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  • Prabhat Bhattamishra, CEO
    PEPCO Machinery Private Ltd.
    Phone :033 2229 7940 / 3950
    Fax : 033 2265 1762, Mobile :+91 98300 59390
    E-mail : pkb@pepco.co.in | pkbmishra@yahoo.co.in
     
    Education
    Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

    Professional Experience

    Designation Experience   Years
      CEO PEPCO Machinery Private Limited - own Marketing and Engineering Consultancy venture.   Jan. '97 – till date
      Country Manager   Gebr Bellmer GmbH, Germany, leading Paper machine
    builder of Europe, to assist them set up a JV in India.
      Sept. ‘94 - Dec. ‘96
      Executive Vice President
    and General Manager
      With Khaitan Paper Machines Ltd., Calcutta, India, a new green-field engineering unit.   Dec. ‘89 - Aug. ‘94
      Sales Development
    Manager
      In various capacities in manufacturing, design and project engineering and marketing departments with Larsen & Toubro Limited, the largest Engineering Company of India.   July ‘71
    Significant Achievements  
    Conceptualizing, planning and implementing a green-field engineering company to undertake paper machine projects.
    Successfully introducing the concept of total rebuild of paper machines to effect substantial hike in capacity, significant quality up gradation and high productivity. This is now a major trend in the Indian Paper industry.
    Developing and implementing the concept of centralised stock preparation system for various mills having several paper machines.
    Handled several large contracts for modernisation and expansion projects of various Indian paper mills.
     
    Details of Professional Experience
     
    With Gebr. Bellmer GmbH (1994-96) - The assignment was to position Bellmer as a dependable partner for Paper machine rebuild projects and Specialty paper projects and to create the framework for a Joint Venture with a leading Indian machine builder.

    With Khaitan Paper Machines Limited (1989-94) - Conceptualised, planned, and successfully implemented the Rs. 75 million green field project with Institutional funding and public issue.  

    Developed a niche market of Paper machine rebuilds and successfully positioned KPM as the leading player. Executed the rebuild projects involving 3 machines of the leading specialty paper producer in Eastern India.  

    With Larsen & Toubro Limited (1971-89) - In various capacities in Manufacturing, Engineering, Projects and Marketing in a career marked by several new initiatives like   

    Details of Some of Major Contracts
    Modernisation and Rebuild of 3 paper machines for a Specialty paper producer in eastern India - value DM 9.5 Million plus Rs. 72 Million
    Approachflow systems and paper machines for the largest bamboo based plants in India - value Rs. 210 million
    Major rebuild with substantial capacity hike of a fine printing paper machine for the largest paper group in India - value Rs. 120 Million
    First straw pulp based high speed paper machine to produce quality writing and printing paper - value Rs. 85 Million
    Rebuild of oldest fine printing paper machine to suit different raw material mix - value Rs. 10 million.

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