Gursimran Kohli

From the Market point of view:-

•Planning and developing of new products & market for Polyurethane (PU) based Chemicals

•Working circuitously with the customers in Industry thereby grabbing & augmenting novel opportunities for PU chemical.

•Promoting Engineered PU Chemical/Polymer products for new applications.

•Identifying opportunities for new products; may act as a technical resource for our business development team.

•Maintaining good rapport with customers, distributors & dealers.

•Maintaining the technical expert knowledge of the company's products & services.

At the Customer end:-

•Maintaining strong relationships with clients. Follow up on client requests, any issues as they arise & solicit their feedback. Be a partner to the client. Ensuring a successful ongoing client relationship

• Leading new clients through an orientation of our services. Understanding & suggesting new solutions as per the customer’s needs, suitability & as per the market feedback on performance requirement

•Emphasizing on product’s features, capabilities& limitations based on analyses of customers.

•Extending application area of products by analyzing the client’s requirement & recommending solutions technically.

•Presenting new products & services to prospective customers through displays, demonstrations & development trials.

•Advising customers on technical issues in order to promote the company's products and services.

•Contacting customers to discuss their needs & to explain how these needs could be met by specific products & services. 

•Giving the technical & market support, involving Customer trial & consultancy.

•Training customers in the safe and efficient use of company products.

From the Project point of view:-

•Performing projects & duties, along with QA Team, assigned by the Global Head Centre (GFCC), in Guangzhou, China.

•Providing input to development of new products to the Product Manager.

•Participating in studies on need basis in Polyurethane (PU) Chemicals & providing regular data inputs on Products.

•Meeting the Development targets, involving new compound development & formulations.

•Experimenting on various base polymeric chemicals, additives, catalysts.

•Process control of Products based on Reaction’s Profile & Properties.

•Conducting the regular root cause analysis, troubleshooting

•Ensuring adherence to highest standards & meet the development targets.

•Preparing & providing reports, summaries & presentations for current or new product & its business activity

•Acting as a group spokesperson on product’s market performance &projects.

•Provide feedback on product performance & thereby checking the product’s performance as per the target.

The job involved: -

·Performing the engineering work on research, development & design of EPDM & NBR based products.

·Planning & implementing projects in support of Business, R&D-cum-Quality & Manufacturing departments.

·Coordinating for the Product Development trials & Checking the Performance parameters of the Product

·Ensuring the process, product’s properties & performance meet the standards.

·  Analyzing the properties of developed product graphically & statistically by Run Time Reports & by SQC.

·Testing of raw material-like Water Content, Ash content, Sieve test, Density test, Melting Point test, etc.

·Process control of the developed product based on Physical, Rheological & Characterization parameters.

·Laboratory management, handling & control on the issue and maintenance of test machine like:-

UTM, Oscillating Disc Rheometer, Mooney Shearing Disc Viscometer, Abrasion Machine, Bursting     Strength, etc

1)Underwent 4-Weeks Industrial training inINDIAN OIL CORPORATION LTD., MATHURA REFINERY. Studied on various Petroleum Refining process & operations: - FCC, Distillation, Reforming, Cracking, Vis- Breaker Unit, etc along with broad understanding of petrochemicals, side products & production technologies

2)Underwent 8-Weeks In-plant training at HPL ADDITIVES (HIGH POLYMER LABS), Faridabad, Haryana. They are India’s largest Additive Producer & exporters of Polymer Additives, Catalysts & Industrial chemicals. Studied on production of polymeric additives (Blowing Agents)

3)Acquired 1 month Industrial training at GM PLASTICS, an injection molding SME & gained invaluable knowledge about Injection molding operations & processes

4)Underwent a 2-Week In-College Training on study of ION-EXCHENGE RESINS.

5)Successfully completed one Project on Stereo-Regularity of PVA, i.e.

Oxidative degradation of PVA with Periodic Acid

R&D Activities Handled in College

Successfully handled & completed the Polymerization work, in College, on Polymers:-

1)PreparedPhenolic (PF) Resinsi.e.

•Acid catalyzed: Novolak

• Base catalyzed: Resol

2)PreparedUrea-Formaldehyde (UF) Resin& Melamine-Formaldehyde (MF) Resin.

3) Prepared Thiokol Rubber i.e. PolySulphideby Condensation Polymerization.

4) Prepared PolyAcrylAmide (PAA) by Bulk Polymerization.

5)Polymerized Methyl MethAcrylate toPMMAwith 2, 2-Azo Bis Butyro Nitrile.

6)Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate to Poly Vinyl Acetatevia:-

•Emulsion Polymerization with Ammonium PerOxoDisulphate.

•Suspension/Bead Polymerization.

7)Prepared PVAfrom Poly Vinyl Acetates.

Extra Curricular

Organized the Annual Technical Festival named “TATVA”, for our own Delhi College of Engineering in 2008 for my Department, which witnessed an impressive participation from Tech schools all over India