2026 Titanium Industry Annual Conference: Focus on the higher level development of high-end, intelligent, integrated, and green development, and make every effort to promote the high-quality development of the titanium industry.

The 2026 Titanium Industry Annual Conference and the 2nd Conference on Resource Security and Green Smelting Development will be held on June 27th in Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province. Ge Honglin, President of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, pointed out that while recognizing the achievements, it is also necessary to realize that the titanium industry still faces issues such as imbalance between upstream raw material production and downstream promotion and application, prominent bottleneck problems in high-quality resources, challenges in green and low-carbon transformation, and the urgent need to expand titanium applications. He emphasized the need to focus on higher levels of high-end, intelligent, integrated, and green development, and to fully promote the high-quality development of the titanium industry. The first is to better serve national strategies; second is to focus on increasing reserves and production of titanium ore, and explore new spaces for security; third is to accelerate green and digital transformation, reshaping new industrial competitive advantages; fourth is to deepen collaborative innovation and overcome bottlenecks in advanced manufacturing technology; fifth is to build regional clusters for the titanium industry, forming a new pattern of group development.