PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL TITANIUM ASSOCIATION PAGE PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL TITANIUM ASSOCIATION VOLUME 2011 ISSUE I APRIL ITA Contact Information ATI’s UNITI JV Selected to Supply VSMPO Announces Expansion of Titanium for World’s Largest Titanium Bar and Rod Production International Titanium Association Seawater Desalination Project 2655 West Midway Blvd. VSMPO - AVISMA Corporation Suite 300 Pittsburgh, PA (BUSINESS WIRE) announced today that its subsidiary, Broomfield, CO 80020 -- UNITI LLC, an industrial titanium Tirus US, is expanding into the venture jointly owned by Allegheny production of small diameter bar and Telephone: (303) 404-2221 Technologies Incorporated (NYSE: wire at its NF&M manufacturing facility Facsimile: (303) 404-9111 ATI) and Verkhnaya Salda Metallurgical in Monaca, PA. Target markets are Production Association (VSMPO), aerospace and medical applications, Website: www.titanium.org today announced that it has been Email: [email protected] where the company is already a large chosen to supply a significant portion supplier and these products primarily Jennifer Simpson of the commercially pure (CP) titanium represent an extension of VSMPO’s Executive Director to be used in the world’s largest existing customer relationships. Other seawater desalination plant. industries such as automotive will also Stacey Blicker be beneficiaries of this expanded facility. Member Services UNITI expects to supply between “The market for aerospace fasteners is [email protected] 5.5 million and 6.0 million pounds of expected to increase dramatically over CP titanium strip that will be used to the next several years with the growing Carolyn Smith produce titanium tubing for the project. production of composite-based airplanes Member Services This is the largest order in UNITI’s like the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350, [email protected] Continued on Page Continued on Page Andrea White Carpenter Technology Announces TITANIUM INDUSTRIES Operations Support Expansion of Titanium Facility Continues to Expand [email protected] to Support Growing Aerospace Fastener Wire Demand Looking to penetrate the rapidly expanding Chinese market for Wyomissing,PA -Carpenter Technology aerospace, medical products and Corporation (NYSE:CRS) today industrial business opportunities, announced an expansion of its Titanium Industries Inc., Rockaway, Dynamet titanium wire and bar facility NJ, USA, has opened a sales office in Inside This Issue: in Clearwater, Florida. Dynamet, a Shanghai. Alexis Zhu, who has extensive wholly-owned subsidiary of Carpenter experience in metal distribution networks What’s New in Titanium?.........1 Technology Corporation, is a leading and China’s aerospace industry, is the TITANIUM 2011......................8 producer of titanium wire feedstock for point person for Ti Industries’ sales of the aerospace fastener industry. titanium products and high-performance Fundamentals of Titanium metals such as stainless steel, nickel Workshop..............................10 “This investment will include construction and cobalt-chrome-molybdenum. Classified Ads........................11 of a new building and installation of proprietary manufacturing facilities The Shanghai office opened its doors on ITA Board of Directors...........15 to produce close tolerance, high January 2. John Tien, managing director performance wire for manufacturing of Ti Industries Asia Inc.’s Taiwan Current Membership..............16 titanium aerospace fasteners,” said branch, said the presence of Zhu at the Continued on Page Continued on Page PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL TITANIUM ASSOCIATION PAGE 2 What’s New in Titanium? Solar Vacuum Carburizes a 60” Diameter Gear DR. ZHIGANG WANG JOINS MAKINO AS SENIOR PROCESS DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa, announces it has successfully vacuum carburized a large gear required Wang will help support new titanium machining for a defense application that had previously not research in Makino Mason’s Titanium Process been successfully processed using atmospheric type Research and Development Group equipment. Mason, OH – 1/2011 – Makino is pleased to announce Recently, Solar modified one of its large 10 Bar Quenching the addition of Dr. Zhigang Wang to the Makino Mason Furnaces to be able to vacuum carburize larger and Titanium Process Research and Development group. more extensive loads. By adding new instrumentation, Wang brings a wealth of experience in the research of carburizing nozzles, and an improved backfill system, machining titanium and will serve to strengthen Makino’s this furnace, with a work zone that measures 48” wide x role as a leader in the titanium machining industry. 