SS Mohanty, director (technical) with additional charge of (projects and business planning) SAIl has taken over as the president of the Indian Institute of Metals for 2015-16 at its 69th AGM held in Kolkata.
The Indian Institute of Metals, a premier metallurgical body conceived in 1945 was inaugurated by Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, the then Minister for Industry and Supply in 1947. It presently has about 11,000 members drawn from Academia and R&D to Nuclear Space Defence Centres Associations in area of ferrous, non-ferrous and metals science. Major producers both ferrous and non ferrous are members of IIM.
The activities of the institute include mineral beneficiation, extraction, fabrication, heat treatment, finishing as well as practical and theoretical aspects of metallurgy of all ferrous and non-ferrous metals and alloys. Ceramics and other disciplines and technologies allied to metallurgical problems also come under the scope of the Institute.
The institute has developed relations with 18 societies and institutes spread over 15 nations and is contributing tremendously to the growth of the metallurgical industry.
Mohanty started his career from Rourkela Steel Plant as a management trainee and has worked in various steel plants of SAIl, before moving to corporate office as director (technical), he has served as the managing director of Bokaro Steel Plant.