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TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.17, No.4: Jly/Aug 2009

EDITORIAL

How far will a tightening supply/demand balance drive pigment selling prices?

(Pigment suppliers are in the driving seat)

MARKETS & TRADE

Pigment price increases posted for 1 August and 1 October

VietNam defers ilmenite export ban until end-2010

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: AZC (Mindarie)

Canada: QIT Fer & Titane (Sorel, PQ)

Madagascar: Gulf Resources

Mozambique: BHP Billiton (Corridor Sands/Chiputo)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

VietNam: ATIP (HaTinh province)

Pigments:

China: DuPont (DongYing, Shandong)

China: Guodian Yinglite (Ningxia Hui Aut. Reg.)

China: HuaYuan (Lanzhou, Gansu)

China: Panzhihua Dongfang (Panzhihua, Sichuan)

India: Ashapura Minechem (Puri, Orissa)

Ukraine: Krymsky Titan (Armyansk)

US: Tronox (Savannah)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Huntsman

Iluka

Kronos

Rio Tinto

LITIGATION

Downer-EDI vs Iluka Resources (re Murray Basin Stage 1 project)

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Huntsman/Tronox (Selected assets, as "stalking horse" bidder)

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.17, No.3: May/Jne 2009

EDITORIAL

Fanning the flames of optimism in Rome & dowsing them in Nuremberg

PIGMENT PRICES

Increases posted for Q3 2009, with some suppliers more cautious than others

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Astron (Donald)

Australia: AZC (Mindarie)

Australia: Gunson (Coburn)

Australia: Iluka (Murray Basin, Stage 2)

Australia: Iluka (WA, Synrutile)

Chile: White Mountain Titanium (Cerro Blanco)

Gambia & Senegal: Carnegie/Astron

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Namibia: Erongo Energy (Koichab)

Norway: Nordic Mining (Engebofjellet)

Russia: Rusminresources (Pizhemsky)

Senegal: MDL (Grande Cote)

Sierra Leone: TRG/Sierra Rutile

South Africa: Exxaro (Empangeni & Saldanha Bay)

US: Iluka (Virginia)

Pigments:

China: HuaYuan (Lanzhou, Gansu)

China: Sichuan Lomon (Mianzhu/Xundian/Nanzhang)

France: Huntsman (Calais)

Germany: Sachtleben (Duisburg-Homberg)

Italy: Huntsman (Scarlino)

Spain: Huntsman (Huelva)

Ukraine: Krymsky Titan & Sumy Khimprom

UK: Cristal (Stallingborough)

UK: Huntsman (Greatham)

US: Cristal (Baltimore)

US: Tronox (Savannah)

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Dow/Rohm & Haas

Eramet/Tinfos

Stirling/Olympia & Matilda

Unimin/Consolidated Rutile

LITIGATION

DuPont vs Bemax

Former lead paint suppliers (Rhode Island, Ohio & Mississippi)

Huntsman vs Credit Suisse & Deutsche Bank

Tronox & US Govt. vs Kerr-McGee & Anadarko

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

DuPont's TiRON process

Huntsman's Deltio easy-flow pigments

Scatec's PTA process to make Ti metal parts

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.16, No.6: Nov/Dec 2008

EDITORIAL

Pigment industry profitability - Where has it gone and is it ever coming back?

PIGMENT PRICES

Mid-October European pricing initiatives by Kronos & Tronox only

MARKETS & TRADE

Japan: Long-term decline in domestic TiO2 pigment shipments

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Iluka (Eucla Basin)

Australia: Iluka (Kulwin, Murray Basin Stage 2)

Australia: Iluka (Narngulu synrutile)

India: Trimex (Andhra Pradesh)

India: Stork/Bothli/APMDC (Andhra Pradesh)

India: Vetri Vel Minerals (Andhra Pradesh)

Madagascar: Rio Tinto/QMM (Mandena)

Russia: Aricom (Kuranakh & Bolshoi Seym)

Ukraine: Rutile-Ilmenite Co. (Tarasovka)

Pigments:

India: KMML (Sankaramangalam, Kerala)

India: Tata Steel (Tamil Nadu)

India: Saraf (Gopalpur, Orissa)

India: TTP (Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala)

Malaysia & US: Tor Minerals (Ipoh & Corpus Christi, TX)

UK: Huntsman Pigments (Grimsby-Pyewipe)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Kronos

Tronox

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Apollo/Hexion/Huntsman

BHP Billiton/Chinalco/RioTinto

Eramet/Tinfos

Richards Bay Minerals (Black economic empowerment equity conversion)

LITIGATION

DuPont vs Bemax (TiO2 feedstock supply contracts)

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.16, No.4/5: Jly/Oct 2008

EDITORIAL

Pigment price increases will have different effects on different producers

PIGMENT PRICES

Wave upon wave of pricing announcements, with innovative features

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Australian Zircon (Mindarie)

Australia: Monto Minerals (Goondicum)

Kenya: Jinchuan/Tiomin (Kwale)

Sierra Leone: Titanium Resources Group/Sierra Rutile

South Africa: Mineral Commodities Ltd. (Xolobeni & Tormin)

Pigments:

China: Jinan Yuxing (Jinan-Tianqiao)

China: SanShing (Fuzhou)

India: BalaMurugan Chemicals & Beach Minerals (Tuticorin)

India: Tata Steel (Tuticorin)

Russia: Lukoil (Yarega)

Ukraine: Krymsky Titan (Armyansk)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Kemira

Rockwood/Sachtleben

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Berger/Bolix

Hexion/Huntsman

IMin Partners/Huber

PPG Industries/BASF North American coil/extrusion coatings & Vanex

Sherwin-Williams/Inchem Holdings Asian liquid coatings

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.16, No.2/3: Mar/Jne 2008

EDITORIAL

What's up with sulfuric acid - besides the price?

