Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) and Lockheed Martin’s joint venture company, Tata Lockheed Martin Aero-structures Limited (TLMAL) has launched the first metal-to-metal bonding facility in Hyderabad. The facility would add the cutting-edge capability to the Indian aerospace industry and enable TASL to use this technology across manufacturing programmes for complex aero-structure productions and increased indigenisation. It will also increase the indigenisation of C-130 manufacturing by transitioning the production of approximately 2,000 previously imported parts to Tata Sikorsky Aerospace Ltd, another Tata-Lockheed Martin JV.
