Kristal

The KRISTAL project aims to bring advanced manufacturing technologies for turbine blades operating under extreme conditions to our country and defense industry. Turbine blades working under high temperature environment are critical parts of the turbine module and could be manufactured by directional and single crystal solidification casting processes by using nickel based superalloys.  After casting, turbine blades are generally subjected to heat-treatment and thermal barrier coatings processes for high temperature working capability. Blade roots are machined in creep feed grinding machine and cooling holes are drilled in laser equipment.

The KRISTAL Project is funded by the Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB) and carried out by two subcontractors, Gur Metal and Tubitak MAM Material Institute. At the end of the project, high temperature parts of indigenous engine projects will be manufactured by domestically and  those parts will provide greater efficiency to our indigenous engines.