduled with our Business with their team and customers.Partner - Qatar Technical International Company, Qatar At QTIC office, detailed discussion on present business on March 16 - 17, 2016 for Business Promotion & scenario, future plans and industry specific strategies Future Plans. From EWAC Mr. Umesh Marigeri - Head was held between EWAC and QTIC team. From QTIC International Business & Mr. Davinder Singh Sohi - side Mr. Martinho - Division Manager, Mr. Sharma - Territory Manager were present. Asst. Manager & Mr. Venkatesh - Sales Manager were Due to unforeseen urgency on March 16, Mr. Abdulla Al present. Subsequently QTIC team took us to workshop Binali, CEO & MD - QTIC had to leave immediately for and showed the facilities.overseas. However he made it a point to meet us at the M&R Product’s order worth USD 100,000 was closed in airport though for a short time. In a swift meeting he principle & new products/ cases were initiated.expressed his full support for the growth of EWAC - QTIC business and informed Mr. Peter - Executive

Contributed by: Mr. Davinder Singh Sohi - Territory Manager - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait

Wedding Bells

Mr. Suraj Joshi, APS - Nagpur tied the knot with Ms. Savita on Nov. 24, 2015

Mr. Tulendra Kumar Verma, APS - Raigarh tied the knot with Ms. Kalpana on April 18, 2016

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Seminars

Seminar Topic: EWAC technologies, basic of welding, metallurgy and cement plant applications

Organised at: ACC Cement, Chanda - Chandrapur

Date: June 21, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Satadru Bose, TSE - Nagpur; Mr. Siddharth Das, TRE - Central; Mr. Kailash Jangid, APS - Chandrapur

Attended by: 13 engineers including Mr. K Raveendranatha Reddy - Head Operation; Mr. Sukanta Samanta, Chief Manager - Technical

alloying element and shown demo videos on various services.hardfacing and joining electrodes.

Topics Covered: Introduction of EWAC and its capabilitis. Welding basics and metallurgy. Effect of

ACC Cement, Chanda

Contributed by: Mr. Siddharth Das, TRE - Central

During operation the rock valve of boom placer of Afcon Infrastructure Ltd, Lucknow broke. This caused stoppage of production line. The case was immediately addressed by Mr. Shashank Baranwal, APS - Kanpur and valve got repaired. This project has not only developed the new application in forte but also introduced and standardised unique product NanoCarb 110. Customer appreciated the performance of NanoCarb 110 as the

3valve has already crossed 2000 m volume of production 3viz-a-viz 670 m volume of earlier production.

Afcon Infrastructure, Lucknow

Contributed by: Mr. Shashank Baranwal, APS - Kanpur

Seminar Topic: Grinding unit wear applications Attended by: DGM-Mech; Manager Mechanical; Asst. Manager Mechanical; VRM, Manager Procurement & Organised at: Ambuja Cement, Dadri - U. P.other Dept. Managers.

Date: May 24, 2016Topics Covered: What is wear and its wear mechanism,

EWAC Team: Mr. Kuldeep Gautam, APS - Ghaziabad; wear plate and ERF, cement plant applications.Mr. Sankalp Srivastava, TSE - Delhi; Mr. Sachin Chowdhary, TRE - North.

Ambuja Cements, Dadri

Contributed by: Mr. Kuldeep Gautam, APS - Ghaziabad

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Seminar Topic: Maintenance & repair welding

Organised at: Amity Rock Products Pvt. Ltd, Thottathukuzhy - Kerala

Date: June 21, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Sundararaman Balachandran, TRE - South; Mr. Anil Kumar Shetty, APS - Iranikulam.

Attended by: Mr. Siby Sebastian - GM Projects and 18 participants including GM & engineers

Topics Covered: Introduction of EWAC, basics of welding, welding defects, wear plates and emerging technology in hard facing. Demonstration of NanoCarb -110 and Xuper 660NH products.

Amity Rock Products, Kerala

Contributed by: Mr. Sundararaman Balachandran, TRE - South

Seminar Topic: Thermal Spray Technology

Organised at: Bhushan Steel Ltd., Khopoli - Raigad

Date: June 7, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Tushar Nerkar, APS - Navi Mumbai & Mr. Shishir Shrouti, Product Manager - ERF.

