ATI sees boost for titanium in an age of composites
Allegheny Technologies (ATI) is exhibiting at a Farnborough Air Show for the first time as ATI Aerospace–a new “market sector team” charged with answering

Allegheny Technologies (ATI) is exhibiting at a Farnborough Air Show for the first time as ATI Aerospace–a new “market sector team” charged with answering record demand for titanium and super alloys from the aerospace and defense industry.

“We believe we have an unprecedented opportunity in the aerospace business,” ATI chairman, president and CEO Pat Hassey said during a media briefing at the company’s Monroe, North Carolina offices in the run-up to the show. “I think the open schedule for single-aisle [airplanes] today is 2016 to 2018, unless you can squeeze one in. We know that the next-generation aircraft are game-changers, described as from canvas to wood to aluminum to composites. But what people don’t say is you don’t have composites unless
you have titanium.”