India has become seventh nation to process titanium sponge. Titanium sponge is a key material used in space and defence applications. Quality of titanium available in international market is of low quality. Even some ambitious projects of NASA were affected by quality of titanium.
Titanium sponge is created by processing titanium ore. It is used to make alloys that are used to make rockets. ISRO is able to control quality of titanium sponge sourced from Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited(KMML). Titanium has high strength and low weight, which is ideal for aircraft manufacture, nuclear plants, dental implants and mobile phones.
Titanium reserves are abundant in India's coast line areas. The tsunami of 2004 brought tons of titanium ore from the depths of the ocean to the coast line areas of south India. The tsunami brought 0.46 million tones of llmenite and 0.03 million tones of rutile to Chavara which is a coast line area of Kerala. Both are titanium ores.
Instead of talking about unlocking values of our assets, some outdated politicians and media are busy talking about corruption involved in the project. In other states politicians get money from promoters of companies for giving favour for their new projects. But in Kerala politicians are getting money for protesting against new projects. According to me main problems of Kerala are soft terrorism ( distributing fake currency, protest against projects which are good for our nation ) and looking charges ( nokku kooli ). According to me making money from construction activities is better than making money from destruction activities.
