ATI Inc. (previously Allegheny Technologies Incorporated) is an American producer of specialty materials headquartered in

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. ATI produces metals including

titanium Titanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ti and atomic number 22. Found in nature only as an oxide, it can be reduced to produce a lustrous transition metal with a silver color, low density, and high strength, resistant to corrosion in ...

and titanium alloys,

nickel Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive, but large pieces are slo ...

-based alloys and

superalloy A superalloy, or high-performance alloy, is an alloy with the ability to operate at a high fraction of its melting point. Key characteristics of a superalloy include mechanical strength, thermal creep deformation resistance, surface stability, ...

s, stainless and specialty steels,

zirconium Zirconium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Zr and atomic number 40. First identified in 1789, isolated in impure form in 1824, and manufactured at scale by 1925, pure zirconium is a lustrous transition metal with a greyis ...

hafnium Hafnium is a chemical element; it has symbol Hf and atomic number 72. A lustrous, silvery gray, tetravalent transition metal, hafnium chemically resembles zirconium and is found in many zirconium minerals. Its existence was predicted by Dm ...

, and

niobium Niobium is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol Nb (formerly columbium, Cb) and atomic number 41. It is a light grey, crystalline, and Ductility, ductile transition metal. Pure niobium has a Mohs scale of mineral hardness, Mohs h ...

tungsten Tungsten (also called wolfram) is a chemical element; it has symbol W and atomic number 74. It is a metal found naturally on Earth almost exclusively in compounds with other elements. It was identified as a distinct element in 1781 and first ...

materials, forgings and castings. ATI's key markets are aerospace and defense, particularly commercial jet engines (over 50% of sales), oil & gas, chemical process industry, electrical energy, and medical. The company's plants in

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include facilities in Harrison Township (Allegheny Ludlum's Brackenridge Works), Vandergrift, and

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. The company also has plants in

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

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; and several facilities in Europe. Its

titanium sponge Titanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ti and atomic number 22. Found in nature only as an oxide, it can be reduced to produce a lustrous transition metal with a silver color, low density, and high strength, resistant to corrosion in se ...

plants are located in

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and Rowley, Utah. In total, ATI was said in 2012 to have capacity for 40 million pounds per annum, with the investment of $325 million in Rowley. The Rowley plant would have an annual capacity of 24 million pounds.

History

20th century mergers and acquisitions

In 1939, the merger of Allegheny Steel of Pittsburgh and Ludlum Steel of

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created Allegheny Ludlum Corporation; prior to the merger, the companies had manufactured steel for the

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and

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. Allegheny Steel had produced stainless steel brightwork for the Model A Ford starting in 1930. Through the 1970s, Allegheny Ludlum periodically cooperated with Ford to build several one-off promotional cars with stainless steel bodies. Three such cars are on display in the

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. In 1978, the company acquired Wilkinson Sword and Scripto. A year later, Allegheny Ludlum acquired Kennedy Company, a maker of magnetic tape products for large computer systems for an undisclosed sum. In 1984, Allegheny Ludlum sold off Scripto to the Tokai Corporation of Japan. In 1986, the company suffered a $198 million operating loss and chairman Robert Buckley, stepped down amid accusations of mismanagement. In 1987, Wilkinson Sword was sold to

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for $230 million. In 1987, Allegheny Ludlum became a public company via an

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under chief executive Dick Simmons In 1993, the company acquired Jessop Steel.

ATI Technologies born 1996

In 1996, it merged with

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to form Allegheny Technologies. The company then spun off several subsidiaries as independent public companies such as

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and Water Pik Technologies in 1999, to concentrate on its core business of metal and alloy production. In 1998, the company acquired certain assets of Lukens Washington Steel when it was sold to

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. In 1998 ATI bought Teledyne Wah Chang Albany, as well as Oregon Metallurgical Corporation ( Oremet). Both companies had plants in the

area, such as the ATI Specialty Alloys and Components (Wah Chang) zirconium operation in Millersburg, Oregon. The Oremet facility makes high-quality titanium for use in

