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Message from the President of The Indian Institute of Metals Dear Members, Let me at the outset thank you all for your hearty support and confidence reposed on me by electing me as the President of the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) for the year 2004-05. On this occasion I extend my best wishes to all the members of IIM and request for their active participation in the affairs of the Institute. I feel honoured by accepting this chair, which in the past distinguished metallurgists have adorned, but for whose leadership and guidance this Institute would not have grown to its current international stature from its infancy in 1947. I also feel privileged at this juncture to acknowledge their contribution and pledge my sincere efforts for steering the institute forward to achieve its goal set by my predecessors. In keeping with the tradition of the Institute, 42 nd National Metallurgists Day and 58 th Annual Technical Meet along with the International Symposium on ‘Metals & Materials from Titanium minerals’ will be held at Thiruvananthapuram during 17 th to 19 th November 2004. I am thankful to the Trivandrum Chapter of IIM for giving their full support to me by organizing the above august celebration. The first circular has been already issued and must have been received by you. I request your participation for making this a great event. I also look forward to your active role in mobilizing resources for the above. IIM – one of the oldest & biggest Institutes of our country comprising of professionals committed to the development and application of metallurgical sciences and technologies in India is currently facing the problem of falling membership, stagnant income and rising expenses of managing the chapters and the head office. Presumably expectation of members from the Institute is on the rise in view of the competitive external scenario; I therefore call upon each and every member to come forward with suggestions and implemenatation thereof for making it a vibrant growing professional organization. As an effort to diversify our activities and create competitiveness among the industry members the Institute introduced quality award contest of the Non-Ferrous Division in 2002. During the past 2 years the response of non-ferrous industries has been only luke warm for participation in the above contest and except a few integrated industrial production units viz. Hindalco, Indalco, Nalco, UCIL, NFC, etc. The response has been rather poor from the industries engaged in casting, forging and secondary processing of non-ferrous metals. In view of this limited participation during the introductory and subsequent years, I earnestly solicit the cooperation of Regional Chapters for giving broad publicity to the Non-Ferrous Award Contest among the industries located in their respective regions for making it a grand success.
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Message from the President of The Indian Institute of Metals
Dear Members,
Let me at the outset thank you all for your hearty support and confidence reposedon me by electing me as the President of the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) for theyear 2004-05. On this occasion I extend my best wishes to all the members of IIMand request for their active participation in the affairs of the Institute.
I feel honoured by accepting this chair, which in the past distinguished metallurgistshave adorned, but for whose leadership and guidance this Institute would nothave grown to its current international stature from its infancy in 1947. I also feelprivileged at this juncture to acknowledge their contribution and pledge my sincereefforts for steering the institute forward to achieve its goal set by my predecessors.
In keeping with the tradition of the Institute, 42nd National Metallurgists Day and58th Annual Technical Meet along with the International Symposium on ‘Metals &Materials from Titanium minerals’ will be held at Thiruvananthapuram during 17th
to 19th November 2004. I am thankful to the Trivandrum Chapter of IIM for givingtheir full support to me by organizing the above august celebration. The first circularhas been already issued and must have been received by you. I request yourparticipation for making this a great event. I also look forward to your active role inmobilizing resources for the above.
IIM – one of the oldest & biggest Institutes of our country comprising of professionalscommitted to the development and application of metallurgical sciences andtechnologies in India is currently facing the problem of falling membership, stagnantincome and rising expenses of managing the chapters and the head office.Presumably expectation of members from the Institute is on the rise in view of thecompetitive external scenario; I therefore call upon each and every member tocome forward with suggestions and implemenatation thereof for making it a vibrantgrowing professional organization.
As an effort to diversify our activities and create competitiveness among the industrymembers the Institute introduced quality award contest of the Non-Ferrous Divisionin 2002. During the past 2 years the response of non-ferrous industries has beenonly luke warm for participation in the above contest and except a few integratedindustrial production units viz. Hindalco, Indalco, Nalco, UCIL, NFC, etc. Theresponse has been rather poor from the industries engaged in casting, forgingand secondary processing of non-ferrous metals. In view of this limited participationduring the introductory and subsequent years, I earnestly solicit the cooperationof Regional Chapters for giving broad publicity to the Non-Ferrous Award Contestamong the industries located in their respective regions for making it a grandsuccess.
After a long period of recession the ferrous and non-ferrous metal industries arelooking up and it is a matter of great relief to members of IIM, committed to thedevelopment of metallurgical sciences and technologies in India. We should seizethis opportune period with unstinted help and co-operation of our distinguishedmembers, to make the Institute a centre of knowledge par excellence of internationalstandard in the area of metallurgy.
The information technology has given us means to reach all our members in acost effective manner and we shall endeavor to interact with all our members bymaking available IIM publications like Metals News and Transactions in electronicforms through our web sites. Our associate membership examinations have beenenjoying good patronage and we can popularise metallurgical education amongstudents from an early stage by promoting technical and scientific books relatedto metallurgical science, which will have ready appeal for students. Close interactionwith various regional chapters is essential not only for implementing the actionplan for achieving the goal of the Institute but also for leveraging their closeassociations with the industries, academics and research institutes for helping thegovernment in framing policy for the development of metallurgical industry.
Let me end this address once again soliciting your help, co-operation and supportin addressing the great task ahead of us.
Thanking you,
Kolkata, Sincerely yours
1st August 2004 T.K. Mukherjee
Dr. T.K. MUKHERJEEPresident - The Indian Institute of Metals
2004-2005
Dr. T.K.Mukherjee (born in 1945) after graduation in Metallurgical Engineeringfrom Bengal Engineering College in 1967 joined Metallurgy Division of BhabhaAtomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai in 1968 after successfully completing11th Batch Training School Course.
Subsequently he did his M.Sc., (Tech) and Ph.D from Bombay Universityand DIC from Imperial College, London.
During his long R & D career of 28 years at BARC, he specialised in extractionmetallurgy of refractory, nuclear, precious and rare earth metals. In 1991, hebecame Head, Uranium and Rare Earths Extraction Division of BARC and lookedafter the production of uranium metal for the research reactors at the centre.
In 1996, he joined Indian Rare Earths Ltd, a Public sector undertaking, underthe administrative control of Department of Atomic Energy as Chairman & ManagingDirector. During his tenture, IRE has recorded profit for seven consecutive years.In recognition of this outstanding effort, IRE has received Silver Trophy of SCOPEAwards for excellence for three years. He has received BRALCO, BINANI, BESTMETALLURGIST AWARD and HINDUSTAN ZINC GOLD Medal of IIM, MRSIGOLD Medal as well as VASVIK INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AWARD for hisoutstanding contributions in the area of extraction metallurgy of non-ferrous metals.
He is a fellow of National Academy of Engineering and member of a numberof professional bodies like The Indian Institute of Metals, Materials ResearchSociety of India, Magnetic Society of India and Rare Earths Association of India.He has been elected as the President of the Indian Institute of Metals for the year2004-05.
He has to his credit 183 technical papers and four books including two volumeson Hydrometallurgy in Extraction Processes published by CRC Press, USA.
Dr. T.K. MUKHERJEEPresident - The Indian Institute of Metals
2004-2005
