CENTRAL PILOT PLANT SERVICES UNIT (MSTD)

# Equipment Targeted Industries Key Applications
1 Pilot Scale Squeeze Casting FacilityMSTD
  • Automotive Industry: For manufacturing lightweight, high-strength structural components (e.g., control arms, knuckles, engine brackets).
  • Railway and Transport: For casting components that require superior mechanical properties and fatigue resistance.
  • Energy Sector (Electric Vehicles, Wind, Solar): For lightweight frames, casings, and mounting structures.
  • Near-net shape lightweight parts, thermal management parts like heat sinks and enclosures requiring good thermal conductivity.
  • Housings, brackets, and heat-resistant components.
  • Robust, high-performance alloy components used in defense equipment.

Pilot Scale Squeeze casting is a hybrid of casting and forging, involves solidification of molten metal under high pressure within closed dies, resulting in reduced porosity, enhanced density, and refined microstructures. This facility enables the production of complex-shaped components from high-performance aluminium alloys suitable for critical applications in automotive, aerospace, defense, and energy sectors. It supports alloy development, parameter optimization, and prototyping under industry-relevant conditions.

2 Vacuum Induction Melting UnitMSTD
  • Aerospace Industry: For high-purity superalloys used in turbine blades, structural components, and engine parts.
  • Defense and Strategic Sector: For specialty alloys and high-strength materials used in missiles, armor, and naval systems.
  • Research and Development Institutions: For alloy prototyping, thermophysical studies, and custom material development.
  • Production of High-Purity Alloys
  • Superalloy Development
  • High-Entropy Alloy Fabrication

Vacuum Induction Melting (VIM) unit is a specialized facility designed for the melting and refining of high-purity and reactive metal alloys under controlled vacuum or inert gas atmospheres. Using electromagnetic induction, the system enables precise temperature control and homogeneous mixing, making it ideal for processing advanced materials such as superalloys, ferrous alloys, high-entropy alloys, aluminium alloys, copper alloys and rare-earth-containing compositions.

3 Hot Press for Polymer Coir Composite MSTD
  • Construction and Building Materials: For wall panels, false ceilings, partition boards, and roofing elements.
  • MDF board manufacturer
  • Furniture and Interior Design: For sustainable furniture panels, cabinet linings, and decorative laminates
  • Construction Boards, MDF board
  • Furniture panels
  • Eco-friendly packaging

Hot Press for Polymer Coir Composite unit enables the fabrication of eco-friendly, lightweight, and durable composite panels by applying controlled heat and pressure. It is ideal for producing sustainable materials used in automotive interiors, construction boards, packaging, and consumer products.

4 Plasma Arc Unit for Mineral ProcessingMSTD
  • Mining and Mineral Processing: For beneficiation of low-grade ores and recovery of valuable metals from tailings.
  • Electronic Waste Recycling: For recovery of precious and critical metals from e-waste and industrial scrap.
  • Metallurgical Industry: For extraction, refining, and upgrading of refractory and complex ores (e.g., Ti, Nb, REEs).
  • Extraction of Refractory Metals
  • Upgradation of Low-Grade Ores
  • E-Waste and Scrap Recycling
  • Thermal Decomposition and Smelting

The Plasma Arc Unit for Mineral Processing enables high-temperature treatment of ores, slags, and industrial wastes using a controlled plasma environment. It facilitates the extraction of refractory and valuable metals, synthesis of advanced materials, and stabilization of hazardous residues. This technology is crucial for efficient resource recovery, waste minimization, and the development of high-purity strategic materials.