Titanium dioxide is the new material of graphene

More than 80 titanium dioxide production enterprises in the world, China's distribution of nearly 90%, is undoubtedly the largest producer of titanium dioxide (Titanium Dioxide), but more than 70 domestic titanium dioxide companies "funge melee" led to low prices of each other's products chaos, Reduce costs and high-end rutile titanium dioxide or outlets.

The company’s Titanium Dioxide Analyst Yang Xun stated that “the titanium dioxide industry, like other industries, can control the cost of living.”

At present, more than 95% of China's production of titanium dioxide using the ** process, titanium and yttrium is the main raw material for the production of titanium dioxide, total of about 50% of the production costs of titanium dioxide.

Yang Xun believes that the price of titanium concentrate is more than double the price of titanium. The importance of titanium concentrate is self-evident. The raw material of titanium concentrate is directly related to the quality of titanium dioxide.

From the price point of view, the production of 1 ton of titanium dioxide requires 2.5 tons of titanium concentrate and 4.25 tons of **. At present, Panzhihua 46 grade titanium concentrate 1020 yuan / ton -1080 yuan / ton, **, ** acid tax price of 300 yuan / ton.

With the price of titanium dioxide going down, titanium concentrates have been snooped by related companies for a long time. The establishment of stable raw material procurement channels to ensure the supply of raw materials and reduce the fluctuation of raw material prices are critical to the company's performance.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the Panzhihua region in Sichuan Province is China's largest titanium concentrate production area, accounting for 46% of the country's total production, followed by Yunnan, accounting for 32% of the total. Sichuan Longxi Titanium Industry Co., Ltd. is located in Sichuan Province, where it controls rich titanium resources, and it has location and transportation advantages.

Titanium dioxide breaks the graphene myth as a new favorite of new materials turned out to be born. According to foreign media reports, a few days ago, the new material, multi-purpose titanium dioxide or will replace the wide range of graphene, has become 'the world's most useful material'. The core of this research is to convert cheap titanium dioxide crystals into nanofibers and to fabricate them with other materials. 'Other materials' can be copper, zinc, carbon, etc. depending on its end use.

It is understood that multi-purpose titanium dioxide can be used to improve battery life, purify water quality, and manufacture antimicrobial medical materials. At present, the R&D team is setting up a spin-off company to better carry out the next step of development and hope to commercialize this new technology.

Subjects are soaring despite the fact that multi-purpose titanium dioxide has not yet exited the door of the laboratory, but the market funds can not wait to pour into the subject matter stocks. Yesterday afternoon, Annada, China National Nuclear Titanium and Titanium (600456) and titanium-related stocks began to soar, Annada intraday limit, the main net inflow of 47.93 million yuan. The performances of Yanli Lian, CNI Titanium Dioxide and Baoti Ti are also stronger than the market, reporting gains of 6.51%, 5.72% and 4.83%, respectively.

The alert has declined. Chen Hua, an investment advisor of the China West Securities Wealth Center, believes that heavyweights have recently adjusted, but the market is not lacking in enthusiasm. The bulls are still looking for new hot spots to maintain the market's long-term enthusiasm. For the titanium dioxide concept, although funds have changed, but the strength is not strong, the market outlook needs to observe whether the leading stocks of Ananda can continue to rise strongly. If the short-term can not be a strong rise, in the case of the industry fundamentals did not significantly improve, can only be The use of funds to find hot news, short-term operations need to be vigilant to go down, investors pay attention to the risk of short-term recovery.

Sun Deyue, an analyst at the Sundest Institute, believes that although titanium dioxide has been proven to perform well in the laboratory, replacing graphene in the short term is still skeptical. However, the concept of titanium dioxide is more active in the chemical sector. Even if there is no high-tech concept, there are good investment targets. The outstanding achievements of Li-Li and the concept of restructuring in the nuclear titanium dioxide are worth investors attention. (Beijing Times)

China Will Explore Integrated Development of Vanadium and Titanium Resources Anshan Iron and Steel Group and the Chinese Academy of Sciences signed a "strategic cooperation agreement" in the afternoon to collaborate on the development and utilization of vanadium and titanium resources of Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. in Panzhihua and Xichang areas in Sichuan province to advance the vanadium and titanium industry.

At the same time, the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission stated that the country has officially agreed to establish a Panxi Strategic Resource Innovation and Development Experimental Zone and build a world-class vanadium and titanium industrial base.

This is because since the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "12th Five-Year Plan for Comprehensive Utilization of Vanadium and Titanium Resources and Industrial Development" in August last year, China has made substantial strides in the development and utilization of vanadium and titanium. Professionals believe that a series of actions show that China pays more attention to the strategic resources of vanadium and titanium and prevents such rare metals from falling into the development dilemma of blind mining, increased pollution, and low-cost exports.

