August 2026

Tantalum is specified where titanium and the nickel alloys have already been ruled out: hot concentrated acids that attack passive oxide films rather than sit on them. It is bought late in a selection process, and the enquiry that follows is usually about form and length rather than about whether the metal will hold. Where […]

In a chlor-alkali cell the titanium is not doing the electrochemistry. The coating is. Titanium is there because it is a valve metal: where the coating wears through, the exposed substrate repassivates instead of dissolving, which is what lets the same anode base be recoated instead of being scrapped. Which coating a chlorine duty takes

Caustic service is where commercially pure nickel earns its place over both stainless steel and titanium. Titanium is chosen for chlorides and oxidising conditions; hot concentrated caustic is the case that sends an enquiry to Nickel 200 and 201 instead. The part that catches buyers out is the paperwork: for one alloy, the specification number

Nickel alloy forgings are ordered in the same four shapes as titanium forgings, but the envelope is not the same and the specification set is much shorter. A buyer moving a part from titanium to Alloy 625 or C276 will find the ring and disc diameters cut roughly in half, and that is the first

A forged titanium disc is bought as two things at once: a shape and an inspectable volume. The shape range is wide, but the thicker the disc, the harder the ultrasonic examination that has to pass through it, and that interaction shapes a disc enquiry as much as the outline does. The disc envelope, and

A forged ring and a rolled ring arrive at the same shape by different routes, and in industry practice the choice follows the ring’s proportions rather than a preference for one process. Open-die forging suits thick, small-bore rings; ring rolling suits thin-walled rings of large diameter. What Beiyu Titanium publishes is the supply envelope, not

Explosive cladding bonds a titanium layer to a structural backing so that one plate does two jobs: the titanium meets the process fluid, and the backing carries the pressure. That split is also where most clad enquiries go wrong, because a single thickness figure on a drawing does not say which of the two layers

Beiyu Titanium supplies round titanium bar from 1 mm to 500 mm diameter in one supply range, lengths up to 6000 mm, to ASTM B348, with an EN 10204 type 3.1 certificate by order scope. One envelope matters for one practical reason: a project with thin instrument pins and heavy flange blanks can sit on

Titanium anode baskets hold soluble metal in plating and electroforming cells, and the basket itself must not dissolve. Grade 1 and Grade 2 titanium do that job. Beiyu Titanium supplies the material side: bar, rod, sections and machined parts for basket fabrication, with an EN 10204 type 3.1 certificate by order scope. Why titanium for

Beiyu Titanium supplies hexagonal titanium bar up to 17 mm across flats, in lengths up to 6000 mm, to ASTM B348, with an EN 10204 type 3.1 certificate by order scope. Hex bar exists for one reason: parts with a wrench flat or a nut form machine faster from hex stock than from round. What