MARKETS & TRADE

Western Australia's gas supply crisis affects some feedstock & pigment producers much worse than others

PIGMENT PRICES

Two waves of pigment price rises within a few weeks & energy surcharges on top

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Australian Zircon (Mindarie)

Australia: Iluka (Jacinth/Ambrosia)

Australia: Iluka (Murray Basin Stage 2)

Australia: Monto Minerals (Goondicum)

India: Indian Rare Earths (Tamil Nadu & Orissa)

US: Iluka (Brink, Virginia)

Pigments:

China: Hunan YongLi (Zhuzhou, Hunan)

China: Sichuan Lomon (Mianzhu, Sichuan)

China: Wuhan Qianjiang (Qianjiang, Hubei)

France: Cristal Global (Le Havre)

India: Saraf/Technokhim (Gopalpur)

Japan: Tayca (Okayama)

Russia: HEST/Norilsk/VSMPO-Avisma (Tambov)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Huntsman/Tioxide

Iluka Resources

Kronos

Rio Tinto/QIT & RBM & QMM

Tronox

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

AkzoNobel/ICI/Henkel

Apollo/Hexion/Huntsman

CPS Color/Nordic Capital Fund VI/Industri Kapital

Cristal Global/Bemax Resources

Cristal Global/International Titanium Powder/Ticoa

Dow Chemical/Rohm & Haas/Kuwait Petroleum/PIC

Evonik/CVC Capital/RAG Stiftung

Rockwood Holdings/Kemira (TiO2 joint venture)

Kemira/Tikkurila flotation

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.16, No.1: Jan/Feb 2008

EDITORIAL

End-user industry consolidation exerts downward pressure on pigment prices

PIGMENT PRICES

With crude oil at over $US 100 per barrel, DuPont argues for a 10% step-change in real-value pigment prices

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Cameroon: Free Mining & Gilla (Akonolinga)

Indonesia: Olympia (Sampit & Bati Bati)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Russia: Aricom (Kuranakh & Bolshoi Seym)

Russia: Norilsk & VSMPO-Avisma (Tambov)

Sierra Leone: Titanium Resources Group (Gbangbama)

South Africa: Exxaro (Empangeni)

VietNam: Kenee Mineral (PhuYen province)

Pigments:

Australia: Tiwest (Kwinana)

China: Astron (Yingkou, Liaoning)

China: DuPont (DongYing, Shandong)

US: Tronox & RTI (Hamilton, MS)

Other Sectors:

Titanium metal: Osaka Titanium (Japan)

Titanium metal: VSMPO-Avisma (Russia)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Huntsman/Tioxide

Tronox

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Chinalco/Shenyang NonFerrous Metals (titanium metal)/Rio Tinto

Eramet/Tinfos/UKTMP

Imerys/Astron (Chinese zircon-related assets)

Territory Resources/Olympia

ENVIRONMENT

DuPont reduces dioxin at TiO2 plants by 90% & boosts chances of fending-off claims for damages

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.15, No.6: Nov/Dec 2007

EDITORIAL

More feedstock is coming down the track - but not as much as signalled

PIGMENT PRICES

DuPont leads new wave of prices for Q1 2008 in all regions except Europe

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Monto Minerals (Goondicum)

Gambia: Carnegie/Astron (Sanyang)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Russia: Aricom (Kuranakh & Bolshoi Seym)

Senegal: Astron/Carnegie (Niafarang)

Senegal: MDL (Grande Cote)

Pigments:

China: HuaYuan (Lanzhou & Wuding)

Finland: Kemira (Pori)

France & Saudi Arabia: Cristal/Millennium (Le Havre & Yanbu)

Japan: Ishihara (Yokkaichi)

Ukraine: Sumy Khimprom (Sumy)

Other Sectors:

Titanium metal: Aricom & Chinalco (China)

Titanium metal: Zunyi, ThyssenKrupp & Wogen (China)

Titanium metal: KMML & Rostechnologii (India)

Titanium metal: VSMPO-Avisma (Russia)

Titanium metal: Timet (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha

Cristal Global/Millennium

Sakai Chemical

Tayca

Titan Kogyo

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Akzo Nobel/ICI

Evonik/Degussa

Finnish Government/Oras/Kemira

Ospraie/Titanium Resources/Iluka/Consolidated Rutile

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette/Rockwood

Sabic/GE Plastics

Schulman/Barington/Ramius

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.15, No.4/5: Jly/Oct 2007

EDITORIAL

TiO2 pigment & feedstock suppliers' margins: Where's the value?

PIGMENT PRICES

Encouraged by success of Q3 price hikes, suppliers post another round of price increases for Q4 2007

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Australian Zircon (Mindarie)

Australia: Bemax (Atlas, Murray Basin)

Australia: Gunson Resources & CTIEC (Coburn)

Australia: Iluka (Jacinth, Ambrosia, Tripitaka & Typhoon)

Australia: Monto Minerals (Goondicum)

India: Cochin Minerals & Rutile (Edayar)

Kenya: Tiomin & Jinchuan (Kwale)

Senegal: Mineral Deposits Ltd. (Grande Cote)

Sierra Leone: Titanium Resources (Gbangbama)

Vietnam: ThuaThienHue province (ilmenite smelter)

Pigments:

China: Astron (90,000 t.p.a. project)

China: Huiyun Taibai (Yunfu City, Guangdong)

China: Shandong Dawn (Longkou, Shandong)

Germany: Tronox (Krefeld-Uerdingen)

India: Tata Steel (Tuticorin)

Iran: MMIDRO (Kahnooj)

Singapore: Ishihara Sangyo (Jurong)

Ukraine: Krymsky Titan (Armyansk)

Other Sectors:

Titanium metal: Ningxia Orient (China)

Titanium metal: PanGang (China)

Titanium metal: Solikamsk (Russia)

Titanium metal: RTI International (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Bemax Resources

Iluka Resources

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Akzo Nobel/ICI

Imerys/Astron (Chinese Zr-related assets)

Olin/Pioneer (chloralkali)

PPG/SigmaKalon

HEALTH & SAFETY

TiO2 classified as a Class 2B carcinogen

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.15, No.3: May/Jne 2007

EDITORIAL

TiO2 pigment demand roars on - Pricing, however, can't be heard - yet

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Astron (Donald)

Australia: Matilda Minerals (Tiwi Islands)

Canada & Madagascar: QIT/QMM (Sorel & Mandena)

Gambia: Carnegie/Astron (Sanyang)

Malaysia: TOR Minerals (Ipoh)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Pigments:

China: Anhui Annada (Tongling)

China: Astron (90,000 t.p.a. project)

China: China National Salt (Zhuzhou)

