Group Lead, Ved Krishna
In today’s episode we welcome a dear friend and a chemistry nerd through and through – Sanjay Monie – who brings with him a treasure trove of in-depth knowledge in the field of material science! We talk about his experience of over two decades in the field of inks and coatings industry and how he
0:00 – Sustainable Solutions for the industry and uh being a global company and...
hello hello Sanjay finally we get to meet and do this in person so that’s even better right so so just so that the audience knows we tried to record this what two times and something went wrong glitches yes so and then we finally get to do it in a better way you know like do it together and meet in person and hang out and get to chat so yeah just i
10:00 – a paper company but you get in there and Most Fascinating material...
so uh that’s where you need to go and as it so happened I also got a scholarship there so uh my education got paid for so which was a huge relief to my dad I’m sure at the time um so yeah so that brought me to the US to do a masters in geology um I started out on my masters and then somewhere along the way I was studying um the weathering of U cali
21:00 – the standards and the direction exactly for the Pulp and Paper industry...
know building that roex of of of contacts contacts and for the listeners I guess we we we throw around these words so easily so tapy is the technical Association for FP and paper International which kind of leads all the standards and the direction exactly for the Pulp and Paper industry and and then of course interestingly you get into the other s
32:00 – carbons which is a carbon black company again one of those materials...
about those materials and again how you see you know how you see them having impacted your thinking too yeah so carbon obviously graphine was a car you know my introduction world of carbon um then I joined Orion engineered carbons which is a carbon black company again one of those materials it’s like like silica is called white car you know it’s li
43:00 – markets that we serve so we have the packaging and hygiene Solutions...
but I think it’s really energizing to see all the enthusiasm around the space and all the creative ideas that are that are emerging uh for this and you know Kima is is plans to be a key part of this uh we plan you know our vision is to be the leader in this space so yeah I’m sure you will be and just for the listeners again we meeting at the sideli
53:00 – process to apply the coating so hence spray coating or dip coating...
traditional Plastics did so they often have to either Blend or add plasticizers to get it to extrude properly um they both have both have their place I mean Extrusion there’s a lot of installed assets but it’s a little trickier from my understanding to apply the Extrusion uh coating so it takes a little more um experimentation to get it right you t
64:00 – regulation to the consumer expectations to the technology push to the brand...
Grail of you know the same levels as the traditional materials probably not but I think you’ll get more flavors and Nuance in the products that give you what is needed for the particular application so we’re seeing that shift in the market definitely where people are taking a closer look at what is actually needed for the products um yeah and then
75:00 – harnessing that um startup energy um because sometimes it's a a solution...
model with the new Ventures and services business um I think we’ll evolve new ways of harnessing that um startup energy um because sometimes it’s a a solution looking for backing yeah and not industrial backing right um and and scale is always a problem for startups and if and the uh capital is is an access is is can be an issue so yes startups are
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