Attended by: Mr. Nahar - Vice President; Mr. Salaria - GM Maintenance; Mr. Ajay Kothari - AGM; Mr. Pradeep Vora - GM Purchase; Mr. Gopal Bhat - GM Operation & 10 Manager & 10 Sr. Engineer. process. Introduction of ARC spray coating, HVOF

coating. Application of thermal spray coating on Bridle Topics Covered: EWAC Introduction in Maintenance & Roll, IMR Roll, Deflector roll, Sink Roll etc.Repair Field. Total Solutions offered by EWAC

Reclamation Facility. Basics of thermal spray coating

Bhushan Steel Ltd, Khopoli

Contributed by: Mr. Tushar Nerkar, APS - Navi Mumbai, Khopoli.

Demonstration Topic: Thermal spray technology - different applications in industry. Features and benefits Eutalloy & Rototec process of powder spray technology.

Organised at: Hindalco Industries Ltd, Birla Copper - Dahej

Date: June 24, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Milind Bhavsar, APS - Bharuch; Mr. Avadut Prabhu, TeroTechician and our business partner Mr. Rajubhai Amin of Ekon Abrasives - Bharuch

Attended by: Mr. Kiran Soni - Workshop Head; Mr. Abhinav Khare - Refinery Incharge; Mr. Nilachal - Manager Smelter; Mr. Shrimali - Welding Supervisor Workshop and other engineers / welders from different sections.

Topics Covered: Thermal spray technology specially eutalloy & rototec process offered by EWAC for

Hindalco Industries, Dahej

Contributed by: Mr. Milind Bhavsar, APS - Bharuch

Seminars

Seminar Topic: Advancement in the field of maintenance of power plant equipments through maintenance & repair through welding welding, focus applications in power industry,

zupercoat on boiler tubes.Organised at: DVC - Durgapur Steel Thermal Power Station, Andal

Date: June 23,2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Durgadutt Rai, TSE - Durgapur; Mr. Arghojyoti Dey, APS - Asansol and our business partner Mr. G Chakraborty of Bajaj Hardware

Attended by: Mr. P Jha, Chief Engineer; Mr. R K Yadav, Dy Chief Engg., Mechanical; Mr. P Sikdar, Dy. Chief Engg., Mech, and more than 20 participants including superintendent engineers, assistant engineers & executive engineers from all departments

Topics Covered: Latest developments in repair &

DVC - DSTPS, Andal

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Training Topic: Latest maintenance & repair welding technology

Organised at: Coper Sugar Limited, Valol - Gujarat

Date: June 17, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Shreyas Patel, APS - Surat; Mr. Ketan Pandya, ZM - West; Mr. Vijay Mehta, Stockist Engineer

Attended by: 25 participants including Mr. L D Chavan - Chief Engineer; 8 Engineers, 10 Welders and 6

fabrication welding. Techniques of maintenance & Techniciansrepair welding & EWAC solutions for sugar industry’s

Topic Covered: Introduction of EWAC, basics of welding problems.welding, difference between M&R welding and

Coper Sugar Ltd, Valol

Contributed by: Mr. Shreyas Patel, APS - Surat

Seminar Topic: Cement focus applications and advanced maintenance & repair welding techniques

Organised at : Deccan Cements L imited , Jayanthipuram - Bhavanipuram

Date: May 20, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. N Suneel Kumar, ZM - South - East; Mr. R Santhosh Kumar, TSE - Vizag; Mr. Akhil Kishore, TRE - South - East, Mr. K Shyam Kumar, APS - Kodad and Mr. T Ravi Kumar, Mr. Kesav of M/s. Alcade Engineers - our business partner at Kodad problems. Features and benefits of EWAC Wear Plate.

Introduction to TenaPlate518 and EDP 600 products. Attended by: 30 participants including Chief Manager, Nano Technology in welding through our NanoCarb 110 Assistant Chief Manager, Managers, Engineers and product. Zupercoat and its applications in the cement Apprenticeindustry, presentation on unique features of some of

Topics Covered: Introduction of EWAC, focused star alloys. application in cement plant and EWAC's solution for the

Deccan Cements Ltd, Bhavanipuram

Contributed by: Mr. Arghojyoti Dey, APS - Asansol

Contributed by: Mr. Akhil Kishore , TRE - South - East

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Seminar Topic: EWAC’s solutions for corrosion

Organised at: Essar Power Gujarat Ltd., Salaya (Jamnagar)

