Textile award for TI scientist
Surinder Tandon, senior scientist at independent research and development company AgResearch, was awarded the Textile Institute (TI) medal at the 88th TI World Conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The medal is one of the Institute’s most prestigious honours, recognising distinguished service to the textile industry and the Institute. It has been awarded since 1921, and Dr Tandon is only the second New Zealand recipient.
In his 23 years of research at WRONZ, Canesis and now AgResearch, he has applied his research skills culminating in many commercial success stories for wool grower groups and industry which include several fit-for-purpose apparel and technical textiles.
A member of the TI NZ Section since 1992 and a Fellow at the
TI, Dr Tandon was the Institute’s section chairman in 2004-07.
