Mr. A. Ramesh

Mr. A. Ramesh

A mechanical Engineer by qualification has over 35 years’ experience in process scale-up and plant and machinery development. He served for about 35 years at the CSIR Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore and functioned for 15 years as the head of Food Engineering Department involving himself in leading o group of Engineers in development of Plant and machinery. Plant and Machinery include Evaporation plants, Dehydration plants, Dal Mill machinery, Rice Bran stabilization plant, Sunflower processing plant, Cashew process plants, Fruit and vegetable plants, Cold storage's, traditional foods machinery and others. He was involved in successfully establishing Fruit and vegetable plants, Dal milling plants, Cattle feed plants, Spice oil and oleoresin plants.  He was actively involved in R&D involving Extraction, Distillation, Evaporation Drying, Centrifugal separation, size reduction and other operations.

After his tenure at CFTRI, he involved himself in consultancy projects for industries like, MTR Foods, US Aid, Karunya University, Dabur Nepal Private Limited, Wyn Products, Bangalore, Alagendra Edible Oil Industries, Chennai, SIDVIN Machineries, Mysore, Chevron Chemicals, Mysore, Matha Products, Mysore, My Chocks, Mysore, Mexican Lime Exporters Inc. and Southern Citrus, Gudur, Gujarat Agro-foods, and several others. 

He was functioning as a consultant for many industries and universities. He has worked as visiting faculty in many universities. He also formulated food Engineering courses at Karunya University, Coimbatore, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad and Davanagere University.