Date: June 21 - 22, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Ketan Pandya, ZM - West; Mr. Shivesh Paliwal, TSE - Rajkot; Mr. Saurabh Jain, APS - Jamnagar

Attended by: Mr. Kamlesh Sanghavi, HOD-Mech; Mr. Jolly Joseph, Head-Turbine and 29 other section in -

Topics Covered: Anti-corrosion coating by twin wire charge and engineers. Four other power plants - Vadinar arc method; terroglass coating and EWAC’s application near Jamnagar, Mahan in MP, Hazira in Gujarat & for Power plant including Electrodes, Wear plates & Job Paradip in Orissa were connected via video -works.conferencing

EPGL, Jamnagar

Contributed by: Mr. Shivesh Paliwal, TSE - Rajkot

Seminar Topic: DRI plant focused applications

Organised at: Gallantt ISPAT, Gorakhpur

Date: June 17, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Shashank Baranwal, APS -Lucknow, Mr. Sachin Chowdhary, TRE - North

Attended by: 30 participant’s including Managers, Sr. Engineers, section heads and Mr. Bhaskar Tiwari, GM - HR

Topics covered: Introduction of EWAC, new age technology of wear plates, training facility awareness and development and DRI plant focused applications.

Gallantt Ispat, Gorakhpur

Contributed by: Mr. Shashank Baranwal, APS - Lucknow

Seminar Topic: Advance maintenance and repair technology. How to increase the efficiency of pumps by welding using TeroGlass coating.

Organised at: GMR Energy, Raikheda

Date: June 30, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Siddharth Das, TRE - Central; Mr. Rushikesh Kubitkar, TSE - Chhattisgarh; Mr. Narendra Patel, APS - Raipur

Attended by: Mr. Uphar Dogra, HR - Manager, engineers and welders

Topics Covered: Introduction of EWAC, new technology in welding. Wear Plates and Zupercoat

GMR, Raikheda

Contributed by: Mr. Narendra Patel, APS - Raipur

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Seminar Topic: EWAC’s solution for Cement Plant wear factors

Organised at: Heidelberg Cement Ltd., Jhansi - U.P.

Date: May 11, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Kuldeep Gautam, APS - Ghaziabad; Mr. Sankalp Srivastava, TSE - Delhi; Mr. Sachin Chowdhary, TRE - North

Attended by: Plant - VP; GM - Mechanical; Manager Mechanical; Asst. Manager Mechanical; VRM & Cement Ball Mills Manager & other Dept. Managers

Topics Covered: What is wear & its wear mechanism, wear plate & ERF, cement plant application.

Heidelberg Cement Ltd, Jhansi

Contributed by: Mr. Kuldeep Gautam, APS - Ghaziabad

Seminar Topic: Wear protection and latest technology for repairing pfister pumps, rotary air lock, and reverse development in maintenance & repair air bag house coatings.

Organised at: India Cements, Shankarnagar

Date: June 23, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. B Sundararaman, TRE - South;Mr. K Selvan, TSE - Chennai; Mr. PRP Jawahar our business partner of SAM Enterprises

Attended by: 20 participants includingMr. Saravanamuthu, AGM - Mech; Managers, Sr. Executives, Engineers and Welders.

Topics Covered: Wear and wearfactors, technological advancement and superiority of EWAC Wear resistant Plates. Latest technology development in Maintenance and Repair. Product information of NanoCarb110,Terra HT 96 and TenaPlate518. Value added services of EWAC

ICL, Shankarnagar

Contributed by: Mr. K Selvan, TSE - Chennai

Seminar Topic: Maintenance & repair welding technology

Organised at: Jayem Automotive Ltd, Coimbatore

Date: June 17, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. A. Prabhu, APS - Coimbatore; Mr. R Karthik, TSE - Coimbatore

Attended by: Mr. Ashok, Head - Plant including engineers and welders

Topics Covered: Overview of steel & welding criticality like preheat, post heat etc. Overview of cast iron & welding criticality, polarity importance, Eutalloy process and advantages. Applications suitable welding alloys, features and benefits.

Jayem Automotive, Coimbatore

Contributed by: Mr. A. Prabhu, APS - Coimbatore

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During operation the transmission gear box shaft of J. B. Daruka Paper Ltd, Sitapur broke into two pieces. This was caused stoppage of production line. The case was immediately addressed by Mr. Utkarsh Srivastava, APS - Lucknow and shaft got repaired. The job was completed on time. After repair customer immediately installed the shaft for work and was satisfied with the performance of job. Customer appreciated the efforts put in and saving of huge cost during running season of paper plant.

