National Metallurgical Laboratory celebrates 71st Foundation Day
1 min readCity-based leading CSIR lab-National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), celebrated its 71st Foundation Day and the Constitution Day on a virtual platform on Thursday.
To highlight CSIR-NML’s glorious journey since its inception in 1950, the program started with the NML film ‘Beyond the boundary’.
The foundation day program was presided over by S. C. Mande, director-general of CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research).
The chief guest of the function was T. V. Narendran, CEO and managing director of Tata Steel.
Prof. Indranil Manna, vice-chancellor BIT Mesra was present as the guest of honour.
Indranil Chattoraj, director of NML, in his welcome address, briefly mentioned the contribution of NML in the development of our nation over the past 70 years through various technological developments and pioneering works.
Prof. Manna delivered a lecture on ‘Perspectives and Prospects of Additive Manufacturing’ in which he highlighted how additive manufacturing is becoming relevant to many industries by making production processes cost-effective with minimum waste. He mentioned that this industry is growing rapidly and is likely to rise to $120 billion by 2025.
As highlighted in his presentation, this manufacturing process has several advantages and is ideal for the production of high-value low volume engineering components and devices, which find applications in automotive, defence and aerospace industries.
