Rosatom subsidiary, Indian company sign contract on building trial titanium sponge production facility

MOSCOW. Sept 11 (Interfax) - The Giredmet Institute, a Rosatom subsidiary, and Indian company ALT Metals Private Limited have signed a contract to build a trial titanium sponge production facility.

"The agreement involves supplying laboratory equipment for producing the metal, which can be used for aviation and space technology, shipbuilding, the chemicals and oil and gas industries, as well as in medicine," Giredmet said in a statement.

"This refers to developing input data for designing an industrial titanium sponge production facility with an annual production capacity of 1,000 tonnes. As part of this stage, we will conduct a survey of the contractor's feedstock, carry out laboratory testing, prepare and supply a set of laboratory equipment and carry out the supervised installation, commissioning work and staff training. We are interested in scaling up the technology to an industrial level and then integrating it into Indian industry," Andrei Golinei, CEO of the chemical technology cluster of JSC Rosatom Science, the managing company of JSC Giredmet, is quoted as saying in the statement.

ALT Metals Private Limited specializes in the development and implementation of projects in the field of metallurgy and mineral feedstock processing.