Titanium is a material that offers excellent properties, however, it is costly and time-consuming to form. Researchers are now giving this multi-purpose metal another chance. They are presenting an ...

Titanium is a tremendously useful metal and very abundant, yet only 186,000 tonnes (205,030 tons) of it are produced a year and it’s not used very much outside of the aerospace field because it’s so ...

It used to be that, when designing a new military jet fighter, performance and capability took priority over cost. However, with the end of the cold war, defence contractors are finding that cost and ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RTI International Metals, Inc., (NYSE: RTI), is pleased to announce the signing of a Stock Purchase Agreement with Aeromet International PLC, pursuant to which RTI will ...

Pittsburgh-based RTI International Metals Inc. (NYSE: RTI) will acquire the titanium-forming subsidiary of UK-based Aeromet International PLC. Pittsburgh-based RTI International Metals Inc. (NYSE: RTI ...

ARIES ALLIANCE launched Plug & Form off-the-shelf hot titanium forming press that requires no pit; ARIES is parent to ACB and Dufieux in France and Cyril Bath in US. Steve Costley is responsible for ...

Thanks to 3D printing, most of us are familiar with the concept of additive manufacturing, and by extension, subtractive manufacturing. But what is it when you’re neither adding material nor taking it ...

In collaboration with his colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST in Braunschweig, Germany, he has developed a new technology for hydroforming titanium car ...