MILIND HARDIKAR
Welspun World’s Director of Group Strategic Initiatives, MIlind Hardikar, oversees the group’s strategic initiatives and serves as a “Think Tank” on the internal and external problems that are important to the company and the industry by offering his services for Advocacy for business and industry policies.
Mr Hardikar has held executive roles in the “Advanced Materials” divisions of top corporations, where he established green field initiatives for glass and carbon textiles for composites, bulletproof materials, an filtering media for industrial, renewable energy, and defence applications. uses as well as non-wovens Spunlace for uses in hygiene and health. He organised and established several strategic partnerships for knowledge transfers with foreign partners in the emerging Indian market for high-performance technical textiles and innovative materials. He played a key role in the process of transforming the conventional textile firms into technologically advanced textile organisations.
He is renowned for his broader and deeper understanding and has over thirty years of successful experience in technical textiles. Numerous industry forums have regularly invited him to speak, most notably 3M-USA, where he will discuss product innovation. He was fortunate enough to be a part of the The President’s mission to Iceland and the Indian Prime Minister’s delegation to China and Japan for trade promotion.
Mr. Hardikar is a member of the Textile Councils of several Chambers of Commerce, including FICCI and CII, and serves as the Co-Chair of the National Council for Textile & Technical Textile at ASSOCHAM. He actively works at TEXPROCIL and MATEXIL (Manufactured and Technical Textile Export) to promote exports. Promotion Council), via policymaking and industry representation.
He has more than 40 years of industry experience and holds a BE (Mech.) degree from Shivaji University and a Master of Management Studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies.
