Mrs. Alka Karkare is a Chemical Engineer from IIT Bombay. After working with Praj in their early years, Alka co-founded Enpro Industries with Mr. Srikrishna Karkare in 1988. A proud woman leader, Alka leads the Engineering, Project Management, HR and Admin functions.

In the past fifteen years, Enpro has emerged as a leader in the field of design and manufacture of mechanical fluid systems like lube oil systems, chemical injection systems, fuel handling systems, gas handling and filteration skids.

Today Enpro has two manufacturing facilities and a team of about 130 people. This includes 35 engineers specialized in various functions like process design, marketing, fabrication technology, electrical and instrumentation engineering, procurement, quality assurance, project management, after sales service and procurement.

Enpro has customers and suppliers around the globe and is able to cater to specific requirements of projects in any part of the world.

Because of its vast experience and all round comprehensive expertise Enpro is a preferred partner for mechanical fluid systems for major petrochemical, refinery, fertilizer power and offshore projects around the globe.

Along with Enpro, she also serves as a member of the Board of Directors at COEP’s Bhau Institute of Innovation Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Pune. Being a woman leader in the manufacturing industries, Alka also leads the Women Special Interest Group at COEP’s Bhau Institute. In her interactions with the women incubatees at Bhau Institute, she shared her success story in entrepreneurship, and also extended her support to the women leaders at Bhau Institute.