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#61059 - 02/27/06 07:14 AM Titanium prices going up?
Ors Offline
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I just ordered a titanium self defense tool tonight, and I was told there was currently an $18 surcharge on the product because the price of ti is skyrocketing. Demands of the aerospace industry and various wars are increasing demand. Anyone else hear of this?

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#61060 - 02/27/06 02:09 PM Re: Titanium prices going up?
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There are a variety of reasons for the price of titanium alloys going up.
We have not only heard of it, we are paying the prices as they climb.
Bill

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#61061 - 03/02/06 01:29 AM Re: Titanium prices going up?
massacre Offline
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Registered: 12/07/05
Posts: 781
Loc: Central Illinois
It's not just titanium. Steel, copper, gold... I haven't checked, but maybe even aluminum. We have scrap yards here that are paying nicely for junk iron because they are getting a premium. War and outrageous growth overseas is triggering a lot of it.
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#61062 - 03/09/06 03:08 AM Re: Titanium prices going up?
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Registered: 05/24/05
Posts: 28
Loc: Portsmouth, VA
One of the worrysome fact about that premium scrap is that a lot of it gets ships over seas. We send them metal and get back plastic forks, gewgaws and prefaded jeans.
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#61063 - 03/09/06 03:52 AM Re: Titanium prices going up?
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Registered: 09/08/05
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Loc: Vermont
Last time we sold a lot of scrap over seas, we got it back the hard way. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
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