Seminar On

 

 

COPPER BASED PRODUCTS FOR RAILWAYS -
PRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

 

 

 

The Park Hotel

Kolkata

 

 

Wednesday, 27th November, 2019


   

 

 

Organised by

 

INDIAN COPPER DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

 

KOLKATA

 


“Railways play an important role in the growth of the country and copper is indispensible for the modernization of Railway network as well as its electrification programme”, said Mr. Arun Kumar Shukla, Director (Operations), Hindustan Copper Ltd. during his address as the Chief Guest of the Seminar on “Copper Based Products for Railways – Present Status and Future Prospects”, held in Kolkata on 27th November, 2019. He also praised Indian Copper Development Centre (ICDC) for arranging such focussed seminars on technology development, newer application areas, etc.

 

Mr. Thomas Schatz, Sr. Sales Manager – Copper Plants, SMS group GmbH, Germany, addressed the participants as a Special Guest of the seminar. He mentioned about the requirement of various copper based alloys required by the Railways and the need for technological development for making those alloys.

 

The opening session commenced with the address by Dr. D. De Sarkar, CEO, Indian Copper Development Centre, who elaborated the background & activities of ICDC and also welcomed the participants. The session concluded with the Vote of Thanks proposed by Mr. Indrajit Mukherjee, Metallurgist, ICDC.

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  


  


The following papers were submitted by different Railway organisations and suppliers to the Railways :


·         “Copper Conductors for Railways from Apar Industries”

by S. K. Jana & Ankit Patel, Apar Industries Ltd., Silvassa

 

·         “Copper Used in Traction Machines for Railways Application”

by A. K. Varshne & Akash Dani, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd., Bhopal

 

·          “Railway Electrification and Requirement of Copper”

by D. B. Singh, Central Organisation for Railway Electrification (CORE), Prayagraj

 

·          “Copper Based Products for Locomotives in Indian Railways”

by Ram Prakash & A. K. Keshari, Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Chittaranjan

 

·          “Use of Copper and Copper Alloy Products on Locomotives”

by Akhilesh Khare,  Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), Varanasi

 

·          “Copper Based Products Produced by Hindustan Copper Ltd. for Indian Railways”

by Awadesh Kumar, Hindustan Copper Ltd., Taloja

 

·          “Use of Copper in IR Coaches”

by R. B. Parashar, Integral Coach Factory, Chennai

 

·          “Copper in Metro”

by Subhra Sankha Mukherjee, Metro Railway, Kolkata

 

·          “Manufacture of Short Circuit Rings for Traction Motors”

by Sumit Dhody, Mipalloy, Sriperumbudur, Tamilnadu

 

There were two Technical Sessions during the seminar which were chaired by Dr. D. De Sarkar and Mr. Lalit Kumar Pahwa, Managing Director, Pahwa MetalTech Pvt. Ltd. respectively. After each technical session there was very lively discussion session when the authors answered the various queries raised by the audience.


About 50 participants attended the seminar. They included representatives from different Railway organisations, primary copper producers, copper based product manufacturers for the railways, engineering institutes, metallurgical start-ups, etc.