China: Shufeng Titanium (Panzhihua)

China: Wuxi Xibao (Xishan-Houqiao)

Finland: Kemira (Mantyluoto/Pori)

Netherlands/Germany: Tronox (Botlek & Uerdingen)

Spain: Huntsman Tioxide (Huelva)

US: DuPont (New Johnsonville, TN)

Other Sectors:

Gypsum pigment: Kemira (Siilinjarvi)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Kronos

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Akzo Nobel/ICI

Anglo American/Namakwa/Highveld/Mondi/Tarmac/Gold

Access Industries/Basell/Lyondell

Apollo/Hexion/Huntsman

TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCES

Altair & Sherwin-Williams: AHP process for making TiO2 pigment

Austpac & BHP Billiton: ERMS process for making synrutile

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.15, No.2: Mar/Apl 2007

EDITORIAL

It is now crystal clear who acquired Millennium Inorganic Chemicals: Did the price paid represent good value for money?

PIGMENT PRICES

Prices increases of $US 100-124 per tonne posted by all major suppliers in all marketing regions

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Australian Zircon (Mindarie)

Australia: Bemax (Ginkgo, Snapper, Broken Hill & Bunbury)

Australia: Mineral Sands Ltd. (Murray Basin)

Chile: White Mountain (Cerro Blanco)

Gambia & Senegal: Carnegie (Sanyang & Niafarang)

India: Vetri Vel Minerals (Tamil Nadu)

Kenya: Jinchuan/Tiomin (Kwale)

Russia: Aricom (Kuranakh)

Senegal: Mineral Deposits Ltd. (Grande Cote)

Sierra Leone: Titanium Resources Group (Gbangbama)

South Africa: Mineral Commodities Ltd. (Xolobeni & Tormin)

Pigments:

Czech Republic: Precheza (Prerov)

Finland: Kemira (Mantyluoto/Pori)

Ukraine: Khimprom Sumy (Sumy)

Other Sectors:

Titanium sponge metal: Qinghai Zianghe (Xining-Ganhe, China)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Bemax Resources

Rockwood/Sachtleben

TOR Minerals

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Akzo Nobel/ICI

Basell/Lyondell

NTDC (Cristal)/Millennium TiO2 assets

HeidelbergCement/Hanson

Mader/Rohm & Haas (European paints)

Oji Paper/Hokuetsu

Ostchem/Ukrainian TiO2 feedstock & pigment

Outokumpu/Outotec

PPG/Ameron/Protec & Fortec/SpectraTone/Champion Coatings

RPM International/Tor Coatings/Dane Group/Watco

Sabic/GE Plastics

Sherwin-Williams/Nitco

SigmaKalon/Bollig & Kemper/Doelfray & Macostan/Varoisseau/Shanghai IVY

3M Corp./E.Wood Holdings

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.15, No.1: Jan/Feb 2007

EDITORIAL

Sale of the Century (Millennium) crystallises, but not until after conference delegates had left Florida

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Iluka (Douglas & KWR/Euston)

Australia: Iluka (Eucla Basin)

Australia: Monto Minerals (Goondicum)

Kenya: Tiomin & Jinchuan (Kwale)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Russia: Aricom (Kuranakh & Bolshoi Seym)

Sierra Leone: Titanium Resources Group (Gbangbama)

Pigments:

Australia: Tiwest (Kwinana)

Germany: Tronox (Krefeld-Uerdingen)

Netherlands: Tronox (Botlek)

Ukraine: Krymsky Titan (Armyansk)

Other Sectors:

Sponge metal: Timet (Henderson, NV)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Huntsman/Tioxide

Iluka Resources

Kemira

Kronos

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM/QMM

Tinfos/TTI

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Akzo Nobel/Organon/Sherwin-Williams/ICI

NTDC (Cristal)/Millennium TiO2 assets

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.14, No.5/6: Sep/Dec 2006

EDITORIAL

Changing patterns of pigment consumption: Horses for courses?

PIGMENT PRICES

Clear signs of prices moving up by 3-5% in response to supplier announcements

MARKETS & TRADE

Japanese suppliers increase their share of a declining domestic market

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Bemax (Murray Basin & Bunbury)

Australia: Iluka (Murray Basin)

Australia: Iluka (Waroona)

Australia: Matilda Minerals (Andranangoo Creek)

Australia: Olympia (Keysbrook)

India: Cochin Minerals & Rutile (Edayar)

Indonesia: Olympia (Kalimantan)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Sierra Leone: Titanium Resources Group (Gbangbama)

Pigments:

France: Millennium (Thann)

India: Kilburn Chemicals (Tuticorin)

India: Saraf & Technokhim (Gopalpur, Orissa)

Iran: Ministry of Industry (Kahnooj)

Korea, South: Cosmo Chemical (Incheon & Onsan)

Taiwan: DuPont (KuanYin)

VietNam: Avireco & partners (BinThuan)

US: DuPont (DeLisle, MS & EdgeMoor, DE & New Johnsonville, NJ)

Other Sectors:

Titanium metal: Chaoyang Jinda (China)

Titanium metal: Sumitomo (Japan)

Titanium metal: DuPont & Honeywell Electronic Materials (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Kronos

Lyondell/Millennium

Tronox

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Abitibi & Bowater

Exxaro/Ticor/Namakwa

Kerala Government/KMML & TTP

LITIGATION

Kemira vs Tronox (Savannah, US)

Kronos accident liability (Langerbrugge, Belgium)

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Altair patents for nano-ZrO2 & AHP technology

DuPont launches R-902-Plus for paint applications

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.14, No.3/4: May/Aug 2006

EDITORIAL

Non-pigment applications for TiO2: From nano to mega? - Not in our lifetime

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Iluka (Adamson & Cataby)

Australia: Iluka (Douglas & Northern Murray Basin)

Australia: Iluka (Gulliver's Prospect, Eucla Basin)

Australia: Rio Tinto/Red Metal (Eucla Basin)

China: Chengde Xinxin (Hebei province)

Gambia: Carnegie (Sanyang)

India: DCW, formerly Dharangadhra Chemical Works (Sahupuram)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Russia: Aricom (Kuranakh & Bolshoi Seym)

Sierra Leone: Titanium Resources Group (Gbangbama & Mogbwemo)

