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Mr. V. K. Bafna
Chairman
Mr. V. K. Bafna is Chairman at TCR Advanced, He is also Founder and Managing Director of TCR Engineering Services, Mumbai, and a JV partner of TCR - KIL, Kuwait. A visionary with sound material sciences experience, strong business acumen and relentless sincerity, the TCR ADVANCED is maturing under his able guidance.
With clear sense of purpose and urgency, Through hard work, dedication, integrity and love for his field, Mr. Bafna gained 35 years of practical experience in the areas of corrosion detection, chemical analysis, mechanical testing, failure analysis and materials characterization. He has introduced innovative methods for Corrosion Studies, Non Destructive Testing and is a pioneer in showcasing the advantages of XRF-based positive material identification to the industry.
Mr. Bafna, is a gold medallist from the University of Indore and has two masters degrees to his credit. He has done Master of Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada and Master of Industrial Management from the Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, New York. V.K. Bafna is a member of various professional organizations such as American Society for Testing and Materials, Institute of Standard Engineers, ASM International, NACE, Non Destructive Testing Society of India, and Indian Institute of Metals. He is an ex-committee member of ASM India chapter. Mr. Bafna's vast expertise in the field of laboratory testing has brought numerous laurels to TCR notable amongst them is an award of appreciation from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for the company’s contribution to the Project ASLV. He has conducted workshop on "Value Driven Maintenance and Reliability for Process Industries" at International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC) at Abu Dhabi, UAE in Sept. 2006 as well as conducted a seminar on "World Class Laboratory Management" at the Asia-Pac Conference, Mumbai, India in June 2006.
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Mr. P. U. Haribhakti
Managing Director
Mr. Haribhakti is a B.E. (Metallurgy), M.E. (Materials Technology) From M.S.
University, Baroda.
He has done basic research in study of hydrogen embrittlement of steels. He has worked as trouble shooting metallurgist for India's
largest fertilizers and petrochemicals complex, GSFC Ltd., Vadodara for nearly 10
years. His areas of interest are microstructure degradation of components
exposed to high temperature and pressure. He has hands on experience of more
than 500 failure investigation cases of Power Plants, Fertilizers, Chemicals and
Petrochemicals Industries.
He has provided services of failure investigation and In-situ metallography to major
industries in the country and abroad.
Mr. Haribhakti had won first prize for metallography contest held at IISC-Banglore -
1998 under NMD celebration by Indian Institute of Metals (IIM). There are several
technical presentations and lectures delivered at National and International seminars
to his credit.
He is a member of different most of the professional bodies in the field of metallurgy.
He has solved materials engineering problems and performed failure
analysis on components from petrochemical plants, oil and gas transmission
pipelines, offshore structures, ships, pharmaceutical plants, food processing
equipment, gas turbine engine components, and weldments.
Mr. Haribhakti investigates the available physical evidence, and performs the
necessary tests to develop the most probable accident scenario. He uses simplifies
complex engineering theory into easy to understand and useable concepts.
He uses simple analogies, every day examples, and laymen terms to explain data
and findings so clients, corporate executives, government officials, or attorneys may
easily understand engineering concepts.
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Mr. J. H. Patel
Chief Executive (Testing Division)
Mr. J. H. Patel is a B. E. (Metallurgy) from M.S. University Vadodara. He is having hands on experience in Industrial experience in the field of NDT for about five years.
He is an ASNT Level-II for U.T., M.T., and D.P.T.
He was actively involved in developing Ultrasonic testing procedure for Railway tracks for
Indian Railways as a consultant.
Now he is in-charge of Testing Division of TCR Advanced Engineering Pvt. Ltd. for
routine testing of Chemical, Physical and IGC test confirming to the National and
International standards.
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Mr. G. R. Patel
General Manager (Research Division)
Mr. Gopul Patel is a post graduate from Sardar Patel University. He has an extensive knowledge of vacuum Technology and has worked as scientific officer at Department of Sciece and technology sponsored Research centre.
He has hands on experience of operation and calibration of various sophisticated analytical instruments such as Transmission Electron Microscope, Scanning Electron Microscope with EDS, X Ray Diffraction, ICP OES, spectrometers, Thermal Analyzers such as DSC, TGA. He has experience of various advanced methods of material characterization and have worked extensively in the field of microscopy.
He has been trained for Operation of Electron microscope at PHILLIPS, The Netherlands. In fact he has handled India's First Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope with EDAX analyser for more than five years.
He is responsible for the establishing & implementing Management system at TCR ADVANCED and its functionality.
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