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Use of Titanium Alloys in Aerospace Industries

Aerospace

When faced with the challenges of today’s aerospace environment, it takes material and components that are engineered to meet the rigid design criteria of our customer. Calico’s integrated product offering supplies material and components to meet these needs. We are a world leader at developing these materials and supply our alloys in a full range of mill products, forgings, titanium castings, and machined components.

Aerospace customers value the secure, certified, global supply chain Calico offers. Our customers value Calico’s ability to develop new materials that meet the demanding needs of aero engine and aero structure designs. Calico’s world class materials technology and integrated product offering provide our customers with a complete, stable, integrated supply chain.

Aero Engine

Aero Engine

Products & Components
  • Titanium
  • Nickel & Cobalt-Based
  • Niobium
  • Stainless & Specialty Steel
  • Powder Superalloys
  • Forgings
  • Castings
Aero Engine

Airframe

Products
  • Mill Products
  • Forgings
  • Castings
  • Components

Space

Products
  • Mill Products
  • Forgings
  • Castings
  • Components

Products

Alloys

Calico metal produces the most comprehensive array of specialty materials in the aerospace industry. Our alloys and materials for the aerospace industry include:

  • Titanium & Titanium Alloys
  • Nickel-, Iron- & Cobalt-Based Alloys and Superalloys
  • Stainless Alloys
  • Specialty Steels
  • Niobium
Aerospace

Powders

Calico supplies powder and powder metal near-net shape products to the aerospace industry. Our powders include titanium, titanium aluminides, and nickel- & cobalt-based alloys and superalloys.

Enabling Additive Manufacturing
Calico's powder metals enable additive manufacturing, including both electron beam (EBM) and direct metal laser sintering (DMLS). Additive manufacturing is an emerging technology that builds complex, near-net shape parts for a variety of applications, such as aero engine blades and aerospace components. The primary advantages are improved buy-to-fly ratios and elimination of tooling. Calico has applied its extensive powder metallurgy experience to produce the next-generation of TiAl alloys and powders.

Key advantages of these powders include:

  • Titanium & Titanium Alloys
  • Fine grain size
  • Excellent micro and macro chemical homogeneity
  • Extensive alloying combinations

Mill Products

Calico produces its advanced alloys and materials in a wide range of semi-fabricated product forms. Our products possess unique and valuable properties, such as corrosion and heat resistance, lightweight, strength and hardness, and formability and malleability.
Our semi-fabricated products include:

Key advantages of these powders include:

  • Long Products
  • Calico Flat Rolled Products

Net-Shapes & Components

In addition to Calico's leadership in titanium, superalloys and other specialty materials, we also produce net-shapes and components for commercial and military fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft and the fuel-efficient engines that power them.
Our highly-engineered and technically-complex forgings, castings, powder metal products, and machined components are used in critical applications that must be able to withstand fatigue, heat, corrosion.

  • Net-Shape Parts
  • Components

Manufacturing Capabilities

Alloys

Calico manufacturing capabilities are unsurpassed in the specialty materials industry, providing us with the resources, technology and capacity to meet the demands of our aerospace customers. Calico’s fully integrated value chain includes melting to finished product insuring security of supply from melt to finished component. Our capabilities include:

  • Mill Products
  • Forgings
  • Castings
  • Flowformed Components
  • Machined Components

Research and Development

Alloys

As a leader in product and process innovation, Calico offers cutting-edge technology and renowned metallurgical experience that continues to produce breakthroughs in proprietary alloys and processes for aerospace applications. Calico has metallurgists, chemists, engineers and staff members playing key roles in the development of new alloys. Services include:

  • Alloy Development
    • Nickel Based
    • Cobalt Based Superalloys
    • Titanium Alloys
    • Specialty Steel Wrought and Powder Products
  • Product Development
  • Process Development
  • Modeling
  • Materials Testing
    • Chemical Testing
    • Mechanical Testing
    • Destructive and Non-Destructive Testing