XLaboratory

Made for the hottest places.

X Laboratory is building a domestic silicon-carbide chain for India's space, defence, nuclear and semiconductor programmes: precursor chemistry, a vapour-and-infiltration process platform, qualified components, and continuous SiC fibre. Every lot leaves with a signed record of what it is and how it was made.

See what we build
  1. Precursor made
  2. Shaped and densified
  3. Tested and signed — or scrappedThe record is made here
  4. Delivered, record attached

The record exists before the part leaves the building.

One chain, from precursor to fibre.

Silicon-carbide composites depend on a short list of inputs and processes that very few producers anywhere make. We are building that list in India, in sequence, and selling to Indian strategic programmes first.

One process family — chemical vapour deposition and infiltration from the same precursor chemistry — makes both the parts that semiconductor equipment consumes and the matrix of the composites that missiles, launch vehicles and reactors need. That shared base is why one company can serve both.

Precursor chemistry

Polycarbosilane and the handling of chlorosilane feedstocks: the inputs every silicon-carbide composite depends on.

From 2027

Process platform

Chemical vapour deposition and infiltration, polymer infiltration and pyrolysis, liquid silicon infiltration, hot pressing.

From 2027; own reactor 2029

Components

C/SiC and SiC/SiC hot structures and flow-path parts; leading edges modified with zirconium and hafnium compounds; CVD silicon-carbide parts for semiconductor equipment.

Qualification from 2027

Continuous SiC fibre

Pilot-scale fibre from our own precursor: the step that closes the chain inside India.

Pilot from 2030

Where metals stop.

Nickel superalloys, the hottest structural metals in service, give out near 1,100 °C. Silicon carbide holds its strength in air to about 1,600 °C for sustained service, and with zirconium and hafnium additions it serves for minutes at 2,000–2,400 °C: scramjet flow paths, re-entry leading edges, rocket nozzles, reactor cores.

That band, 1,200 to 2,400 °C, is where X Laboratory works.

Nickel superalloys, uncooled
1,100 °C
Silicon carbide in air, sustained
1,600 °C
Silicon carbide with ZrB2 and HfC, minutes
2,400 °C
Hafnium carbide, melting point
3,900 °C
Service temperatures are approximate and depend on atmosphere, load and time. Sustained service means hours to thousands of hours; minutes means a single flight or firing.

Hyderabad, on purpose.

Where

Hyderabad is where India's missile laboratories, its space-materials and nuclear-materials institutions, and its advanced-ceramics centre sit within one city. Research and pilot manufacturing come first; production stays in the same region.

How we work

  • Indian strategic programmes first; civil customers on the same process base.
  • Paid, written terms with every partner. Licensed know-how respected in full.
  • Our own process data stays on an air-gapped network, and every lot record is signed with post-quantum signatures from the first lot.
  • No Chinese process equipment, for data integrity and sovereignty.

Write to the founder.

Programmes, laboratories, suppliers and people who want to work on this: one address, read by one person.

founder@xlaboratory.in

Rizwan Khan, Founder. Alumnus of NIT Karnataka (Surathkal) and IIM Lucknow. Hyderabad and Ujjain, India.