Surat firm made ceramic parts for Mangalyaan

After the success of the Mangalyaan, ISRO scientists also called Bachkaniwala to congratulate him.

As the nation celebrated India’s successful journey of the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a Surat-based engineering company, Himson Industrial Ceramics, which supplied Mangalyaan’s fire-proof ceramic components to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), cheered the success of the mission. The components protect the internal machinery from getting damaged due to high temperature.

The Himson Company is into manufacturing industrial ceramic components which are made from the mixture of aluminum oxide and titanium oxide. A well-known group in Surat, the firm deals with industrial engineering. It shares an old association with ISRO. Its first consignment, ceramic detonators which ISRO scientists call “squibs”, was manufactured and sent to ISRO in 1995.

Nimesh Bachkaniwala, the firm’s MD, said, “The ceramic components are fireproof. They are used in the rockets to protect the damage to internal machinery. It took around three-and-a-half months to manufacture about 6,000 ceramic components used in the Mangalyaan.”

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After the success of the Mangalyaan, ISRO scientists also called Bachkaniwala to congratulate him and his firm for being a part of the mission.

Bachkaniwala told this paper, “The ISRO gave an order to make 6,000-10,000 components. They sent us detailed engineering drawing of components to us and it took over three months to make them. After the ceramic components are ready the ISRO scientists visit us for verification, followed by third-party inspection, before it is delivered at ISRO. Till now, not a single component has been rejected by ISRO as our well-trained technocrats are involved in it.”

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