Timet Titanium (Toronto, Ohio)

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World leader in titanium metals and one of only two titanium companies in the U.S.

Based in Dallas, Texas, Titanium Metals Corp.'s Toronto plant manufactures titanium sheet, strip, bar, and plate from titanium ingots and slabs received from the company's melting operations in Morgantown W.V.. Processes include forging, rolling, pickling, grinding, welding, annealing, extruding, and cutting. The facility can also produce zirconium/hafnium sheet, strip, bar, and plate from zirconium ingots and/or zirconium/hafnium semi-finished products. The facility has an annual capacity of 15,000 metric tons of milled titanium and employs 699.

The finished product is later utilized in aircraft and for military and commercial use.Aerospace accounts for almost two-thirds of TIMET's revenues. Industrial uses for the product include chemical plants, industrial power plants, desalination plants and pollution control equipment. Additional uses range from Medical implants, golf club heads, other sporting equipment, and automotive and computer parts to offshore oil/gas production installations and geothermal facilities.

Titanium Metals Corp. was formed in 1950 by National Lead and Allegheny Ludlum Steel for the purpose of marketing and distributing titanium. Originally headquartered in New York, the company was headed by H. C. Wildner, the vice president of National Lead. Laboratories at the National Lead Company had been producing and studying titanium for several years at its Sayresville, New Jersey plant. Allegheny Ludlum was a leading producer of stainless steel and began conducting intensive research in the areas of melting, alloying, and processing of the metal. Titanium had been recently developed as a metal prized for its noncorrosive qualities, resistance to acids, and tensile strength. In 1956, Timet bought the former Follansbee Steel plant in Toronto, built in 1918, to produce milled titanium products.

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