Inner-groove Copper Tube project OFHC copper project ETP Copper rod project Copper casting moulds, tools & dies for copper tube industry

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M.KUNCHITHA PATHAM
203, Ganapathy Nagar, Tiruvanai Koil, Tiruchirapalli – 620 005, TN, INDIA
Email:mkpatham@gmail.com, Mobile Oman: +968 9459 8556/98854178 - India: +91 9003615239
Career Summary
Vast Experience and exposure in Manufacturing, Ferrous/Non-ferrous Metallurgical Process Plants, Plant
Engineering Services, Project Management, Project Proposals, Cost/Budget Estimate, Detailed Design,
Plant Design & Specification, Erection, Testing, Commissioning and Production of Inner groove copper
tubes, ETP & OFH Copper rods, Seamless steel tubes, Continuous & semi-continuous casting DHP billets
Process. Troubleshooting, defect analysis, process difficulties and technical recommendations. Safety
and quality audit for existing operating plants. Team leadership and its management.
Fields of Experience in Brief
Project Management: Develop Plans & Strategy, scheduling and Execute Projects. Detailed Engineering
Design, Co-ordination, Design Reviews, Technical analysis of bids and recommendation. Formulate plant
specification. Selection of CAST & ROLL plant equipment and preparation of purchase specifications.
Preparation of Copper tube project feasibility reports.
Manufacturing: Seamless Steel Tubes and Pipes, Inner groove Copper Tubes, Oxygen free High
Conductive Copper Rods & Wires, Continuous Castings of steel and DHP Copper billets, Ferrous Castings.
Steam Boilers, Pressure Vessels,
Construction Management: Engineering, Construction, Erection, Testing, Commissioning of Plain and
Inner Groove Copper Tube plants, Oxygen Free High Conductivity / Electrolytic Tough Pitch Copper rods
by SCR technology/Fine Wire Drawing etc. EOT cranes, auxiliary equipments and laboratory.
Quality Assurance: Preparing Quality Manual, Quality Policy, Method statement and ITPs. Conduct
internal/external audits including for qualifying vendors. Coordinate with third party and client
inspectors/engineers for completion of all quality issues Quality Plans, project quality manual as in ISO
9001/2 Standards. HSE (Health Safety and Environment) manuals (project) in a limited context. Inspection
of Copper tube plant equipment and its tools
Professional Training
 At Mitsubishi Material Corporation (MMC), Osaka, Kitamoto and Tokyo for the production of Inner
Groove Copper Tubes, Continuous cast DHP Billets, ETP copper wire Rod.
 At Met Rod, Malaysia for the Production of Oxygen free high conductivity (OFHC) cast & rolled copper
wire rods by Outokumpu Up-cast Process.
 At Niehoff Germany for the Operation and die schedule of Buehler rolling mill and Niehoff – M 85
wire drawing.
 At Mannesmann Demag- Meer, Mannchenglabath, West Germany for the Production of Seamless
Steel Tubes with Push bench process

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 At KME, LIME, Italy for the design of Roll Pass schedule of Spinner blocks and Drawing blocks. Re-
engineering of Inner grooving machine for copper tubes.
 Piping Engineering training at IIT – Bombay, India
 Design on Inner groove mandrel at MMC, Japan
Qualifications
 MBA from IGNOU, New Delhi, India
 Masters Degree in Metallurgy (1989) Regional Engineering College, (now NIT) TN, India
 Bachelors Degree in Metallurgical Engineering (1986) Regional Engineering College, TN, India
 Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Board of Technical Education & Training, Govt of Tamilnadu.
Technical & Computer Literacy:
Hands - on experience with following Software Packages
 Caesar II - Pipe stress analysis
 Primavera - Project Management to plan and schedule the project with PERT & CPM
 Enterprise Resource Planning - SAP R3 – Production Planning
 Application - MS Office
Professional Affiliations
 Member in Indian Institute of Engineers
 Member in Indian Institute of Metals
 Executive member of India Society for Heating Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE)
 ISO 9001:2000 IRCA Certified Internal Quality Auditor
Honors and Achievements
 A 25000MT inner groove copper tube plant has been erected and commissioned ahead of schedule
and the product quality has also been imparted within a record time at MetTube in Malaysia.
 Brought better copper tube surface quality by improving billet/mother shell quality.
 Re-Engineering of Inner-groove copper tube machine.
 A sick copper tube plant has been revamped and made it into working condition in the Sultanate of
Oman.
 Prestigious Sharam Vir Award from India Government.
Technical Papers Presented
Following papers were submitted to Indian Copper development organisation, India
 Recent Development of Copper Production by CAST & ROLL TECHNOLOGY
 Importance and Control of Oxygen in Casting of DHP Copper Billets and Mother Shell
 Gas-Metal reaction during continuous casting of DHP Copper
 Mould design for Continuous casting of copper.

