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On November 22^nd of the current year the delegation of businessmen from PRC visited PJSC “Titanium institute”.

During the meeting the Chinese and Ukrainian Parties discussed prospects for their collaboration in the field of production of titanium powders and items there from.

The Parties expressed their intention to sign the contract for designing and construction supervision of the facilities for production in PRC  titanium powder and items there from.

Based on the results of the meeting the Parties signed a memorandum of understanding.

On November 15, 2018, in Kyiv, there was the 8th Technical Conference of Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Ukraine club dedicated to the development of innovative technologies and materials for industry in general and particularly for aircraft and space engineering.

PJSC “Titanium institute” introduced research results in a report “Process diagram of aircraft engineering titanium alloy powder production for 3D printing in Ukraine”.

On November 14-16, 2018, in Kharkiv, there was XIV International Scientific and Technical Conference of Young Scientists and Specialists “Issues of the Modern Nuclear Power Industry” associated with the 25th anniversary of Ukrainian Nuclear Society.

PJSC “Titanium institute” introduced research results in the field of improved technologies for magnesiothermal production of zirconium sponge for application in nuclear power industry.

September 20 of this year a general meeting of the founders of the Ukrainian-Iranian Chamber of Commerce and Industry took place in Odessa. The first deputy director general, Storchak Evgeniy, took part in the work of this meeting.
PJSC “Titanium institute” is interested in establishing direct contacts and cooperation on a long-term and mutually beneficial basis with companies and firms of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the field of the metallurgical and chemical industry.

By the Order of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine of the 04th of July, 2018 No. 82-p since July 09th of this year, Viktor Brener was appointed to the position of Director General of the PJSC “Titanium institute”.

The Australian company “Titomic” has completed mounting and commissioning of experimental large-format 3D printer of its own design. According to representatives of the enterprise, this is the world’s largest additive plant that prints with metals.
The Majority of existing 3D printers for printing with metals and alloys rely on sintering or melting materials using lasers or electron beams. Without any doubt such approach is viable but capacity is relatively low and there may be some undesirable side effects, for example, hot cracks. Titomic also relied on well-known technology of cold gas-dynamic spraying, developed in the mid-1980s by specialists from Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics SB RAS of the USSR.
Large-format 3D-printer Titomic is designed for printing parts from scratch. The printing of titanium bicycle frame takes only about 35 minutes, and experimental design area is 9x3x1.5 meters – terrific volume by standards of modern 3D printing, especially with metals. The productivity reaches 45 kg/h, while average laser 3D printer reaches about one kilogram per day. At the same time the plant is able to work with a wide variety of materials. Nevertheless the main emphasis is on titanium.
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Ukraine should independently create its own closed cycle for titanium products production. Boris Sobolev, Ph.D. in Economics, GO of the first rank wrote about it in an article for ZN.UA.
According to calculations of the group of companies owned by Dmitry Firtash, the replacement of the Russian company “VSMPO-Avisma” in the market of import of rolled titanium products will cost almost 110 million dollars needed to modernize ZTMC (Zaporozhye Titanium and Magnesium Combine) and full cycle, that is from ore to finished rolled products from diverse titanium alloy – up to 2.5 billion dollars.
According to the expert these amounts are confirmed by calculations that have been accomplished by other entrepreneurs who acquired licenses for development of deposits of Irshansk Group in Zhytomyr oblast.
The expert underlines: “The presence of 12 deposits (the largest one is Stremigorod deposit) in Zhytomyr oblast and neighbourhood of Rivne and Kyiv oblasts, as well as trained personnel, water resources, electricity, highway and rail service make these areas potentially suitable to establish the Ukrainian process park “Titan Polesia”.
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Pangang Group Titanium Industry published production data for May.
This year, on May the company produced almost 1500 tons of titanium sponge, which is 7% more than on April. Production capacity of Pangang Group Titanium Industry allows producing up to 18 thousand tons of titanium sponge per year, and during the year 2017 the monthly production volumes kept at the constant level, about 1350 tons per month.
This year, on April-May due to some strengthening of demand Pangang Group Titanium Industry was able to increase production up to 1400-1500 tons per month. Current average sales prices are about 58.500 Yuan ($9.143) per ton in the Chinese market for 99.6% titanium sponge.
The production of sponge titanium in Pangang Group Titanium Industry was designed by PJSC “Institute of Titanium”.

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June 11-13 of this year specialists of PJSC “Titanium institute” took part in the International Conference “Titanium 2018. Production and Application in Ukraine” held in Kyiv. The event was associated with 100 year anniversary of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine and gathered the best scientists, academic workers, practitioners, specialists of titanium production and aircraft engineering.
In several reports PJSC “Titanium institute” presented research results concerning titanium application for additive technologies, manufacturing of parts from titanium alloys by means of additive technologies, melting of titanium alloys.
Acting Director General Viktor Brener was a member of the Conference Program Committee.
Conference subject matter included discussion of up-to-date issues of technical improvement for titanium production and titanium-based products, development of progressive technologies and equipment for titanium ingots and titanium-based alloy production; application of additive technologies for manufacturing products from titanium alloys; production of new titanium-based alloys and intermetallic compounds; development of progressive technologies for welding and soldering parts made of titanium alloys, etc.