Titanium is one of the most popular element names. Titanium stands for strength, both in name (after the Titans, gods of Greek Legend) and in fact it is used in jet engines, tools, and rockets for its tremendous strength. It is also completely nonrusting and nonallergenic, so that it is popular for the use inside the body in the form of artificial hip joints, dental implants, and body jewelry.

      Though titanium metal is expensive, its ore is actually quite abundant. The high cost comes from the difficulty of refining the metal, not its scarcity. Ilmenite, (FeO•TiO2) FeTiO3, which consists of 47.36% FeO and 52.64% TiO2. It is the most important mineral for collecting Titanium and TiO2 concentrates.  

      Titanium dioxide is everywhere. It is the white in white paint, and in all other colors of paint TiO2 is the opacity, the substance that prevents what’s underneath from showing through.

      In the earlier industry of Titanium-ores processing technologies only spirals and shaking-tables are used for recovering coarse ores as well as applying electrostatic separators and flotations for cleaning afterwards. The total recovery of TiO2 can only reach 10%. A lot of fine particles were lost in wastes.

      SLon Vertical Ring & Pulsation High Gradient Magnetic Separator started to be applied for ilmenite processing, which performs excellent in the recovery of fine and ultra-fine particles, since 1994. The development of SLon magnetic separation technologies made great progress in the area of ilmenite processing in the past 30 years all over the world.