South Africa: Namakwa (Saldanha Bay)

Tanzania: Tiomin (Tajiri & Pangani)

VietNam: Mitraco (CamXuyen: ilmenite, slag & pigment)

Pigments:

China: China National Salt (Zhuzhou, Hunan)

China: Guangxi Dahua (Baise-Huahong, Guangxi)

China: Nanjing Titanium (Nanjing-Yuahuatai, Jiangsu)

France: Lyondell/Millennium (Le Havre)

India: Saraf & Technokhim & NPF Pigment & Giredmet & EEE (Sriramchandrapur, Orissa)

Singapore: Ishihara (Jurong)

UK: Huntsman Tioxide (Greatham)

Other Sectors:

Titanium sponge metal: Tsunyi, Guizhou (China)

Titanium sponge metal: Shenyang Jinming, Liaoning (China)

Titanium sponge metal: Luoyang Shuangrui Wanji, Henan (China)

Titanium sponge metal: Aluminium Corp. of China & Fushun Titanium & Aricom (China)

Titanium sponge metal: Sumitomo (Japan)

Titanium sponge metal: Toho Titanium (Japan)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Bemax Resources

Iluka Resources

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

BASF/Engelhard

Evraz/Highveld Steel & Vanadium

Kerr-McGee/Anadarko

Rio Tinto/Richards Bay Minerals

Ticor/Namakwa/Exxaro

Rosboronexport/VSMPO-Avisma

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.14, No.2: Mar/Apl 2006

EDITORIAL

Does supply/demand still drive pigment selling prices?

PIGMENT PRICES

Suppliers post $US 0.04 per pound rises for North American customers

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Argentina: Colorobbia (Salta province)

Australia: Astron (Donald)

Australia: Australian Zircon (Mindarie)

Australia: Bemax (Gingko, Broken Hill & Bunbury)

Australia: Diatreme, Doral & Minerals Corp. Ltd. (Eucla Basin)

China: Magnus Resources (Xixia, Henan)

China: Yunnan Xinli (ilmenite smelter, Yunnan)

Gambia/Senegal: Astron & Carnegie (Sanyang & Niafarang)

India: Indian Rare Earths (Manavalakurichi)

India: Kanoria (Madhya Pradesh, kimberlite tailings)

India: KMML (Sankaramangalam)

India: Tata Pigments (Sattankulam & Kuttam)

Sierra Leone: Titanium Resources Group (Gbangbama & Rotifunk)

Pigments:

Australia, Netherlands & US: Tronox (Kwinana, Botlek & Savannah, GA)

China: Agrofert/Precheza (Tongling, Anhui)

China: DuPont & Huatai (DongYing, Shandong)

China: PanGang group (Panzhihua, Chongqing & Jinzhou)

France: Millennium & Albemarle (Thann)

India: Saraf, EEE & Giridmet (Sriramchandrapur)

India: Travancore Titanium Products (Trivandrum)

Ukraine: Krymsky Titan (Armyansk)

US: DuPont (DeLisle, MS)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Huntsman/Tioxide

Kronos

Lyondell/Millennium

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Anglo American/Kumba Resources/Exxaro/Ticor

ENVIRONMENT

DuPont's latest TRI data shows 85% drop in volume of deep-welled wastes over 10 years

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.14, No.1: Jan/Feb 2006

EDITORIAL

China's pigment & feedstock markets - the next great leap forward or more of the same?

PIGMENT PRICES

Only price notifications for Q2 relate to certain customers in Asia

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Bemax (Gingko, Snapper & Broken Hill)

Australia: Iluka (Douglas & KWR/Euston)

Australia: Iluka (Eucla Basin)

Canada: Randsburg/Altairnano (Angus/Flett)

Canada: Western Oil Sands/Altairnano (Muskeg River)

Madagascar: Rio Tinto/QMM (Mandena & Ehoala)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Russia: Aricom (Kuranakh & Bolshoi Seym)

Russia: Lukoil (Yarega, Komi)

South Africa: Palabora Mining (Palabora)

South Africa: RBM (Richards Bay)

Pigments:

France: Millennium (Le Havre)

Poland: Zachem Police (Police)

Saudi Arabia: NTDC/Cristal (Yanbu)

Ukraine: Krymsky Titan (Armyansk)

Ukraine: Khimprom Sumy (Sumy)

US: DuPont (DeLisle, MS)

Other Sectors:

Paint: Jotun (China, Indonesia & Yemen)

Paint: Akzo Nobel (Spain)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Iluka Resources

Kemira

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM/QMM

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Akzo Nobel (China, Egypt, Germany, Ukraine & VietNam)

Home Depot/Oriental Home (China)

Huntsman spin-offs

Linde/BOC

Nippon Sheet Glass/Pilkington

Schulman/Barington

Toyota Tsusho/Tomen

Tronox /Kerr-McGee separation

Valspar/Samuel Cabot

ENVIRONMENT

DuPont aims to reduce or eliminate dioxins in chloride-route TiO2 manufacture

LITIGATION

Rhode Island jury brings in guilty verdicts on public nuisance from lead paint

HEALTH & SAFETY

Rutile TiO2 deemed just as acceptable as anatase for food colouring

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.13, No.6: Nov/Dec 2005

EDITORIAL

World TiO2 pigment demand fell by 5% in 2005, but prices rose & they are still rising

PIGMENT PRICES

New round of price increases posted for the eighth consecutive quarter

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Bemax (Gingko & Broken Hill)

Australia: Iluka (Eucla Basin)

Canada: Titanium Corp. Inc. (Fort McMurray)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Namibia: Reefton Mining (Skeleton Coast)

Sierra Leone: Titanium Resources Group (Gbangbama & Rotifunk)

US: Iluka (Green Cove Springs, Lulaton & other deposits in Florida & Georgia)

Pigments:

China: DuPont (DongYing, Shandong)

France: Huntsman Tioxide (Calais)

India: KMML (Sankaramangalam)

Japan: Ishihara Sangyo (Yokkaichi)

Ukraine: Khimprom Sumy

US: DuPont (De Lisle, MS)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Ishihara Sangyo

