The Henderson Technical Lab is located adjacent to our primary sponge manufacturing plant and alloy melt shop, in Henderson, Nevada. It functions as our alloy and product development center, provides sales and marketing assistance and offers toll contract services.
The staff of 22, led by Vice President Dr. Joseph Broz and Laboratory Manager Dr. Stephen Fox, is comprised of engineers with a total of over 100 years of titanium experience, as well as chemists and technicians.
To manufacture small quantities of titanium alloys for customer evaluation, quickly and with complete confidentiality, our pilot scale melt and forge facility houses the industry's most complete small-scale VAR melt shop. HTL is capable of producing small 'button' melts of 0.5 lbs and ingots ranging from 6" diameter weighing 15 lbs to 18" diameter weighing 1800 lbs, in customer-specified compositions.
Pilot scale finishing services include forging (250 ton press), hot and cold rolling (up to 7" wide flat, 1" diameter round), heat treating, machining, pickling, chemical analysis and mechanical testing.
Our research scale melting, forging and rolling equipment is also used in process improvement trials and evaluations.
For corrosion analysis, we assist in material selection and perform failure analysis and in-situ evaluations. Our corrosion lab offers uniform, crevice, pitting, stress corrosion and hydrogen absorption testing. For electrochemical studies, we perform AC Impedance and DC Polarization testing. ICP, DCP, AA and Gas Analysis testing, as well as routine and 'one of a kind' analytical services, are also available.
Additional equipment includes Scanning Electron Microscopes with micro-analytical capability and full metallographic preparation equipment.
Any of HTL's services can be quoted as toll contract work and many of these services are free to TIMET customers.