Norsk Titanium AS announced that it is expanding its rapid part development and qualification capabilities to shorten the lead-time and meet accelerated customer part verification needs. The new capabilities include heat treatment, ultrasonic non-destructive testing (NDT), finish machining operations, and coordinate measuring (CMM), and will allow for Norsk Titanium to perform all tasks needed to design, develop, and qualify parts without adding any lead time required by the supply chain. The additional capital investments have been made as part of Norsk Titanium?s continued cooperation with the State of New York.

The expanded capabilities will also allow Norsk Titanium to deliver limited production rapid prototypes to customer who have urgent needs. Rapid part development and prototyping are critical capabilities needed to meet Norsk Titanium?s objective of developing a ?part-in-a-day? operation and transitioning the number of parts needed to meet the company?s long-term goals.