Our Technical Center - located
in Niles, Ohio, was dedicated in 1953. It was the first industrial lab in
the nation built exclusively for titanium metal research. For the past half
century, titanium research has remained our primary focus. The center's activities
have expanded to include technical support of production operations, sales,
and our customer base. In today's ever-changing technical environment, it
is important to stay abreast of new and improving technologies that can benefit
our customers. With this in mind, one of the major objectives for the R&D
group is the development of new processes and products that improve the quality,
yields, and delivery of our products. This will ensure that we maintain our
position as an industry leader in the production of titanium mill products.
Services
provided by the center include contract research, process/product development,
partnering with customers, and customer technical support. A listing of some
of these capabilities is shown below. Click on any of the following to see
more information.
Laboratory
Scale - Melting, Laboratory
Scale - Heat Treating, Laboratory
Scale - Hot Rolling, Process Modeling, Laboratory
Services, Customer Technical Services
Laboratory
Scale - Melting
- Plasma Button Furnace: Five 250
gram buttons per heat
- Plasma Arc Melting: 5" &
8" diameter by 60" maximum length ingots
- Vacuum Arc Remelting: 6"
& 8" diameter by 24" maximum length ingots
Plasma Arc Melting Furnace
Laboratory
Scale - Heat Treating
- Electric Furnace - 2100° F
maximum temperature; inner gas atmosphere
Laboratory
Scale - Hot Rolling
- Plate - 1.25" x 8" x
20" input size
- Sheet - 1.25" x 8" x
20" input size
- Bar - 1.25" diameter x 20"
length input size
- Electric Heating Furnace - 1950°
F maximum heating temperature
- Access to US Steel research laboratory
hot and cold rolling facility
Process
Modeling
- Melting - Vacuum Arc Remelting
and Plasma Arc Melting
- Forging - Open Die Forging and
GFM Rotary Forging
- Rolling - Mill Face and Pack Rolling
- Extrusion - Direct and Indirect
Extrusion
- Commercially available and proprietary
specialty software
Laboratory
Services
- Scanning Electron Microscope with
Qualitative Energy Dispersive Analysis
- Corrosion Testing
- Failure Analysis
- Alloy/Product Development and
Qualification
Customer
Technical Services
- Answers to Application Inquiries
and Technical Questions
- Technical Advice and Guidance
for Successful Applications
- Extensive Private Technical Library
- Over 10,000 published and proprietary
titanium articles
- Information from our library is
available upon request
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