ATI starts up titanium sheet production

ATI Inc., a Dallas-based producer of titanium, nickel and cobalt alloys, has started up its new facility in Pageland, South Carolina, designed to produce titanium alloy sheet.

ATI says titanium alloy sheet is technically challenging to produce but says the material is critical to airframe manufacturers, bringing strength and durability to aerostructure components and assemblies.

“Recognizing the high quality of our products, customers have been asking ATI to add this offering to our titanium portfolio,” ATI President and CEO Kimberly A. Fields says. “With our Pageland facility fully online and in production, we now offer a full complement of titanium materials, producing quality titanium sheets wider and longer than anyone in the industry.”

ATI has a multiyear agreement with Airbus to provide the aircraft producer with titanium plate, sheet and billet for narrow- and wide-body aircraft. ATI estimates more than two-thirds of the Pageland plant’s capacity will be sold under long-term agreements with aerospace customers, including Airbus, with qualifications already underway.

The metals producer, which in its most recent sustainability report indicates the recycled content of the metals it produced in 2024 was 81 percent, says the Pageland facility was designed “with sustainability at the forefront.”

The plant includes all-electric furnaces and a highly efficient water-jacketed pickle line that ATI says result in zero air emissions and minimal wastewater discharge.