Titanium is mainly used in the pharmaceutical industry to make containers, reactors, and heaters.
In pharmaceutical production, equipment often comes into contact with inorganic acids, organic acids, and their salts such as hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, and sulfuric acid. Equipment is often damaged due to corrosion. At the same time, the iron ion pollution caused by steel equipment affects the product quality. The use of titanium equipment can solve these problems. For example, penicillin esterification kettle, saccharification tank, chloramphenicol film evaporator, Analgin reactor, metal filter, dimethyl sulfate cooler, liquid medicine filter, etc., all have precedents of selecting titanium materials, and the quantity and quality of the liquid medicine produced are constantly improving.
Application of titanium in medical devices
Titanium and titanium alloys have good corrosion resistance. Titanium is non-toxic and non-magnetic and is a good choice of material for medical devices.
In the history of the development of surgical instruments, the first generation of surgical instruments was mostly made of carbon steel, which was eliminated because the performance after electroplating did not meet the requirements of clinical use. The second generation is austenitic, ferritic, and martensitic stainless steel surgical instruments, but the chromium in stainless steel is toxic, and the chromium plating layer that falls off has a certain impact on the human body. Therefore, the third generation – titanium surgical instruments appeared. Titanium has the characteristics of lightweight, making it particularly suitable for microsurgery. Titanium has the characteristics of corrosion resistance, good elasticity, non-deformation, etc., and the surface quality is not affected by repeated cleaning and disinfection; it is non-magnetic and can eliminate the threat of damage to tiny and sensitive implanted electronic devices, making titanium surgical instruments more and more widely used. At present, it has been used to make surgical blades, hemostatic forceps, scissors, electric bone drills, tweezers, etc. In medical equipment, titanium vascular suture needles, sternum sutures, titanium filters of oxygen filters, cardiac surgical instruments, titanium electrodes in electrocardiographs, titanium in vitro incubators; probes of medical ultrasonic crushers, automatic controllers of blood transport boxes, titanium instruments used in ophthalmic surgery, etc.
Non-Ferrous Crucible Inc. provide a variety of commercial pure Titanium and Titanium alloys in wire, sheet, bar, tube, and other forms. We also provide Titanium expanded/stamped mesh, Titanium wire mesh.