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'''Kerala Hitech Industries Limited''' (KELTEC) was an Indian aerospace company in [[Thiruvananthapuram]], [[Kerala]]. Its product-mix included systems required for the [[launch vehicle]]s, [[satellite]] and non-rotating systems of [[turbojet|turbojet aircraft]] engines.<ref>{{cite web|author=John Pike |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/india/keltec.htm |title=Kerala Hitech Industries Limited (KELTEC) - Special Weapons Facilities |publisher=Globalsecurity.org |date=2011-07-24 |access-date=2011-08-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Gary Bryant, India |url=http://www.hotfrog.in/Companies/Kerala-Hitech |title=Kerala Hitech Industries Limited |publisher=Hotfrog.in |date= |access-date=2011-08-17}}</ref> KELTEC was acquired by [[BrahMos Aerospace]] and rebranded as Brahmos Aerospace Trivandrum Ltd (BATL) in 2007.

==Manufacturing facility==
The Manufacturing facility is set up in a {{convert|15.6|acre|m2|adj=on}} campus in [[Thiruvananthapuram]] in the State of [[Kerala]] adjacent to the [[Trivandrum International Airport]]. The built-up area is about 10,000 sq.meters and the manpower is 300. KELTEC is a single stop work centre with multidisciplinary capability such as Conventional and CNC Machining, [[Metalworking|Metal Forming]], Auto TIG and Electron Beam Welding, [[Brazing#Vacuum brazing|Vacuum Brazing]], [[Heat Treatment]], Surface Treatment etc. State-of-the-art systems for Quality Control and Metrology support the above manufacturing facilities. KELTEC can also undertake design and development of [[aerospace]] components, development of special processes like vacuum brazing of [[aluminium]] components, design and realisation of tools and fixtures required for production.

KELTEC manufactures a number of major systems for the [[Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle]] (GSLV), including Inertial Control Systems; Control System Components; High Pressure [[Titanium]] Gas Bottles; [[Fuel]] / Oxidizer Tankages & Feed Line Systems, Liquid Propulsion Engine, Convergent Divergent Nozzles; and [[Launch Vehicle]] Solid Rocket Motor Cases.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/india/contractor/keltec.htm |title=Kerala Hitech Industries Limited (KELTEC) - Special Weapons Facilities |publisher=Fas.org |date= |access-date=2011-08-17}}</ref>

The [[Vikas engine]] is a [[Liquid-propellant rocket|Liquid Propellant Rocket]] engine which is used in the second stage of the [[Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle]] (PSLV) and the second stage and strap-on stages of the [[Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle]] (GSLV). The entire Engine which comprises more than 500 machined and welded components is manufactured at KELTEC.

== Inception of KELTEC ==
On 18 January 1991 the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) signed an agreement with the Russian space agency [[Glavkosmos]] for the transfer of cryogenic technology. After the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]], Russia was under considerable American influence. In this backdrop, both Glavkosmos and ISRO anticipated the United States would try and stymie the deal. So Glavkosmos and ISRO drew up a back-up plan to outsource the manufacture of the cryogenic engines to Kerala Hi-tech Industries Limited (KELTEC). The arrangement was designed to get around the provisions of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). The space czars of the two countries, Aleksey Vasin, officer-in-charge of cryogenic technology in Glavkosmos, and ISRO Chairman U.R. Rao – reckoned that if Russian cryogenic technology was passed on to ISRO via KELTEC, technically it would not be a violation of the MTCR.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-01-25|title=Why My Book Didn't Sell|url=https://openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/why-my-book-didnt-sell/|access-date=2021-01-18|website=Open The Magazine|language=en-GB}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Government-owned companies of Kerala]]
[[Category:Indian companies established in 1991]]
[[Category:Indian companies disestablished in 2007]]
[[Category:1991 establishments in Kerala]]
[[Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1991]]
[[Category:Manufacturing companies of India]]

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