Titanium Tubing

Titanium Tubing

Titanium tubing offers superior strength, rigidity, and lightness compared to tubing made from other metals. Equal to steel in strength, titanium is half of steel's density and has excellent corrosion resistance. Because of these properties, titanium offers what is ultimately a cost-effective solution for many tubing uses, since titanium can hold the same amount of strength as copper, brass or aluminum with only half the material volume. Because titanium is resistant to acid, oxygen, chloride and salt corrosion, titanium tubing results in much lower maintenance and longer product life.

The price of titanium is still high relative to other metals due to the high cost of fabrication. As titanium never occurs in pure form in nature, titanium must be extracted from naturally occurring mineral deposits. Refining, tooling, and processing can also be costly due to titanium's special handling requirements. Nevertheless, many industries find titanium the best solution for manufacturing needs, and titanium tubing is widely employed.

Pipes and tubes made from titanium are most often used in heat exchangers, tanks, process vessels and valves in petro-chemical, agri-food and marine equipment. Titanium's resistance to corrosion makes it ideal in all these functions, where fuel line corrosion, valve breakage and chemical leaks would be potentially dangerous and, with more easily corroded metals, quite common. Defense, aerospace and marine industries utilize tubing on a daily basis.

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