Thanks for the post
According to wikipedia:
Titanium Sponge Plant is an Indian manufacturing plant that produces titanium sponge, a material widely used in aeronautics, light defence vehicles, and other applications. It is located at Kerala Minerals and Metals Ltd (KMML), Chavara, Kollam district of Kerala. Notably, It is the only plant in the world in India has the third-largest reserves of Titanium containing minerals, and was the sixth-largest country by Titanium production in 2013.
Using the indigenously made titanium sponge, VSSC realized the aerospace-grade alloy, having formula Ti6Al4V, at Mishra Dhatu Nigam (Midhani) in Hyderabad.
Some alloys developed by DMRL for aerospace projects:
Also here some more info
Titanium Sponge Extraction Technology | Defence Research and Development Organisation - DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Government of India
A Historic Moment for DMRL 6 September 2011 became a historic moment for DMRL as well as for the country as the 1st batch of 3000 kg titanium sponge was produced at the Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited (KMML), Kollam, using DMRL technology. The entire process was carried out under the...
Indigenous Production of Titanium Sponge | Defence Research and Development Organisation - DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Government of India
DMRL has developed a state‐of‐the‐art technology for Ti sponge production from indigenous raw material (TiCl4) with quality of the sponge meeting international specifications. Transfer of Technology First commercial plant for Ti sponge production has been set up in the country based on...
Initiatives
www.kmml.com
presentation link:
https://cdn.ymaws.com/titanium.org/resource/resmgr/TiUSA2104Papers/JacksonChristopherTiUSA2014W.pdf
attached reports
Good effort is made. Needs to be congratulated for the data. These are very old articles, spanning back to 2012/2014 and earlier. There must have been quite a good development by now, can anyone throw light on the latest development vis a vis what is still we are lacking in producing composite materials required for the Kaveri Engine.
what composite you are talking about?
no military turbofan in the current age uses composite in even cold parts.
its very distant dream.
even 5th gen engine like f135 uses single crystal blades and metal bypass duct.
Are these single crystal blades coated with EBPVD? What colour is the uncoated surface.