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1 Sanmar Holdings Limited Sanmar Chemicals Corporation Sanmar Metals Corporation Sanmar Engineering Corporation Chemplast Sanmar Limited Sanmar Foundries Limited Flowserve Sanmar Limited Trubore Piping Systems Sand Foundry BS&B Safety Systems (India) Limited TCI Sanmar Chemicals LLC (Egypt) Investment Foundry Xomox Sanmar Limited Cabot Sanmar Limited Machine Shop Xomox Valves Divn. Sanmar Speciality Chemicals Limited Matrix Metals LLC Pacific Valves Divn. ProCitius Research Keokuk Steel Castings Company (USA) Tyco Sanmar Limited Organic Chemicals Acerlan Foundry (Mexico) Fisher Sanmar Limited Phyto Chemicals NEPCO International (USA) Control Valves Divn. Sanmar Shipping Limited Sanmar Ferrotech Limited Regulators Divn. Eisenwerk Erla GmbH (Germany) Sanmar Engineering Services Limited The Sanmar Group 9, Cathedral Road, Chennai 600 086. Tel.: + 91 44 2812 8500 Fax: + 91 44 2811 1902 2 In this issue... Stars from Tamil Nadu on the World Stage 4 AIMA-Sanmar 10th National Management Quiz-2009 Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Emerge Winners 25 The Sanmar Group Directors Visit Plants 10 Value that Endures After Chandrayaan, it is Bloom Energy MMA Women Managers’ Convention 2010 26 for BS&B Safety Systems BS&B’s Burst Disks for Bloom Energy 12 Sanmar-TNTA Tennis Tourney Goes National Rupture Disk Assemblies for Bhavini Bombay Gymkhana Win Inaugural Event 28 Fast Breeder Reactor Project 13 Santhome Win Sanmar-Sponsored Cricket Tourney 29 Chemplast, Fisher and Flowserve Bag Safety Awards 14 Sri Sankara Vidyashramam N Kumar Calls it a Day as Trade Adviser to Singapore 15 An Active Participant in Green Projects 30 IACC-Sanmar Indo-US Business Cooperation Chemplast’s CSR Initiative Award for GE, USA 16 Evening Study Centres for Rural Students 31 Specialist Foundries Slowly Emerging 19 Madhuram Narayanan Centre for Exceptional Children Sports day 32 SanGyan is Five Years Old 20 Food Festival 33 Media Award for Sruti Editor 21 Legends from the South: Flowserve Employee’s Noble Gesture 21 The Mudaliar Twins 34 Chennai Willingdon Corporate Foundation A Decade of Service to Worthy Causes 22 Matrix can be viewed at www.sanmargroup.com Designed and edited by Kalamkriya Limited, 9, Cathedral Road, Chennai 600 086. Ph: + 91 44 2812 8051/ 52 For Private Circulation Only. 3 Stars from Tamil Nadu on the World Stage Dr S Chandrasekhar, the astrophysicist, emulated his uncle by winning the politics. Matrix has pleasure in saluting was perhaps the fi rst Tamil from South Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983. Over fi ve super-achievers with their origins India, to make a mark in the world the decades, a number of Indians, in Tamil Nadu, who have been in the of science in the west. A nephew of including south Indians, have competed news in recent years. Sir CV Raman, he did pathbreaking on the world stage and earned accolades science in the UK and USA, and in science, business, art and even 4 Bloom Box: Power to the People KR Sridhar’s Invention will Revolutionise Electricity Distribution KR Sridhar, PhD (born 1960), Principal 24 February 2010, Bloom Energy launched Co-founder and Chief Executive Offi cer its new energy-effi cient and environmentally of Silicon Valley’s Bloom Energy, hit friendly fuel cell. world headlines when he unveiled the e-Bay and Google should know. They Bloom Box, a fuel-cell system that have been among the fi rst to try out the produces energy that’s cleaner and more sensational Bloom Energy distributed effi cient than oil, gas or coal and more power supply system, which promises to reliable than wind or solar power. On change the face of villages, workplaces and homes. An effi cient, affordable fuel cell, professor of Aerospace and Mechanical the Bloom Energy solution Engineering. Sridhar has served as an is a novel distributed- advisor to NASA and has led major energy power producer, consortia of industry, academia, and enabling businesses, national labs. His work for the NASA residents and villages Mars program to convert Martian to produce their atmospheric gases to oxygen for own power on site propulsion and life support was instead of relying on recognised by Fortune magazine, relatively ineffi cient where he was cited as “one of the top centralised power. five futurists inventing tomorrow, Before founding today.” B l o o m E n e r g y, Dr KR Sridhar was D i r e c t o r o f t h e Space Technologies Laboratory (STL) at the University of Arizona where he was also a 5 5 Smashing Male Bastions Indra Nooyi is the Most Powerful Woman in Business Fortune magazine has named her number In 2007, the Government of India one on its annual ranking of Most awarded her the Padma Bhushan. Powerful Women in business for every Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, born on year since 2006. 