{"id":13147,"date":"2014-10-02T07:07:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T07:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12996"},"modified":"2014-10-05T23:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T23:42:34","slug":"devotees-of-the-tovp-find-the-perfect-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=13147","title":{"rendered":"Devotees of the TOVP find the perfect material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-10-02_09-04-07.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Suja Nambiar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When it is perfection that is being pursued, there is nothing that can deter your success. There isn\u2019t a dearth of corroborative examples and the following account is surely one such.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-10-02_09-02-29.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\nAs a representative of the team, Vilasini devi dasi, the Head Architect for ToVP arrived at Shanghai on 18th September. The purpose of this visit was a meeting with the technical team of Shanghai Metal Corp., a leading name in the manufacture and supply of metal and allied products.<\/p>\n<p>Going the conventional way, Stainless Steel with a gold finish, was the material of choice for the Kalash, Chakra and a few other elements on the temple exterior. The key requirements for the coating included a longevity of at least 500 years and low maintenance. After intensive research by Bhaskara Das and Parvata Muni Das, Titanium Nitride was picked as the material for coating the stainless steel . China has always been one of the forerunners in providing metal products of unmatched quality in the market. Also, it was found during the research they had the infrastructure to complete the task at hand in around 45 days which their Indian counterparts took at least 5 years to finish. Hence, a Chinese company of good repute, Shanghai Metal Corp. (SMC) was identified.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/tovp.org\/news\/innovations\/seeking-immutable-metal\/\">http:\/\/tovp.org\/news\/innovations\/seeking-immutable-metal\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-10-02_09-05-14.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Suja Nambiar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Going the conventional way, Stainless Steel with a gold finish, was the material of choice for the Kalash, Chakra and a few other elements on the temple exterior. The key requirements for the coating included a longevity of at least 500 years and low maintenance. After intensive research by Bhaskara Das and Parvata Muni Das, Titanium Nitride was picked as the material for coating the stainless steel<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iskcon-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13175,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147\/revisions\/13175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}