OREANDA-NEWS. On March 19, 2007 VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation has celebrated an outstanding event - the 50th anniversary of the first titanium ingot melting in the Urals, reported the press-centre of  VSMPO-AVISMA. Within the framework of this celebration the International Scientific-Research Conference on Titanium was held on March 14-16, 2007 in Verkhnaya Salda. Over 450 employees of VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation and 103 representatives of different companies, universities, R&D centers and other institutions from Russia and abroad took part in the Conference.


The work of the Conference was very productive: during two conference days 19 reports were made covering review of the world’s titanium market, prospects for extended titanium alloys application in different fields, status and development possibilities for different production lines of the Corporation.  The guests of the Conference got acquainted with production of the Corporation and highly appreciated the processes, product quality and future prospects of the Company. Simultaneously with the Conference, the inter-agency committee working at the Company evaluated feasibility of the development plans for separate production lines suggested by the Company’s specialists to satisfy the demand for titanium alloys first of all from the leading branches of the Russian industry.