OREANDA-NEWS. Last week VSMPO cast first ingots for Rolls-Royce using new technology in the presence of Rolls-Royce specialist.

Instead of three VAR remelts, now titanium ingots for Rolls-Royce will be subjected only to two remelts: the first one using Skull furnace, the second and final - using VAR furnace. Dave Smith, specialist of Material Laboratory, Rolls-Royce (UK) witnessed the melting process.

“This alloy is of premium quality, it is intended to produce disks (rotary engine parts), that is why we impose the strictest requirements to the material. It is important to minimize risks of any defects”, Dave Smith explained the reason of his personal presence during the melting process.

Billets will be produced of titanium ingots, and then die forgings of disks used in engines for Airbus aircrafts. The representative of the engine building giant was satisfied with quality of the first three ingots manufactured with the new technology. He also noted that “in some fields VSMPO production culture complies with the highest standards”.