DRDO transfers six technologies for commercialisation
31 Aug 2006
Chennai: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully transferred six potent technologies related to fire explosive safety to private parties for commercial production.
The
technologies are: development of heptafluropropane, intelligent
fire sensor, multipurpose dry chemical powder for extinguishing
A, B and C classes of fire to replace Halon and in the
field of environment safety namely toxic heavy metals
disposal process, treatment process for hazardous effluents
and activated carbon spheroids (for absorption to toxic
gases).
The
companies to whom the technologies were transferred are:
Southern Electronics, Bangalore, Quality Water Management,
Chennai,
Macvac Fabricators, Navi Mumbai, KV Fire Chemicals, Navi
Mumbai and Hindustan Electro Graphite, Bhopal.