The Outline of this presentation will be: Allegheny Technologies: Mission Scope Future Investments Technical Depth ATI Wah Chang: History Elemental Focus Niobium Production Product Forms Manufacturing Capabilities Common Alloys Superconducting Projects Current Supply Status Material Challenges Standards Laboratory Capabilities
Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI) is one of the largest and most diversified specialty metals producers in the world. Our major markets are aerospace and defense, chemical process industry/oil and gas, electrical energy, medical, automotive, food equipment and appliance, machine and cutting tools, and construction and mining Our products include titanium and titanium alloys, nickel-based alloys and superalloys, grain-oriented electrical steel, stainless and specialty steels, zirconium, hafnium, niobium, tungsten materials, forgings, castings, and fabrication and machining capabilities. ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
Status of Superconducting Material 2nd Workshop on Superconducting RF Cavity Technology and Industrialization for the International Linear Collider Tony Nelson 24 July 2011
Construction of Albany Plant - 1956 History 1956 Wah Chang Opens Plant in Albany, Oregon 1967 Teledyne, Inc. Acquires Wah Chang and becomes Teledyne Wah Chang 1984 Teledyne Wah Chang Opens Huntsville, Alabama Facility 1996 Allegheny Ludlum and Teledyne Combine to Form Allegheny Teledyne Construction of Albany Plant - 1956 ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
History 1999 Allegheny Teledyne Buys OREMET Allegheny Teledyne Spins Off and Changes Name to Allegheny Technologies (ATI) 2002 ATI Merges Ti Wire to Wah Chang 2003 ATI Merges Midwest Labs to Wah Chang 2006 Planned Restart of Ti Sponge Facility at OREMET Site Building no. 1 in 2006 ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
Alloy Focus Elements Melting Point and Density ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
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Forms Flat Products Foil Plate Strip Sheet ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
Forms Round Products Bar / Billet Rod Ingot Rod / Wire ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
Electron Beam Melting (Albany, Oregon) Control Station Furnace ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
GFM Rotary Forging Press Forging (Albany, Oregon) Press Forging (Albany, Oregon) Rotary Forging Press Forging ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
Cold Rolling Flat Products (Albany, Oregon) Tube Processing (Albany, Oregon) Cold Rolling Flat Products Tube Extrusion ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
Superconducting & High Energy Physics Commonly Used Alloys Nb55Ti Nb7.5Ta Nb47Ti Nb Type 1 Nb Type 2 NbRRR Illustration of the International Linear Collider (ILC) – Courtesy of CERN ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
Superconducting Material Supplier to: Tevatron – Fermilab RHIC – Brookhaven National Lab Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – CERN ITER Spallation Neutron Source – ORNL ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
Current Supply Position Routine production of NbRRR > 300 Multiple EB furnaces for Niobium production Cold mill and finishing capability for NbRRR sheet Routinely produce and supply Nb55Ti in various forms ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
Material Challenges facing ILC Estimated requirement for NbRRR is approximately 600 tons over 3 years Production of NbRRR requires significant EB melt capacity Material supply will require advanced planning Supply chain risks can be mitigated through advance material purchase and long term supply agreements ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
ATI Wah Chang Standards & Certifications ISO 9001:2000 SAE AS9100 ISO 17025 MIL-I-45208 PED 97/23/EC MIL-Q-9858 10 CFR 50 EN 10204 3.1 ASME NCA 3800 ASME NQA-1 ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
Analytical Laboratory Capabilities Inductively-Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectroscopy Plasma Emission Spectroscopy Water Analysis Gamma Ray Spectroscopy Scanning Electron Spectroscopy Particle Size Analysis X-Ray Diffraction Interstitial Gas Analysis ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.
Metallurgical Laboratory Capabilities Tensile Testing Hardness Testing Formability Testing Tube Pressure Testing Shape Memory Alloy Testing Vacuum Heat Treatment Microstructure Evaluation Scanning Electron Microscopy Metallography ® 2011 ATI. All Rights Reserved.