Company context

The company manufactures engineered materials used to protect high-temperature industrial processes from heat, chemical attack and mechanical wear. Its performance depends not only on manufacturing efficiency but also on mineral quality, formulation discipline, customer-specific qualification, installation reliability and the ability to predict campaign life inside mission-critical furnaces and kilns. The enterprise operates multiple plants and service locations, purchases specialised minerals through domestic and international channels, and supports industrial customers for whom an unplanned shutdown can be substantially more expensive than the refractory product itself.

The Board is seeking an Independent Director who can interrogate the relationship between accounting results and the underlying technical economics. The appointment is intended to deepen oversight of standard costing, yield losses, slow-moving formulations, customer claims, contract profitability, capital allocation and the resilience of critical raw-material supply.



The successful candidate will help the Board distinguish sustainable margin improvement from temporary price, mix or inventory effects while preserving the long-term technical credibility on which customer relationships depend.

The Board mandate

This is not a conventional financial-review seat. The Director will connect the Audit Committee's work with plant reality: batch traceability, recipe governance, mineral substitutions, energy intensity, quality deviations, site-service obligations and warranty exposure. The Director should be capable of asking whether an apparently profitable order remains attractive after installation support, shutdown mobilisation, rejected material, performance guarantees and working-capital consumption are fully recognised.

The mandate also covers strategic resilience. Certain minerals and binders may face geopolitical concentration, logistics volatility, grade inconsistency or abrupt p

📌 Independent Director (Kolkata)
🏢 Gladwin International
📍 Kolkata