The processed titanium metal is "a hundred flowers blooming" in the civilian field, but due to "rareness is expensive", the expensive price limits the popularity of the product to a certain extent. With the raw material advantages and technological advantages of the whole industry chain, titanium material manufacturers are working hard to reduce prices.
Recently, in Yunnan Titanium Industry Co., Ltd., I saw cups made of titanium materials in the display cabinet of different shapes and colors. When you hold them in your hand, they weigh only half of the stainless steel cups. Although the cups made of titanium are light in weight, the price is not low. The price is 700-800 yuan, while ordinary stainless steel cups can be bought for less than 100 yuan, which also leads to many cups made of titanium that no one cares about in the market.
Why is titanium so expensive? How can companies bring prices down? Visited a number of titanium material production enterprises, and explored the innovation and efforts of enterprises from "titanium" high-end to "titanium" close to the people.
Rare is precious
Titanium is a magical metal that is omnipotent. As a steel-like metal substance with a silver-gray luster, titanium is widely used in cutting-edge manufacturing due to its mechanical strength close to that of steel and its superior resistance to acid and alkali corrosion.
Relevant data show that at present, the world's proven titanium metal reserves are about 2.4 billion tons, and China accounts for 48%. However, in 2000, the domestic production of titanium-processed materials was only 2,206 tons, and by 2021, the domestic output of titanium processed materials will be 136,000 tons.
The gradual ramp-up of production capacity has released the demand of the civilian market. Especially with the continuous improvement of technical means and market demand, titanium metal products began to fly into the homes of ordinary people from the high-precision manufacturing field.
Nowadays, more and more tableware such as bowls, plates and cups are made of titanium. In addition, because titanium is a memory metal, the glasses made of it have good elasticity, and can be quickly restored to their original shape after being folded by a large margin; due to their low density, tools made of titanium are very light in weight, and workers are in the process of using them. very easy.
However, although the processed titanium metal is in full bloom in the civilian field, the high price limits the popularity of the product to a certain extent due to the rareness of the material.
Domestic EB furnace realizes diversified customization
In the production workshop of Yunnan Titanium Industry Co., Ltd., the machine roared, and a 12-ton "big popsicle" was placed in a corner of the workshop. This is a flat titanium ingot smelted by an electron beam cooling bed furnace (hereinafter referred to as EB furnace), with a maximum weight of 12 tons, and the product is formed at one time.
According to reports, the domestic EB furnace is mainly imported. In order to break the monopoly of foreign technology, the company has become the only domestic enterprise that realizes the localization of EB furnaces after the introduction, digestion, absorption and innovation of imported EB furnace equipment and technology.
Compared with the imported EB furnace, the EB furnace manufactured by independent innovation can produce wider and longer titanium ingots, and can also smelt more products of different specifications. By redesigning and adjusting the EB furnace, enterprises can realize diversified customization according to different product needs.
The whole process operation reduces production costs
In Lufeng City Industrial Park, a complete titanium industry chain has been formed from titanium ore mining and selection to the production of high-titanium slag, chlorination titanium dioxide, and sponge titanium, which effectively reduces enterprise costs and improves management efficiency.
At present, Yunnan Guotai Metal Co., Ltd. can complete the whole process from titanium ore to finished titanium sponge. Hou Lianjie, director of the company's technical quality department, said that this allows the company to better cope with fluctuations in raw material prices and has a strong ability to resist risks. The company is promoting the innovation project of upgrading and transforming the titanium sponge production line with an annual output of 10,000 tons. It is currently in trial production and will gradually increase the output.
The main reason for the high price of titanium metal is that the cost of raw materials is relatively high. Reducing the cost in the production process can reduce the price and make titanium sponge more widely used.
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