FIKO is a private industrial company, owner of titanium mill in Kiev, Ukraine, for melting titanium ingots with their further working into rolled titanium titanium bars, titanium tubes, titanium sheets, titanium plates, titanium wire.

Manufacture of titanium ingots:

 titanium ingots ASTM Grade 1, titanium ingot ASTM Grade 2, titanium ingots ASTM Grade 3, titanium ingot ASTM Grade 4, titanium ingots ASTM Grade 5, titanium ingot Ti6Al/4V,  titanium ingots ASTM Grade 9.

Manufacture titanium slabs:

 ASTM Grade 1, ASTM Grade 2, ASTM Grade 3, ASTM Grade 4, ASTM Grade 5, Ti6Al/4V,  ASTM Grade 9.

on FIKO Electron-Beam Metallurgical plant  

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Fiko Ltd has titanium mill in Kiev and produce following:

a)    titanium ingots ASTM Grade 1,  titanium ingot ASTM Grade 2, titanium ingots ASTM Grade 3, titanium ingot ASTM Grade 4, titanium ingots Ti6Al/4V, titanium ingot ASTM Grade 5, titanium ingots ASTM Grade 9 

b)      Titanium slabs  ASTM Grade 2, ASTM Grade 3, ASTM Grade 4, Ti6Al/4V, ASTM Grade 5, ASTM Grade 9 

c)      Titanium materials including: titanium bar, titanium sheet, titanium plate, titanium wire and titanium tube.

Upon customer's request we can manufacture of titanium ingots and titanium slab ASTM Grade1 and Grade2 with controlling oxygen content:

a) CP (commercially pure) titanium slab and ingot with low oxygen content  till 0.04-0.8%

b) With average oxygen content – 0.12-0.15%

c) With general oxygen content in titanium ingot and titanium slab according to ASTM requirements.

Fiko Electron-Beam Metallurgical plant supplied following titanium slabs upon customer's request:   

a) titanium slabs  can be supplied turned

b) titanium slabs  can be supplied not turned.

Fiko Electron-Beam Metallurgical plant will have possibility to melt slabs of nearly 12 000 kg mass.

It is the same situation with titanium ring, titanium flanges, titanium disks, titanium squares, and titanium billets. Depending on diameter of titanium ring, titanium flange, titanium disk, titanium square or titanium billet it is taken corresponding diameter of titanium ingot or the specific size of titanium slab.

In case titanium ring, titanium flange, titanium disk, titanium square or titanium billet have to have mechanical properties so titanium ingots or titanium slabs do not suit for them we should manufacture them from titanium bar both forged titanium bars and hot rolled titanium bars.

We melted titanium ingots with length 1000mm and more. The new facility will be able to melt titanium ingots up to 4000mm in length.

Titanium slabs and titanium slab is subdivided into following:

a) titanium slab or titanium slab by width

b) titanium slabs or titanium slab by thickness

c) turned or not turned titanium slabs / titanium slab

Titanium slabs and titanium ingot, are produced in different weight.

The weight of titanium ingots produced by us before weighted 700 to 3200 kg. With new melting furnace we will have possibility to melt ingots of nearly 12 000 kg mass.

The main parameters of titanium slab and  titanium ingots, depend on market demands. For production of titanium bars the most suitable will be titanium ingot ф 370mm, for rolling of titanium sheets and titanium plates the ingots with ф 630-860mm are the best choice. Moreover titanium sheets and plates are better manufactured from titanium slab and titanium slabs.

The market dictates to manufacturer of titanium slabs and ingots that it’s cause repartition of consumption market of titanium slabs and titanium ingots:

a)       titanium slabs will be used only for production of titanium sheets and plates

b)       titanium ingots from production market of titanium sheet and plate

c)      titanium ingots take niche only for production of titanium bars, titanium tubes where titanium slabs cannot be used

d)      titanium slabs and ingot have common market of repartition- this is titanium ring, titanium billets, titanium flanges, titanium disks. Depending on their parameters titanium slabs or ingots or titanium slab and ingots could be used for production.

