Conference

PAPEREX 2023
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
06th - 09th December 2023, Conference Lounge,
Hall #7 India Expo Centre, Greater Noida, Delhi-NCR, India

DAY-1-  (Wednesday, 6^th December 2023)

Lighting of Lamp & Saraswati Vandana

CHIEF GUEST
Hon'ble Shri Nand Gopal Gupta "Nandi"
Minister of Industrial Development, Export Promotion, NRI and Investment Promotion
Government of Uttar Pradesh

GUEST OF HONOUR
Mr. Harsh Pati Singhania
Vice Chairman & Managing Director, JK Paper Ltd
 

 

Welcome Address

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Pramod Agarwal, President, IARPMA Chairman and Managing Director Raama Paper Mills Ltd

Address on Paperex Conference

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Mr. K S  Kasi Viswanathan, Chairman, Paperex Technical Committee Managing Director, Seshasayee Paper and Boards Ltd

Address on Indian Paper Industry

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Mr. Pawan Agarwal,  President, IPMA Managing Director, Naini Paper Mills Ltd

Grace the Occasion

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Mr. Antti Salminen   President, Paper Segment  Kemira, Finland

  
PRESENTATION OF  IARPMA  ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

SV Memorial Lecture & Keynote Address

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11:15 am to 11:45 am Mr. Antti Salminen President Paper Segment Kemira OYJ, Finland

       

Moderator	:	Mr. Anil Kumar Honourary Technical Adviser, Indian Agro & Recycled Paper Mills Association Former Executive Director & CEO, Shreyans Industries Ltd.
Panelist	:	Mr. AS Mehta, President and Director, JK Paper Ltd.
Panelist	:	Mr. Pavan Khaitan Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Kuantum Papers Ltd.
Panelist	:	Mr. Rahul Khanna Executive Director, Khanna Paper Mills Ltd President, Indian Newsprint Manufacturers Association
Panelist	:	Mr Santosh Wakhloo Executive Director (Marketing), Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd.
Panelist	:	Mr. David Powlson Director, AFRY Management Consulting, UK

   
Session Chairman: Mr. RHK SINHA, President (Works), Bindals Paper Mills Ltd., India
 

Speakers	a)	Mr. James Alden Regional and Investor Engagement Canopy Planet & Founder Insekts Nutrition, Canada
	b)	Ms. Valerie Langer Fibre Solutions Strategist, Canopy Planet, Canada
	c)	Mr. Nishant Gupta Head of Sustainability, Flipkart Group

   
Session Chairman:  Mr. Atul Kaul, Chief Commercial Officer, Arab Paper Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Saudi Arabia
 

1	Leadership and Futuristic Opportunities in a growing Market	M. Vijay Gupta Asian Pulp and Paper, India
2	Growth of Paper Manufacturing through Green Technologies	Mr. G.S. Patnaik General Manager (QA & TS), JK Paper Ltd
3	Genesis of Climate Crisis–How did we reach here and where are we headed?	Mr. Anup Kansal Business Transformation, and Strategy Kansulting
4	Recent Green Initiatives – Policy Intervention and Legislation	Dr. Nitin Endlay Senior Environmental Scientist Central Pulp and Paper Research Institute (CPPRI)
5	Valmet’s guide to efficient dry crepe tissue production	Mr. Tomas Karlsson Sales Director, Valmet Tissue Business in Asia Pacific, Valmet
6	Role of Paper Industry in achieving India’s advance towards De-carbonization	Mr. Naveen Kumar Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power Govt of India

   
Session Chairman: Dr. M.K. Gupta, Director, Central Pulp & Paper Research Institute, India
 

7	Innovation in wastewater treatment in the Indian paper industry: UNIDO’s approach to facilitating uptake of membrane filtration as green Technology	Dr Rakesh Kumar Jain Technical Expert, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, (UNIDO), India
8	Water Management and Cost Optimization in Pulp & Paper Sector through Water Audit Studies by FICCI	Mr. Mohan Appasaheb Patil Asst Secretary General, Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry   Ms. Karishma Bist, Additional Director-Resource Conservation and Management, Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), India
9	Case study - Paper manufacturing wastewater colour removal treatment	Mr. Atul Dikshit Vice President, (Technical) Krofta Engineering Ltd.India

 

 
Following the inauguration of Technology Day, the Hon'ble Minister, accompanied by the captains of Indian Paper and Allied Industries, will make a visit to the exhibition

 
   
Session Chairman: Mr. N GOPALARATNAM, Chairman, Seshasayee Paper and Boards Ltd
 

10	New Yield® LO PCC Filler – Towards More Sustainable Future and Value Creation”	Mr. Ishan Dholakiya Business Development Manager Minerals Technologies Inc, India   Mr. Shyama Charan Panigrahi General Manager (Paper) Andhra Paper Limited, India
11	Glyoxalated Polyacrylamide as a Dewatering Booster in Recycled Furnish	Mr. Ivan Joedy Business and ApplicationDevelopment Head SEA region, Kemira, Finland
12	Solutions for Sustainable Molded Fiber Production	Dr. Madhure Desarda Director (Operations), Parason Machinery (I) P. Ltd
13	Ecobright - A Bleaching Technology Improving Costs, Quality and Environment	Mr. Ashok Kumar Das Technical Services Manager - Paper & Boards segment, Imerys Minerals Ltd, India
14	Optimized refining for sustainable fiber treatment,case Valmet Conical Refiner Pro	Mr. Marko Loijas Sr. Manager, Refiners Deflakers & Dispersers Valmet Technologies Inc
15	Impacting SustainabilityThrough Process Optimization	Mr. Adam Melton Global Sales Director, Advance Controls BTG Group, USA
16	Application of Water Based Barrier Formulations for Fibre Based Packaging	Dr. Wilber Yap Chin Chong Technical Development Director- Barrier Coating IMERYS Asia Pacific