72” long x 38” high and load capacity of 10,000 pounds, is capable of performing carburizing cycles on large parts “Dr. Wang will be a valuable asset in our ongoing pursuit and loads not previously thought possible in vacuum. for more efficient titanium machining processes and technologies,” says Mark Larson, Makino’s Titanium The above referenced successful application was a R&D Manager. “He will play an active role in researching large gear of 9310 Steel material with dimensions of 60” new and existing processes, while providing detailed diameter x 13” high and a weight of 1900 pounds. The analytical reports that go far beyond simple data on part was Low Pressure Vacuum Carburized to achieve speeds and feeds. With his experience and abilities, Dr. an effective case depth of .070” followed by a temper, Wang will serve Makino well in extending our knowledge a minus 225°F freeze, and a second temper operation. and capabilities around the machining of titanium.” Quenching was accomplished using a mixture of nitrogen and helium gasses. Flatness was within .100” Wang has extensive experience as a researcher and and roundness within .050”, well within acceptable published author. His works have been published in tolerances. the CIRP Annals, the International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture and the International Journal Solar Atmospheres anticipates that these types of of Advanced Manufacturing Technology and include results will further expand the applications for Low “A hybrid cutting force model for machining of titanium Pressure vacuum Carburizing. For more information, alloys”, “High Speed Milling of Titanium Alloys Using please contact Don Jordan, Corporate Metallurgist, or Binderless CBN Tools and “Study on Orthogonal Trevor Jones, Project Engineer. Turning of Titanium Alloys with Different Coolant Supply Strategies”. For additional information or any questions, contact Don Jordan at Wang earned his PhD from the National University of 215-721-1502 x206 or dfj@solaratm. Singapore and also holds a Masters degree from the com or Trevor Jones at 215-721-1502 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics x351 or [email protected]. in China and a Bachelor of Science degree from the Nanjing Forestry University in Nanjing, China. About Makino: A world leader in advanced CNC machining centers, Makino provides a wide range of high-precision metal-cutting and EDM machinery, including horizontal machining centers, vertical machining centers, 5-axis machining centers, graphite machining centers, and wire and Ram EDMs. Our flexible automation solutions provide reduced labor costs and increased TITANIUM 2011 Conference and Hotel information throughput in a variety of production volumes and designs. now available online. Visit: With Makino engineering services, we offer industry leading expertise for even the most challenging applications across all http://titanium.org/Category.cfm?CategoryID=262 industries. For more information call 1.800.552.3288 PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL TITANIUM ASSOCIATION PAGE What’s New in Titanium? • Titanium Ribs for the Airbus A 380 comments: “Airbus France plays an important role for • TITAL strengthens position as Strategic us. We started working with this customer in 2005, but Supplier have already realized higher sales than with Airbus • Delivery “Ready for Assembly“ Germany even though the German relationship already exists more than 30 years.“ The parts have dimensions Bestwig. TITAL GmbH, the titanium of approximately 890x640x90 mm (35x25x3.5 inches) and aluminum investment casting and 690x590x130 mm (27x23x5 inches) respectively specialist in Bestwig, received and serve as a basis for the primary structure of the qualification approvals from Airbus pylon. Until now TITAL has only supplied castings for France for the production of several the secondary structure of the aircraft (e. g. fairings and structural parts for the A380. TITAL now delivers three covers). separate titanium investment casting ribs for the pylons – the connection between the engine and the wing – of All the supply pipelines run through the pylons, and are the 500 passenger mega-airliner. The TITAL foundry among others responsible for engine controls. The A380 based in the Sauerland area produces pylon parts for has four engines, supplied by Rolls Royce (type Trent both engine versions of the A 380, namely the Trent 900) or Engine Alliance (type GP7200). 900 from Rolls Royce and the GP7200 from Engine Alliance. In optical terms these ribs remind you of Currently, 244 aircrafts of the A380 have been sold. window frames. TITAL casts these ribs, finishes them This under-wing aircraft is the largest civil aircraft ever completely and delivers them ready for assembly to produced in series-production. The first aircraft was the Airbus plant in St. Eloi (France). These titanium delivered to