Rakesh Gothi

Company: JBF Industries
Position: Managing director

Biography: Rakesh Gothi studied engineering at Chennai in India and went on to further his education with a master’s degree in engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and a master’s of business administration at the University of Minnesota in the US.

Gothi has extensive experience in working with industrial fibres. Before joining India’s JBF Industries, Gothi worked for Kanpur-based synthetic fibre manufacturer JK Synthetic as vice president and for a spell was also general manager for industrial fabric manufacturer Nirlon, based in Mumbai. He joined polyester maker JBF Industries in 1997.

JBF Industries operates a 472,000 t/y PET plant in Ras al-Khaimah in the UAE. The plant produces 400,000 t/y of PET chips and 72,000 t/y of polyester film.

The company is also planning to build a 1.2 million t/y purified terephthalic acid facility in Oman in a joint venture with the Oman Oil Company.

Contact: (+91) 2 22 288 5959
Company website:www.jbfindia.com