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ISO 9001/AS 9100 Certified | Nadcap Accredited CONTENTS Editorial Published by: Thank You To Our Photo Contributors . 5 International Titanium Association Meet the ITA . .6 www.titanium.org 1-303-404-2221 Telephone Welcome Letter – Viv Helwig . 8 1-303-404-9111 Facsimile [email protected] Email Editorial TITANIUM EUROPE Conference Speakers Spell-Out Trends Editor & Executive Director: for World Supply & Demand . 10 Jennifer Simpson QuesTek’s ‘Materials by Design’ Approach Creates Alloys Tailored For Medical Implants . 30 EDITORIAL OFFICES An Overview of Titanium Medical and Dental Applications . 34 International Titanium Association Contract Manufacturer Praxis Utilizes ‘Proprietary Process’ to 11674 Huron Street, Suite 100 Produce Titanium Metal Injection Molded Implant Parts. 46 Northglenn, Colorado 80234 USA TITANIUM USA 2017 Conference in Florida to Feature “Ti in Medical Technology” Speaker Session . 50 ADVERTISING TITANIUM EUROPE 2017 Highlights Medical Content of Luke Bodley, Marketing Associate Featured Academic Poster Sessions . 52 1-303-404-2221 Ext. 2 [email protected] From the Wire Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals, Inc. DISTRIBUTION LIST Leads Innovation in Titanium Foil . 54 Join this free distribution The NEW Mid-West Machine™ 6840T. 56 by emailing us at [email protected] Carpenter Technology to Acquire Assets of Puris LLC. 57 TITAN Metal Fabricators Closes on Acquisition of Edge International . 58 Haynes International, Inc. Announces Election of New Member of Board of Directors . 59 Announcements . 60 Upcoming Women In Titanium Events . 60 Welcome New Members . 61 Titanium Buyers Guide . 68 Advertising Index . 98 4 TITANIUMTODAY Thank You To Our Photo Contributors A Dynamet product These titanium C forms include: wire, dowels and plates are fine wire, precision anodized by Titanium shapes, coil, strip, and Finishing Company bar. Compositions and and supplied as mechanical properties customer samples can be tailored to meet to illustrate the base custom requirements. colors available Customers can specify in the titanium rectangle or square anodize process. In shaped bar or wire for this instance, Hub machining applications, Wilson Photography as well as hexagon out of Allentown, shaped bar. Bars are Pennsylvania decided available in standard to exercise their or custom cut lengths. creative side and Dynamet titanium is used create abstract photos in Aerospace, Medical, in the shape of a Transportation and spine. A very fitting Consumer applications. representation, as Photos provided by titanium anodize is Carpenter Technology used heavily in the Corporation and medical field for both Dynamet, Inc. © 2017 product and size CRS Holdings, Inc. All identification, as well rights reserved. as product appeal and enhancement. B A dental implant is Titanium Finishing essentially a titanium Company www. screw or cylinder, titaniumfinishing.com between 8 and 16 mm long, which is inserted The Fenix System has D into a prepared bony three components: socket in the jaw and an implant, an anal acts as a replacement root for the missing tooth. A special sphincter sizing tool and an introducer tool. The attachment called the abutment, which is fi tted to the top implant is a series of titanium beads with magnetic of the implant, forms the external connection for the new cores that are connected by titanium wires to form replacement tooth (crown) or teeth (bridge or denture). During a ring shape. The attractive force of the magnetic healing, the titanium surface of the implant fuses with the beads augments the anal sphincter to minimize surrounding bone, in a process known as osseointegration, involuntary opening of the anal canal, reducing the which can take about 3-6 months. After this time, the implant likelihood of severe fecal incontinence. The implant is stable enough to support one or more false teeth. Titanium device is offered in multiple sizes to accommodate improves the quality of individual lives when it is used for variation in sphincter size. The sizing tool is used to medical and dental implants, prosthetic devices, eyeglasses associate the anal sphincter size to an appropriate and even lightweight wheelchairs. implant. The introducer tool is used to guide the sizing tool and the implant into position. The Fenix System is designed by Torax Medical www. toraxmedical.com/fenix/ TITANIUMTODAY 5 MEET THE ITA Board of Directors Henry Seiner Donald E. Larsen Wade Leach Dawne S. Hickton Prof. Markus Holz Michael G. Metz Vice President – Vice President Senior Vice President, ITA Past President President, AMG’s President Business Strategy Technology and R&D, Commercial, ATI President & Founding Engineering Systems VSMPO Tirus US TIMET, Titanium Metals General Manager of Specialty Materials Partner of Cumberland Division CEO, ALD Vacuum ITA Director Corporation Advanced Manufacturing ITA Secretary Treasurer Highstreet Partners. Technologies GmbH ITA President Arconic Manufacturing Former CEO RTI ITA Director company International Metals, Inc., Education Committee Member of the Board ITA Vice President Co-Chair of Directors of Norsk Titanium Europe Titanium and Triumph Conference Chair Aerospace Group Edward J. Newman Frank L. Perryman Edward Sobota, Jr. Michael Stitzlein Graham P. Walker Senior Vice President President and Chief Executive President President Vice President, Sales and United Alloys & Metals, Officer TSI Titanium Tricor Metals Marketing Inc. Perryman Company ITA Director ITA Director AMETEK – Reading Alloys ITA Director ITA Director Grant and Achievement ITA Director TITANIUM USA Conference Award Committee Chair Education Committee Chair Co-Chair Staff Jennifer Simpson Luke Bodley Jennifer King Executive Director Marketing Associate Operations Manager Contributors Educational Instructors Michael Gabriele Dr. F. H. (Sam) Froes Dietmar Fischer Frauke Hogue 6 TITANIUMTODAY Welcome Letter From Viv Helwig elcome to the 2017 Medical edition of Titanium Today. WI am Viv Helwig, President of Vested Metals International, a Specialty Metals Distributor, ITA Member and I am pleased to be the current Chair of the ITA Medical Technology committee. The Medical Technology committee is comprised of a variety of ITA Member organizations, all which have an interest in titanium used for medical applications. After being dormant for a few years, we relaunched a committee for the Medical market last Fall at the TITANIUM USA 2016 conference in Scottsdale, AZ. The committee is pleased to host the Ti in Medical Technology session at the TITANI- UM USA 2017 conference this October 8-11th in Hollywood, Florida. Speakers include Don Urbano- wicz, Principal at Urbanowicz Consulting, LLC; Dr. Prabhu Gubbi, Manager – Chemical, Microscopy & Materials Testing for ZimmerBiomet; Dean Hutchinson, Product Manager, Shoulder Arthroplasty Team for Arthrex; and Gene Kulesha Senior Director, Platform Technology Engineering; R&D (Addi- tive Manufacturing) for Stryker We were encouraged by the turnout and positive feedback we received from last year’s Medical market session where we looked at the challenges and opportunities facing different sectors of the supply-chain ranging from the OEM level to the subcontract precision machine manufacturers to the raw material suppliers. Some of our goals as a committee have been to drive up-to-date market intelligence to you, our ITA members, as well as engage new ITA participants and members from the titanium Medical community, specifically, OEM’s and finished component manufactures or subcontractors. Our theme at this year’s panel will be two-fold in that we will look at current global and regulatory factors facing OEM’s and how they affect the rest of the supply-chain. And secondly, we will focus on applications in the Medical market and what emerging technolo- gies raw material suppliers will need to focus on to meet future demands. As it relates to this Medical issue of Titanium Today, it’s been two years now since our last medical issue and we are excited to bring you annual content again. We have put together some insightful topics in the pages