Dr. Anomitra Chakravarty has more than 27 years’ experience in the industry in various capacities and positions. He is managing director of KPS Consultants & Impex Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, a project & technical consultancy organization working in the area of Biodegradable plastics, Recycling of Plastics & Rubber, Natural Fiber Plastic Composites and plastic products for Building Construction and Packaging sector. He has earlier worked in organizations such as Reliance Industries Ltd. and IndoRama Synthetics. He works on new project planning & implementation, product development, quality control and testing, technology indigenization, market research & intelligence.

Dr. Chakravarty has worked on various innovative assignments. As technical consultant he has produced Thermoplastic Starch (TPS) first time in India on an industrial scale with his clients. TPS has been compounded with PBAT, PLA, PVOH etc. to make extrusion blown film for various applications. As technical consultant he has assisted Indian producer of recycled PET bottle resin (PCR – PET) to obtain US FDA ‘No Objection Letter’ for food contact approval. As technical & market consultant he has worked with Reliance Industries for RelWood™ a rice husk PVC composite material. As technical advisor he has worked to set up the first plant in Bangladesh to recycle waste PET bottles into Polyester Fiber (Re-PSF).

As technical consultant he has worked with Uflex Ltd. (the largest packaging film manufacturer in India) to produce Thermoplastic Starch & LDPE blend film first time in India and obtain US FDA food contact approval for PCR – PET for use in polyester packaging films. At present he is working on US FDA food contact approval for PCR – HDPE & PCR – LDPE. He has carried our project feasibility study to set up Polybutylene Adipate Terephthalate (PBAT) polymer resin manufacturing plant in India. As project consultant he was responsible for setting up the largest single location reclaimed rubber manufacturing plant in the world (outside China). His clients include companies like Tetra Pak India, Reliance Industries Ltd., Grant Thornton, McKinsey & Co., Boston Consulting, Uflex Ltd. as well as a broad spectrum of SMEs in India and abroad.

He is technical advisory member of Plastic Packaging Research & Development Centre (PPRDC) an initiative by major packaging material manufacturers in India. He is an executive council member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IICHE) – Northern Region. He is also member of Institution of Engineers (India), Indian Plastics Institute (IPI) and All India Management Association (AIMA). He is widely traveled and has more than 30 technical and management publications in national & international journals. He has been invited as a speaker to number of conferences / seminars including:

• 27th Indian Engineering Congress (Dec. 2012)
• India Composites Summit & Conference (Oct. 2013)
• International Wood Plastic Composite Conference (Mar. 2014)
• Rubber Industry Seminars at Chennai and Delhi (2014 & 2015) organized by All India Rubber Industries Association (AIRIA)
• GAIL Plast Asia Technical Conference (March, 2016)
• Polymer Symposium at Birla Inst. of Tech. & Science, Pilani (March, 2016)
• Vinyl India 2016 (April, Mumbai)
• Young Scientists Conclave on Waste to Wealth (rubber & plastics recycling) 2016 (Dec., Delhi) at National Physical Laboratory organized by Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India
• Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers – April 2019 on ‘Bio-plastics’
• Indian Plastics Institute (IPI), Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) and PHD Chamber of Commerce – April 2019 on ‘Don’t just Recycle but Up-cycle plastics’
• Department of Medium & Small Industries (MSME), Govt. of India and Industrial Development Inst. – August 2019, ‘Recycling & Upcycling of Plastics’
• CHEMCON 2019, Dec. – Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers & Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi on ‘Corn Starch Blend Compostable Plastics’
• Department of Medium & Small Industries (MSME), Govt. of India and Industrial Development Inst. – Dec. 2019, ‘Bioplastics & Biodegradable Plastics’
• Webinar – “Corn Starch based Biodegradable Polymers” organized by Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) on 9th January 2021.
• Lecture presentation “Recycling of Plastics for Food Contact Applications” – Brand Owners Roundtable organized by Plastic Packaging Research & Development Centre (PPRDC) on 14th Dec. 2022 at Radisson Blu, Noida.