Titanium Tubing

DEFINITION of titanium TUBING: titanium tubing is used when weight to strength is a requirement. Titanium is a lightweight material whose density is approximately 60 percent of steel's and 50 percent of nickel and copper alloys

Titanium tubing is a lightweight material whose density is approximately 60 percent of steel tubing and 50 percent of nickel and copper alloy tubing.  Typical applications included marine, refinery, pulp and paper, chlorine and chlorate production, hydrometallurgy, and various other oxidizing and mildly reducing chemical services.

Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the earth's crust and the fourth most commonly used structural metal. Titanium began to be used for many nontraditional applications, including tubulars for geothermal energy extraction and oil and gas production, consumer goods (such as sporting equipment), food processing and biomedical implants. Titanium 6Al-4V is the considered the workhorse of the titanium family and is suitable for most applications that require good strength to weight ratio.

Since the mid-1980s, Dynamic Flowform has used the precision flowforming process to produce hundreds of different components out of materials such as titanium tubing, flowforming the parts to net or near-net shape. Flowforming is an advanced, cold forming process used to manufacture dimensionally precise, round, seamless, hollow parts and components. Flowformed titanium tubing has high tensile strength with good ductility. It is often more economical to flowform thin walled titanium tubing  than to create them through other manufacturing methods, such as machining sold bar or heavy wall extrusions. In addition to economical advantages, by flowforming the titanium tubing components, there are often dimensional, mechanical and metallurgical benefits.

Customers can take advantage of the flowforming characteristics by incorporating them into their designs. In addition to the benefits listed above, flowforming produces titanium tubing components with seamless constructions. Quite often, Dynamic Flowform is able to integrate more than one previously separate component into the same titanium tubing structure, eliminating welds.

Our flowformed components range in size from diameters of 0.866" to 25.600" (22-650mm), wall thicknesses from 0.006" to 0.600" (0.15-15mm) with lengths up to 26.5 ft. (8 meters). Since flowform metal forming poses no limitations on the relationship between components' diameter and wall thickness, quite often we produce large diameters with precise thin walls