Why
TITANIUM?
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High Strength to Weight Ratio
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Exceptional Corrosion Resistance
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Custom machined or net-shaped
Perfect For...
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Aerospace structures
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Chemical Process Equipment
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Lightweight Asseblies
BADGERADVANCED Titanium: Engineering for a Better Tomorrow
Titanium is a cornerstone material in industries where performance cannot be compromised. With a strength-to-weight ratio that outperforms most metals, exceptional corrosion resistance, and high fatigue tolerance, titanium excels in aerospace, marine, chemical processing, and industrial manufacturing environments. Its naturally occurring passivation layer shields it from seawater, chloride-heavy environments, and oxidizing acids, making it ideal for precision-machined components, tubing, and fabricated parts used in harsh conditions. Whether you're designing a lightweight structure, specifying Grade 2 or Grade 5 titanium, or sourcing custom titanium fabrication, BADGERADVANCED Titanium delivers the mechanical performance and reliability to meet your most demanding applications.
Applications
Titanium’s unique combination of mechanical strength, corrosion resistance, and biocompatibility makes it critical to many high-performance industries. At American Carbon Company, we focus on supplying and fabricating titanium machined parts, welded assemblies, and structural elements built to perform in the most demanding environments.
In the aerospace industry, titanium is used extensively for airframe structures, landing gear components, and engine housings due to its high strength-to-weight ratio and ability to withstand cyclic loading and extreme temperatures. A single Boeing 777 contains over 130,000 pounds of titanium.
In the chemical processing and petrochemical sectors, titanium piping, heat exchangers, and reactor components are favored for their exceptional resistance to chlorides and oxidizing acids, extending service life in aggressive media where stainless steels often fail.
Marine applications rely on titanium’s inertness to saltwater and biological fouling, making it ideal for hull penetrations, underwater housings, and desalination plant components. Our products are frequently specified for both commercial and military-grade systems requiring seawater corrosion resistance and low magnetic permeability.
In the medical and dental fields, titanium’s biocompatibility enables its use in surgical tools, orthopedic implants, and dental prosthetics—where the need for long-term human body compatibility meets stringent machining tolerances and sterilization requirements.
Finally, advanced manufacturing sectors utilize titanium for custom fabrications, formed tubing, and tightly-toleranced parts used in robotics, drones, energy infrastructure, and high-end consumer electronics—where weight savings must not compromise mechanical integrity.
From billets and bar to bent tube, machined plate, and complex weldments, BADGERADVANCED Titanium solutions are tailored to elevate performance where failure is not an option.
Manufacturing Process
Titanium manufacturing begins with an energy-intensive process rooted in chemistry, metallurgy, and high-temperature extraction. The majority of titanium metal is produced from titanium-bearing minerals such as rutile (TiO₂) and ilmenite (FeTiO₃). These ores undergo chlorination in the presence of carbon to create titanium tetrachloride (TiCl₄), a volatile intermediate compound that is then purified through distillation.
The purified TiCl₄ is reduced using magnesium (Mg) in what is known as the Kroll Process, a batch process where titanium metal is precipitated in a sponge-like form under high heat in an inert atmosphere. This sponge is then leached and purified, compacted into electrodes, and vacuum-arc melted to form titanium ingots. These ingots become the basis for most downstream titanium mill products such as bar, billet, tube, sheet, and plate, which are forged, rolled, drawn, or extruded depending on the final application.
As a long-time supplier of both magnesium and titanium-based products, American Carbon Company has unique vertical insight into this entire value chain. Our expertise in magnesium sourcing - one of the largest input costs and chemical drivers of the Kroll Process - gives us real-world context into titanium’s price and material availability dynamics. This awareness informs smarter procurement, better long-term planning, and lower risk for our customers.
Once we receive mill-processed titanium materials, our in-house capabilities take over: we cut, machine, form, and weld titanium components using optimized processes tailored to the specific alloy and geometry. All work is performed with a deep understanding of titanium’s reactivity, fatigue behavior, and oxide passivation, ensuring each part performs reliably in its intended service environment.
By understanding the upstream challenges of titanium production—and pairing that with downstream fabrication excellence—we position BADGERADVANCED Titanium as a material solution that is not only high performance, but also strategically sourced and intelligently applied.
Specifications
Titanium's performance varies significantly by grade, with each alloy offering distinct advantages based on strength, weldability, corrosion resistance, and thermal stability. Below are the technical data for the most commercially used titanium grades in engineered applications Grade 2 (CP-2), Grade 5 (Ti-6Al-4V), and Grade 9 (Ti-3Al-2.5V).
Our product technical data sheets are also available in PDF form. Please click below to download a PDF version of the data sheet.
Element | Grade 2 (%) | Grade 5 (%) | Grade 9 (%) |
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Aluminum (Al) | — | 5.5 – 6.75 | 2.5 – 3.5 |
Vanadium (V) | — | 3.5 – 4.5 | 2.0 – 3.0 |
Iron (Fe) | ≤ 0.30 | ≤ 0.40 | ≤ 0.25 |
Oxygen (O) | ≤ 0.25 | ≤ 0.20 | ≤ 0.15 |
Carbon (C) | ≤ 0.10 | ≤ 0.08 | ≤ 0.08 |
Nitrogen (N) | ≤ 0.03 | ≤ 0.05 | ≤ 0.03 |
Hydrogen (H) | ≤ 0.015 | ≤ 0.015 | ≤ 0.015 |
Titanium (Ti) | Balance | Balance | Balance |
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