Kronos

Rockwood/Sachtleben

Sakai Chemical

Tayca

Tinfos/TTI

Titan Kogyo

Tronox/Kerr-McGee

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Agrofert/PKN Orlen/Aliachem

Ampacet/Sembodja Polska

BASF/Engelhard/Degussa

Fujifilm/Avecia/Sericol

Home Depot/Hughes Supply

Intertech/Pira International/Ciba

Metro/Praktiker

Nippon Sheet Glass/Pilkington

Omya/Huber (precipitated calcium carbonate)

St. Gobain/BPB Industries

Wendel Investissements/Materis

LITIGATION

DuPont & Kronos settle patent dispute over TiO2 grades for masterbatches

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.13, No.4/5: Jly/Oct 2005

EDITORIAL

Of hurricanes & pigment supply/demand

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Bemax (Gingko, Snapper & Broken Hill)

Australia: Bemax (Ludlow, Gwindinup & Tutunup)

Australia: Iluka (Douglas & KWR/Euston)

Australia: Iluka (Eucla Basin)

Australia: Iluka (Western Australia)

Australia: Matilda Minerals (Tiwi Islands)

Australia: Olympia Resources (Keysbrook)

Australia: Tasmanian Titanium/Bemax (toll-treatment at Bunbury for King Island rutile & zircon)

Chile: White Mountain Titanium (Cerro Blanco)

India: DCW, formerly Dharangadhra Chemical Works (Sahupuram)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Madagascar & Canada: Rio Tinto (ilmenite/slag)

Mozambique: Kenmare Resources (Moma)

Russia: GRK Bargold (Bolshoy Seyim)

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile/Titanium Resources Group (Gbangbama/Gbangbatok)

South Africa: Namakwa (Brand-se-Baai & Koekenaap)

Pigments:

China: Anhui Kena New Materials (Suzhou, Anhui)

China: PanGang group (Panzhihua, Sichuan)

China: Tianjin Chenguang Chemical (Tianjin)

China: Wuxi Xishan (Wuxi, Jiangsu)

France: Millennium (Le Havre)

India: KMML (Sankaramangalam)

Poland: Zachem Police (Police)

US: DuPont (DeLisle, MS)

US: Special Materials Co. (Rock Hill, SC)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Huntsman/Tioxide

Kerr-McGee/Tronox

Kronos

Lyondell/Millennium

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM/QMM

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Koch Industries/Georgia Pacific

Kumba/Ticor/Namakwa

Materis/Zolpan

Norske Skog/PanAsia Paper

Smurfit/Kappa

Tikkurila/Kraski Teks

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.13, No.3: May/Jne 2005

EDITORIAL

Feedstock supply: It's all about ilmenite - Who has it and who doesn't?

MARKETS

Pigment price increases posted for all regions, except Europe

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Australian Zircon (Mindarie)

Australian Zircon & Austpac (WIM-150)

Australia: Bemax (Ginkgo, Snapper & Campaspe)

Australia: Bemax (Ludlow, Tutunup & Gwindinup)

Canada: Titanium Corp. Inc. (Fort McMurray, AB)

India: Stork Handelsgesellschaft (Andhra Pradesh)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma & Pilivili)

Russia: Aricom/Chemelt (Kuranakh & Tynda)

Senegal: Mineral Deposits Ltd. (Grand Cote & Sabodala)

Pigments:

China: Wuxi Haopu (Wuxi, Jiangsu)

Czech Rep: Precheza (Prerov)

India: KMML (Sankaramangalam)

Poland: Zachem Police (Police)

Slovenia: Cinkarna (Celje)

Ukraine: Titan Crimea (Armyansk)

US: Kerr-McGee (Savannah, GA)

Vietnam: Avireco/Viet-My/Lidisaco & Altair/Bateman (Binh Thuan province)

Other Sectors:

Titanium sponge metal: Fushun (China)

Titanium sponge metal: Tsunyi (China)

Zirconia: Alkane (Dubbo, Australia)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Huntsman/Tioxide

Lyondell/Millennium

Rockwood/Sachtleben

Tinfos/TTI

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

BHP Billiton/WMC Resources

Buka Minerals/Kolsen/Packer/Iluka Resources

Kerr-McGee Chemical (sale or spin-off via IPO)

NTDC/Cristal/Bemax

Ukrainian TiO2 feedstock/pigment/metal industry unification/ZAO Renova

VSMPO/Avisma

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.13, No.2: Mar/Apl 2005

EDITORIAL

A taste of TiO2 ratatouille from Intertech Cannes

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BeMaX (Campaspe, Prungle & Pooncarie)

Australia: Olympia Resources (Keysbrook, The Loop & Ambergate)

Canada: Titanium Corp. Inc./Syncrude (Regina & Fort McMurray)

India: WGI Heavy Minerals & Earth Minerals Resources (Tamil Nadu)

Norway: Tinfos Titan & Iron (Tyssedal)

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile (Gbangbama/Gbangbatok & Nitti)

South Africa: Ticor SA (Hillendale, Fairbreeze & Empangeni)

Pigments:

Australia: Tiwest (Kwinana)

China: DuPont (Dongying, Shandong)

France: Millennium (Le Havre)

Saudi Arabia: NTDC/Cristal (Yanbu)

Ukraine: Khimprom Sumy

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Iluka Resources

Kemira

Kronos

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Rockwood/Sachtleben

TOR Minerals

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

BHP Billiton/WMC Resources

Cement industry (Buzzi, Cemex, Heidelberg & Holcim)

Filtrona/Bunzl

Huntsman IPO

Kerr-McGee Chemical (sale or spin-off)

MeadWestvaco (P & W papers)/Cerberus Capital Management

Travis Perkins/Wickes

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.13, No.1: Jan/Feb 2005

EDITORIAL

TiO2 markets soar to new heights in 2004. Is there life in these old bones?

