Kollam, Thursday, January 06, 2011: Industries Minister Elamaram Karim informed that the country’s first Titanium Sponge Plant (TSP) will be inaugurated at Chavara near here by February 15. Water Resources Minister N.K. Premachandran told presspersons at the TSP complex on Wednesday that all efforts were being made to get Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to inaugurate the plant.

The TSP is coming up within the complex of the public sector Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited. The civil work of the Rs.143-crore plant has been completed and machinery erection is under way.

Karim said the trial run of the plant would take place during the first week of February.