Markets for Products From Metall Markets for Products From Metallic Titanium

Introduction. In Ukraine, as a country with titanium deposits, one of the promising directions is the production of titanium products. To determine the prospects, it is necessary to research the markets of metallic titanium. Materials and methods. The research used data from state bodies, marketing organizations, research, and other sources. Methods used: analysis, synthesis, comparison, induction and deduction, statistical and economic analysis, expert evaluations. The results are compiled based on an integrated approach. Results and discussion. The titanium market is usually divided into titanium dioxide and metallic titanium. Most of the countries with significant deposits of titanium ore are forming complete recycling cycles. 90–95% of the ore is processed into titanium dioxide. Powerful international companies form the demand on the titanium metal market. The largest titanium producing countries in the world are China, Japan, Russia, and Kazakhstan. Ukraine is among the world's top 10 countries in terms of the production of all titanium-containing minerals and the production of titanium raw materials. In 2021, Ukraine ranked fourth among exporters of titanium ores and concentrates by volume. Titanium enterprises of Ukraine concentrated mainly on the export of titanium-containing raw materials. It is believed that titanium can become one of the directions of the post-war recovery of Ukraine. Industry priorities of the metal titanium market show some opportunities for Ukraine to enter world markets. The conducted analysis made it possible to draw conclusions and proposals for the restoration of the titanium industry of Ukraine, which can become the engine of Ukraine's economic breakthrough. Conclusions. Ukraine's efforts to revive the titanium industry should be based on abandoning the metallurgical method of smelting titanium slag; ensuring the conduct of processes in the solid phase, reducing the use of liquid phase products; expansion of the raw material base of the titanium industry with the processing of cheap concentrates with a low (from 42%) content of titanium dioxide; increasing the complexity of processing raw materials due to the transfer of by-products of ore to further processing.