Hitech Corporation Limited announced that at the board meeting held on December 22, 2023, the company approved the appointment of Mrs. Ina A. Dani and Mr. Prakash D. Trivedi on the Board of the Company. The effective date of their appointment is December 22, 2023. Mrs. Ina Ashwin Dani is a member of the Promoter group of Hitech Corporation Limited and has earlier served on the Board of Directors of Hitech Corporation Limited. She has been a director of Hitech Corporation from its inception in 1991 up to February 1993 and again from January 2010 to June 2015. She is also a promoter director of Hitech Specialities Solutions Pvt Ltd. (HSSL), a speciality chemicals manufacturing and distribution company. HSSL has forged exclusive partnerships with global principals and provides customised solutions to individual customer needs whilst catering to a large customer base. She has been a director of HSSL from March 1998 till date. She is also a member of the Promoter group of Asian Paints Limited and has served on the Board of Asian Paints Limited, the market leader of the paint industry in India, as a Non-executive Director from March 1999 to July 2001 and again from July 2010 to October 2013. She is a staunch practitioner and trainer of Iyengar Yoga and believes in spreading the practice of yoga globally for the wellbeing of mankind. Mrs. Dani is a Trustee in many Charitable Trusts and is the founder of `Homevilla Yoga' which was established in 1994 and conducts yoga classes through dedicated professionals. Internationally she is renowned for teaching prenatal yoga to expectant mothers. She is a philanthropist connected with various social causes and organisations. All who have been associated with her rightly point out that her greatest strength is her ability to connect with all through her humility and empathy. Dr. Prakash Trivedi was Head of SBU Polymers of Gharda Chemicals
Ltd from 1990 to 2006. He helped develop many Specialty Plastics like PES (4th producer in the World), PSU & PPSU (3rd producer in the World), sulfone block copolymers PSS-B, PSS-T, and Electrophilic PEEK (First time in the World). The manufacturing plant came up at Panoli, Gujarat in 1997/98 and was bought by Solvay in 2006. He also helped developed from 2011 till date at Gharda, PEK. PEKK PEI and ABPBI, which are currently being manufactured by Gharda at Panoli, Gujarat and the products are being marketed the world over. Gharda is now only one of two manufacturers of PEI, PEK and PEKK and only single manufacturer of ABPBI Fiber in the world. His development work of Polyehter Imide is resulting in a production
plant for about 1000 MTA at Panoli to be commissioned by First Quarter 2024. Gharda Chemicals was recipient, just for polymer developments, of ICC Sir P. C. Ray awards for Technology developments in 1998, 2001, 2005, 2012 and 2019; PlastIndia Plasticon awards for New Products in 1999, 2002, 2005, 2012 and 2015; FICCI award for New Product in 2005 and Ministry of Chemical & Fertilizer Innovative Product Award in 2012. Dr. Prakash Trivedi was the MD of Solvay Specialties India Pvt. Ltd. from May 2006 till March 2009 and Sr. Advisor of Solvay Belgium on Sustainable Chemistry & Director R&D Solvay Asia in 2009 - 2011. In Solvay, he worked on Specialty & Engineering Plastics and Green Chemistry area and helped finalize its R&D Centre at Savli, Gujarat. Dr. Trivedi has been awarded ICC D. M. Trivedi Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Chemical Industry on 15th Sept. 2023. He is also recipient of Prof. M. Santappa Memorial Award by Society of Polymer science in 2020 and a Distinguished Alumnus Award by UDCT (now ICT) and is an adjunct professor at ICT since 2019. He served as Chairman of Indian Plastics Institute's Governing Council from 2002 to 2004. He is a Fellow of IPI and was recently bestowed Lifetime Achievement Award by IPI in March 2023. He has about 40 National & International Patents, >50 technical publications and >90 Presentations in International & National stage. He is also the member of American Chemical Society from 1972 till present. He wrote a monograph on Specialty Thermoplastics published recently in 2023 by Hanser, a leading European Publishing house specializing in books on plastics. He is now writing a monograph on Polymer Production Technology. He was the Hon. Editor of CHEMICAL NEWS of Indian Chemical Council from July 2014 ­ June 2022. Dr. Trivedi has published 6 Novels & 1 Play in Gujarati, & a book 'PVC Technology', coauthored with Arvind Athalye. He is an active member of Society Of Plastics Engineers and Rotary Club of Bombay West.