Khatri City
A city built from one plant leader's story
The arrival
- Driver profile22+ years on the plant floor
Operations leader with 22+ years across float glass, vacuum coating, carbon black and zinc manufacturing. Combines process expertise, asset care and economic thinking to improve business results, with leadership grounded in respect, humility, empowerment and accountability.
- Odometer22+ years · 4 industries · 9 plant locations
Nitin Khatri
Production Head · Operations and Manufacturing Leader
School years
- First stopWhere the road began
Engineering
- Class of 2004B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat
First Class with Distinction
- LanguagesEnglish · Hindi · Gujarati
Zinc district
- June 2004 – June 2010 · RajasthanHindustan Zinc Limited
Trainee to Associate Manager Process; SBU Process Incharge.
Commissioned three greenfield zinc projects, including slab and jumbo ingot casting machines, automatic cathode stripping machines and electrode handling cranes.
Glass works
- June 2010 – March 2021 · AnkleshwarGujarat Guardian Limited
Executive Production, then Manager Production for the Float Hot End.
Led asset throughput optimization, increasing Float Line output.
Carbon port
- March 2021 – September 2023 · MundraPCBL Limited
Chief Manager Production and Unit Production Head across three lines.
Completed hard black line asset optimization, increasing line capacity.
The coater
- Since May 2025 · NowProduction Head, Gujarat Guardian Limited
Asset owner: Float Line, Sputter (Vacuum) Coater Line, Warehouse and Shipping.
Leads a large multi-shift team spanning managers, frontline supervisors, process engineers and hourly employees.
- MandatesFloat Asset Care Strategy · Coater capacity and efficiency improvement · Manpower resource optimization
Projects
- Mission 01 · StabilityStabilizing the coater
Turning a coater line with inconsistent output into a systematic, data-led operation.
- Mission 02 · CommissionedFurnace, quality and plant projects
A run of commissioned systems that give the furnace and the coating lines better eyes.
- Mission 03 · ExpansionIntegrating a Float Line expansion
Bringing operating experience into a co-located Float Line expansion while it is being planned and built.
The code
- Rule 01Respect and humility
Leadership grounded in respect for people at every level of the operation.
- Rule 02Empowerment and delegation
Managers and supervisors are trusted with ownership of their areas.
- Rule 03Accountability
Accountability for the consequences of decisions and actions.
- Rule 04Team development and engagement
Team building, knowledge sharing and succession development as deliberate work.
World tour
Plant exposure and training; not employment at these plants
- Middle East and AfricaRas Al Khaimah · Al-Jubail · Cairo
UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
- EuropeBascharage · Częstochowa · Llodio
Luxembourg, Poland, Spain
- South AmericaTatuí · Porto Real
Brazil
- AsiaRayong
Thailand