A new process, being developed by SRI International, takes fewer steps, uses less energy, and produces titanium powder, rather than ingots. The powder can be pressed and fused into something that’s ...

Construction has begun on a new 100 million pound per year titanium tetrachloride production facility at the DuPont titanium dioxide plant in New Johnsonville, Tenn. The unit is expected to begin ...

Although progress is often gradual and incremental, on occasion it is both rapid and transformational. More than 250 years ago, a new method for producing an expensive and niche material was developed ...

Health and security officials have stopped the leak of titanium tetrachloride at the Kronos chemical plant in Varennes, just outside of Montreal. Kronos produces pigments and chemicals at its Varennes ...

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The Ukrainian titanium mining firm Velta has hired the engineering firm Hatch to design a titanium metal plant in the US. Velta has developed an approach to making titanium that bypasses the commonly ...