Mordica Memorial Award Winner

Mordica Memorial Award

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Mordica Memorial Award goes to Bhagwat

Anand W. Bhagwat, a steel industry veteran who excelled in furthering technology, is the 2022 winner of the Mordica Memorial Award, which is presented to a person who has furthered the industry’s technology. He will present his Mordica Lecture—Steel chemistry and its impact on wire properties—on Tuesday, June 7, at 3:30 pm, and be honored at the Awards Ceremony the next day.

The 2005 president of the WAI, Bhagwat was principal metallurgist for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company from 1990 to 2000; worked for eight years at the Seneca Wire Group, as vice president, quality & technology, and as plant manager for the company, which was then part of FENOX, LLC. He has worked the last 10 years for Minova USA, where he is manager, quality and technology. He has long been a WAI volunteer, including providing for the Association’s Ferrous Wire Handbook. He has eight patents and holds a master’s degree in materials science and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University.

A former Goodyear colleague praised Bhagwat’s ability to develop and deploy technology. “The outcome of his R&D efforts provided (us) with innovative reinforcements. ... Anand’s team invented new steel chemistries and processes that resulted in numerous patents in the field of high tensile steel for tire cord applications.” He also took an active role in transferring those technologies to Goodyear’s plants in the U.S. and Luxembourg. For those contributions, he was honored with the Chairman’s Special Service Award in 1995.

Lauded by another award nominator who has known Bhagwat for more than 30 years, “Throughout this entire time, I gained admiration and respect for his technical, innovate and leadership skills. Not only has he presented numerous papers of outstanding performance, including some that received prizes for merit, he has served as a participant, chairperson and mentor on numerous technical and management committees of WAI.”

Bhagwat won the Donnellan Memorial Award in 2009.

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