TiFast

With the beginning of the year 2008 European Titanium Company TiFast definitely arrived to the completion of its starting up phase and now possesses the facilities that are completely functional. This important goal has been achieved thanks to the long experience and knowledge of Tifast team in titanium making.Created as a semi-integrated company TiFast now has two completely functional melting furnaces with a total capacity of 2000 Tons/year and capable to produce ingots of whatever composition needed, on demand. The technology of this furnace is unique in the world as it permits to multiply the possibilities of production by feeding the furnace with titanium sponge and /or titanium scrap in order to achieve flexibility of production process and best product quality.As a second stage of its in home production TiFast completed its rolling mill, it is a highly automatic unit of the last generation for the production of bars and rods. It is a combined plant composed of: roughing mill, continuous mill, rods line and furnaces and permits to have 100% control of the quality of the product through computerized continuous check of reduction, temperature and any metallurgical requirement. The last very important step of the completion and integration of production was made by TiFast in the finishing department. TiFast now has its own finishing lines for all the products offered to the customer and produces as rolled heat treated semi-finished wire rod and heat treated, straightened, peeled or centerless ground finished bars. The feedback from customers and market in general confirms that the initial idea of creating in Europe a company with a new approach to the production of Titanium products is correct. While elsewhere a few companies had coped with the specialization on Titanium making, in Europe this type of production was traditionally considered as marginal and occasional and carried on by steel makers on the same plants used for steel or super-alloys.This caused troubles in the organization of the work, a broad usage of toll-working, the difficulty of acquiring a specialized know-how on the product, dependency from suppliers of materials and services, long delivery times, high prices. This hampered the expansion of traditional application of Titanium alloys and kept emerging usages in a painstakingly slow stage of development.Paying particular attention to the quality of the products the company organized and activated its quality system in the way to satisfy the international quality requirements and quality management standards and now is certified with UNI EN ISO 9001: 2000.It also co-operates with a range of companies active in medical and aerospace applications to obtain necessary certifications to work also in those fields.Continuous research and development, fast and continuous production control contribute to the high technical value of the company which is able to support customer also in developing new applications. Nowadays TiFast is able to satisfy all the requests of the industrial market paying particular attention to the quality, pricing strategy and fast and efficient assistance of its clients.