Angie Craig: “the plasma quench technology amendment will yield valuable results for our defense and aerospace industries in the near…”

“the plasma quench technology amendment will yield valuable results for our defense and aerospace industries in the near future. I sincerely appreciate the help and support of the chairman of the subcommittee, Senator Stevens and the ranking member, Senator Inouye. Mr. President, my amendment would provide $2 million from funds available under title IV of the legislation before us, to support development of an innovative metallurgic technology called plasma quench developed at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, to be used in producing ultra fine titanium powder and developing an injection molding of titanium metal. Titanium metal is of critical significance to a wide variety of strategically important manufactured products, and the need for titanium in the production of such products is set to increase dramatically. In the transportation and aerospace areas the feasibility of many advanced products is predicated on a high-quantity, low cost supply of titanium that simply does not currently exist.”