The ‘Buy-to-Fly’ Crisis: Can We Stop Throwing Away 90% of the Titanium We Buy?
If you were to walk into a high-end aerospace machine shop, the first thing you would notice is not the gleaming airplane parts, but the garbage. Next to every massive, multi-million dollar CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine, there are bins filled with twisted, sharp, shimmering metal shavings. This is “swarf.” To the casual observer,…
