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India has entered the elite league of nations capable of producing titanium and super alloys — materials critical for missiles, submarines, and fighter jets. At the centre of this breakthrough is Lucknow-based PTC Industries, now powering strategic defence systems like the BrahMos missile.
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00:00Bramos, the world's fastest supersonic cruise missile, feared across borders, relied on by
00:17India's armed forces. But what powers its precision and blistering speed? Titanium,
00:23a rare strategic material once controlled by only five nations, Russia, China, the United States,
00:33France and the United Kingdom. Now India joins that exclusive club and at the heart of this
00:40transformation, a company from Lucknow. PTC Industries has begun manufacturing titanium and
00:47super alloys on Indian soil, materials that are no longer needed to be imported.
00:53But now, made in India. For India's missiles, fighter jets, submarines and warships.
01:02In this special interview with Asianet News English, Alok Agarwal, Director Technical and
01:08Quality of PTC Industries, sheds light on how India is breaking free from foreign blackmail,
01:16building critical capabilities at home and setting its sights on global defence exports.
01:22Talking about its significance, how it's useful in Paris and Iona.
01:27See, titanium is much lighter than steel and the strength is almost double. So if you look
01:33at the strength to weight ratio, it is very, very high. So what happens normally when anything
01:38is to be used for aerospace or defence which has to go in the air or under the sea, they
01:43need lighter materials to accommodate more of its numbers. So this is the best material for
01:50aerospace and underwater requirements. So Indian defence or the global defence use titanium a lot
01:55for these purposes. So it is very, very important and it can withstand very high temperatures also.
02:00So all the super jets which are being used at very high speeds, hypersonic missiles, all these
02:05have got exhausts which are at very, very high temperature. To be able to take that temperature,
02:09we need materials made out of super alloys.
02:12Sir, we have heard that Brahmos is using this chemical company. So how are you contributing to Brahmos?
02:19See, Brahmos, whatever critical materials in titanium and super alloys, they are using.
02:24So they were all importing from outside. So we have converted most of the parts locally,
02:29now indigenously and we are supplying them.
02:31Sir, if you talk about quantity, how much we are importing from the foreign countries?
02:37See, I have no idea about that. But what I know is about more than 2,000 tons of titanium
02:44metal and super alloys is being imported in the country from outside.
02:48So your company, what's the capacity to produce?
02:50Currently we are in a capacity that we can make about almost 6,000 to 7,000 tons every year.
02:56So PM Modi has always been talking about the make for gold apart from making India.
03:02So is there any plan for your company?
03:03Oh yes, very much. We in fact are looking at the global market and the global
03:07big players. So all big players in the aerospace sector like Safran or Dassault or Honeywell
03:12or BAE Systems, they have been in touch with us. We are developing parts for them
03:17and we have got long term agreements with them for supply of components for a very long period.
03:22So you were talking about Russia and China, what was going on in the flows and everything?
03:26See, what I was talking about is this, these materials are required by Europeans and US market
03:32but now they want or prefer getting this material non-China, non-Russia.
03:37So that opens a lot of gate or opportunity for the Indian suppliers and manufacturers.
03:42So we happen to be one of them.
03:44So we are also trying to see what all we can do to supply them at the earliest.
03:49So is it actually useful in India to take engines in India?
03:55Of course, yes. A lot of Indian players like HAL and GTRE are working very hard
04:00to develop indigenously the engine and other aerospace parts.
04:03And we are trying to cooperate with them, help them and see what we can do for them.
04:07Thank you, sir.
04:08Thank you, sir.