- Source: Osaka Titanium Technologies
Osaka Titanium Technologies Co., Ltd. (大阪チタニウムテクノロジーズ, Ōsaka Chitaniumu Tekunorojīzu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese non-ferrous metal manufacturing company based in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It is the world's second largest producer of titanium sponge after VSMPO-Avisma.
It produces titanium products using the Kroll process, and also produces silicon products.
In 2010, increased demand for titanium led to increased supply capacity, but Osaka Titanium Technologies was still able to raise prices due to continuing strong demand from the aviation industry.
The company is part of the Sumitomo Group, one of the largest Japanese keiretsu.
History
The company was founded in 1937 as Osaka Special Steel Manufacturing. Sumitomo Metal Industries took a stake in 1952, and work began on titanium. Also in 1952, the company changed its name to Osaka Titanium Co., Ltd. Kobe Steel took an equity stake in the company in 1953.
In 2002, the company was named Sumitomo Titanium Corporation and was listed on the first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange, and in 2007, it was renamed Osaka Titanium Technologies.
Business segments and products
Titanium
Titanium sponge
Titanium ingot
Titanium tetrachloride and titanium tetrachloride aqueous solution
Ferro-titanium
Polycrystalline Silicon
High-performance Materials
High-purity titanium
Silicon monoxide
TILOP (Gas-atomized titanium powder)
Titanium powder
Photocatalysts
References
External links
Official website (in English)
Osaka Titanium Technologies on Google Finance
FT.com profile
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kobe Steel
- Sumitomo Group
- Nanoteknologi
- Osaka Titanium Technologies
- Hanshin Industrial Region
- Amagasaki
- Sumitomo Group
- RTI International Metals
- Ilmenite
- Polycrystalline silicon
- List of companies of Japan
- Niobium–titanium
- Chūō Shinkansen
