China has become the third largest industrial country in direct production of titanium powder

Mar 1
07:31

2012

David Yvon

David Yvon

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The technology of plasma high-temperature separation titanium aluminum ore which is R & D by experts from China Yunnan gains great success.

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This technology will completely end the situation of only selling the raw materials in titanium-rich Yunnan province. It makes China become the world's third largest country in direct production of titanium powder just after the United States and Russia.

Yunnan province is very rich in mineral resources nickel powder. The exploration results show that,China has become the third largest industrial country in direct production of titanium powder Articles only Quanming, Luquan and Wuding of Yunnan province have 20 million tons of titanium iron. The mineral grade is of 45% to 49, sufficient mining use five years. But due to smelting technology is backward, for a long time the Yunnan titanium can only sell mainly raw ore. The titanium in Yunnan province becomes raw materials and only exports a few cents per kilogram titanium ore. Until recent years, there are companies with the post production of titanium dioxide. Price of every ton of titanium dioxide preaches around 1.2 million RMB.

Every year in China Titanium annual demand of 2.5 to 30,000 tons, while the Chinese titanium production is only 1500-2000 tons, a huge gap in the market. In the Chinese market, the price of a ton of titanium metal powder is 60 million RMB in the international market as much as eight hundred thousand U.S. dollars per ton.

The success of the technology research and development will be put into use. The person in charge of the titanium - aluminum industrial projects, a project of titanium metal powder factory construction, after the start of the titanium plant will produce ultrafine high-purity titanium powder twenty-eight thousand five hundred tons of pure iron three points seven million tons of ilmenite powder of 7000 tons, annual output value can reach 3.09 billion RMB, taxes of $ 0.7 billion. This will fill the gaps in the history of the Chinese titanium industrial development.

Titanium, its oxides and alloy products are really important paint, new structural materials and anti-corrosion materials. They are known as the developing metal and strategic metal following the iron and aluminum. They have a wide range of applications in the aviation, military industry, metallurgy, chemical silicon powder industry, machinery, environmental protection, medical equipment and other fields. And it has important position and role in national economic development.

Source:http://www.mhcmp.com