“I walked around and saw that nearly a quarter of the exhibitors have brought civil products.” Gao Feng, a Yunnan exhibitor who participated in the China Titanium Valley International Titanium Industry Expo for the third consecutive time, told the reporter that the biggest feeling he got from this year's exhibition was that there were more titanium products for civil and household use all of a sudden.

On the 21st, 2021 “Titanium Expo” in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, Baoji Convention and Exhibition Center opened. In the three-day exhibition, 188 domestic and foreign exhibitors focus on mainstream trends, bring together industry wisdom, show the cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements of the titanium industry and its application.

In the general impression, titanium is often associated with highly sophisticated aerospace, aviation, navigation and other manufacturing industries. The fact is also true, as a kind of appearance like steel, with a silver gray luster of the metal substance, titanium with its mechanical strength close to steel and strong resistance to acid and alkali corrosion and other characteristics are widely used in cutting-edge manufacturing fields, from the “sky” of the Shenzhou manned spacecraft, the C919 large passenger aircraft to the “sea” Jiaolong “Jiaolong, struggler manned submersible, titanium metal products are in which play a key role.

“Today's titanium and titanium alloy with its excellent performance, has become the key materials and support materials in the field of engineering technology and high technology, and become an important symbol for judging the strength of the country's comprehensive strength.” Material science experts, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cao Chunxiao in the same period with the exposition of China's titanium annual meeting and titanium industry summit forum, told reporters that China's titanium industry after many years of development, production capacity, production volume have jumped to the first place in the world, the production technology leading the world, has become a veritable titanium production power.

With the continuous improvement of technical means and market demand, titanium metal products also began from the highly sophisticated strategic areas “fly” into the common people. China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association of titanium, zirconium and hafnium branch president Wang Wensheng said that in recent years, civil and foreign trade and other market demand for titanium is showing a high growth trend. “In the future, the demand for titanium for construction, electronics, new energy and other emerging fields will also be further released.”

From wheelchairs, bicycles, titanium tiles for building roofs, to chopsticks and mountaineering locks. Ltd. brought nearly 100 titanium products to the fair. In front of the booth, visitors and businessmen were in an endless stream. They picked up these objects to observe and play with, while listening to the booth staff to explain the “wonders” of titanium products.

Northwest Nonferrous Metals Research Institute (Group) under the Xi'an Saitech Metal Materials Development Co., Ltd. comprehensive department minister Chen Xiao told reporters at the exhibition, compared with the common metal products on the market, titanium metal products have a series of advantages such as corrosion and wear resistance, allergy and no heavy metal residues, etc., in addition to pure titanium or titanium alloy eyeglasses frames in the market has been more common in addition to the titanium cups for middle-aged and elderly people and infants and young children have also used titanium tableware. The use of titanium tableware have also opened up sales.

“Take such a titanium frying pan for example, it weighs nearly half as much as an iron pan, and through our special processing to achieve a certain anti-stick effect and improved thermal conductivity, very suitable for the elderly or women to use for stir-frying and cooking, but also to protect the health of the whole family.” Zhou Xiaohu, marketing director of a company specializing in the development and production of civil titanium cookware at the exhibition, said that the frying pan alone sold 10 sets on the first morning of the opening day of the exhibition.

“At present, we have eight complete production lines that can reach an annual production capacity of 1 million pieces of cookware.” He said.

Titanium supplies not only into the people's “food, clothing, housing and transportation”, in the medical aspect of the involvement of deeper. Baoji, a new metal materials company's deputy general manager Gao Xiaodong told reporters that titanium products in the field of medical surgical implants accounted for a high proportion of titanium rods, titanium plates and other materials made of femoral handle, bone plates, etc., basically eliminated the past stainless steel products.

“Unlike stainless steel implants, titanium's affinity and lightness determine that it can coexist with the body for a long time.” Gao Xiaodong said.

In the view of Jin Lixin, full-time vice president of the China Hardware Products Association, the domestic market for civil titanium consumer products is more mature compared to foreign countries, but also has cultivated a certain scale, very recognized titanium products consumer groups, the next step is to start from the adaptation of industrial restructuring, promote functional upgrading, optimization and improvement of the product line, in the miniaturization and special features of the work at the same time focusing on reducing the cost of titanium products in the market place to take a place in the market. products have a place in the market.

“Over the years the price of titanium products has fallen a lot, 10 years ago a pair of titanium frames to thousands of dollars, and now a few hundred dollars can be bought. I believe there will be more and more titanium metal products into thousands of households.” Gao Feng said.