J. B. Daruka, Sitapur

Contributed by: Mr. Utkarsh Srivastava, APS - Lucknow

On May 8, 2016 Jindal Stainless Ltd organised “Stainless Sales Manager - North & East, Mr. Neeraj Sarsoot, Area Steel Awareness Meet” at Hotel Crown in Sales Manager - 3M presented on abrasive systems Bhubaneshwar. Jindal Stainless invited EWAC Alloys division of their company for stainless steel.Ltd., ISSDA (Indian Stainless Steel Development Mr. Sujit Rout, TSE - Bhubaneshwar and Mr. Pramit Association), and 3M as guest speakers. The objective of Chattopadhyay, EASE Bhubaneshwar represented meet was to create awareness of Stainless Steel in EWAC. Mr. Rout gave brief introduction of EWAC today’s market and the need for this metal in future. followed by its solutions for stainless steel focused Over 20 fabricators & entrepreneurs from Odisha were applications. Mr. Chattopadhyay talked about welding invited to have a general interactive session with the of stainless steel, concern of Inter-granular Corrosion, speakers. Mr. Shashi Bhushan, Director Marketing - JSL Sigma Formation and Sensitization temperatures. Apart welcomed the guest with a brief introduction of JSL and from that differentiation between Ferritic, Martensitic himself. and Austenitic Stainless Steel are covered. The topics on The program was compered by Mr. Rajeev Gupta, low heat input, low amperage setting and the special General Manager Marketing - JSL. He started the show flux used in EWAC’s electrodes which makes the with trends and market of Stainless Steel in today’s features strong for welding was also covered. Question scenario. He also talked on growth of Stainless Steel, its answer session was there at the end.production in India and world. Consumption of This meeting was very important as this led to new Stainless Steel in India and grades of Stainless Steel. dimension of focused applications. This also brought Mr. Rohit Kumar, Executive Director - ISSDA presented EWAC on a platform to capture the fabrication market on types and grades of stainless steel and need for growing in SS Welding. Customers came to know about development of the applications. He also focused on rust EWAC’s products and technology. prevailing over certain time and clarified that in general stainless steel applications, the parts are to be cleaned to enhance the life. Mr. Bhupendra Kumar Singh, Regional

Stainless Steel Awareness Meet

Contributed by: Mr. Sujit Rout, TSE - Bhubaneshwar

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During operation the planetary gear box shaft of KM Sugar Mills Ltd, Faridabad broke into two pieces. Customer immediately called Mr. Shashank Baranwal, APS - Kanpur at midnight and within few hours Mr. Baranwal reached the customer location. The work completed overnight with the help of our Business Partner Mr. Vaibhav Mishra - M/s. Innovative Marketing Agencies. The job was completed on time for the work. Customer appreciated the efforts put in and saving of huge cost during running season of Sugar industry.

K. M. Sugar, Faridabad

Contributed by: Mr. Shashank Baranwal, APS - Kanpur

Seminar Topic: M&R Welding and Job work

Organised at: M/s Matix Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited, Panagarh - West Bengal

Date: June 9, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Saikat Chakraborty, APS - Durgapur; Mr. Durgadutt Rai, TSE - Durgapur

Attended by: 18 participants including of DGM, Executive Engineers and Assistant Engineers from Planning Department & Mechanical Department. Mr. Manoj Kumar Das, DGM

Topics Covered: Overview of EWAC, major thermal spray process for Shaft bearing areas, application, powder spray technology. Different alloys aluminising.for aluminium welding, cast iron welding alloys,

MFCL, Panagarh

Contributed by: Mr. Saikat Chakraborty, APS - Durgapur.

Indian Institute of Welding (IIW), Visakhapatnam division in collaboration with NTPC, Simhadri - Visakhapatnam organised one day workshop on June 25, 2016 on welding. Covering a series of topics on basics of welding, weld defects, approach towards maintenance and repair and NDT methods followed during welding. The session was inaugurated by Mr. O Ramani, GM - Mechanical Maintenance, Vizag Steel Plant, also former chairman of IIW, Vizag followed by welcome address by Mr. Gopi Krishna - Honorary Secretary IIW, Mr. Mastan Rao - Chairman IIW, Vizag.

