Custom manufacturing of sheets, plates, strips, bars, rods, forgings, billets, disks, rings, wire, pipes, tubing, and other shaped articles from titanium aluminide alloys, titanium-based alloys, and lightweight metal matrix composite materials with controlled structure comprising titanium aluminide alloys and titanium-based alloys by utilizing at least one process selected from the group consisting of sintering, rolling, hot pressing, hot isostatic pressing and extrusion to the order and/or s...