Dallas, TX: ReportsandReports announce Japanese The Titanium Age:Markets, Low Cost Processes and Latent Demand Market Research Report in its Store.
Browse complete Titanium Age Markets Report
Thintri, Inc. announces the release of a new market study, The Titanium Age: Markets, Low Cost Processes and Latent Demand. This update of Thintri’s earlier titanium study analyzes current markets in titanium, pricing and supply issues in a range of titanium products like scrap, sponge, ingot, plate, etc., and effects of the recent recession and recovery. The report also discusses emerging market opportunities through the maturing of technologies that promise to reduce the cost of titanium extraction, manufacturing, machining and welding. Forecasts are provided for both traditional and potential new titanium markets in a number of key sectors.
Titanium, a resource with enormous potential in a large number of markets, has been hobbled by high costs and volatile prices, processing difficulties, supply issues and industry-wide inefficiencies.
Titanium has the highest strength to density ratio of any metal, is essentially nonmagnetic, and is highly resistant to corrosion, even in hostile environments like salt water. Furthermore, it is highly biocompatible. Titanium has become well established in aerospace, trucks and heavy vehicles, medicine, chemical processing and general industry.
In recent years titanium suppliers have worked hard to bring the benefits of titanium to new applications, but just as new markets for titanium have opened up, the supply of titanium tightened considerably, with notable effects on prices. Much of the constricting of supply was attributable to sharply rising aerospace demand as well as greater use in steel production, which reduced the supply of scrap. These factors led to an extraordinary runup in prices, where some more than doubled in a single year, and some users were simply unable to obtain the titanium they needed. The volatility dampened enthusiasm for titanium in new markets where it offers substantial long term cost savings.
In response, suppliers of titanium sponge rapidly moved to expand their output. Very soon, however, markets and prices abruptly dropped with the recession.
Throughout all this, a number of low cost processing technologies have continued development that promise titanium (commercially pure and alloyed), potentially at greatly reduced cost. These processes, some of which are recently commercialized or will be soon, reduce costs in extraction, machining, welding, manufacture, and other segments.
A likely scenario is that within a few years or so, several of these technologies will impact the costs of doing business in titanium. The promise of supply stability and relatively low prices could create an opening whereby new markets can be captured, bringing titanium to a broad range of new applications. Alternatively, suppliers of low cost titanium may merely sell their product for high prices and greater profits. In that sense, low cost production processes could a substantial investment opportunity..
Understand the Markets
Thintri’s new market study analyzes the current state of traditional titanium markets, the effects of the current economy, t, f and the crisis in price and supply constraints. The effects of emerging low cost titanium processes and the market forces that will determine the outcome of today’s price/supply fluctuations are investigated in detail. New and sometimes unexpected market opportunities are analyzed and forecasts are provided for both traditional markets, some of them unaffected by low cost processes, and new market opportunities created by low cost titanium.
The report is based on more than 100 in-depth interviews with experts from industry, Government and academia, as well as a broad range of published materials.