The first slot was presented by Mr. Venkata Prakash, standard products applicable for power industry. Major HOD-Mechanical - Government Polytechnic, Vizag took application boiler tube coating, airport ring assembly a cognizant lecture on basics of welding and modern were discussed and gained attention of audience. It was welding technologies.an interactive session by active participation from all the

EWAC represented by Mr. Deepak Kumar - ECB attendees. The seminar was attended by 35 technical

Hyderabad, Mr. Akhil Kishore, TRE - South - East and personnel including Head of Department’s Managers

Mr. Pawan Kumar, APS - Vizag. Presentation on weld and Engineers.

defects covering the practical aspects faced during welding. The session was followed by a run through of

NTPC, Simhadri

Contributed by: Mr. Akhil Kishore, TRE - South - East

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Seminar Topic: Basics of welding, applications in DRI and star products

Organised at: Niros Ispat Ltd, Bhilai

Date: May 24, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Rushikesh Kubitkar, TSE - Raipur; Mr. Ricardo Stephen, APS - Bhilai; Mr. Deepak Kumar, TeroTechnician

Attended by: Mr. Kamal Kishore Jaiswara, HOD Mechanical, all Mechanical Engineers and Managers of

USP. Technical demonstration of products, welding DRI & SMSbasics, parameter setting, precaution & safety measures

Topics Covered: DRI applications & video presentation in Welding & Cutting. on Wear Plate Technology. Total Solutions & Star Alloys

Niros Ispat, Bhilai

Contributed by: Mr. Siddharth Das, TRE- Central

Seminar Topic: Maintenance & repair welding

Organised at: ONGC, Mehsana workshop

Date: June 14, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Hardik Patel, APS - Ahmedabad and Mr. Kuldeep Julasana, TSE - Ahmedabad

Attended by: 40 participants including Mr. L K Patnaik, DGM - Mech., Manager, Engineers and Welders

Topic covered: Introduction of EWAC, basics of welding, cast iron welding, and steel welding.

ONGC, Mehsana

Contributed by: Mr. Hardik Patel, APS - Ahmedabad

Seminar Topic: Cement focus applications and advanced maintenance & repair welding techniques

Organised at: Ramco Cements Ltd, Jayanthipuram

Date: May 19, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. N Suneel Kumar, ZM - South - East; Mr. R Santhosh Kumar, TSE - Vizag; Mr. Akhil Kishore, TRE - South - East; Mr. K Shyam Kumar, APS - Kodad and Mr. T Ravi Kumar, Mr. Kesav of M/s. Alcade Engineers - our business partner at Kodad

Attended by: 30 participants including General Manager, Assistant General Manager, Sr. Managers, engineers and apprentice

Topics Covered: Introduction of EWAC, features and benefits of EWAC wear plate, new products of EWAC- TenaPlate 518, EDP 600. NanoCarb 110, Zupercoat and its applications in cement industry. Advanced maintenance & repair welding techniques.

Ramco, Jayanthipuram

Contributed by: Mr. Akhil Kishore, TRE - South - East

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Training Topic: Basics of welding and awareness of Topics Covered: Basics of welding, types of welding, EWAC products cast iron welding, stelliting with Eutecdur 9060, copper

/ aluminium welding, brazing products along with its Organised at: Reliance Industries Limited, Motikhavdi practical demonstrations.- Jamnagar

Date: Feb. 15 - 16, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. P H Singh, AGM - Training & Development; Mr. A Prabhu, Tero Technician; Mr. Saurabh Jain, APS - Jamnagar

Attended by: Mr. Pankaj Nimavat, HOD - Central Engineering Services; Mr. Abhay Gupta, Incharge -Central Engineering Services (SEZ); Mr. Sachin Pajwani, Incharge - Central Engineering Services (DTA) & 20 other Engineers / Managers / GET’s

RIL, Jamnagar

Contributed by: Mr. Saurabh Jain, APS - Jamnagar

Seminar Topic: Basics of welding

Organised at: Shree Digvijay Cement Co. Ltd., Sikka – Jamnagar

Date: May 28, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Venugopala M Bhat, TRE - West; Mr. Shivesh Paliwal, TSE - Rajkot; Mr. Saurabh Jain, APS - Jamnagar

