Webinars
24 April 2025
Metallic Materials Technical Group Webinar
Titanium: Applications and Processes
JOIN OUR METALLIC MATERIALS TECHNICAL GROUP (TG3) WEBINAR
About the event
Titanium has a very specific role to play in manufacturing, with particular strength to weight benefits, but is a complex material to process for a number of reasons.
Presentations will cover the basics of titanium, the specific requirements in how to handle and weld it to achieve a good quality, and also more niche joining/processing methods.
Who should attend?
Welders, welding engineers, metallurgists, quality engineers in aerospace, automotive, defence, engineering and fabrication, space.
FEES
- Professional Members of The Welding Institute:
- AWeldI: £25 + VAT (£30)
- TechWeldI/MWeldI/FWeldI: Free
- Industrial Members of TWI Ltd: £25 + VAT (£30)
- Non-members: £95 + VAT (£114)
- Retired Members: £25 + VAT (£30)
- Students: £25 + VAT (£30)
- TWI Training Customers: £75 + VAT (£90)
- TWI Training School Customers with professional membership: Free: Please contact us with your Training Customer ID Number
- TWI Staff - please contact Hafiza Rahman if you wish to register.
Presentations will be disseminated to attendees only
Experts from industry and TWI Ltd will be presenting on a range of topics:
- Tracey Holmes, Technical & Business Development Manager, Bibus Metals Group, on Unlocking Potential: Industrial Applications of Titanium and its Alloys
- Luke Keane, Director, Huntingdon Fusion Techniques, on Weld Purging for Zero Colour Welds
- David Howse, Technology Fellow - Arc Welding Engineering, TWI Ltd, on Quality Control for Titanium Welding
- Paul Brooker, Manufacturing Support Manager, TWI Ltd, on Joining of Titanium using Thermal Heating Process
ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP (AWeldI) OF THE WELDING INSTITUTE
Registering on this Technical Group event as a non-member or a TWI Training Customer without Professional Membership gives you full Associate Membership (AWeldI) for one year. To activate your membership, just complete the highlighted fields on the event registration form.
You will also benefit from:
- Discounted registration fees for Technical Group webinars (£25 + VAT)
- Free attendance at Branch events
- Access to our knowledge database including our library and information services
CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD)
The Welding Institute awards points towards CPD for delegates attending this event. Every hour attendance of an event will earn 2 points towards your continuing professional development.
Please contact hafiza.rahman@twi.co.uk if you require a certificate of attendance towards your continuing professional development.
Please note that this event is not being run as a hybrid one on this occasion.
Speakers
Luke Keane
Director
Huntington Fusion Techniques
Huntingdon Fusion Techniques (HFT) have been in business for 50 years. We are inventors, designers and manufacturers of weld purging equipment.
Luke has been with the company for the last 12 years and in that time progressed to become a company Director, looking after the 45 exclusive world-wide distributors.
Over the last 12 years Luke has been heavily involved in product development, helping to design bespoke solutions and take HFT innovation to the next level.
More recently, he has been working very closely with a nuclear client involved with HPC and designed a unique blocking and purging system for the welding of duplex sump boxes.
Dr Tracey Holmes
Technical Manager
Bibus Metals
A metallurgist by education Tracey has 15 years experience in the metals industry. Tracey's early career was focused on nickel-based alloys. Since joining BIBUS Metals in 2018 Tracey's horizons have broadened to include Titanium and its alloys and specialised stainless steel grades.
Paul Brooker
Consultant, Advanced Manufacturing Technology Group
TWI
Paul has over 40 years’ experience in the manufacturing industry including, machining, metal joining, including welding and brazing, quality, sales, business development and senior management.
Paul worked for a small engineering company for 32 years starting as trainee and finished as MD. During his time with the business Paul moved through all areas including production, inspection, sales and quality.
Paul worked for a PLC company in heat treatment and metal joining as Works Manager, then prior to joining TWI was Group Operations Manager for a Privately owned heat treatment group of companies.
Dr David Howse CEng, FWeldI, MIM
Technology Fellow – Arc Process and Welding Engineering (AWE) Section
David is a Chartered Engineer with over 30 years’ experience in arc welding. Prior to joining TWI in 1994, he worked in the Oil and Gas fabrication industry and, after completing a degree in Metallurgy at the University of Leeds, worked at British Steel Swinden laboratories as a Welding Engineer. He is currently employed in the Arc Process, and Welding Engineering section at TWI carrying out welding engineering support and project management for Industrial Members of TWI across a broad range of industrial sectors including the Oil and Gas, Power, Construction and Aerospace industries. TWI’s client list is global and projects carried out include expert witness work in High Court and arbitration proceedings, on site investigations of failures for the Oil and Gas and Construction industries, independent third party reviews of industrial disputes, design reviews for implementation of arc welding manufacture, sub-contract welding engineering, audit of fabricator suppliers, third party design review and support work for the Nuclear industry along with many individual projects relating to qualification and fabrication of a range of welded products to international welding standards.
David has authored and contributed to over twenty publications in international conference proceedings, seminars and journals on the subject of welding with arcs, lasers and hybrid laser arc processes.