Sukob u Rusiji-Ukrajini prijeti lancu opskrbe titanom

Titanove legure uspješno su razvijene 1950-ih godina, a naširoko se koriste u raznim područjima zbog svoje visoke čvrstoće, dobre vremenske otpornosti, jake toplinske otpornosti i male težine.

Najranija upotreba titanovih legura u vojnom polju uglavnom su vojne sile poput Sjedinjenih Država i Rusije.

Titanske cijevi imaju vrlo široku primjenu u vojnoj industriji. Nuklearne{0}}podmornice, hidrogliseri, minobacačke cijevi, protutenkovske rakete, bacači raketa, tenkovi štitovi, pancirke itd. koriste veliki broj titanskih cijevi.

Eskalirajući sukob između Rusije i Ukrajine izazvao je zabrinutost tržišta oko lanca opskrbe titanom, uglavnom zato što su Rusija i Ukrajina glavni dobavljači titana. Osim male količine za zadovoljavanje domaće potražnje, većina izvoza osigurava globalnim kupcima spužvasti titan ili materijale od titana. Nakon što se situacija pogorša, osim utjecaja proizvodnje titana u regiji, naknadne sankcije iz Europe i Sjedinjenih Država vjerojatno će ograničiti izvoz ruskog metala titana, što će dovesti do ograničene ponude metala titana na tržištu i izazvati paniku kupnje i gomilanje od strane kupaca u nizu. Trenutačno je cijena ingota magnezija, glavne sirovine metalnog titana, i dalje visoka, zajedno s ozbiljnom globalnom inflacijom i naglim porastom ostalih obojenih metala, bakra, aluminija i nikla, cijena titana metal će vjerojatno porasti.

Russia Avisma (VSMPO) is the world's largest titanium sponge producer with an annual production capacity of 34,000 tons per year. A major supplier of the titanium used in Airbus and Boeing aircraft skins is the company that supplies a significant portion.

The Ukrainian Zaporozzi Titanium and Magnesium Joint Enterprise is a titanium sponge factory with an annual production capacity of 12,000 tons. It will export 1,527 tons of titanium sponge to China in 2020, accounting for 32.34 percent of China's total imports of titanium sponge.

Due to the complex smelting technology and the difficulty of processing, only the United States, Russia, Japan and China have mastered the complete titanium industrial production technology in the world at present, forming a pattern in which the top four dominate. In addition, although there is no sponge titanium industry in Europe, the titanium processing and application technology is at the world's advanced level. Ukraine and Kazakhstan inherited part of the former Soviet Union's titanium sponge industry. Baoti's titanium products occupy the first place in the domestic market, and its output ranks second among similar enterprises in the world. It is one of the four major international titanium and titanium alloy processing enterprises.

In 2020, China's export volume of titanium sponge was 548.5 tons, a year-on-year decrease of 47.6 percent . The import volume of titanium sponge in China was 4,722.6 tons, a year-on-year decrease of 33.9 percent .

Among them, in 2020, the import volume of China's titanium sponge to most countries is Kazakhstan, with an import volume of 2,310 tons, accounting for 48.91 percent of China's total import of titanium sponge; followed by Ukraine's import of titanium sponge with a volume of 1,527 tons, accounting for China's total import of titanium sponge The volume was 32.34 percent ; again, Japan imported 800 tons of titanium sponge, accounting for 16.94 percent of the total imported titanium sponge in China.