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 Defects during drawing of plain and grooved copper tubes and its remedial measures.
CAREER DETAILS
Jan 2011 – till date APPLUS VELOSI LLC, Sultanate of Oman (Project &QMS Service Provider)
Project Consultant
I have been seconded to various organisations to cater their requirements as follows
 Have done Techno Economical and Feasibility report preparation for process & product industries.
 Preparation of “CAST & ROLL” plant and equipment specification for the setting up of inner-groove
DHP Copper tube plant at Oman Copper Tube Processing Industries Co and Bahrain.
 Copper tube product mix of plain and grooved copper tubes for ACR applications
 Factory Acceptance testing (FAT) of Plant machinery for copper and steel, tools & dies
 Pipeline Projects monitoring for oil & gas industries
 Periodical review and approval of method statements Inspection test reports (ITP).
 Construction of Oil gathering stations and compressor stations.
June 2004 – Nov 2010 Nuhas Oman LLC - (Erstwhile Oman Copper Industries saog)
Project Manager/Production Manager
On special call and request from the Chairman of this company, a virtually sick unit namely “Oman
Copper Industries Saog” has been completely revamped and inducted state of art machinery to produce
the best quality DHP Copper tubes. Also OFHC Copper rod plant has been renovated with minor
modifications and commissioned successfully. This has been done solely by me and the turn over today
is 11.24 million USD per month.
Plant capacity increased and self has headed for technical, production and maintenance of
i. 24000 MT Oxygen free High Conductivity of Copper Rod plant
ii. 32000 MT Copper Wire Drawing Plant.
iii. 3000 MT Copper Enamelling Plant
iv. 15000 MT DHP Copper billet plant
v. 3000 MT DHP copper tube plant
 Commissioning of 14 strand OFHC Vertic OY 9000 TPA Capacity Plant
 Commissioning of semi-continuous caster for 225 mm dia copper billet, 2000 MT Extrusion press,
channel type induction melting furnace and holding furnace. Production of DHP Plain copper tubes.
 Production of DHP copper billet, OFHC 8 mm copper rod and extruded copper mother shell for ACR
applications.
 Training of employees in the field of melting, casting, inspection, process controls and safety.
 Establishing specification for OFHC 8 mm copper rod and selection of product mix and its size
tolerances for ACR tubes.
 Evaluation of Cost of Production of copper tubes, Rods, Wires etc
 Preparation of technical document, work standard and procedure to obtain ISO 9000 certification.