28 October 1955 is the Chairperson and The Global Supply Chain Leaders Group Chief Executive Offi cer of PepsiCo, one named her 2009 CEO of the Year. of the world’s leading food and beverage companies. In 2008, she was named one of America’s Best Leaders by US News & World She holds a BSc from Madras Christian Report,Report, elected to the FellowshipFellowship of the College, an MBA from the Indian American AcademyAcademy of ArArtsts and Sciences Institute of Management in Kolkata andand electedelected CChairhair ooff tthehe UUS-IndiaS-India and a Master of Public and Private BusinessBusiness CouncilCouncil (USIBC),(USIBC), representingrepresenting Management from Yale University. In moremore thanthan 300300 ofof thethe world’sworld’s largestlargest India, she had worked at Johnson & companies doing business in India.India. Johnson and Mettur Beardsell. ForbesForbes mmagazineagazine rrankedanked hherer tthirdhird oonn tthehe After Yale, Nooyi worked at the Boston 2008 and 2009 lists of The WWorld’sorld’s 100 Consulting Group in 1980. In 1990 she MostMost PowerfulPowerful Women.Women. joined Asea Brown Boveri as its head of strategy. Moving to PepsiCo in 1994, she became its chief strategist. Climbing the ladder of success rapidly, Nooyi was named President and CEO on October 1, 2006 and assumed the role of Chairman on May 2, 2007. A rock guitarist from her youth, Nooyi still sings at company functions. She is a regular visitor at the concerts during the annual Carnatic music season at Chennai. 6 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Ramakrishnan’s Work will Help Save Lives and began work on ribosomes at Yale. Keen on bicycling, hiking and music, He continued the work at Brookhaven Ramakrishnan has been seen at concerts National Laboratory, and moved to during the Chennai December season. the University of Utah as a Professor of Biochemistry, in 1995. In 1999, he joined the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. A Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of 57-year-old molecular biologist EMBO and the US Venkatraman Ramakrishnan shared the National Academy Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year with of Sciences and a Thomas A Steitz and Ada E Yonath for Fellow of Trinity their work on ribosomes (components College, Cambridge, of cells that make proteins from amino Ramakrishnan has acids), in the process helping “develop e a r n e d s e v e r a l new antibiotics, directly assisting the awards and honours saving of lives and decreasing humanity’s including the Padma suffering”. Vibhushan, in 2010. Leaving his birthplace Chidambaram Ramakrishnan’s wife in Tamil Nadu when barely three, Vera Rosenberry is Ramakrishnan did his undergraduate a famous author and studies at the Maharaja Sayajirao illustrator of children’s University of Baroda on a National books. His stepdaughter, Science Talent Scholarship, graduating Tania Kapka is a doctor with a BSc in Physics in 1971. At 19, he in Oregon, and moved to the USA, where he obtained s o n R a m a n his PhD in Physics from Ohio University Ramakrishnan in 1976. a cellist in He switched to biochemistry at the New York. University of California, San Diego, 7 Practising What He Preaches CK Prahalad Aims to Change the World CK Prahalad is one of the business The author of several international world’s most infl uential professors and bestsellers [like “Competing for the consultants who invested millions of Future” (with Gary Hamel), “The dollars of his own money to see if he Future of Competition,” (with Venkat could build a company around the Ramaswamy), “The Fortune at the principles he has been teaching other Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating high-powered leaders, changing the Poverty through Profits,” and (with world in the process. MS Krishnan) The New Age of Innovation] took leave of his consultancy at Ann Arbor, Michigan, scaled back his consulting work, put up several million dollars to get his company Praja going, empowerment of the individual. and moved his family to San Diego. “Consumers did not have much share of voice,” he says. “Now they do. There Praja is a high-technology is a fundamental transition that is taking company that allows people to place – from a fi rm-centric society to a personalise their own experiences consumer-centric society.” on the Internet. Its platform, ExperienceWare, organises One of the recipients of the Pravasi data by context, rather than Bharatiya Sammaan awards in 2009, by time or written words, CK Prahalad was conferred the Padma sorting text, video, audio, and Bhushan the same year. In 2009 he sensory data. was named the world’s most infl uential business thinker on The Thinkers 50 list, Prahalad says that Praja will published by The Times. facilitate the most profound i m p a c t o f t h e Internet: the 8 Brain, Bronzes and Music VS Ramachandran is a Neuroscientist Par Excellence Ramachandran is a trustee for the San Chennai, he is frequently seen at music Diego museum of art and has lectured concerts and mixing freely with people widely on art, visual perception and the from several walks of life.