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Well, if you are only considering the price level
per gram or kilogramm, you may be right. But - that are by far not
all the facts about titanium.
When thinking of titanium every layman has in mind
a product of high technology. And it is true that titanium, from the
view of the professional developer or technician, too, is an absolutely
high-quality material.
It is a further fact that titanium shows its best
properties when you have reached the limits of good stainless steel
materials like 1.4581/1.4571 or 1.4462/1.4461.
So it is probably a good idea to overthink and judge your constructive
priorities when you intend to change to titanium material:
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If you are satisfied with the properties of the
material you are using now most times you can remarkably reduce
wall thicknesses.
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If you do not want to change the overall dimensions
but only a material change from stainless steel to titanium material
you get strength and rigidity which are most times far beyond the
limits of your formerly used material.
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Titanium has a far better bio-compatibility than
stainless steel. This is very important when ist comes to medical
industry, implants or food industry.
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In connection with a highly agressive medium (as,
for example, found in many applications within chemical industry,
or at water treatment plants, the timespan between service intervals
will increase tremendously due to the higher lifetime of each unit.
But let us come back to the subject of price:
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Titanium is a lot more lightweight compared with
stainless steel, so parts based on titanium have a weight of only
around 60 percent of the same part out of stainless steeel. And
if the part is optimized following the possibilities of titanium
material you often will end at half the weight or even less!
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The last mentioned point is a very important argument
when your product is somewhat what the enduser has to handle or
to carry all day long. Had you ever felt how tiring and uncomfortable
some 50 grams more on a tool can be when it is your turn to handle
it endless hours every day?
When optimal ergonometry is not only a thing of marketing in your
company but really seen as saved weight in daily use, and if you
further want to get even better properties of the material itself,
many times the used material at last will be titanium.
And, well, let us really and firmly come to the point:
Even the pure price level itself is joy when you have met Form and Technik
GmbH as your business partner. Some of our competitors get headaches
when looking on their executed and not executed projects.
Of course we cannot set wonders surrounded by a world of price increases,
that is right. But before you think "all these guys are cooking
with same water" please carefully check the existing differences
... - and, well, we think you then will want to make a test on us as
our many trusty customers did in the first step.
We will be glad to get your inquiries.
Your team of Form and Technik GmbH
September 2007
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