Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, yet products based on pure titanium are uncommon because it's expensive to remove the oxygen from titanium ore. Reducing costs would ...

Earlier in this series, we made the case for copper being “the metal that built technology.” Some readers took issue with that statement, noting correctly that meteoric iron and gold were worked long ...

IperionX’s HAMR titanium furnace, the foundation asset to produce low-cost titanium, has completed final mechanical assembly and successfully passed factory acceptance tests with the IPX technical ...

Metal 3D printing has long promised aerospace-grade parts at desktop scale, but titanium has stubbornly resisted that vision. A new approach called cold metal fusion is changing that equation, turning ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IperionX Limited (“IperionX”) (Nasdaq | ASX: IPX), is pleased to announce that it has completed detailed engineering design for the planned 125 metric tonnes per ...

A nearly $1 billion titanium plant bringing hundreds of high-paying jobs will be built in Cumberland County, the Fayetteville-Cumberland Economic Development Corporation announced Tuesday afternoon.

When I heard a titanium plant could be built here, my thoughts first went to what will be the environmental impact. Fresh on my mind is the local (and spreading) groundwater and air contamination from ...