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"Matter": why Steerworld is a made-in-India manufacturing success in construction, pharma & food

Vishal Krishna

In this episode we host Dr Babu Padmanabhan, who is a first generation entrepreneur who went from being a scientist to becoming a businessman. He has built a sizeable organisation around manufacturing machines and digitising manufacturing for three industries. Steerworld is a bonafide made-in-India success story with plants all over the world. Babu loves physics and he talks about what should be done in order to make the world a sustainable place with modern day manufacturing.

00:00 - Introduction to the podcast.
02:00 - Steerworld: a quick introduction.
06:53 - Building world class products with technology.
12:00 - Building a sustainable world with sustainable food production.
17:40 - Building an in-house accelerator for ideas "Applications Labs."
17:58 - How care is changing? The importance of Ayurveda.
21:31 - Playing with multiple materials and verticals.
43:17 - Company is built around materials technology, circular economy
50:00 - Being a design led company and inspirations.

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