The strengthening outlook for commercial aerospace, combined with specialty-metal producers' need to improve their finances, could push the price of titanium and some other critical materials higher in coming months. For producers, the increase comes none too soon. The sector has been financially battered in the last two years by huge inventory adjustments by aerospace customers. In some cases, orders for titanium have been running far below contractual requirements, adding to producers' financial woes.
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