due to India's significant demand for titanium and magnesium alloys, which were predominantly imported from countries such as China, Russia, and Japan.
[1][4] India is the seventh country in the world to have such a complex structured TSP which has the technology to make titanium sponge,[5] and the first to have done the entire process under one roof in an indigenous manner.
[2] Titanium sponge is an alloy product that is produced through the Kroll process, which includes leaching or heated vacuum distillation to make the metal almost 99.7% pure.
A memorandum of understanding has also been signed by the KMML with Steel Authority of India (SAIL) for a joint venture to prepare titanium sponge at large scale.
[5] Using the indigenously made titanium sponge, VSSC realized the aerospace-grade alloy, having formula Ti6Al4V, at Mishra Dhatu Nigam (Midhani) in Hyderabad.