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Titanium’s punt to create a mini-NZ Silicon Valley
Titanium’s punt to create a mini-NZ ‘Silicon Valley’
By Peter Kerr for sticK
(sticK - 4/10/10) - Those of a certain age may best remember titanium as a rainbow coloured metal that wasa big jewellery hit in the late 1980s.
So why should people think that New Zealand’s a good place to develop a titanium industry – and to have a $750 million a year target for it in 10 years time?
It is the fourth most common metal in the earth’s crust, there’s plenty of places around the world that manufacture with the material and there doesn’t appear to be a pent up demand for titanium products.
The first part of the answer is to forget, initially, titanium as a solid metal. Imagine it first a powder, most likely a Ti alloy powder.
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