Timeline
1990's
1990
1991
- Iraq attacks Kuwait. U.S. Retaliates against Iraq in U.S. Desert Storm
1992
- RMI closes sponge and sodium plant
- RMI receives McDonnell Aircraft preferred supplier award
- RMI purchases 40% of REAMET SA in Villette, France
- Rolling mill modernized
- William J. Clinton elected 42nd U.S. President
1993
- RMI enters exclusive agreement with DOT (Deep Oil Technology) to supply offshore oil and gas structures
- RMI certified to ISO 9002 quality standard by the Bureau of Veritas Quality International
- Terrorists bomb the World Trade Center in New York City
1994
- RMI produces titanium for the oil and gas industry in the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico
- Awarded a 3-year geothermal pipe contract with MAGMA operating company in Brawley, California, valued in excess of $7 million
- 13.7 million shares of RMI common stock issued in rights offerings.
1995
- RMI establishes a new regional office & warehouse near Birmingham, England to serve its expanding list of European customers
- Multizone sonic installed
- RMI Produces 1st titanium drilling riser for Conoco
- RMI obtains NADCAP quality certification for laboratory and sonic inspection
- Oklahoma City Bombing
1996
- RMI produces 1st titanium geothermal casing for CALENERGY, located in the Salton Sea
- William J. Clinton is re-elected U.S. President
1997
- Industry titanium shipments exceed 62 million lbs.
- Titanium tees off in the golf market
- Company president L. Frederick Gieg, Jr. retires
- RMI acquires 90% of Galt Alloys in Canton, Ohio, and begins construction of scrap handling facility, plasma consolidation furnace, and plasma hearth furnace
- RMI obtained AS 9000 Quality Approval
1998
- RMI and Japan's NKK form partnership to produce and market SP-700 titanium alloy
- RMI Titanium shareholders approve formation of Ohio holding company named RTI International Metals, Inc.
- RMI recognized by Lockheed Martin as a Star Supplier
- RMI named sole supplier for Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 fighter jet
- RTI acquires New Century Metals, Inc. of Solon, Ohio. Company enters extrusion and specialty metals distribution businesses
- RTI acquires Weld Tech Engineering of Houston, Texas, which adds engineering and fabrication capabilities
1999
- Timothy G. Rupert named as 7th company president
- Galt Alloy Master Process Division and Titanium Process Division received ISO 9002 and AS 9000 quality approvals
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