Vishal Agarwal, President, Yudo Hot Runner India Pvt. Ltd presented various case studies on hot runners used for automotive industry.

The panel discussion on lighweghting and plastics acted as a truly knowledge-enriching sessions for the audience. The panel of lightweighting which was moderated by Hemant Vinod, Project Leader, TATA Strategic Management Group included Sandeep Waykole, Program Director India, Faurecia Interior Systems India Pvt. Ltd.; Vasanth Suratkal Kamath, Vice President, Development, Brose India Automotive Systems Pvt Ltd.; Harish Iyyer, DGM, Product Development, Chassis Systems, ZF India Pvt. Ltd.; Ravishankar. S, GM (Product development), Ashok Leyland Technical Centre; Antony P Kurian; Managing Director, igus India and Divakar Gokhale, Head- Business Development - BU-PCS, Covestro India. This panel discussed about role of plastics in lighweighting vehicles. On the other hand, Kumar Iyer, Head- Commercial operations - BU-CAS, Covestro India; Sachin D. Awatade, Sr. Tech. Specialist - Advanced Polymers, Asia Technology Innovation Center, John Deere India Pvt. Ltd. and B.Thej Kumar, GM - Product Development and Quality, Toyoda Gosei South India Pvt. Ltd. discussed plastics used in exteriors. This discussion was moderated by Charu Kapoor, Principal, TATA Strategic Management Group.

During the event TATA Strategic Management Group and Worldwide Media released a knowledge paper on "Plastics in Automotive The ‘Material' Impact". This paper is available on http://gcpa.themachinist.in/digital_assets/553/Whitepaper.pdf for download.