Titanium Metal Manufacturer & Supplier

BÖRÜ Defense manufactures and supplies Titanium Metal to defence industry customers worldwide, from Karatay/Konya, TÜRKİYE. Material is shipped with a certificate of analysis and safety data sheet; export documentation is prepared per destination.

What is Titanium?

Titanium is a silver metal that is strong, resistant to corrosion, and inert. It is the ninth most abundant element in Earth’s crust. Instead of occurring in large deposits, small amounts of titanium occur in almost every rock.

Titanium is an important constituent in a small number of minerals. About 90% of the titanium in Earth’s crust occurs in ilmenite, a mineral that most people have never heard of. It is an iron titanium oxide with a chemical composition of FeTiO₃. The rest of Earth’s near-surface titanium is in minerals such as anatase, brookite, leucoxene, perovskite, rutile, and sphene.

Uses of Titanium Metal

Titanium is a familiar metal. Many people know that it is used in jewelry, prosthetics, tennis rackets, goalie masks, scissors, bicycle frames, surgical tools, mobile phones and other high-performance products. Titanium is as strong as steel but weights about half as much. It is twice as strong as aluminum but only about 60% heavier.

Titanium combines with iron, aluminum, vanadium, nickel, molybdenum and other metals to produce high-performance alloys. Jet engines, spacecraft, military equipment, bearings, body armor, and other high-tech products need parts made with these alloys.

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Titanium Metal Manufacturer

Why choose us for titanium metal?

• Defence-Grade Laboratory
• Experience
• High Quality
• Right on Time

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History of Titanium

Titanium was discovered in 1791 by William Gregor, a clergyman and amateur mineralogist, who found an unknown metal oxide in black sand from Cornwall. In 1795 the German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth identified the same element independently in rutile and named it after the Titans of Greek mythology.

Isolating the metal proved far harder than finding it, because titanium binds strongly to oxygen, nitrogen and carbon. Matthew Hunter obtained reasonably pure metal for the first time in 1910. Commercial production became possible only after William Kroll developed his reduction process in the 1930s, and industrial output began in the late 1940s. Demand was driven at first by military aviation: the jet engines and high-speed airframes of the Cold War era needed a light metal that kept its strength when hot. Naval, chemical and medical uses followed in later decades.

What are the Uses of Titanium?

Most titanium ore is turned into white titanium dioxide pigment; only a small share becomes metal. That metal goes first of all to aerospace, as airframe structures, fasteners, landing-gear parts and the compressor sections of jet engines. Defence uses include armour plate for vehicles, lightweight artillery components, naval piping and fittings, and missile structures.

Outside aerospace, its resistance to seawater and chlorides makes it a standard material for heat exchangers, desalination plants and chemical process equipment. Medicine uses it for bone and dental implants, because bone tissue bonds well to its surface. Titanium powder has its own markets: it feeds additive manufacturing and powder metallurgy, acts as a getter in vacuum technology, and produces the bright white sparks seen in fireworks and other pyrotechnic effects.

Advantages of Titanium

• It has one of the highest strength-to-weight ratios among common structural metals, which saves mass wherever weight is costly.
• A thin, self-healing oxide film protects it against seawater, chlorides and many acids, so components last a long time with little maintenance.
• It is biocompatible and well tolerated by the human body, which is why it is a first choice for implants.
• It is non-magnetic and has low thermal expansion, which suits it to instruments, naval equipment and joints with carbon-fibre composites.
• Its alloys keep useful strength at temperatures where aluminium alloys soften.
• Over the life of a component, long service and low upkeep can offset the high purchase price.

Disadvantages of Titanium

• Extraction is a slow, energy-intensive batch process, so the metal costs far more than steel or aluminium.
• It is difficult to machine. It conducts heat poorly, tends to gall and wears tools quickly, and welding requires careful inert-gas shielding.
• At high temperatures it absorbs oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen and becomes brittle, which limits its service temperature and complicates hot working.
• Fine powder, turnings and sponge are flammable, and dust clouds can explode. Burning titanium must not be fought with water, so powder handling needs dedicated fire and dust precautions.
• It is less stiff than steel and its untreated surface wears easily, so parts may need larger sections or surface treatment.
• Sponge production is concentrated in a few countries. Aerospace and defence grades are subject to strict traceability, and some products fall under export controls.

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