MARKETS

Another wave of TiO2 price rises posted for all regions for Q1 2005

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BeMaX (Ginkgo & Broken Hill)

Australia: BeMaX (Ludlow, Tutunup & Bunbury)

Australia: Iluka (Douglas/KWR, Murray Basin)

Australia: Iluka/Adelaide Resources (Eucla Basin)

Australia: Iluka (Gingin)

Australia: Matilda Minerals (Tiwi Islands)

Canada & South Africa: Rio Tinto - QIT (Sorel) & RBM (Richards Bay)

China: PanGang Jinzhou Titanium (Panzihua)

Gambia & Senegal: Carnegie/Astron

India & Sri Lanka: Tsunami damage assessments

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Norway: Tinfos Titan & Iron

Pigments:

China: Astron (100,000 t.p.a. pigment plant)

China: Titan Kogyo/Shandong Dongjia (Zibo, Shandong)

China: Xingmao (Luohe City, Henan)

China: Zhenjiang InterChina Chemical (Jiangsu)

Germany: Kerr-McGee (Uerdingen)

India: KMML (Sankaramangalam)

India: Tata Steel (Tuticorin)

India: Travancore Titanium Products (Trivandrum)

Singapore: Ishihara (Jurong)

Ukraine: Titan Crimea (Armyansk)

US: Kerr-McGee (Savannah, GA)

US: TOR Minerals (Corpus Christi, TX)

Other Sectors:

Gypsum pigments for coated paper: Kemira (Finland)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Huntsman/Tioxide

Kerr-McGee

Millennium

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Ishihara/Fuji Titanium

Jefferson Smurfit/Munksjo Specialty Paper/EQT Fund

Lyondell/Millennium Chemical

WGI/Sierra Rutile

Xstrata/WMC Resources

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.12, No.4/6: Jly/Dec 2004

EDITORIAL

TiO2 pigment selling prices turn up - finally!!!

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Austpac (ERMS-SR syrutile)

Australia: BeMaX (Ginkgo, Broken Hill, Bunbury & Tutunup)

Australia: Iluka (Douglas/KWR, Murray Basin)

Australia: Iluka/Adelaide Resources (Eucla Basin)

Guatemala: Tiomin (Motagua)

India: MDL/Beach Minerals (Kuttam)

India:WGI/Transworld Garnet (Uvari & Srikurmam)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Madagascar: Ticor/Kumba (Toliara)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Senegal: MDL (Grand Cote)

Sierra Leone: WGI/Sierra Rutile

South Africa: Ticor South Africa (Hillendale)

Pigments:

China: Anada (Tongling, Anhui)

China: Baililian Chemicals (Jiaozuo, Henan)

China: Sichuan Lomon (Mianzhu City, Sichuan)

China: Shandong Suntiox/Zibo Cobalt/Titan Kogyo/Mitsui (Zibo, Shandong)

Poland: Zachem Police (Police)

Slovenia: Cinkarna (Celje)

Ukraine: Krym Titan (Armyansk) & Sumy Khimprom (Sumy)

Other Sectors:

Zirconia & zirconium chemicals: Doral (Australia)

Milled zircon: Mario Pilato Blat (Spain)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Huntsman/Tioxide

Kemira

Kerr-McGee

Ticor

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Bayer/Lanxess

Sons of Gwalia/BeMaX

Rockwood/Johnson Matthey (inorganic pigments)

Rockwood/MG Technologies/Dynamit Nobel/Sachtleben

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.12, No.1/3: Jan/Jne 2004

EDITORIAL

China's TiO2 pigment & feedstock markets: Opportunities or a Pandora's Box?

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Consolidated Rutile (Ibis & Enterprise)

Australia: Iluka (Douglas/KWR, Murray Basin)

Australia: RZM Cable Sands/Sons of Gwalia/Murray Basin Titanium (Wemen)

Canada: Titanium Corp. Inc./Syncrude (Regina & Mildred Lake)

Canada: Western Oil Sands/Altair (Athabasca)

China: Fangcheng, Henan (rutile)

India: MDL/Beach Sands (Kuttam, Tamil Nadu)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale & Mombasa)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Russia: Norilsk (Tambov & Kola)

Senegal: MDL (Grand Cote)

US: DuPont (Folkston/Okefenokee, GA)

US: Iluka (Green Cove Springs, FL & Lulaton, GA)

Pigments:

Belgium: DuPont/Katoen Natie (Antwerp-Kallo)

Czech Rep: Precheza (Prerov)

Finland: Kemira (Pori)

France: Millennium (Le Havre)

India: Kerala Minerals & Metals Ltd. (Sankaramangalam)

India: Travancore Titanium Products (Trivandrum)

Japan: Furukawa (Osaka)

Japan & Singapore: Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha (Yokkaichi & Jurong)

South Africa & United Kingdom: Huntsman Tioxide (Umbogintwini & Grimsby)

Ukraine: Krym Titan (Armyansk) & Sumy Khimprom (Sumy)

US: DuPont (De Lisle, MS)

US: Kerr-McGee (Hamilton, MS)

Vietnam: Lidisaco/Avireco (Altair AHP technology)

Other Sectors:

Ferro-titanium: Scandinavian Steel (Brazil)

Gypsum pigment: Kemira (Finland)

Zirconium basic sulfate: Palabora (South Africa)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Iluka Resources

Kronos Worldwide

Millennium

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Titan Kogyo

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

BeMaX/Sons of Gwalia/Nissho Iwai

NTDC (Cristal)/NIC (Riyadh)/Shairco

DuPont/Beijing Red Lion

Johnson Matthey (processed zircon & inorganic pigments)

Kerr-McGee/Westport Resources

Kidde/Robbialac/European Paints/Dinamia Capital Privado/Williams plc

Millennium/Lyondell

Rockwood/Kohl Kravis Roberts/Credit Suisse First Boston/MG Technologies/Dynamit Nobel/Sachtleben

SCA/Carter Holt Harvey

Kazakh Government/Ust Kamenogorsk (UKTMK)/Specialty Metals (Belgium)

Verkhnaya Salda (VSMPO)/Avisma/Creditanstalt (Russian titanium metal industry)

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.11, No.5/6: Sep/Dec 2003

EDITORIAL

Some signs of capacity growth in pigments & feedstocks, but are they the right horses for the course?

