At present, ferrous metallurgy is mostly aimed to increase products quality without rapid expansion of facilities but not to grow material output as the situation has been for several years. It requires to produce structural material consuming less metal, but having higher mechanical properties due to adding alloying elements to the melt. Sometimes such elements can be added in pure form, but as a rule, in the form of ferroalloys, i.e. iron alloys with alloying elements. Ferrotitanium is one of the most widespread and effective ferroalloys.     

Ferrotitanium is the alloying addition consisting of iron and titanium with the minimum titanium weight content of 20 % and the maximum weight content of 75 % manufactured by reduction or melting. Manufacture of titanium alloy ingots and mill products also results in generation of metal scrap. Some scrap is graded  substandard as it cannot be recycled to charge materials for melting titanium alloy ingots due to oxidation degree, pinches and forge laps. In order to use substandard titanium scrap, the manufacturing process for high-grade ferrotitanium has been developed and mastered. It is based on melting ingots of low-melting eutectic (1085˚) in the titanium-iron system with 65-75 % of titanium.