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High-performance Materials with Good Growth Potential

High-purity titanium, TILOP, titanium powder and SiO(Silicon Monoxide) use titanium and polycrystalline silicon, which are our major businesses, and offer significant possibilities and promise.

Capitalizing on our strength of "Excellence in Quality and Quality Control," we are focusing our efforts on developing new applications and new products targeting growing markets such as semiconductors, liquid crystals, solar cells and lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.

Products

Achieving Further Improvements in the Quality of High-Purity Titanium

In addition to titanium sponge for mill products,we produce high-purity titanium.

Our high-purity titanium, with purity levels of 4N5 (99.995%) and 5N (99.999%), is mainly used for manufacturing high-purity titanium sputtering targets utilized in the semiconductor industry.

As one of the few high-purity titanium manufacturers in the world, we will continuously develop our technologies and respond to demand for higher quality.

Introduction to TILOP

We manufacture two types of titanium powder, titanium hydride-dehydride powder and gas-atomized spherical titanium powder.

Only a small number of companies around the world manufacture gas-atomized spherical titanium powder. We have developed our own technology for manufacturing this product, which is marketed under the trade name of TILOP.

Expanding Applications of SiO(Silicon Monoxide)

Membranes which are vapor-deposited with SiO exhibit excellent barrier properties preventing the permeation of water vapor and oxygen. It is on this basis that SiO is used for making gas barrier packaging films.

Our high-quality SiO already has a proven track record as a barrier material for food packaging and commands the largest share of the industry market. The range of uses of SiO is expanding, such as in solar cell back sheets, where even greater barrier properties are required, and as industrial packaging.

Dramatic growth is also expected in its use in negative electrodes of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.

We have posi tioned SiO as the most important material for next-generation negative electrode materials. In order to commercialize SiO, we are undergoing assessments by our customers (battery manufacturers) and conducting research and development.