Minor Metals & Rare Earths 2008 is the latest in a series of successful conferences organized by Metal-Pages that focus on the commercial aspects of the world's minor metals and rare earth industries. The audience at our conferences is made up of executive staff from producers, consumers, traders, distributors, purchasing agents and suppliers of services to our industry: associations, banks, warehouses, insurance, shippers, forwarders and samplers and assayers.

Presentations on the commercial aspects of the minor metal and rare earth markets will take place over a two day period, some of the areas we will cover will be:

• World industry trends
• The current supply and demand situation and the prospects for the future
• New market developments and production
• Emerging markets
• New technology for business
• Changes in legislation that will affect markets

The Asian market is a major influence on the world’s titanium industry, consumption is growing steadily driven mainly by the industrial sector and less prone to the cyclical demands of aerospace as the European and U.S. markets.

Japan is a major force on the world’s titanium stage, new sponge capacity is coming on stream to meet growing levels of consumption and growth remains strong. China is rapidly developing both its production of sponge and mill products to meet the booming domestic demand and supply a growing export market and UKTMP in Kazakhstan, a major supplier of sponge to world markets, is developing its downstream added value capacity. In short the region’s titanium industry is undergoing rapid development.  

Metal-Pages’ Titanium Asia 2008 gives you the opportunity to keep abreast of all the major changes that are taking place in the Asian titanium industry, what they mean for the global titanium industry today and more importantly what they will mean tomorrow. The conference will include an optional field trip to Titanium production facilities in Baoji, China’s centre of titanium processing.