According to a recent report, Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development and Design Centre (JNARDDC), Nagpur has created Certified Reference Material (CRM) of aluminium metal for indigenous use, in line with the Government’s self-reliant initiative. CRM is used for quality control and for calibration of spectroscopic techniques.
Usually, secondary aluminium is made of aluminium scrap recovered from various sources and used for manufacturing aluminium products mixed with other inferior quality products. This could be a threat to society as well as the industry. So, characterisation of elemental composition is an absolute necessary before melting or casting to ensure compositional prerequisite. CRMs are essentially required for cross verifying the methodology adopted.
For having very few CRM producers in India, there has been an increasing demand in the country. The CRM producers in India are mostly not up to international standards. The CRMS they offer have limited traceability and cover a limited range of aluminium alloys. This poses difficulties to aluminium recyclers or analytical chemists to conduct testing of the production and samples.
JNARDDC laboratory is accredited with NABL Certificate for its chemical and mechanical testing of aluminium. It is well equipped to produce CRMs and make them available for both primary and secondary aluminium producers and also analytical laboratories in the country at an affordable price.
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Dr Anupam Agnihotri, JNARDDC Director, executed the project with a team of scientists. R N Chouhan, HoD, Downstream, Dr Upendra Singh, HoD, Analytical, Jyoti Pendam, Junior Scientist, Sonali Thawrani, Scientific Assistant and others worked hard for the project.
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