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Hyderabad: State-owned MIDHANI, under the Ministry of Defence has set up a wide plate mill facility at its existing Hyderabad Plant with an investment of around Rs 500 crore for rolling of slabs of various alloys, stated the company in a statement recorded in a regulatory filing on Monday. "The wide plate mill facility of MIDHANI will be inaugurated by the President of India, Droupadi Murmu on December 27, in the presence of eminent dignitaries and distinguished guests," said the statement.
"Three-meter-wide plate which can be rolled in newly commissioned mill makes it unique in world due to its very high capacity of rolling force. This mill can roll ultra-high strength steel to very low thickness. Technology for processing of superalloys plates has been established in a very short span of time. MIDHANI has established the technology to produce high strength Titanium alloys for Space, Nuclear and Defence applications," said the statement.
"The wide plate mill facility would meet the requirements of special steel plates for national
strategic programmes. The mill is expected to serve as a national facility for development of wide plates that would meet present and future requirements and would also facilitate import substitute," it added.
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