Vanadium and titanium are widely used rare metals. Vanadium is mainly used in alloys to improve the performance of steel. At the same time, vanadium batteries have been commercialized in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Australia for wind power storage, photovoltaic energy storage, and power grid peak shaving. Titanium is widely used in the traditional fields of bleaching, painting, and papermaking. The processed titanium is used in high-end aerospace and military fields.

Yao Lin, deputy general manager of Anshan Iron and Steel Group and chairman of Panzhihua Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd., introduced that Pangang is China's largest steel company with the largest amount of vanadium and titanium resources. In recent years, Panzhihua Iron & Steel has made extensive explorations and developments in development and utilization. However, its comprehensive utilization still faces many difficulties.

'Vanadium and titanium are faced with environmental protection and technical problems both in beneficiation, processing and smelting. Yao Lin said. For example, in Panzhihua and Xichang, Sichuan provinces with the most abundant vanadium and titanium resources, vanadium and titanium exist in magnetite in the form of associated minerals. The special metallogenic mechanism and complex ore composition make it difficult to extract vanadium and titanium. Environmental protection is also a constraint bottleneck. The vanadium and titanium industry has great pollution pressure and high environmental protection costs. It is precisely based on these difficulties that the strategic cooperation between Anshan Iron and Steel and the Chinese Academy of Sciences starts with the high-efficiency separation of vanadium-titanium magnetite, focusing on the development of green metallurgy, the development and application of new vanadium-titanium steel materials, the recovery and utilization of rare and precious metals, and energy conservation and emission reduction. .

Yao Lin said that the comprehensive development and utilization of vanadium and titanium is only difficult for enterprises to complete, and they must adhere to the innovation path of 'opening joint and collaborative research.' According to the agreement signed between Anshan Iron and Steel and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the two sides will establish a mechanism for the mutual assignment of personnel and the establishment of joint laboratories, research and development centers, etc.

Zhang Guangning, chairman of Anshan Iron and Steel Group, said that the vanadium and titanium products not only have a wide application space but also are reasonably added to steel, which is very helpful for upgrading steel products.

The data show that China's vanadium and titanium resources are mainly distributed in Panxi, Sichuan and Chengde, Hebei. Among them, Panxi has the most abundant vanadium-titanium magnetite resources, with 618 million tons of resources, accounting for about 95% of the country's total, accounting for 35 percent of the world's total. %, of which the reserves of titanium ore more than 90% of the total.

According to the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Panxi Strategic Resource Innovation and Development Experimental Zone will exert its advantages in regional resources and industrial bases, actively promote the scientific development and rational use of vanadium and titanium resources, and promote the adjustment of industrial structure and the transformation of development methods, and provide resources for resource-rich regions. Scientific exploration and industrial development explore beneficial experiences.

Zhang Jian, the mayor of Panzhihua City, stated that with the “Planning” escort and Panzhihua City’s strategic development plans for strategic development of innovative resources, Panzhihua City will intensify its innovation-driven development strategy, speed up the development of a vanadium and titanium industry, and build clean, green buildings. The 'Vanadium and Titanium City'.

According to the historical data of the Lange Steel Information Research Center monitoring from 2008 to 2012, the export of ferrotitanium and ferro-titanium in China was a five-year high in 2008, reaching 3341.4 tons; while ferro-vanadium exports reached high in 2011 The point is 6776.0 tons. In 2012, the export situation of China's vanadium and titanium products was reversed, with exports of ferro-titanium and ferro-titanium products 493.5 tons, a year-on-year decrease of 56.9%; exports of vanadium and iron 4888.6 tons, a year-on-year decrease of 27.9%.

'The resources of vanadium and titanium are limited after all. If they are blindly mined for a long time, no one can guarantee it. This will become the next rare earth. 'Wang Guoqing, an analyst at Lange Steel Information Research Center, said that the comprehensive utilization of vanadium and titanium resources will prevent it from falling into the dilemma once encountered in the rare earth industry. (Xinhuanet)

Titanium alloy 3D printing for new machine development CPPCC National Committee, AVIC vice chief engineer, general manager of -15 Sun Cong revealed that titanium alloy and M100 steel 3D printing technology has been widely used in new machine design trial production process. This means that the concept of 3D printing, which has been repeatedly hit in the secondary market, is expected to be sought after by funds once again.

According to Guo Shiliang, investment consultant of Yongzhu Investment, 3D printing concept varieties belong to hot varieties in the recent period. Recently, the news that titanium alloy 3D printing technology has been used for the development of new machines has further stimulated the enthusiasm of 3D printing concept varieties.