The Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) ltd Thursday signed two agreements with CNIITMASH of Russian federation during the visit of Prime Minister of India to Russia. The agreement was signed by Chairman cum Managing Director of HEC, Avijit Ghosh and General Director of CNIITMASH Mikhailov Vladimir Evgenjevich.
CNNITMASH is a company of Government of Russia. Nowadays PJSC SPA CNIITMASH is a developer and a holder of steel and welding materials standard specifications for reactor vessels, steam generators, pressurisers, SAOZ accumulators, main circulating pumps, stainless steel in-vessel components and other numbers of main equipment elements including turbines and pipelines for WWER-1000 and AES-2006.
With these agreements HEC will be able to develop larger size ingots for use of the shipping industry, strategic industry and energy sector. This will be first time in India four centre of Excellence will be created for the industries at lareg and for students eager for higher learning in the areas of welding, forging, gear items and exclusive areas of electro slag remelting. The center of excellence will augment the research and development activities in the country in the specific areas of chosen areas.
The first agreement deals with on cooperation for the establishment of ‘centre of excellence’, in several areas in HEC including, 1. Programme of establishing of the centre of excellence Technology of steelmaking and electrical steel slag remelting for manufacturing of parts for heavy, energy sector including strategic , machine building; 2. Welding technologies for manufacturing of heavy, energy sector parts, strategic technology parts, and machine building; 3.
Quality evaluation using non destructive technologies and destructive technologies ,quality control for manufacturing of parts for heavy , energy sector parts, strategic technology parts, and machine building and 4. Design and technologies for the gearboxes for the heavy, energy sector, machine building and other areas.
Both the companies also signed another agreement for technologies to be transferred from CNIITMASH to HEC in the areas – 1. Forged shafts to be used for shipping sectors; 2. Forged shafts for strategic sectors; 3. Casting for energy sectors and 4. Ingots to be used for strategic sectors and heavy machinery.
The acquisition of these cutting edge technologies will bring HEC parallel to those companies of the world which are catering exclusively in the areas of high class metallurgical ingots and will serve the steel sector, energy sector and strategic sector a long way. It will help the country will become self sufficient in these areas for coming years.