Attended by: Mr. Narendra, Plant- Head; Mr. R Krishnakumar, HOD - Mechanical; Mr. U M Muraleedharan, DGM - Welding Technology to be taken while welding; M&R electrodes, wear plates & 14 Engineers along with 2 Permanent Welders & jobwork applications in cement plantTopics Covered: Basics of welding; safety precautions

SDCCL, Sikka

Contributed by: Mr. Saurabh Jain, APS - Jamnagar

Seminar Topic: Basics of welding and brazing

Organised at: Shirdi Sai Electricals Ltd, Proddutur, Kadappa

Date: May 21, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. K Avnesh, APS - Proddutur; Mr. R Lakshminarayana, Tero Technician

Attended by: Mr. Rambabu - GM Mechanical, Mr. Sanjeevi - GM Procurement, Managers, Engineers and Welders

Topics Covered: Types of welding, welding defects and precautionary measures during welding. Practical demonstration for welders & brazers.

SSEL, Kadappa

Contributed by: Mr. K Avnesh, APS - Proddutur

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Seminar Topic: Basics of welding and welding Topics Covered: Introduction of EWAC, basics of technology welding and new technology in welding.

Organised at: Shree Cement Ltd, Raipur

Date: June 28, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Vishal Kumar, APS - Baloda bazar; Mr. Kausik Dan, ZM - Central and Mr. Siddharth Das, TRE - Central

Attended by: 10 participants including department heads, engineers and welders

Shree Cement, Raipur

Contributed by: Mr. Siddharth Das, TRE - Central

Seminar Topic: M&R Welding and job work Aluminium welding, copper to copper brazing, thermal spray process for shaft bearing areas and coiler mandrel, Organised at: Super Smelters Ltd., Jamuria - West cooler aluminising for sponge iron divison.Bengal

Date: April 22, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Saikat Chakraborty, APS - Durgapur; Mr. Durgadutt Rai, TSE - Durgapur

Attended by: 32 participants including Mr. Umendra Ojha, HOD - Sponge Iron; HOD’s, Executive Engineers and Assistant Engineers of Sponge, Pellet, Ferro, HSM and Power departments

Topics Covered: Overview of EWAC, major applications, boiler tube coating and aluminising.

SSLtd., Jamuria

Contributed by: Mr. Saikat Chakraborty, APS - Durgapur.

Contributed by: Mr. Shreyas Patel, APS - Surat

Training Topic: Latest maintenance & repair welding technology

Organised at: Shree Khedut Sahkari Khand Udhyog Mandali Limited, (Shree Bardoli Sugar Limited), Bardoli

Date: Jun 17, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Shreyas Patel, APS - Surat; Mr. Ketan Pandya, ZM - West; Mr. Mayur Reshamwala of M/s. Pooja Group, our business partner

Attended by: 50 participants including Mr. C B Sonwane - Chief Engineer; Mr. Pankaj Patel - Dy. Chief Engineer; Mr. Janak D - Dy. Chief Engineer; Mr. Rakesh - Dy. Chief Engineer; 10 Engineers; 27 Welders and 9 Technicians

Topics Covered: Introduction of EWAC, basics of welding, difference between M&R welding and fabrication welding, techniques of maintenance & repair welding.

Shree Bardoli Sugar Ltd, Bardoli

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Seminar Topic: Maintenance and repair welding between maintenance & repair welding and fabrication welding. Nanotechnology and thermal spray Organised at: Vedanta Copper Refinery, Thoothukudi - techniques.Tamil Nadu

Date: June 28, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Abraham Watson, APS - Chennai; Mr. B Sundararaman, TRE - South; Mr. R Selvan, TSE - Chennai and our business partner Mr. P R P Jawahar of SAM Enterprises

Attended by: Mr. Selvaraj, Senior Manager - Smelter; Mr. Srikanth, HOD - Smelter including 24 engineers, supervisors, managers and GET

Topics Covered: Basics of welding, welding defects and factors affecting good welding. Welding of Cast Iron, Steel metallurgy and welding aspects. Differentiation

VCR, Thoothukudi

Contributed by: Mr. Abraham Watson, APS - Chennai

Training Topic: Repair and maintenance and EWAC products

Organised at: Sunflag Iron & Steel, Nagpur

Date: June 22, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Suraj Joshi, APS - Nagpur; Mr. Deepak Kumar, Tero Technician - Central

Attended by: Mr Nadaguda - HR Manager and 17 managers, engineers and welders

Topics Covered: Introduction of EWAC and its capabilities, welding techniques of different metal. Basics of welding, weld defects. Welding of Cast Iron, Aluminium, Copper, dissimilar Steel welding and safety aspects during welding. Demonstration of Star Alloys.

