The "plasma high temperature separation titanium-aluminum" technology developed by Yunnan experts has recently been successful. This technology will completely end the history of titanium-rich Yunnan, which only sells raw materials, making China the world's third largest titanium industrial country that can directly produce titanium metal powder after the United States and Russia.

According to reports, the annual demand for titanium in China is between 2.5 and 30,000 tons per year, while the annual titanium production in China is only between 1,500 and 2,000 tons. The market gap is huge. In the domestic market, the price of a ton of titanium metal powder is 600,000 yuan, and the international market is as much as 800,000 dollars per ton.

According to experts, Yunnan's mineral resources are very rich. Exploration results show that only the reserves of ilmenite in the three counties of Fumin, Luquan, and Wuding in the province have reached 20 million tons, and the ore reserves have reached up to a percent. Forty-five to forty-nine, enough to use for fifty years. However, lagging behind the smelting technology, Yunnan's titanium ore has only been sold mainly as raw ore for a long time. In the past, Yunnan's titanium ore was sold as raw materials, only a few cents per kilogram of titanium ore. Until the initial processing enterprises that produced titanium dioxide in recent years, the price per ton of titanium dioxide was about 12,000 yuan.

After the successful development of this technology, it will soon be put into use. According to Shang Jiarong, chairman of Fumin Blonde Mining Co., Ltd. who is responsible for the construction of a titanium metal plant for the first phase of the “Titanium-Aluminum Industrial Project,” the metal titanium plant will be put into production once it starts. Ultra-fine, high-purity titanium metal powder 28,500 tons, pure iron powder 37,000 tons, titanium iron powder 7,200 tons, "a year's worth of production can reach 3.09 billion yuan, can be turned over The tax of 700 million yuan will fill the historical gap in the development of China's titanium industry."

Titanium and its oxides and alloys are important coatings, new structural materials and anti-corrosion materials. They are hailed as "the third metal in development after the succession of iron and aluminum" and "strategic metal" in aviation, military, metallurgy and chemical industry. , machinery, environmental protection, medical equipment and other fields have a wide range of applications, in the national economy has its important position and role.