1791 British clergyman w. Gregor (Gregor) in black magnetite discovered a new kind of metal elements. In 1795, German chemist M.H. carat Mr. Preuss rutile (Klaproth) in the research also discovered the elements, and named after the Greek god Titans. 1910 American scientists bioarchaeology Hunter (Hunter) for the first time used sodium reduction TiCI: making the pure titanium. 1940 Luxembourg scientists W.J. klauer (kroll) using magnesium reduction TiCl: with pure titanium. From then on, magnesium reduction method (also called klauer method) and sodium reduction method (also known as hunter method) become industrial method of producing titanium sponge. The United States in 1948 to design the grading form by using magnesium reduction 2 t titanium sponge, reached the scale of industrial production from now on. Then, Britain, Japan, former Soviet union and China also have entered industrialized production, the main production titanium power for the former Soviet union, Japan and the United States.

Titanium is a kind of new metal, because it has a series of excellent properties, are widely used in aviation, aerospace, chemical, petroleum, metallurgy, light industry, electric power, desalination, vessels and appliances and other industrial production in the daily life, it was regarded as modern metal. Titanium production since 1948 to just half a century of history, it is developed with aviation and aerospace industry and emerging industries. Its development experienced several ups and downs, this is because the titanium aircraft industry related. But overall, titanium development speed is quickly, it more than any other development velocity of non-ferrous metals. It can be seen from the sponge titanium industry development all over the world: titanium sponge production scale of 60 kt/a 60 s, 70 s to 1 lokt/a, in the 80 s to 130 kt/a, to the 1992 already amounted to 1992 kt/a. Actual output reached an all-time high in 1990, to 105 kt/a. At present, the world titanium sponge production factory and production capacity listed in table 1-1.

After entering 90 s, because the military reduced the volume of titanium and some countries such as Russia selling stock titanium sponge, weak market a few years ago. Titanium market started to rebound in 1995, mainly because the civilian aircraft such as B777 and titanium golf clubs such as civil quantity increase, demand for titanium in 1996 reached a new high. Experts predict that the next few years will continue to be a big increase in demand for titanium. Currently obstruction of the main reason is the price of your titanium application. Titanium can be expected, with the progress of science and technology and the constant improvement of production technology, expanding production capacity and improve the management level of enterprises, to further reduce the cost of titanium products, titanium necessarily will develop a broader market.