China becomes the world's third largest titanium industrial country producing titanium metal powder

Recently, it was learned that the "plasma high temperature separation titanium-aluminum ore" technology developed by Yunnan experts has been successful. This technology will completely end the history of titanium-rich Yunnan, which only sells raw materials, making China the third largest titanium industrial country in the world after the United States and Russia can directly produce titanium metal powder.

According to experts, Yunnan's mineral resources are very rich. The exploration results show that only the proven reserves of ilmenite in the three counties of Fumin, Luquan and Wuding in the province amount to 20 million tons. Forty-five to forty-nine, enough for mining for fifty years. However, due to the backwardness of smelting technology, the titanium ore in Yunnan has long been dominated by the sale of raw ore. In the past, the titanium ore in Yunnan was exported as raw materials, and it was only a few cents per kilogram of titanium ore. Until the first few years of production of titanium dioxide powder, the price per ton of titanium dioxide is about 120,000 yuan.

According to reports, the annual demand for titanium in China is between 2.5 and 30,000 tons per year, while the annual production of titanium in China is only 1,500 to 2,000 tons. The market gap is huge. In the domestic market, the price of one ton of titanium metal powder is 600,000 yuan, and the international market is as high as 800,000 US dollars per ton.

After the successful development of this technology, it will be put into use. According to Shang Jiarong, the chairman of Fumin Blonde Mining Co., Ltd., which is responsible for the construction of the titanium-aluminum industrial project in the first phase of the Titanium-Aluminum Industry Project, the metal titanium plant will be produced annually. Ultra-fine, high-purity metal titanium powder 2,800,000 tons, pure iron powder 3,700 tons, ilmenite powder 7,200 tons, "a year's output value can reach 3.39 billion yuan, can be turned over The tax is 700 million yuan. This will fill the historical gap in the development of China's titanium industry."

Titanium and its oxides and alloy products are important coatings, new structural materials and anti-corrosion materials. It is known as “the third metal in development after iron and aluminum” and “strategic metal” in aviation, military, metallurgy and chemical industry. Machinery, environmental protection, medical equipment and other fields have a wide range of applications, and have an important position and role in the development of the national economy.