Development of process for recovery of cobalt from super alloy scrap/sludge and a plant of capacity 100 tpy was set up at Baroda by M/s Rubamin Pvt. Limited.

Setting up of a plant at Kanpur by M/s S.K. Enterprises for the production of copper and zinc from spent catalyst at 250 kg per day scale each of metal.

For the first time in India , high pure cobalt metal is produced by M/s HZL at Debari, near Udaipur on the basis of inputs by IMMT-Bhubaneswar.

M/s Pantnagar Fertilizers, Muzaffarnagar has started producing zinc metal based on basic process package developed by the department.

M/s Shalina Trading Corporation Limited, Mumbai set up a Plant of producing Cobalt carbonate based on the process developed and design provided.

Development of a process and testing the same in Nickel Technolgy Proving Plant at a capacity of 10TPD chromite over burden.

Process development for recovery of Copper, Nickel and Cobalt from polymetallic nodules.