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 Commissioning of semi-continuous caster for 225 mm dia copper billet, 2000 MT Extrusion press,
channel type induction melting furnace and holding furnace
 Production of DHP copper billet, OFHC 8 mm copper rod and extruded copper mother shell for ACR
applications.
 Training of employees in the filed of melting, casting, inspection, process controls and safety.
 Establishing specification for OFHC 8 mm copper rod and selection of product mix and its size
tolerances for ACR tubes.
 Prospecting new business opportunities, preparation of proposals and techno-commercial discussions
with potential clients. Cost estimation.
 Technical consultant for feasibility studies. Prepared a feasibility report for manufacture 60,000 TPA
of ETP Copper rod.
 Performance Study of Cast & Roll plant in China and Korea
 Assessment of capital expenditure proposals.
 Was responsible for preliminary Engg & Cost estimates for a new project in association with finnish
Company.
 Implemented Production Planning System Software (Preactor,UK) for the Copper tube Manufacturing.
Deputed to LIME, Italy for
 Re-furbish of SCR Machine taken from the Oman plant
 Complete design and fabrication of semi- continuous copper casting machine of copper billets
 Design of DC mould cooling system for continuous copper casting of billets and mother shells.
 To develop Inner Grooving machine.
 Feasibility Study for non-ferrous metallurgical Process
 Carrying out pipe mill surveys during FEED feasibility, prior to order placement.
 Responsible for the preparation and review of pipe specifications, chairing pre-inspection meetings
for line pipe, proposals, procedures, documentation and certification for the pipe mills, via the client.
Acting as Clients' direct Representative in the producing Pipe mills.
Jan 1990 – April 2004 Met Tube (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
Project Manager / Production Manager
I have been deputed to Mitsubishi Material Corporation (MMC), Japan for Detailed Engineering Design,
Production, Quality Control and assurance. As a Project –in-charge which involves planning, scheduling
and monitoring of all the activities of the project. Activities include design and engineering document
release, indenting of long lead items, procurement of materials and cost control. Apart from that the
following are my contribution and responsibilities.
 Directly reports to Executive Director Operations
 Have done green field thin wall copper project from basic Engineering to commissioning.
 Have done erection and commissioning of copper tube plant machinery such as Southwire furnace
system, USA (Shaft type LNG fired melting furnace, holding furnace, metal transfer launders). LOMA,
USA Continuous casting machine, 3300 MT Hydraulic Press, Demag-Meer’s Cold Pilger Mill, Spinner
Blocks, Inner Grooving machines, Bright Annealing furnace etc.

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 Co-ordination and liaises with consultants, equipment suppliers, with Civil, Sub-contractors, and
collaborators until commissioning
 Manage and oversee core business function of Drawing & Rolling operations of Copper tubes (for ACR
applications) in the 35,000 tons per year facility.
 Prepares annual production plans & Coordinates with marketing team to:
 Plan production capacities according to yearly sales projections.
 Monitor production vs. sales to review production schedule accordingly.
 Prepares annual manpower plan; Coordinates with procurement officers.
 Complete design, routing and installation of LPG, CO, Nitrogen and Dx gas piping systems
 Development of Spiral mandrel for inner copper grooving machine, Dies and plugs for spinner Blocks
& Extrusion press tools.
 Design co-ordination, installation and testing of automated material handling conveyor system.
Preparation of technical document, work standard and procedure to obtain ISO 9000 certification.
 Production of DHP Billets. Mother shells and plain / inner grooved tubes
 Modify the design of Water-cooled graphite (IG 11) moulds with piping.
 Design and implementation of ducting to suck out saw swarf from continuous casting machine.
Nov 1981 – Dec 1989 Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, Tiruchirapalli, India
Seamless Steel Tube & High Pressure Boiler Plant
(A Government of India Enterprise), Chargeman - Engineer
I have been sent to Mannesmann Demag-Meer, Germany for training of production of hot rolled and
cold drawn seamless steel tubes and plant engineering (3 months). I am the recipient of State Sharam
Vir award for the best suggestion and implementation of 95% equipment availability for production.
My responsibilities are as follows and have done at most satisfaction.
 Manufacture of hot rolled and cold drawn Seamless Steel Tubes as per ASME, BS, DIN standards for
power, nuclear, oil, gas industries etc.
 In-charge of Mechanical and physical laboratories for 18 months
 Mechanical maintenance and overhauling of seamless steel tube plant equipment, auxiliaries, EOT
cranes, waste heat boilers, heat treatment furnaces, and protective gas generators.
 Erection, commissioning and testing of tool room machine tools.
 Fabrication and construction of steam, LPG, hydraulic and pneumatic piping.
 Trouble shooting in hydraulics and pneumatics.
 Failure analysis and investigation.
 Re-engineering of critical items to indigenize and enhance plant life.
 Design modification of normalizing furnace roller for enhanced creep life.

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Personal Data
Health : Physically fit
Language : English & Tamil
Date of Birth : April 18, 1962, India
Nationality : Indian
Passport : Valid Indian Passport with a validity of 2024
Driving License: Valid Indian and Sultanate of Oman licenses