PIGMENT PRICES

Pigment suppliers push for price rises of Euros 100/tonne, while the exchange rate against the $US shoots up by 15% in four months

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Astron/Zirtanium (Jackson/Donald)

Australia: Austpac/Iluka/Consolidated Rutile (East Coast ERMS-SR)

Australia: Iluka (Douglas/KWR/Hamilton)

Canada & South Africa: Rio Tinto (Sorel - slag/UGS & Richards Bay - slag)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Madagascar: Iluka/CMM (Farafangana)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

New Zealand: NZ Steel (Glenbrook)

Russia: Aricom (Kuranakh & Tynda)

Senegal: Mineral Deposits Ltd. (Mboro & Fas Boyes)

South Africa: Namakwa Sands (Koekenaap)

South Africa: Ticor South Africa (Empangeni)

United States: Altair (Camden, TN)

Pigments:

France: Huntsman Tioxide (Calais)

India: Aditya Birla/Indian Rare Earths

India: Kerala Minerals & Metals (Sankaramangalam)

Japan: Ishihara (Yokkaichi)

Poland: Zaklady Chemiczne Police

Slovenia: Cinkarna (Celje)

United States: DuPont (New Johnsonville, TN)

United States: Kerr-McGee (Savannah, GA)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Fuji Titanium

Huntsman/Tioxide

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha

Millennium

Sakai Chemical

Tayca

Titan Kogyo

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Anglo American/Kumba Resources

BeMaX/Sons of Gwalia/Nissho Iwai

MG/Sachtleben

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Altair's Hydrochloride Pigment (AHP) technology for making TiO2

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.11, No.3/4: May/Aug 2003

EDITORIAL

Economic cycles turn up again - What will this mean for pigment demand?

MARKETS & TRADE

DuPont pioneers a new round of pigment price increases in all markets

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BeMaX/NTDC Cristal (Pooncarie/Broken Hill)

Australia: Iluka (Douglas/KWR/Hamilton)

Australia: RZM Cable Sands/Sons of Gwalia (Wemen/Thurla/Bunbury)

Australia: Mineral Deposits Ltd./Beach Minerals (Fullerton/Hawks Nest & Kuttam)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Madagascar: Ticor (Tulear & Morombe)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile (Gbangbama)

United States: DuPont (Starke, FL)

United States: Iluka (Green Cove Springs, FL & Lulaton, GA)

Pigments:

China: Panzhihua, Jinzhou Ferroalloys & Chongqing YuGang (Sichuan & Liaoning)

China: Zhenjiang Titanium White (Jiangsu)

Czech Republic: Precheza (Prerov)

France: Millennium (Thann)

India: Tata Steel (Tamil Nadu)

India: Travancore Titanium Products (Trivandrum)

Netherlands: Kerr-McGee (Botlek)

Ukraine: Krym Titan & SumyKhimprom

Other Sectors:

Automotive paint: DuPont (China)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Iluka Resources

Kerr-McGee

NL Industries/Kronos

Millennium

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Ticor

Tinfos/TTI

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Asian Paints/Berger International (Singapore)/SCIB Chemical (Egypt)

Anglo American/Kumba Resources

Huntsman/MatlinPatterson/Tioxide & Vantico

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

US Defense Agency to spend $US 12.3 million to evaluate FFC process for making Ti sponge

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.11, No.1/2: Jan/Apl 2003

EDITORIAL

Hard times for price forecasters: But, hey, even a broken watch tells the correct time twice a day!

MARKETS & TRADE

Price rises posted for Asia/Pacific markets & North American paper grades

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BeMaX (Ginkgo & Snapper)

Australia: Cable Sands (Western Australia & Sydney office)

Brazil: Paranapanema (Sao Jose do Norte)

Gambia: Carnegie/Astron (Brufut, Sanyang North, Batukunku & Kartung)

Malaysia: TOR Minerals (Ipoh)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Mozambique: WMC Resources/IDC (Corridor Sands)

South Africa: TEM/Mineral Commodities Ltd. (Xolobeni)

South Africa: Ticor/Kumba (Hillendale & Empangeni)

United States: Kerr-McGee (Mobile, AL)

Pigments:

China & Vietnam: Altair/Avireco/Flowco (licensees for AHPP technology)

China: Chongqing YuGang (Chongqing-Banan)

Finland: Kemira Pigments (Pori)

France: Millennium (Le Havre)

France: Huntsman Tioxide (Calais)

Russia: Lukoil/Yarega Oil & Titanium (Komi region)

Ukraine: Krym Titan (Armyansk)

United States: DuPont (De Lisle, MS)

United States: Kerr-McGee (Savannah, GA)

Other Sectors:

Water-treatment chemicals ex-copperas: Kemira (Russia)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Huntsman/Tioxide

Kemira

Kerr-McGee

NL Industries/Kronos

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Berger Paints India/Snowcem India

BP Sericol/Saratoga Partners

EOn/Stinnes/Brenntag/Degussa/Frank & Schulte/LKAB Minelco

Johnson Matthey/ICI Synetix

Kingfisher/Hornbach Baumarkt/Reno-Depot/RONA

Kumba Resources/Ticor

Permira/Homebase/GUS & Duke Street Capital/FocusWickes/Apax Partners

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.10, No.5/6: Sep/Dec 2002

EDITORIAL

Is the TiO2 pigment industry maturing - or just getting old?

MARKETS & TRADE

TiO2 pigment suppliers post new prices for Q1 2003

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Austpac/Newcrest (WIM-150)

Australia: BeMaX/Sons of Gwalia/Cristal/DuPont (Ginkgo)

Australia: Cable Sands (Gwindinup, Tutunup, Ludlow & Jangardup South)

Australia: Ticor/Magnetic Minerals (Dongara)

India: Austpac/Ticor/IRE (Chatrapur)

India: Austpac/Ardeshir B. Cursetjee (South Chatrapur)

India: Beach Minerals/Mineral Deposits Ltd. (Tamil Nadu)

Malaysia: TOR Minerals (Ipoh)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Mozambique: WMC/Southern Mining (Corridor Sands)

South Africa: Namakwa Sands (Saldanha Bay)

South Africa: Ticor/Kumba (Hillendale & Empangeni)

United States: Kerr-McGee (Mobile, AL)

Pigments:

China: Huntsman Tioxide (Caojing & Ningbo)

Saudi Arabia: NTDC/Cristal (Yanbu)

United Kingdom: Huntsman Tioxide (Greatham)

United States & Netherlands: Kerr-McGee (Hamilton, Savannah & Botlek)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Huntsman/Tioxide

Millennium:

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Ticor

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Anglo American/Kumba Resources

Matlin Patterson/Huntsman

Nissho Iwai/Nichimen

Sons of Gwalia/BeMaX/RZM Cable Sands/Murray Basin Titanium

LITIGATION

Rio Tinto vs Iluka (synrutile technology)

Rhode Island vs former lead paint/pigment producers

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Austpac/Ticor (BTS, ERMS & EARS processes)

Heubach/Dunn (Reptile-96 synrutile process)

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.10, No.3/4: May/Aug 2002

EDITORIAL

Pigment end-use markets: Something strange going on?

