Midhani wants India-US defence ties to extend to alloys and rare earths

State-owned Misra Dhatu Nigam (Midhani), which supplies crucial alloys and castings for the Indian defence and aerospace sectors, wants to work in close co-operation with US companies to fast track the development of key materials in India aprt from jointly finding ways to reduce the dependence on China's rare earth resources.

A part of the defence establishment, Midhani has mastered the processes and production of hundreds of alloys based on nickel to tungsten in the past 40 years. However, it can hasten the process of development of many such alloys crucial to the defence and aerospace applications if the US can