The conference was attended by 400 delegates (State Officials, Technical Institutes, Universities, major construction companies, power generators from Maharashtra and other Indian states, architects and specifiers for building materials, construction related trade associations and major cement producing companies)
The Minister of Energy and the State minister of Power congratulated Georg Dirk on the rapid establishment of the the first Pozzocrete plant at Nashik and invited the Dirk Group to start further projects in Maharashtra. There was a wide consensus among the delegates that the market urgently needs a classified Fly Ash cement replacement product.
Delegates commented that the industry had reaped great benefits from this symposium which had provided the first step to understanding in greater depth the technical aspects of using Pozzocrete as a cement replacement product.
The text of all the papers presented at the symposium are available in the Pozzocrete section of this web site.
The picture shows the opening ceremony from left to right:
Peter Wilkinson, Director of Marketing and Operations of Dirk Group
The Honourable Dr. Padam Sin Patil, Minister of Energy, Government of Maharashtra State
The Honourable Howard Parkinson Deputy High Commissioner of the United Kingdom
Georg Dirk, Chairman of Dirk Group
The Honourable Rajendra Darda, State Minister of Power, Government of Maharashtra State
Mr. Vimal Kumar , Head of Fly Ash Mission, Delhi
The conference was attended by 400 delegates