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Chapter 6: U.S. National Titanium Stockpile
Pages 59-62

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... National Defense Stockpile should include ingots and mill products and, if so, what specifications should apply. The primary purpose of the titanium stockpile is to have sufficient quantities of adequate-quality titanium sponge immediately available for defense use in time of national emergency (if a stockpile is strictly limited to national emergency use, it is termed a "strategic stockpile" )
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From page 60...
... National Stockpile Purchase Specification P-97-R6 covers titanium metal sponge and ASTM B-299 is the applicable public specifications An important question is whether or not these specifications are adequate to serve the best interests of the nation. TABLE 6 GSA titanium stockpile disposal actionsa Year 1960 19 63 1964 19 65 196 6 1967 196 8 19 69 197 0 1971 19 74 b 197 5 Amount 17 67 35 117 495 902 113 6 711 51 8, 392 918 Total Sol d 11~844 a Sales authorized under the Defense Production Act (DPA)
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From page 61...
... sponge for the stockpile therefore would have the desirable effect of motivating the existing domestic producers to build greenfield plants capable of producing competitive-quality sponge and of ensuring that a portion of the stockpile sponge could be processed readily by all melters. Again, as noted earlier, the panel is making no firm recommendation on this matter other than to suggest the establishment of an ad hoc panel or panels to study these stockpile matters in detail and then to formulate recommendations.
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From page 62...
... Specifications for titanium-base ingots, mill products, and alloying additions are discussed in the final section of Chapter 7. It is noted that, although there are no public specifications for titanium alloy ingots, the specifications for mill product quality requirements indirectly control the quality of ingots.
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