Our company is planning to purchase some titanium plates. Which manufacturers are there, and are there any agents in Shanghai?

There’s no need to necessarily use an agent in Shanghai, right? If high standards are required, you can simply buy Baotai’s product.

Baoji Titanium Industry Group… Boeing even buys their materials. For use in the chemical industry, it’s best to use their products. One must definitely avoid buying plates that are remelted from titanium scrap by smaller companies, as such plates are extremely prone to cracking.

Baotai’s titanium plates are only of average quality; high-quality titanium plates are still imported. At present, the plate heat exchanger manufacturers with the necessary resources purchase imported titanium plates mainly from Nippon Steel in Japan.

Find a manufacturer with a good reputation; ordinary small factories may not be very reliable

Baodi Lixing Titanium Industry Co., Ltd. – imported from Tianjin Grexin; it performs well in our factory when used for plate heat exchangers

Nanjing Baose Stock Titanium Industry is also quite famous; it’s relatively close to Shanghai

I don’t quite understand it – why does everyone have to mention Baotai whenever titanium is mentioned? Someone just mentioned that small manufacturers add titanium chips during the melting process; this does indeed happen. However, Baotai uses the most titanium chips. Baotai has a melting furnace called the Yibei Furnace, which allows for the addition of 30% titanium chips. Titanium products manufactured in this way can be used to make titanium plates and rods, but not titanium tubes. Those who are truly familiar with the titanium industry know that Baotai’s strength lies in titanium rods; its performance in producing titanium plates is decent, but it is not good at making titanium tubes, especially thin-walled tubes – in fact, it’s almost impossible for them to produce such tubes. Across the entire Chinese titanium industry, Baoji is the best at manufacturing titanium rods, plates, components, and composite materials, while Jiangsu remains the leader in producing titanium tubes. In fact, more than half of the titanium tubes exported from China are produced in Jiangsu. But every large-scale enterprise has its own areas of strength. When purchasing titanium materials, it’s important to choose the right manufacturer, rather than blindly trusting state-owned enterprises.

It is recommended to use imported sheets, such as those from Nippon Steel and Krupp

Hehe, there are plenty of results if you search on Baidu; we have them. The boards we’ve just produced won’t crack even when bent 180 degrees. It is made of pure titanium sponge, and has been tested by the Material Analysis Laboratory of the Northwest Non-ferrous Metals Research Institute; its chemical composition and mechanical properties are both within acceptable limits. There’s no need to look on forums. Imported ones are of good quality, but they’re very expensive. Besides, it depends on what you plan to use them for; if there are no special requirements, why spend so much money?