Executive Summary
E1 Introduction
E2 Background: Titanium
E3 The Titanium Industry Today
E4 Supply and Capacity Issues
E5 Price Trends
E6 Demand Outlook
E7 Lead Times
E9 Commercialization of Low Cost Titanium Processes
E10 Effect of a New Low-Cost Player
E11 Latent Demand
Part 1: Titanium Background
1.1 Overview
1.2 Titanium in Industry
1.3 History
1.4 Titanium Production
1.5 Issues with Titanium
Part 2: Industry Landscape
2.1 The Demand Side
2.1.1 The Aerospace Sector
2.1.1.1 Titanium Deployment in Aircraft
2.1.1.2 The Evolving Aerospace Market
2.1.1.3 Regulations and Certification
2.1.2.1 Industrial Markets
2.1.2.1.1 Chemical Processing
2.1.2.1.2 Other Industry and Manufacture
2.1.5.1 Passenger Cars
2.1.5.2 Trucks and Heavy Vehicles
2.2 The Supply Side: Capacity
2.2.2.1 Sponge
2.2.2.2 Scrap
2.2.2.2.1 Alloying
2.3 Demand Drivers, Effects on Prices
2.4 Industry Contracts, Agreements and Price Negotiations
Part 3: Cost Issues, Lead Times and Today’s Market Outlook
3.1 Effects of Price Volatility and Industry Structure
3.2 Price Behavior and Forecasts
3.2.1 Sponge
3.2.2 Scrap
3.2.3 Melt Products
3.2.3.1 Slab
3.2.3.2 Ingot
3.2.3.3 Electrodes
3.2.3.4 Plate
3.2.3.4.1 Plate Prices
3.2.3.4.2 Toll Rolling
3.3 Today’s Market Outlook
3.3.1 Effects of the Recession
3.3.2 Recovery of the Titanium Industry
3.4 Lead Times
Part 4: Commercialization of Low-Cost Titanium
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Raw Material Issues
4.3 Composition and Alloying
4.4 Quality, Purity, Performance
4.5 The Powder Advantage
4.5.1 MIM
4.6 Manufacture & Fabrication
4.7 Machining
4.8 Welding 75
4.9 Titanium Process Commercialization
4.10 Effect of a New, Low-Cost Player
Part 5: Latent Demand and Market Opportunities
5.1 Automotive Markets
5.1.1 Trucks and Commercial Vehicles
5.1.1.1 Turbocharger Compressor Wheels
5.1.1.2 Valve Train
5.1.1.3 Connecting Rods
5.1.1.4 Exhaust Systems
5.1.1.5 Suspensions
5.1.2 Opportunities in Mass Market Autos
5.1.2.1 Valve Train, Valves, Valve Springs
5.1.2.2 Connecting Rods
5.1.2.3 Exhaust Systems
5.1.2.4 Suspensions
5.1.3 Motorcycles and Other Small Vehicles
5.1.4 Regulation and Fuel Economy
5.1.5 Economics
5.1.6 Latent Automotive Demand
5.2 General Industry, Oil & gas, Mining, etc
5.2.1 Chemical Processing, Pharmaceuticals, etc
5.2.2 Oil & Gas, Mining
5.2.3 Energy and Power Generation
5.2.4 Pulp & Paper
5.2.5 Latent Industrial Demand
5.3 Aerospace
5.4 Defense
5.4.1 Armor
5.4.1.1 Armoring Vehicles
5.4.1.2 Non-Vehicle Armor
5.4.1.3 Fuel Economy
5.4.1.4 Procurement Issues
5.4.2 Naval Applications
5.4.3 Latent Defense Demand
5.5 Medical Markets
5.5.1 Orthopedic Devices: Implants, Trauma Fixtures, etc
5.5.2 Surgical Instruments
5.5.3 Latent Medical Demand
5.6 Consumer Markets
5.6.1 Established Consumer Applications
5.6.1.1 Sporting Goods
5.6.1.2 Jewelry
5.6.1.3 Architecture
5.6.1.4 Marine Markets
5.6.1.5 Price and Supply Issues
5.6.1.6 Latent Consumer Demand
Browse complete Titanium Age Markets Report
Browse all Semiconductor and Electronics Market
Browse all Thintri Inc Market Research Reports
Browse all Latest Reports
Related Reports:
VNL targets the low-cost GSM infrastructure market
Chinese Markets for Titanium Dioxide
ZigBee: A New Frontier for Low Cost Active RFID
About Us:
Reports and Reports comprises an online library of 10,000 reports, in-depth market research studies of over 5000 micro markets, and 25 industry specific websites. Our client list boasts almost all well-known publishers of such reports across the globe. We as a third-party reseller of market research reports employ a number of marketing tools, such as press releases, email-marketing and effective search-engine optimization techniques to drive revenues for our clients. We also provide 24/7 online and offline support service to our customers.
Contact:
Ms. Sunita
7557 Rambler road,
Suite 727, Dallas, TX 75231
Tel: +1-888-989-8004
Source: Market Research
Blog: http://reportsnreports.wordpress.com/
Blog: http://reportsandreports.blogspot.com/
