Titanium Manufacturing Process and Products
Ever since commencing industrial production of titanium sponge first in Japan in 1952, OSAKA Titanium technologies, as the world's leading titanium sponge manufacturer, has met advanced customer needs for titanium materials.
Titanium Manufacturing Process
Raw materials for producing titanium are slag containing titanium oxide and natural / synthetic rutile. First, the raw materials are chlorinated and distillated to produce pure TiCl4. Then, titanium sponge is attained by reducing the pure TiCl4 with magnesium. We produce titanium with this process, namely Kroll process, adding our proprietary technological improvements.
The titanium production process consists of following processes.
- Chlorination
- Distillation
- Reduction/Vacuum separation
- Electrolysis
- Crushing, sizing and packing
- Melting