Global Tyre & Rubber Conference 2024
13–14 June 2024, Feathers Hotel, Chennai
Registration: 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM
Inaugural Session
Time Topic Speaker
9:30 Invocation
9:30–9:35 Welcome Address Antony Powath – President, PIN 365
9:35–10:0 Harm Voortman – President & CEO, VMI
0 Opening Address
10:00–10: Arnab Banerjee – MD & CEO, CEAT
15 Special Address
10:15–10:
30 Felicitation for P K Mohamed
10:30–10:35 LIGHTING OF THE LAMP & INAUGURATION
10:35–11:00 Tea & Coffee Break
Session I: Industry 4.0 & Beyond
Session Chairman: S K P Amarnath, Apollo Tyres
Time Topic Speaker
11:00–11:30 Emerging Trends in the Indian Tyre Rajiv Budhraja, Director General ,
Industry ATMA, India
11:30–12:00 Commitment to India for Erik Lapré, VP Global Services , VMI
Sustainable Growth
12:00–12:30 Curing Presses Designed to Meet Warren Rudman, Executive Vice President
Market Challenges Curing Presse , HF Group
12:30–13:00 Challenges/Trends/Opportunities by Karsten Jung, Director Sales Rubber ,
Future Compounds on Extrusion Troester GmbH
Process
13:00–14:00 Lunch Break
Session II: Automation & Digitalisation
Session Chairman: Renji Issac, CEAT Tyres
Time Topic Speaker
14:00–14:30 Arul Leo, Vertical Manager Tire IN, and
Rodrigo Eugenio, Regional Manager &
Drive the Evolution of the Tyre Business Developer in Tire Vertical , Siemens
Industry with Siemens AG
14:30–15:00 Digital Solutions and Trends (in Andrej Bencel, PhD, Head of Digital
Tyre Industry) Competence , Vipo a.s.
15:00–15:30 Boosting your Productivity with Pekka Saraketo, Sales Manager , Cimcorp
Intelligent Software Automation
15:30–16:00 Uncertainty is Shaping the Francesco Motta, CEO , Marangoni
Market. How Marangoni Machinery
Machinery React
16:00–16:30 Tea & Coffee Break
Session III: Going Green & Sustainable
Session Chairman: Ravin Kurian, MRF Tyres
Time Topic Speaker
16:30–17:00 Struktol Functionalised Additives: Colin Clarke, Director Technical Sales
Innovations Towards Optimised , Schill+Seilacher "Struktol" GmbH
Tyre Compound Performance
17:00–17:30 Importance of Materials in Sujit Nair, VP, R&D (Centre of
Sustainable Tyre Development Excellence, CEAT
17:30–18:00 Speciality Rubber Chemicals and Bharat Sharma, Technical Director,
Tyre Sustainability TWC Group
18:00–18:30 Current and Future Trend of Resin B Jayamani, Director – Product
Application in Rubber Industries Development & Quality, Finorchem
India
19:30 Gala Entertainment, Cocktail and Dinner
Day Two: 14 June 2024, Feathers Hotel, Chennai
Session IV: Materials & Recycling
Session Chairman: M K Jain, JK Tyre
Time Topic Speaker
9:30 – 10:00 HF MIXING GROUP End of Life Dr Aji M N, Senior Manager –
Tyres Solution Process Technology, HF Group
10:00–10:30 Multi-Functionalised SSBR & LiBR Dr Chun-Lin Chen, Principal
with Multiple-Initiation Technology Chemist, TSRC Corporation, ISRPL
for EV Tyres
10:30–11:00 AI Solution and How Sorting Increases
and Improves the Quality of ELT’s Arthur Wagner, Director, REGOM
Applications
11:00–11:30 Tea & Coffee Break
Session V: Manufacturing Excellence
Session Chairman: C Harimohan, ATC Tires Pvt Ltd
Time Topic Speaker
11:30–12:00 Quality Monitoring in Tyre Building Marc Verhoeven, International
Machines Project Manager, VMI
12:00–12:30 TBR Performance Testing on a New Dr Dieter Barz, COO, Altracon
Course
12:30–13:00 Laser Uniformity Optimisation Case Stefan Irrgang, Director Sales,
Study: Precise, Efficient and Sustainable 4Jet
13:00–13:30 Innovation Applied to Final Finishing
Test Systems: The New All-In-One Fully
Florian Bergemann, Product
Automatic Line for Uniformity,
Manager, Test Industry
Geometry, Unbalance And Marking of
Truck & Bus Tyres
13:30–14:30 Lunch Break
Session VI: Mixing solutions
Session Chairman: V Sivaramkrishnan, CTO, TVS Srichakra
Time Topic Speaker
14:30–15:00 Dr N Tamilselvan, Global R&D –
Opportunities in Optimising the
APMEA, Apollo Tyres
Processing of Silica-Based Tread
Compounds
15:00–15:30 Yoshikazu Ueno, Assistant
Mixing Process Improvement with Manager of Quality and Product
Kuraray Liquid Rubber Development Department,
Kuraray Co Ltd
15:30–16:00 Ajesh K P, Manager – Business
Higher Silica Mixing Technology for
Development, Kobelco
Future Mixers
Industrial Machinery India
16:00–16:20 Summing up & Vote of Thanks Tom Thomas, Chairman, GTRC
Tea & Coffee Break
Conference Ends
