Rusija{0}}Ukrajinski sukob prijeti lancu opskrbe titanijumom

Legure titana uspješno su razvijene 1950-ih godina i naširoko se koriste u raznim oblastima zbog svoje visoke čvrstoće, dobre vremenske otpornosti, jake otpornosti na toplinu i male težine.

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

Cijevi od titana imaju vrlo široku primjenu u vojnoj industriji. Podmornice na nuklearni-podmornici, hidrogliseri, cijevi minobacača, protutenkovske rakete, lanseri raketa, tenkovi štitovi, pancirni prsluci, itd. koriste veliki broj titanijskih cijevi.

Eskalacija sukoba između Rusije i Ukrajine izazvala je zabrinutost tržišta oko lanca opskrbe titanijumom, uglavnom zato što su Rusija i Ukrajina glavni dobavljači titanijuma. Osim male količine za zadovoljavanje domaće potražnje, većina izvoza obezbjeđuje globalne kupce sa sunđerastim titanijumom ili titanijumskim materijalima. Nakon što se situacija pogorša, pored uticaja proizvodnje titanijuma u regionu, naknadne sankcije iz Evrope i Sjedinjenih Država će verovatno ograničiti izvoz ruskog metala titanijuma, što će dovesti do ograničene ponude metala titanijuma na tržištu i izazvati paniku kupovina i gomilanje od strane nizvodnih kupaca. Trenutno, cijena ingota magnezijuma, glavne sirovine metalnog titanijuma, ostaje visoka, zajedno sa ozbiljnom globalnom inflacijom i naglim porastom ostalih obojenih metala, bakra, aluminijuma i nikla, cijena titanijuma metal će vjerovatno 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.