Very often customers require titanium ingots Ti6Al-4V ф 200-250mm. Usually, such titanium ingots are used in production of titanium golf clubs instead of more expensive titanium bars.

Depending on materials sizes customer needs different titanium slabs by width and length.

For example, Japanese manufacturers of titanium materials-titanium sheets, plates and also sheets in coil need different titanium slabs by width and length. So they manufacture titanium sheet in coil 600mm and more. For this reason they need different size slabs by width. Such titanium slab is needed for Japanese and Italian manufacturers for production titanium coil sheet. Globalization forces manufacturers of titanium slabs to specialize in production of titanium slabs by width or to have various crystallizers for production titanium slabs in depend on market of coil sheet and in the end the exact sizes of titanium slabs will be produced.

FIKO’s new melting facility is also purposed for melting titanium slabs.

Titanium slabs will be produced in following dimensions

height of titanium slab - 400-500 mm

width of titanium slab - 1050-1325 mm

length of titanium slab - 4000 mm

Titanium slabs will be supplied either in turned (machined) condition or with non-machined surface.

FIKO metallurgical plant manufactures titanium ingots both turned and not turned with dia 370, 400, 450, 510, 600, 630, 800 mm and titanium slabs both machined and non-machined and supplies such titanium ingots and titanium slabs to the market of Asia, Europe and America.

The control of quality of titanium slabs and ingots,  titanium slab and ingot start with titanium sponge, titanium scrap and titanium cuttings quality control.

In manufacture of titanium slabs, titanium ingots, titanium slab, titanium ingot the following grades of titanium sponge are used TG-90, TG-100, TG-110, TG-120, and TG-130 and in exceptional cases TG-150. Titanium sponge should be supplied in pressurized drums and accompanied by quality certificate. The customer orders titanium ingots, titanium slabs, and titanium slab and titanium ingot with low or high oxygen content. Before melting of titanium ingots or titanium slabs, titanium sponge should be pressed and sorted in accordance to customers’ demands regarding oxygen and iron content. The chemical composition of titanium sponge is checked by analyses and if the results conform to the figures indicated in certificate, the sponge is used in production of titanium ingot, titanium ingots, titanium slab, titanium slabs.

In case we have to melt titanium ingots or titanium slabs, titanium ingot or titanium slab with high oxygen content 0.20-0.25%, then TiO2 is added to titanium sponge while pressing. After that titanium sponge is prepared for melting. After the titanium sponge are ready for melting it is passed from preparing raw material section to melting section of titanium ingots or titanium slabs. 

At our plant titanium ingots, titanium slabs are melted by electron-beam method.

The process of manufacture of titanium ingot, titanium ingots, titanium slab, titanium slabs is rather laborious and difficult because there are no companies in Ukraine who could supply titanium scrap in prepared for melting condition.

of FIKO have to sort out titanium scrap thoroughly because the quality and purity of titanium ingots and titanium slabs depends on the quality of titanium scrap.

Our workers have to check every piece of titanium scrap since if the preparing division of titanium scrap make mistake so titanium ingot, titanium slab will be produced with the same chemical composition as titanium scrap.

Take into account a high coat of titanium slabs and ingots and also weight of titanium slab and ingot so the mistake may cost expansive.

So Fiko Electron-Beam Metallurgical plant modernizes and improve technology of preparing of titanium scrap for melt of titanium slabs and titanium ingots permanently.

FIKO metallurgical plant usually melts Ukrainian titanium scrap into titanium ingots and titanium slabs only of VT1-0, VT6 and PT3V grades, because in melting titanium scrap consisting of the pieces of titanium bars, sheets and plates some part of alloyed elements are burned out and it is necessary to add the ligature. That’s why the production of titanium ingot, titanium ingots, titanium slab, titanium slabs in OT4, OT4-0, OT4-1, VT3-1, VT5-1, VT14, VT16, VT20, VT22, VT23, PT1M, 5V alloy, PT7M is not profitable.

That is why we are interested in ASTM GRADE 1, ASTM GRADE 2, ASTM GRADE Ti6AL/4V scrap for production of titanium slabs and ingots.

