Timeline
1960's
1960
- Mallory-Sharon Metals Corp. renamed Reactive Metals Inc
- Raymond A. Quadt named 3rd Company President
- John F. Kennedy elected 35th U.S. President
1961
- Tube Mill transferred from Bridgeport Brass to Reactive Metals for both titanium and zirconium seamless tube
- Berlin Wall built
- Bay of Pigs
- Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
- National Distillers becomes sole owner and renamed Bridgeport Brass - Reactive Metals Products Division
- John Glenn orbits the Earth
1963
- $ 2.35/Lb. for billet, $ 9.00/lb. for sheet
- Industry titanium shipments total 12.2 million lbs.
- President John F. Kennedy assassinated
- Lyndon B. Johnson Sworn in as 36th U.S. President
1964
- United States Steel Corporation purchased 50% of assets of the division from National Distillers & Chemical Corp. Ashtabula Sodium Plant became part of new company. Company Renamed Reactive Metals, Inc.
- John W. Price named 4th company president
- 3,000-ton forging press installed at Niles
- Dick Tracy comic strip features titanium
- Vietnam War escalates
- Lyndon B. Johnson elected as U.S. President
1965
- McDonnell's F-4 aircraft reaches peak production for the Air Force and Navy
- Wide-body commercial jets and large jet engines consume more titanium
- Titanium used in NASA space projects
- Industry titanium shipments total 18 million lbs.
1966
- Reactive Metals spends $70 million on a 4-year program to increase sponge capacity to 15 million lbs. and install new processing equipment
- Chinese Cultural Revolution
1967
- Industry titanium shipments soar to over 27 million lbs.
1968
- 1st product produced on the 60-inch rolling mill (best quality in the industry)
- 1st international titanium conference held in London
- Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy assassinated
- Richard M. Nixon elected as 37th U.S. President
1969
- Industry titanium shipments increased to 32 million lbs.
- Neil Armstrong becomes 1st man on the moon
- Vietnam troop withdrawal begins
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