Because titanium has a variety of excellent characteristics, it is widely used in military industry, aerospace, naval vessels, petrochemical, metallurgy, light industry, electric power, seawater desalination and daily life and other industrial production. The application of titanium started from the military industry and aviation industry, its development with the development of armaments, aviation manufacturing industry has undergone several ups and downs, often referred to as "space metal", "third metal". In general, the development of titanium is fast, even more than any other non-ferrous metal.
In practical application, appropriate alloying elements are often added to form different grades of titanium alloy plates. Many excellent properties of titanium determine that titanium materials are also very suitable for use as building wall roofing materials in various environments. Titanium is the majority of roofing materials in buildings, accounting for about 60% and 30% of external walls. Japan is the earliest country to use titanium in construction, and titanium has been used as a building material for about 30 years. The United States is the largest country to use titanium, mainly concentrated in the aerospace field, has gradually transferred to the civil field. In recent years, the European construction titanium also has a rapid development, many countries have construction titanium plan.
Even so, titanium panels are rarely used in construction. (Many people will often say "titanium zinc plate" misunderstanding for titanium plate, the actual titanium zinc plate is only added a very small amount of titanium zinc alloy plate; And "titanium sheet" is mainly titanium, but added a very small amount of other elements of the metal alloy material. This is the main reason why we have always recommended "zinc plate" rather than "titanium zinc plate" as the name of zinc alloy plate.)
At present, the high costs in the process of smelting of titanium in the price of titanium was relatively more expensive (by weight is about 2 times of stainless steel), however, from the strong corrosion resistance, strength, weight, service life and construction use cycle, construction load, comprehensive maintenance costs and so on comprehensive consideration, compared with other metal titanium still has very big competitive.
