The Stanford Research Institute (SRT) of the United States has developed a new titanium dioxide production process. Compared with the traditional Kroll method, this process is simple and low in energy consumption, and the product is titanium dioxide. Moreover, by pressing and melting the prepared titanium dioxide, titanium dioxide having a shape similar to that of the finished product can be obtained. Barbara Heydorn, Senior Director of SRT Energy Center, gave a brief introduction to this new titanium production process. It uses the plasma arc to first break hydrogen molecules into hydrogen atoms, and then the hydrogen atoms react with titanium chloride to produce smoky titanium, which is then rapidly cooled and formed into titanium powder. SRT has successfully used this process to prepare pure titanium in the laboratory, and is currently conducting in-depth research before industrialization, in order to increase the output of titanium powder produced by this process and reduce production costs. However, it is not easy to promote a new technology to actual production. Professor Donald Sadoway, who majored in material chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that companies need to invest a lot of money to purchase equipment and build new plants to adopt new processes. However, traditional concepts believe that the metal industry has matured and the most suitable processes have been developed and adopted. Therefore, it is difficult to obtain financial support for new processes.