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aircraft. In 2001 TWCA closed its titanium sponge manufacturing plant in Albany, Oregon; thereafter it would purchase the material on the open market as it continued to produce titanium ingot, slab, and mill products. In 2004, the company acquired J&L Specialty Steel. In 2005, the company sold its World Minerals subsidiary to French company

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. At the time, it racked up $3.5 billion in sales. In May 2008 the company invested $260 million in a new plant located in

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. In 2010, the company acquired Ladish for $778 million. Allegheny Technologies debuted its ATI 425 Titanium Alloy on June 14, 2010, at the land and air-land defense and security exhibition

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in Paris, France. In 2012 ATI announced a $325 million investment in a new plant located in Rowley UT. The plant was located adjacent to a US Magnesium plant, for easy interchange of by-products. The Rowley plant uses the

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. As of August 2016, the firm employed roughly 1,500 people in its Albany region plants. In August 2016 the firm announced it would idle its plants in Albany and Rowley. The latter plant was idled because other global suppliers, who had entered the market recently, could undercut the Rowley titanium sponge. The Albany plant, which produced mainly for Boeing, was shuttered because of poor demand. In September 2016 the company said it would shut down its Frackville plant, which produced titanium bar and hair-thin wire in a 55,000-square-foot facility. In 2019 the firm sold its ATI Cast Products plant in Albany OR to a Cleveland OH company. At the time, the firm employed some 900 people in three plants in the Albany area. The firm announced in December 2020 the closure of its Albany plant. The plant had been subject to a

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certification drive in March 2019. In March 2021, about 1,300 workers at nine facilities in the northern United States, all members of the

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, went on strike over proposed changes to their health care plans. The strike ended in July with the company rejecting its proposed changes. In June 2022, the company was officially renamed from Allegheny Technologies Incorporated to ATI. Alongside this, the company's domain was changed from ATImetals.com to ATImaterials.com. In December 2022 the company closed its Albany plant. As of September 2023 ATI was "a $3.8 billion company" with more than 6,000 workers in more than 30 locations in the United States and more than a dozen in Europe and Asia. In June 2023 ATI announced a $28 million expansion of its Richland WA plant, located in the Horn Rapids Industrial Park. At the same time it announced it would re-start its Albany OR operations. The Richland plant has a furnace, which liquefies the metal with electron beams. The liquid metal flows into hearths where defects are removed. The finished products are billets that weigh up to 44,000 pounds. It also has a vacuum arc remelting process.

Products

The company organizes its products into two segments: * High Performance Materials & Components, which includes titanium-based alloys, nickel-based alloys and superalloys, zirconium and hafnium. * Advanced Alloys & Solutions, which includes zirconium-, hafnium-, and niobium-based alloys, titanium and titanium alloys, nickel-based alloys, specialty alloys, duplex alloys in sheet, strip, and plate form, grain-oriented electrical steel.

Environmental record

Allegheny Ludlum's Natrona, Pennsylvania and Brackenridge, Pennsylvania plants contributed to the waste at the ALSCO Park Lindane Dump, an EPA

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site. These plants also released

chromium Chromium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in Group 6 element, group 6. It is a steely-grey, Luster (mineralogy), lustrous, hard, and brittle transition metal. Chromium ...

into the air, which adversely affected air quality at schools in the Highlands School District. In 2005, Allegheny Ludlum agreed to pay a $2,375,000 penalty to settle a lawsuit brought by the

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on behalf of the

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in 1995, which alleged that the company had unlawfully discharged oil and other pollutants, such as chromium,

zinc Zinc is a chemical element; it has symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature and has a shiny-greyish appearance when oxidation is removed. It is the first element in group 12 (IIB) of the periodic tabl ...

copper Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu (from Latin ) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orang ...

, and

, into the

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and Kiskiminetas River in the suburbs of Pittsburgh.

Carbon footprint

ATI reported Total CO2e emissions (Direct + Indirect) for 31 December 2020 at 407 Kt (-146 /-26.4% y-o-y).Alt URL
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References

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