Experience & Vision

Dr. Sim Narasimhan was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer from 1990-2014 at Hoeganaes Corporation; World’s largest producer of iron powder and alloys.  Under his leadership Hoeganaes improved powder manufacturing practices and introduced vast number of materials and processes to the PM industry,warm compaction,binder treated products,sinter hardening materials,new lubricants and electromagnetic products.Number of these technologies allowed penetration of PM into automotive components.Today on the  average  23kilos of iron powder is used in  north American vehicles  and 12 kilos of iron powder in european vehicles and 6-10kilos in Asian vehicles.

Hoegnaes patent estate went by 125 patents worldwide. Past few years has been promoting PM technology in Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan and India to increase further penetration of PM in automotive and non -automotive applications.

  Prior to this he was General Manager of Magnetic Materials operation at Hoeganaes producing neodymium – iron – boron magnets.  From 1976 – 1986 he was Technical Director at Crucible Materials Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA. developed variety of processing technologies for rare-earth magnets including Neodymium-boron and Samarium-cobalt magnets. Developed world’s most powerful permanent magnet in 1983. 

1970-1976 he was research Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh in Rare earth Materials and Magnetism. 

Currently he is Vice President of P2PTechnologies helping corporations to make wise decisions on Powders and Parts.

He is a Fellow of American Society of Metals, Fellow of American Powder Metallurgy Institute, Fellow of Indian Powder Metallurgy Institute Senior Member of I.E.E.E. GKN Engineering Fellow, Albert Sauver award from the Liberty chapter of ASM, Payson-Mathew award in 1980 and 1983 from Crucible Materials Corporation. Delaware Materials Person of the year 2015 from ASM chapter. MPIF Distinguished service to Powder metallurgy award,  He was active in various boards of Metal Powder Industry Federation, Technical board, CPMT, and Chairman of MPIF Road Map Committee.  He chaired in various conferences of American Institute of Physics, I.E.E.E. and MPIF.  He was co-chair of World Congress on Powder Metallurgy and Particulate Materials in 1996.

He is recognized for his contributions to development and manufacture of  samarium cobalt, neodymium iron boron magnets, high density powder metal compaction   processes and high performance alloys. He has authored over 125 publications and has 24 U.S. Patents.

From 1967 – 1970 he was at the University of Texas, Austin, as a postdoctoral Fellow in Materials Science. And has M.B.A. from University of Pittsburgh. He has a Ph.D. in Solid State Science from University of Poona.