NORTH AMERICAN OPERATIONS: The world's largest integrated titanium production facilities
Our state-of-the-art sponge plant in Henderson, Nevada converts rutile ore to the highest-quality titanium sponge partially through our unique Vacuum Distillation Process (20-million pound annual capacity) and by the Kroll-leach Process (12-million pound annual capacity).
Using Vacuum Arc Remelting (VAR) furnaces, the Henderson plant has the capacity to melt up to 30 million pounds of ingot per year. TIMET pioneered triple VAR melting to produce titanium ingot that meets the critical rotating jet engine quality specifications.
Research and Development facilities located at the Henderson plant are the most extensive and productive in the industry. Research scale equipment for all melting, forging and rolling is used to improve processes and develop new alloys to meet customer needs.
In Toronto, Ohio ingots are forged into slabs, billets and bars. Slabs are subsequently hot rolled to sheet and plate or cold rolled for strip and welded tube applications. Billets and bars are produced to meet the highest quality standards in the world. Our Sendzimir cold rolling mill is the only dedicated titanium strip rolling facility in the world and our continuous vacuum annealing facility is the only one of its type.
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EUROPEAN OPERATIONS: The largest melting and forging operations in western Europe
At our plant in Witton near Birmingham, England raw materials, including sponge, are purchased to feed VAR melting furnaces with 16 million pounds of annual capacity. The plant then forges ingots into billet for aerospace applications, produces intermediate billet and slab for processing at our Wales facility and fabricates wire. Witton also houses our highly productive European research and development laboratory.
At Waunarlwydd, Wales we produce hot rolled bar and fan blade plate for jet engine and medical applications. With an annual bar rolling capacity of 4 million pounds per year, this plant is one of the most significant suppliers of titanium bar in the world. Our fan blade plate is used in the newest technology jet engines and is supplied in both flat and proprietary taper-rolled forms.
The Ugine, France facility purchases raw materials to melt approximately 4 million pounds of VAR ingot annually. These ingots are forged into both rotating and structural quality billet for aerospace applications. In addition, the plant produces bar and rod for aerospace and other applications.