An employee works with a titanium ingot at the VSMPO-Avisma factory in Verkhnyaya-Salda, some 1,800 km (1,100 miles) east of Moscow, November 7, 2013. Russia's VSMPO-Avisma, the world's biggest producer of titanium, expects profits to rise 25 percent to some $250 million this year due to robust demand from the aerospace industry, the firm's key customer. Picture taken November 7, 2013. REUTERS/Svetlana Burmistrova (RUSSIA - Tags: BUSINESS)