SIS, Nagpur

Contributed by: Mr. Siddharth Das, TRE - Central

Seminar Topic: M&R Welding and Job Work

Organised at: UltraTech Cement Works, Durgapur - West Bengal

Date: May 28, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. Saikat Chakraborty, APS - Durgapur; Mr. Durgadutta Rai, TSE - Durgapur

Attended by: 20 participants including HOD’s, Executive Engineers and Assistant Engineers of Mill Dept., Electrical Dept., Packaging Plant etc.

Topics Covered: Overview of EWAC, major applications of composite wear plates and powder spray technology. Different alloys for aluminium welding, cast iron welding, thermal spray process for shaft repair bearing areas, classifier guide vanes.

UltraTech Cement, Durgapur

Contributed by: Mr. Saikat Chakraborty, APS - Durgapur

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Training Topic: Advance maintenance and repair Area Manager NMCC - our business partner welding Attended by: More than 15 Engineers along with the Organised at: UTCL - GCW Kovaya, Rajula Section Heads, Mr. Ashish Panpalia - F H Technical

Date: May 17 - 18, 2016 Topics covered: Basics of welding, properties & welding procedure of different materials & brazing. EWAC Team: Mr. P H Singh, AGM - Training & Product demonstrations.Development; Mr. Avadut Prabhu, Tero Technician;

Mr. Shivesh Paliwal, TSE - Rajkot; Mr. Divyang Mehta,

UTCL - GCW, Rajula

Contributed by: Mr. Shivesh Paliwal - TSE, Rajkot

Seminar Topic: Maintenance & repair welding Topics Covered: Arc welding basics, weld defects & techniques latest development in welding - Nano technology and

sugar applications.Organised at: V. V. Sugars Limited, Perambalur

Date: June 17, 2016

EWAC Team: Mr. B Sundararaman, TRE - Chennai; Mr. S Kanagasababathy, EASE - Ariyalur & our business partner Mr. M Sivakumar, Naveen Hi - Tech Systems - Trichy

Attended by: 25 participants including Mr. Chinnappan - Chief Executive; Mr. H S Nazar, AGM - Engg; Mr. Kumar, Manager; Mr. B Senthil - Manager Cogen; engineers and welders.

V. V. Sugars, Perambalur

Contributed by: Mr. S Kanagasababathy, EASE - Ariyalur

YOUR IS CREATED BY WHATFUTUREYOU DO TODAY

NOT TOMORROW

Words of Appreciation

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- Where Body Meets The Holy Ganga and Soul Meets The God.

I was fortunate enough to grow up in Kashi City, where I have completed my early schooling. During this period I have sensed and experienced the city to its core tradition and its diversified culture. The city gives you the vibes to enjoy unity in diversity and gives you reasons to live the life.

Any place where you have grew up is always close to your heart, for me it is Varanasi city. I and Varanasi grew into each other. When I was 9 years I landed in the city - the city was cozy, shy, confine, and scared of changes. The city illustrates its originality - the people, the food, the culture, the air everything about it. Varanasi welcomes every individual irrespective of age, profession, caste, creed and religion. It has something for everybody. Varanasi is a place where peace and eccentricity coexists. The city has 80 ghats on one side and on the other side Lord Surya throws his blessing to the city which gives vitality to start each day with smile and happiness.

The city shows you various paths of your existence on this earth. It tells you why human being is created by God almighty - to serve others, to maintain peace, to believe that human being is not the ultimate power, to love nature and maintain its beauty, to believe we are

food, BHU or the Vishwanath temple. To all the readers - here to play our role and leave the earth for heaven. The the experience felt cannot be fully described in words so city where I wasn’t born but a place where I want to do visit the oldest city and get mixed with it.spend rest of my life, in closeness to GOD. The only city

where people come in search of eternal peace. The city Google will definitely help you to find the details about which gives you sensation of closeness rather the city when you plan a visit; but trust me be a connection to creator of nature. TRAVELLER not a tourist to this city.

The city is worth one time visit in life for its roadside Contributed by: Mr. Shashank Baranwal, APS - Kanpur

Varanasi