“World’s largest aerospace-grade titanium unit inaugurated in Lucknow”, Times Of India, May 13, 2025:
“Defence minister Rajnath Singh and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated India’s largest titanium and superalloy materials plant operated by Aerolloy Technologies Limited, a PTC Industries Limited subsidiary, and laid the foundation stones for additional state-of-the-art facilities under India’s first strategic materials technology complex at the Lucknow node of the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor.
The newly inaugurated titanium plant spread across 50 acre has an annual capacity of 6,000 tonnes and stands as the world’s largest single-site titanium remelting facility.Advanced technologies such as Vacuum Arc Remelting (VAR), Electron Beam (EB), Plasma Arc Melting (PAM), and Vacuum Induction Melting (VIM) enable India to produce aerospace-grade materials domestically.
Alongside the titanium plant, foundation stones for seven additional advanced facilities were laid, including the aerospace precision castings plant, which will enable single crystal castings production crucial for jet engines; the aerospace forge shop & mill products plant, which will eliminate the need for imports of billets, bars, and plates for aerospace applications; and the aerospace precision machining shop, which will allow the export of ready-to-assemble ultra-precision CNC machined components…….”
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