About

High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) is one of the prestigious laboratories under Armament and Combat Engineering Systems (ACE) cluster of Defence Research & Development Organization ... (DRDO), dealing with entire spectrum of high energy materials ranging from Initiators & Pyrotechnic devices to High Explosives, Gun Propellants& Solid Rocket Propellants.

HEMRL is the only lab in the country of its kind dealing with all types of munitions starting from small arms, gun & mortar ammunition, high energy solid propellants for guns, rockets & missiles. In view of specialized nature and sensitivity of the tasks, HEMRL has developed indigenous expertise to synthesise High Energy ingredients, to design pilot scale plants for batch production, to assist productionisation and sophisticated instrumented test facilities for evaluation. Currently, HEMRL has strength of 544 technical, admin and allied employees and it is pursuing Main projects (19)/ sub-projects (41), for indigenous development of various armament systems. Read more

Vision

To be a centre of excellence in the field of High Energy Materials and associated technologies

Mission

Develop expertise and technologies relating to high explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics and transfer the technology to industry

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Enhance the infrastructure and scientific understanding to meet the future challenges .

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