V.K. Bafna

Background and experience

V.K. Bafna graduated as a gold medallist from the University of Indore, then took two postgraduate degrees abroad: a Master of Engineering from the University of Toronto, and a master's degree in Industrial Management from Clarkson College of Technology, New York. He returned to India to work in materials testing.

• Undergraduate: gold medallist, University of Indore.
• Postgraduate: M.Eng, University of Toronto; master's in Industrial Management, Clarkson College of Technology, New York.
• Experience: over 35 years of technical and managerial work.
• Materials characterisation: X-ray fluorescence based Positive Material Identification.
• Expansion: grew TCR across India and into the Middle East through the creation of TCR Arabia.
• Professional bodies: ASTM International, ASM International and NACE, now AMPP.
• The principles he set: absolute independence, uncompromising technical rigour, and a refusal to dilute the signature. He passed away in 2013.

In more than 35 years of technical and managerial work he carried out X-ray fluorescence based Positive Material Identification to high standards of precision and reliability, and contributed to corrosion studies, chemical analysis, mechanical testing and failure investigation. That work is the foundation the group still runs on.

He grew TCR Engineering across India and created TCR Arabia, which carries the group's delivery in the Middle East.

He was an active member of ASTM International, ASM International, NACE, now AMPP, the Indian Institute of Metals, and the Non-Destructive Testing Society of India. The Indian Space Research Organisation gave TCR a written appreciation for its part in Project ASLV, the Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle.

He died in 2013. The principles he set are the ones the company still operates on: independence, technical rigour, and no dilution of the signature on a report.

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