Moreover, titanium ingots and titanium slabs in OT4, OT4-0, OT4-1, VT3-1, VT5-1, VT6, VT6S, VT14, VT16, VT20, VT22, VT23, PT1M, 5V alloy, PT3V, PT7M should be double melted but it is not mean that titanium slabs cannot be produced from alloys for one melting.

This is the reason we are interested in partners from Europe, Japan, South Korea, and USA who supply titanium scrap (remains of titanium bars, titanium sheets and titanium tubes) ASTM Grade-1; Grade-2; Grade-3, Grade-4; Ti6Al/4V; Grade-5; Grade-9.

Titanium scrap from titanium bars, titanium sheets, titanium plates, and titanium tubes should be sorted and prepared for melting and supplied with quality certificate.

The best scrap for melting titanium ingots and titanium slabs if the scrap from titanium sheets and titanium plates, because titanium scrap from titanium bars and titanium tubes cannot be piled into melting boxes tight enough. The scrap from titanium sheets and titanium plates is preferable because one melting yields of titanium ingot or titanium slab from sheets plates scrap is more than from scrap of bars and tubes.

After melting of titanium ingot or titanium slab it is cooling stage. Then titanium ingot or titanium slab is turned. While turning the test samples are picked out for analysis of chemical composition of melted titanium ingots or titanium slabs. Titanium turnings taken from definite titanium ingot or titanium scrap are forwarded to laboratory for analysis. Ultrasonic testing is carried out only for titanium ingots and titanium slabs with mechanically turned (machined) surface. In certificate for such titanium ingots or slabs we make a mark about ultrasonic control. In case customer’s demand is titanium ingot or titanium slab is with non-machined condition it is supplied without ultrasonic testing.

Finished production – titanium ingots and titanium slabs – are forwarded to the stock where all titanium materials are stored. In certificate for titanium slabs, titanium ingots and titanium slab and titanium ingot the following information is indicated:

a)      Casting number of titanium ingots, titanium ingot, titanium slab, titanium slabs

b)      GOST, OST and TU according to which the titanium slabs, titanium ingots, titanium slab and titanium slabs are made

c)      Length of titanium slabs, titanium ingots, titanium slab and titanium slabs

d)      Weight of titanium slabs, titanium ingots, titanium slab and titanium slabs

e)      Chemical composition of titanium slabs, titanium ingots, titanium slab and titanium slabs

f)        Gas composition of titanium slabs, titanium ingots, titanium slab and titanium slabs

g)      Sizes of titanium slabs, titanium ingots, titanium slab and titanium slabs: width, thickness, weight

The information about newly melted titanium ingots and titanium slabs goes to sales & marketing department. The sales specialists of FIKO communicating with customers in Ukraine as well as in Europe, Asia, USA, Australia and provide all the necessary and required info about our titanium production.

Ti has order and export manager report we sign the contract for supply of titanium ingots, titanium slabs and this information is moved to logistic department concerning shipment these ingots or slabs.

If the customer is abroad so the specialists arrange the delivery of titanium ingots and titanium slabs.

The document set is passed to carrier with titanium ingots and titanium slabs as following: packing list for lot, quality certificate for titanium slabs, titanium ingots, titanium slab, titanium ingot.

We are interested in new supply markets of titanium slabs, titanium ingots, titanium slab, titanium ingot ASTM Grade-1; ASTM Grade-2; ASTM Grade-3, ASTM Grade-4; ASTM Ti6Al/4V; ASTM Grade-5; ASTM Grade-9.

More over we supply titanium bars dia. 10mm to 330mm, titanium sheets and plates with 0.8-10mm thickness and titanium tubes, titanium plates with 10.5 to 80mm.

We supply titanium bars Ti6Al/4V dia.75-330mm from stock in Kiev and Rotterdam.

Moreover we take orders for manufacture of following:

      -    Titanium bars ASTM Grade-1, Grade-2, Grade-5, Ti6Al/4V Æ 10-330 мм

-         Titanium sheets and plates плит ASTM Grade-1, Grade-2, Grade-5, Ti6Al/4V

-         Titanium seamless tubes ASTM Grade-1, Grade-2.

