Vallepu Ram

Hot end & cutting lines manager - Projects & Production @ Glass Technology FZ-LLC

About

Spent more than 16 years in batching and glass melting operations of different types of glass products including Soda lime float glass, Advantex/ECR & H type fiber glass, Borosilicate type-1 pharmaceutical glass. Worked for the worlds leading glass making companies such as Saint-Gobain glass, Owens Corning and SGD Pharma. Altogether this blended experience of both Euro and American way of glass manufacturing made me more strong and confident in managing glass production operations as well as procurement for large scale glass green field projects and regular operations.

Country

India

City

Hyderabad

Industry

Glass, Ceramics & Concrete

Skill

Purchasing Negotiation, Market Data, Strategic Sourcing, Business Administration, Analytical Skills, Glass furnace cold repairs, Glass furnace rebuild projects, Glass furnace hot repairs, Furnace rebuild projects, Glass green field projects, Glass Furnace design, Heat & Mass Balance of Batch house, Heat & Mass Balance of glass melting and conditioning energy, Heat & Mass Balance of Utilities used for Hot end, Furnace Equipment design and specs, Furnace Refractory design and specs, Vendor development and procurement - Hot end equipment and refractories, Technical and commercial negotiations with vendors, P & I D drawings design and review for hot end of greenfield glass plants, Training to newcomers on project handling and drawing reading

Experience

Hot end & cutting lines manager - Projects & Production

Glass Technology FZ-LLC

2025-2 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

UAE

Batch & Furnace Manager - Process & Technology and Projects

3B-the fibreglass company

2023-9 - 2025-2 · 1 yr 6 mos

Two advantex fiber glass furnaces green field projects.

SGD CORNING TECHNOLOGIES - Hotend

SGD Pharma

2023-4 - 2023-9 · 6 mos

America based advanced materials & glass giant Corning* and SGD group are comming together with this JV project. It's going to be Corning's first borosilicate type-1 glass furnace in india.

Batching and Glass Melting Senior Executive

SGD Pharma

2021-9 - 2023-9 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Mahbubnagar, Telangana, India

Saint-Gobain Desjonqueres Pharma limited is a Europe based glass manufacturing MNC company which makes pharmaceutical grade glass containers to deliver to pharmaceutical companies as primary packaging materials.

Furnace Rebuild Project

SGD Pharma

2022-1 - 2022-3 · 3 mos

I was part of core team in this project. Furnace rebuild project is completed successfully and production stabilized within a week after glass out from furnace. In many aspects this project was great one as we delivered much better than our plan. Great experience added and a lot of learning.

Team member-Hot end

Fiber Glass Oasis Company (FGOC)

2016-4 - 2021-2 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Operations engineer (Hot End)

Owens Corning

2012-12 - 2016-4 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Great work culture experienced in owens-corning India Ltd. A lot of technical learning, management learning acquired during my contribution to the plant as an Operations Engineer of Batch & Furnace. Also it was great experience and learning as Batch & Furnace plateform TPM Leader. Contributed a lot to the plant with regards to TPM.

Hot End Team Member (cross functional)

Saint-Gobain India Private Limited - Glass Business

2010-10 - 2012-12 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Chennai Area, India

career started in manufacturing field with this great organisation where I got opportunity to learn a lot and at the same time to contribute a lot to the organisation. Got strong technical skills of handling of Glass batch, Heavy Glass melting tank furnaces, Float bath, Lehr, Chemical Glass lab. As well as working for stabilization of jagadia hot end and ISO certification are also key points which boosted my knowledge

Diploma trainee engineer

Owens Corning

2009-8 - 2010-2 · 7 mos

Hyderabad Area, India

In this Academic Industrial Training program, exposed to the operations of Glass batch preparation and Glass lab testings.

Diploma trainee engineer

EURO Ceramics Ltd.

2009-2 - 2009-8 · 7 mos

Bachav, Gujarat, India.

Its an Academic Industrial Training Program where i have exposed to operations of Slip House, Glazing, Roller Herth Kilns, Polishing of vitrified tiles.