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...material's long-lasting, thermal and acoustic properties in everything from pedestrian bridges to bus stations - and, in turn, contributing to big energy and other environmental savings. Some of the innovations are startling: the white concrete used by American architect Richard Meier for the Jubilee Church in Rome contains titanium dioxide, which keeps the concrete clean at the same time as destroying ambient pollutants such as car exhaust...
...Quai de l'Ile, above, is unlike any watch Vacheron Constantin has ever made: it's customizable and impossible to copy. Buyers can choose from nearly 400 combinations of metals and dials. (A rose-gold crown with a titanium bezel, perhaps?) And to further thwart counterfeiters, Vacheron has enlisted Roger Pfund, the designer behind the Swiss passport and banknote, to institute high-security details like offset printing and a polymer film on the crystal dial. A custom watch takes only three months...
...Maritime convention, one country's zone can be extended only if it can prove that the continental shelf into which it wishes to expand is a natural extension of its own territory. In August 2007 two Russian submersibles reached the bottom of the North Pole and left a titanium-made Russian flag there. Putin alleged that the expedition delivered proof of Russia's claims, though few believe it is good enough to substantiate Moscow's claims under international...
Pittsburgh's playbook still has some familiar features, but it is far more diverse. They still make stuff here, albeit with 8,400 fewer workers over 10 years. But commodity metals have been abandoned in favor of higher-value alloys like titanium. Importantly, the metal companies here now serve global industries that have been going flat out, such as power generation, energy, mining and transportation...
That in turn has created opportunities for the specialty high-value metals that Allegheny Technologies (ATI) makes. "We have manufacturing operations that no one else has," says spokesman Dan Greenfield. The company handles specialty alloys such as titanium and zirconium, as well as grain-oriented electrical steel used in the energy, power and aerospace industries. ATI is spending $1.16 billion over four years to improve its capability to do the most difficult metal rolling, which should preserve the 2,900 ATI jobs in the area. That funding is expected to be internally generated, so ATI doesn't have to worry...