   
Session Chairman: Mr. Chandrshekhar Shantaram Kashikar, Chief Operating Officer, Orient Paper And Industries Ltd
 

17	Aqueous Barrier Coatings ContainingKaolin Clays	Mr. Siva Devisetti Sr. Paper Research Engineer Paper Research & Applications Laboratory Thiele Kaolin Company, USA
18	Paper based barrier products achieved in two coating stations by new Concept	Mr. Magnus Nilsson Sales Director, UMV Coating Systems ABSweden
19	History and Development of Wet Strengthened Paper	Mr. Brian Davies Director and General Manager Nopco Paper Technology Australia Pty. Ltd.
20	OptCoat Layer - coater with multilayer curtain application	Mr. Timo Honkanen Vice President -- Paper Business line Asia Pacific, Valmet

   
Session Chairman: MR. SVR Krishnan, Chief Operating Officer, Khanna Paper Mill Limited, India
 

21	Biotechnological and Molecular Biological Interventions in Tree Improvement Technologies to Resolve Sustainability of Wood Based Raw Material to Indian Paper	Mr. Om Prakash Shukla Chief General Manager (RM) JK Paper Limited, Unit: CPM, Gujarat, India
22	India’s & Asia’s First Paper Industry to Produce & Sell CBG / biocng from Waste Water - Success Story of Sainson’s Paper Industry, Haryana”	Mr. K. R. Raghunath Founder & C.E.O - KIS Group Chairman – Asian Biogas & Biofuel Association
23	Fiber fractionation: A new approach for value addition in packaging grade paper	Dr. Sanjay Tyagi Scientist and Corresponding Author Central Pulp & Paper Research Institute CPPRI)
24	Trash to Treasure - Biocbg from Recycled-based Paper Mill Waste	Mr. Raj Kumar Vice President-Agropulping Parason Machinery India

 
 
 
 

   
Session Chairman: Mr. Ganesh Bhadti, Director (Opns), Seshasayee Paper Boards Ltd., India, President, IPPTA
 

25	Borate Autocausticization - An Emerging Green Technology	Dr.A.K.Dixit Scientist-F Central Pulp and Paper Research Institute (CPPRI)
26	Creating an odor free environment through scrubbing NCG to reduce Sulfur gases emission in the environment	Dr. K. Sudarshan Deputy Manager (R&D/QC) Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Limited

   
Session Chairman: Dr. Ashok Kumar, Executive Director, Pudumjee Paper Products Ltd. India
 

27	Data Driven Operations – How to lead your Tissue business with data?	Mr. Jarmo Ropponen Head of Asia-Pacific, Head of Tissue, CEO - Tietoevry Pulp, Paper and Fibre industries, Malaysia
28	Energy Savings on Your Tissue Machine with minimal Capital Investment	Mr. James Litchwark Digitalisation Leader - Tissue BTG (a Voith company)
29	BTG dataPARC – Applied digital transformation for sustainable growth	Mr. Mark Korby Director-dataPARC Global Solutions Team, BTG Canada   Mr. Shankar Das Girish Solutions Sales Manager Indian Region, BTG Group (a Voith company)
30	How to achieve significant energy savings in Pulp & Paper production process with optimized pump Systems	Mr. Axel Doering Industry Director- Pulp & Paper, Pumps Division ANDRITZ Pumps Germany GmbH, Germany
31	Fiber Saving in Tissue Manufacturing	Mr. Sunil Purohit VP Process and  Application Engineering Parason Machinery India Pvt Ltd.

   
Session Chairman: Dr. J P Semwal, Expert - Paper Technology
 

32	Ackumen™ MCA-i™ – The Next Level of Control for a Safer and Smarter Monochloramine Program	Mr. Peter Wheeler Operations, Strategic Marketing & Technology Director (APAC), Buckman, Singapore
33	Reduction of Green House Gas emission and Sodium Sulphate consumption by In-House modified liquor gun firing system for Agro Based Chemical Recovery Boiler	Mr. Rajesh Verma, Managing Director Dr. S. Asokan Senior Mechanical Engineer Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Limited

      
Presentation of  -
1)           Dr. B L Bihani Memorial Award for the Best Technical Paper  - First Prize
               Presentation of  IARPMA Paperex Award  for the Best Technical paper - First Runner-UP
2)           Distribution of Trophies and Mementoes            
 
    
 
 

   

Sr.No.	Technical Paper and Speaker(s) (Poster Session)
1.	Circular Economy in Paper and Pulp Industry: Sustainable Practices and Recycling Solutions to Reduce Wastage.   Rohit Gusain, Praveen Kumar Gupta, Vikas Rana Cellulose and Paper Discipline, Forest Products Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun 248006
2	Valorisation of bamboo biomass for sustainable production of dissolving grade pulp: Pre-extraction, pulping, bleaching and characterization   Shivam Pant, Vikas Rana, Jasbeer Singh Chauhan, Gyanesh Joshi, Raj Kishore Cellulose and Paper Discipline, Forest Products Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun 248006
3	INTEGRATION OF BIOREFINERY IN EXISTING PULP AND PAPER MILL: A FUTURE PERSPECTIVE   Shuank Malik, Vikas Rana, Gyanesh Joshi, Raj Kishore, P. K. Gupta Cellulose and Paper Discipline, Forest Products Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun 248006
4	Green Innovation: Development of lignin based biodegradable films as an alternative towards the plastic problem   Akash Dev, Vikas Rana, Gyanesh Joshi Cellulose and Paper Discipline, Forest Products Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun 248006