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Appendix C: Plant Tours
Pages 177-180

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From page 177...
... Dominic Strollo, Vice President, Marketi ng, provided a brief ing session and an inspection of the titanium sponge production facility that uses the sodium reduction process. The group then proceeded to the RMI titanium processing plant in Niles, Ohio, where the sponge, plus selected scrap and master alloys, is vacuum arc melted into ingots.
From page 178...
... On April 30, the group visited the recently activated electrolytic sponge titanium production facility of D-H Titanium Company in Freeport, Texas. George Cobel, President, and Donald Turner, Vice President, were hosts, assisted by the engineering staff.
From page 179...
... The facility is still in it s shakedown stage to work out details of the controls and iron out the cell operation and electrode stripping mechanism. The inner design of the cell and its electrode configuration was not shown or described (patent pending)


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