Fiko Ltd are able also to supply ready titanium bars, titanium rings, titanium sheets, titanium palates, titanium tubes, titanium forgings if they are on stock:

a) From one titanium bar to large quantity

b) From one titanium sheet, plate to large quantity

c) From one titanium tube to large quantity.

We meet industrial enterprises requirements in supplying of part of titanium bar, ring, titanium forging, titanium sheet, titanium plate, titanium seamless tube and titanium-welded tube.

We release titanium bars with length 100mm and more, titanium tubes 500mm and more, titanium sheets with width 100mm and more and titanium plates with width 100mm and more for industrial enterprises.

We will consider any your orders and arrange the delivery of titanium bars, titanium sheets, titanium plates, titanium tubes, seamless tubes, titanium welded tubes to any point of the world not forbidden by OON.

Sometimes there is no need long titanium ingot weight 2.5-12 t for industrial enterprise for manufacture of titanium rings, titanium flanges, titanium dicks. Fiko meets industrial enterprises requirements and are able to cut needed part of titanium ingot or from part of titanium ingot we manufacture titanium billets for manufacture titanium flanges, titanium rings, titanium dicks.

 We are ready to economize your money, time and hope to be your constant supplier.

Titanium bars of Fiko Ltd are supplied with accordance with GOST, OST and TU

1.      Titanium  bars for shipbuilding OST 1 92062-90

2.      Titanium  bar PT3V, 3M, 5V, 37, 19 and OST V.9325-79

3.      Titanium bars alloy forgings and die forming OST 1 90000-70

4.      Titanium bar alloy die forming OST TU U 14275539-002-94

5.      Titanium  bars  GOST 26492-85

6.      Titanium  bar OST 1 90266-86

7.      Titanium  bars OST 1 92020-82

8.      Titanium  bars with large dimension OST 1 90266-86  

9.      Titanium  bar of general purpose TU 1-83-21-79

10.  Titanium  bars OST 1 90107-79

11.  Titanium bar VT22 TU 1-92-38-75

12.  Titanium  bars OST 1 90201-75

13.  Titanium  bar VT16 OST 1 90202-75

14.  Titanium and titanium alloy welded wire GOST 27265-87

15.  Titanium alloy welded wire OST 1 90015-72

16.  Titanium bars accordance with ASTM

We take in manufacture and supply of titanium bars from titanium ingots are melted by technology of following standards of titanium ingots:

1.      Titanium alloy titanium ingots 2V, 3M, PT3V, PT7M, 19, 40, 17, TU 1-5-453-78

2.      Titanium ingot Grade1, Grade2, VT1-0, VT1-00, VT6 TU U 14275539-004-2000

3.      Titanium ingots VT1-0, VT1-00, VT6, VT6C, accordance with TU U 14275539-003-97

4.      Titanium ingot VT1-0, VT1-00 accordance with TU U 14275539-001-94

We supply titanium sheets and plates according to GOST, OST, TU :

1.      Titanium and titanium alloy plate GOST 23755-79

2.      Titanium plates and titanium sheet 3V and 40 TU 1-5-357-75 (instead of TU 1-5-002-74 TU 1-5-005-72)

3.      Titanium  plate OST 1 90024-71

4.      Titanium and titanium alloy sheets GOST   22178-76

5.      Titanium  sheets OST 1 90218-76

6.      Titanium  sheet OST 1 90042-71

We supply also titanium tubes:

1.      Titanium  tube GOST 22897-86

2.      Titanium alloy tube billets TU 1-5-132-78, TU 14-1U-1909-93, TU 14-3-821-79

3.      Titanium  tube TU 1-5-107-78

4.      Titanium  tubes TU 14-3-821-79, GOST 21945-76

5.      Titanium  tube TU 14-3-820-79, TU 14-3-521-76

6.      Titanium  tubes PT3V, TU 14-3-1280-84

7.      Titanium and titanium alloy welded  tubes according to GOST 24890-81

8.      Titanium  tubes according to OST 1 90050-72

9.      Titanium alloy tubes with higher quality according to OST 1 90065-72

10.  Titanium and titanium alloy welded tubes according to OST 1 90051-79

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