Who this division is for
Engineering and manufacturing teams that cannot buy the property they need off the shelf — or cannot explain why a part failed. The work is senior research metallurgists, computational materials, and a lab that will still be there when the heat is on the line.
If the property is not on a catalogue card, the work starts in Pune.
- Alloys & specialty
- Testing & process
- Batteries & storage
- Additive & bio
- Hydrogen hardware
- Computational
How a materials brief runs
Name the property
What failed, what you cannot buy, or the process window you need held. A spec or a broken part is enough to start.
Characterise
Structure, composition and properties in the Pune lab. Furnaces, melting and metallography sit on the same site.
Recommend
Alloy, process or hardware — written by the metallurgists who will still be there when the line is hot.
Hand off
Plant-floor production, or a lane out of Maharashtra. Logistics and computational models are already in the group.
The spec or the failure.
Composition targets, a test protocol, a failed part, or the energy-storage / hydrogen hardware you need catalogued. Chakan, Ranjangaon and Hinjewadi sit on this desk.
A laboratory that can also ship.
ISO 9001 characterisation and development in Pune, with the option to move the part on the Mumbai–Hyderabad belt under the same contract.
Lab bench to plant floor
A plant does not need another paper. It needs a process window that holds when the heat is on the line. Pune develops the prototype, characterises the failure, and hands over a route the floor can run.
Develop
A lab-scale prototype against a named property — strength, conductivity, corrosion, a cell, a test stand.
Refine
Characterisation, benchmarking and computational materials to tighten the window before metal is poured again.
Scale
A repeatable industrial route, with the same metallurgists on the hand-off. Logistics can then move the part.
Hold
ISO 9001 on the laboratory. Quality and process improvement stay on the file after the first lot.
Lines the laboratory already runs
Specialty alloys
Metals that are not on a catalogue card — including copper-alloy and conductivity work — designed as a composition a plant can actually melt.
- New alloys
- Copper & specialty
- Process window
Characterisation & processing
Structure, composition and properties in one workflow. Furnaces, melting and metallography share the Pune site so a recommendation is not a drawing another shop has to interpret.
- Microstructure
- Mechanical
- Melting & forming
Energy & hydrogen
Electrode materials for cells, and fuel-cell, electrolyzer and battery test hardware catalogued in-house. A brief can be a material, a stand, or both.
- Batteries
- Electrolyzer hardware
- Test fixtures
Computation & thermoelectrics
Models of structure, process and failure before the next melt. Insulation and thermoelectric lines for industrial heat problems that a catalogue part will not solve.
- Computational
- Insulation
- Thermoelectrics
What a test report covers
- Mechanical: tensile, hardness, impact
- Microstructure: optical and electron imaging
- Phase identification and composition
- Thermal and process-window notes
- Failure and defect metallography
- A recommendation the line can run
Capability index
02.01Product & Process Development
From lab-bench prototype to plant-floor production, with the same metallurgists on both sides of the hand-off. A Pune brief can include the melt, the process window and the first production lot — not a paper that someone else has to interpret.
02.02Applied Research & Turnkey Consultancy
Outsourced R&D that solves a named industrial problem, not an open-ended paper. You name the constraint; the lab returns a recommendation that can be run on a line.
02.03New Alloy Development
Metals designed for properties that are not on a catalogue card. Strength, corrosion, conductivity or a process window — written as a composition you can actually melt.
02.04AI / ML & Computational Materials
Mathematics and machine learning applied to structure, process windows and failure. The model sits beside the furnace, not in a separate vendor. Bengaluru can instrument the same record if the brief asks for a twin.
02.05Process & Quality Improvement
Lean, Six Sigma and TQM applied to materials operations. The quality file and the characterisation file are one ISO 9001 laboratory, not two consultancies.
02.06Product Benchmarking
How a product compares — and the metallurgical why. Useful when a competitor part is on the table and “it feels stronger” is not an answer a plant will fund.
02.07Materials Testing & Characterization
A full metallurgical lab for structure, composition and properties. This is the default first step when a part has failed or a spec is in dispute.
02.08Materials Processing Facilities
Furnaces, melting and metallography for hands-on work in Pune. Development and testing share the site so a recommendation is not a drawing that another shop has to interpret.
02.09Battery & Energy-Storage Materials
High-capacity electrode materials for the next generation of cells. Energy-storage work sits next to the hydrogen hardware line — one lab, two related problems.
02.10Additive Manufacturing & Advanced Materials
Materials and know-how for high-value printed components. Use it when the geometry is the point and the powder or wire has to be specified, not guessed.
02.11Biomaterials
Medical-grade materials for implants and devices. Characterisation and process advice stay in the same ISO 9001 laboratory as the industrial lines.
02.12Specialty Materials
Copper alloy, insulation board and thermoelectrics for specific industrial problems. Named when the catalogue part is close and still wrong.
02.13Electrochemistry & Hydrogen Hardware
Fuel-cell, electrolyzer and battery test hardware, catalogued in-house. A brief can be a test stand, a materials question, or both.
Is the materials laboratory in Pune?
Yes. Pune is the materials and deep-tech hub — alloys, testing, energy-storage materials and hydrogen hardware — with a logistics node on the Mumbai–Hyderabad belt.
Can you test a failed part and then move the replacement?
Yes. Characterisation and freight are one group. A Pune brief can include the test, the process recommendation and the lane out of Maharashtra.
Do you only develop new alloys?
No. The index is 13 capabilities: development, applied research, computational materials, quality, benchmarking, testing, processing, batteries, additive, biomaterials, specialty materials and hydrogen hardware.