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ICC Annual Awards 2022

rials, speciality products and innovative and in the next decade, there will be At a minimum, you need to offset
solutions. exponential growth in the demand for scope 1 and scope 2 emissions and
fluorine driven by new applications also think about scope 3. We are one
Mr. Bharadwaj highlighted the in batteries and semiconductors,” he of the few companies that have a hard
company’s leading position in the fluo- said. target on scope 3 emissions for 2030,”
rine value chain. he revealed.
Talking about sustainability, he
“There are few companies in the said, “I firmly believe that decarboni- “We are developing solutions that
world that can claim ownership of sing this planet is the single largest will allow us to go ‘Net Positive’ and
an element in the periodic table; we responsibility for people of our gene- through our Orbia Ventures, a ven-
own the element fluorine. We have ration. And one of the single largest ture capital arm, we invest in break-
more than 20% of the world’s fluorine opportunities as well. For me ‘Net through technologies that can have a
reserves and a mine in Mexico, at a time Zero’ is not enough; we need to go disproportionate impact on decarboni-
when Chinese reserves are declining, beyond ‘Net Zero’ to ‘Net Positive’. sing the planet,” he said.

INDIVIDUAL EXCELLENCE
Dr. Prakash Trivedi, Dr. Amol Kulkarni and Nadir Godrej

get life time achievement awards

Dr. Prakash Trivedi, Head – SBU
Polymers, Gharda Chemicals Ltd. was
honoured with the ‘ICC D. M. Trivedi
Lifetime Achievement Award for Con-
tribution to Indian Chemical Industry –
Management of industry’.

In his acceptance speech, he remi-
nisced about his joining with Dr. K. H.
Gharda in Gharda Chemicals, and the
period from 1995 to 2006, when he was
involved in the development of “many
new thermoplastics, particularly spe-
ciality thermoplastics, some – all for
the first time in India, some for the first
time in Asia, and some even for the first
time in the world”.

“We not only developed the poly-
mers but also commercialised them to Dr. Prakash Trivedi, Head – SBU Polymers, Gharda Chemicals Ltd. (Middle) being felicitated.
Others on the dais (L to R): Mr. Sothi Selvam, Director General, ICC; Mr. Bimal Goculdas,
about 25 countries in the world. Be- the out-going President, ICC and Managing Director & CEO, DMCC Speciality Chemicals
cause of the speciality nature of the Ltd.; Mr. Sameer S. Bharadwaj, Chief Executive Officer, Orbia; Mr. Susanta Kumar Purohit,
polymers, we had not only to develop Joint Secretary – Chemicals, Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals (DCPC); Mr. Rajen
Mariwala, the in-coming President, ICC and Managing Director, Eternis Fine Chemicals Ltd.;
them, but also develop methods to com- Mr. Kartik Bharatram, Joint Managing Director, SRF Ltd., and Vice President, ICC.
pound them and process them at tem-
peratures near 400 degrees C – almost During his speech, Dr. Trivedi also Dr. Amol A. Kulkarni, Scientist,
200-250 degrees Celsius higher than unveiled a sample of a new polymer – CSIR-National Chemical Labora-
the usual polymers. For all these poly- polyether imide – of which Gharda tory, Pune, was given the ‘ICC D.
mers, we were either number one, two Chemicals is the second manufacturer M. Trivedi Lifetime Achievement
or third producer in the world,” he said. in the world. Award for Contribution to Indian

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