Hindustan Antibiotics former Managing Director Yashwant Gharpure was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of IIChE in CHEMCON 2024

Pune: Hindustan Antibiotics’ former Managing Director & veteran Chemical Engineer Yashwant Gharpure (Age 91) was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) in CHEMCON 2024, an annual conference organized at Jalandhar (Panjab). Currently, Mr. Gharpure is doing his own business.

This was in recognition of Mr. Gharpure’s contribution to the Chemical Engineering profession over the last seven decades including scrutinizing global tenders for technology and successfully implementing and commissioning several projects, reverse engineering two of the imported technologies, implementing projects based on indigenously developed technologies and many more.

Mr. Gharpure is very fond of writing which he started with his first article on ‘Space Travel’ in College Magazine in 1955, and since then he has written and published over 300 articles. He has also formed two NGOs viz. Voluntary Executives Forum of India (VEFI) and Technology Transfer Association (TTA). Last year, Mr. Gharpure was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Pune branch of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Photo caption: Mr. Sunil Thakkar, President, IIChE; Prof. Binod Kumar Kanaujia, Director, NIT Jalandhar; Mr. Yashwant Gharpure, Gharpure Associates; Mr. Pradip Kumar Agarwal, CEO, Heritage Group of Institutions; Mr. Biswanath Chatopadhyay, Chief Executive Officer · IVL Dhunseri Petrochem Industries Pvt Ltd.; Prof. G D Yadav, Ex-Vice Chancellor, ICT, Mumbai