Titanium Past, Present, and Future (1983) / Chapter Skim
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Chapter 1: Conclusions and Recommendations
Chapter 1: Conclusions and Recommendations
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Its mill product quality is unsurpassed. Its titanium sponge pioneer production plants, however, are tending towards obsolescence.
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titanium mill product market, industrial applications might rise beyond half the total within the next several decades if present trends continue and if one or more very large industrial possibilities, now just on the horizon, are fully realized. Examples are pipe for deep-hole, sour-gas wells, accelerated applications in the chemical process industry, and more remotely, heat exchangers for the ocean thermal energy conversion (see Chapter 10~.
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titanium sponge capability after the mid-1980s requires immediate planning. In view of repeated past demonstrations of the lack of reliance that investors can place on the tentative plans of military and aerospace needs, some government guarantees will be required to justify investment in greenfield titanium sponge plants.
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Among the more important are: the small-size reaction pots and the inefficient means of removing sponge from the reaction pots; the tailor-made construction of consumable electrodes for melting and the necessity for triple melting of some ingots; the custom-job-shop character of titanium production with high costs and inefficiencies associated with its batch-type operation; the necessity for extensive ingot and bloom conditioning before and after primary fabrication; and the inadequacies of metal heating and handling equipment and procedures.
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Even if the material requirements of all weapons systems were consolidated to preserve military security, the totals would be very useful to all concerned . Recommendations Based on personal observations of the panel members and their conclusions on the status of the United States titanium industry, the following recommendations are offered for consideration by appropriate government agencies: 2.
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should sponsor a detal led calculation comparison of all the resources (including energy, materials, time, in-process inventories, yields, labor, and capital) required under optimum conditions to produce typical mill products such as alloy strip, bar, tubing, extrusions, and forgings by the present custom-job shop process versus all the resources required by tonnage powder metallurgy.
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