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UMM supplies pipe, flanges and other specialty products to oil platforms in the North Sea and beyond, earning its reputation as the leader in the offshore titanium market.
New horizons for oil and gas development are rapidly expanding to include deeper, high-pressure, high-temperature wells. These severe conditions exceed design limitations of conventional CRA tubular materials such as duplex and super duplex stainless steels.

Lightweight, corrosion-resistant and high strength titanium alloys can help sub-sea engineers meet their design objectives as oil reserves move further offshore into higher pressure and higher temperature wells.

Titanium alloys provide a viable alternative due to their high yield strength exceeding 110 ksi (760 MPa) and other inherent materials properties, including corrosion and cracking resistance. They also have a significantly lower density than conventional steel or nickel alloy tubular, reducing tubular weight 40 to 50%.

The aerospace industry is the largest user of titanium products. It is a useful material for this industry because of its high strength to weight ratio and high temperature properties. Titanium is typically used for airplane parts and fasteners. These same properties make titanium useful for the production of gas turbine engines while it is also used for other parts such as the compressor blades, casings, engine cowlings and heat shields.

The expansion in use of titanium within the aerospace market can be attributed to several factors, including the demand for newer aircraft designs with increased CFRP (carbon fiber reinforced polymer [or plastic]) composition. By sharing the same thermal expansion rates as many popular composite materials, titanium is highly favored as a composite interface material.
The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner is estimated to use 15 percent titanium by weight, 5 percent more than steel and is surely the exemplar for the increased use of titanium in commercial aircraft manufacturing. Increased titanium use in this aircraft directly corresponds with that of composite components based on the materials’ compatibility. The rise in composite design, construction and use is a strong indicator of additional increases in titanium part production.

Titanium has excellent corrosion resistance, mechanical properties and process properties and is widely used in many sectors of the national economy. Especially in chemical production, titanium is used instead of stainless steel, nickel-based alloys and other rare metals as corrosion-resistant materials. This is of great significance in increasing production, improving product quality, extending equipment life, reducing consumption, reducing energy consumption, reducing costs, preventing pollution, improving working conditions and increasing labor productivity.
Titanium has become one of the main anti-corrosion materials in chemical equipment, and has established his corrosion resistance status in chemical plants. As an ideal material in chemical equipment, titanium has also attracted more and more attention from engineers and technicians.

The heat exchanger survey results show that titanium heat exchangers account for 57%, titanium anodes account for 20%, titanium containers account for 16%, and others account for 7%. In the chemical industry, "two alkalis" are the mainstay, and the amount of titanium heat exchangers in chemical equipment is the largest.

In recent years, China's titanium production technology has improved rapidly, titanium for aerospace, titanium for military use, and titanium for automobiles have grown rapidly, especially in the aerospace industry, which has a tendency to catch up with titanium for chemical industry. In general, the technical content of titanium for chemical industry is small, the added value of products is low, and the proportion of titanium used in chemical industry will inevitably decline gradually.