MARKETS & TRADE

Second wave of pigment price rises sweeps across the world

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BeMaX/Sons of Gwalia (Ginkgo & Snapper)

Australia: Iluka/Basin Minerals (Douglas & KWR)

Australia: Mineral Deposits Ltd. (Fullerton & Viney Creek)

Australia: Ticor/Magnetic Minerals (Dongara)

India: Travancore Cochin Chemicals (Thottappally)

Madagascar: Rio Tinto

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Mozambique: Rio Tinto (Gaza & Inhambane)

South Africa: Ticor/Kumba (Hillendale & Empangeni)

US: Iluka (Old Hickory, Green Cove Springs, Lulaton & South Brunswick)

Pigments:

Belgium, Canada, Germany & US: Kronos (Langerbrugge, Varennes, Leverkusen & Lake Charles)

China: Huntsman Tioxide (Caojing & Ningbo)

India: Tata Iron & Steel (Tamil Nadu)

Singapore: Ishihara (Jurong)

South Africa: Huntsman Tioxide (Umbogintwini)

Other Sectors:

Ferric sulfate ex-copperas: Huntsman Tioxide/Kemiron (Spain)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Huntsman/Tioxide

Iluka Resources

NL Industries/Kronos

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

ICI/Huntsman International/CSFB Global Opportunities

Kingfisher/B & Q/Castorama

Nissho Iwai/RZM Cable Sands/Sons of Gwalia

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.10, No.1/2: Jan/Apl 2002

EDITORIAL

Irrational exuberance: TiO2 pigment markets in 2000 & 2001

MARKETS & TRADE

Millennium posts new pigment price increases, effective 1 June

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Basin Minerals (Douglas)

Australia: BeMaX/Sons of Gwalia (Ginkgo)

Australia: Doral (Dardanup)

Australia: RZM Cable Sands/Sons of Gwalia (Wemen/Prungle & Thurlo)

Australia: Mineral Deposits Ltd. (Fullerton, Viney Creek & Hawks Nest)

Australia, Mozambique, Sri Lanka & US: Iluka Resources

Canada: QIT (Sorel, PQ)

India: MDL (Tamil Nadu)

India: Transworld Garnet/Beach Minerals (Tamil Nadu)

India: VV Mineral/AMT (Tamil Nadu)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Mozambique: RIT (Gaza & Inhambane)

South Africa: Ticor/Kumba (Hillendale & Empangeni)

Pigments:

France: Millennium (Thann)

India: Saraf/Technokhim/NPF Pigment/IDCOL (Orissa)

Japan: DuPont (pigment slurry)

Japan: Ishihara (Yokkaichi)

Japan: Sakai Chemical (Onahama)

Spain: Huntsman Tioxide (Huelva)

Other Sectors:

Precipitated CaCO3: MTI (Belgium)

Precipitated CaCO3: Daishowa Paper/Imerys/Okutama (Japan)

Precipitated CaCO3: Phibros (Norway)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Iluka Resources

Kerala Minerals & Metals Ltd.

Krym Titan

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Ticor Ltd.

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Anglo American/Kumba Resources

Huntsman/AECI/Huntsman Tioxide South Africa

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Altair's new TiO2 manufacturing process & nanoparticulates for fuel-cells

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.9, No.6: Nov/Dec 2001

EDITORIAL

TiO2 mineral feedstocks: new projects and new management - and new problems?

MARKETS & TRADE

Pigment price increases posted for all regions

Japan: Manufacturers' pigment inventories approaching 60 days

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia & India: Austpac & Ticor (Murray Basin & Orissa)

Australia: BeMaX/Probo (Murray Basin)

Australia: Monto/Monadelphous (Goondicum)

Australia: RZM Cable Sands/Sons of Gwalia (Wemen & Thurlo)

Australia: Southern Titanium (Mindarie)

Australia: Tiwest (Cooljarloo, Chandala & Kwinana)

Brazil: DuPont (Para)

Cameroon: BRGM/Government (Akonolinga)

India: Transworld Garnet (Andhra Pradesh)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Madagascar: QIT/Omnis

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Ukraine: Volnogorsk

Pigments:

Belgium: Kerr-McGee (Antwerp)

China: YuGang (Chonqing)

China: DuPont (Shanghai)

Poland: Zachem Police (Police)

Spain: Huntsman Tioxide (Huelva)

US: DuPont (Edge Moor, DE)

Other Sectors:

Gypsum pigment: Kemira/Cargas Blancas (Spain)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Huntsman/Tioxide

Iluka Resources

Kemira

Kerr-McGee

Kronos/NL Industries

Millennium Chemicals

Sachtleben Chemie

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Aker Maritime/Kvaerner

Asian Paints/Hardcastle & Waud

Sherwin-Williams/Mautz Paint

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.9, No.4/5: Jly/Oct 2001

EDITORIAL

An update on the pigment consumption outlook & assessing the prospects for success of mineral sands prospects

MARKETS & TRADE

France: TiO2 pigment import price falls to Euros 1810 per tonne in May

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BeMaX/Probo (Murray Basin)

Australia: Iluka (Murray Basin)

Australia: Iluka (Capel/Narngulu synrutile)

Australia: Magnetic Minerals (Dongara)

Australia: Mineral Deposits Ltd. (New South Wales)

Australia: RZM Cable Sands (Ludlow)

Australia: Southern Titanium (Mercunda)

Australia & India: Austpac & Ticor (Murray Basin & Orissa)

Canada: Titanium Corp. Inc. (Truro, NS)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Russia: Korshunovsky (Irkutsk)

South Africa: AfriOre (Tugela)

South Africa: Namakwa (Cape Province)

South Africa: RBM (Offshore Richards Bay)

South Africa: Ticor South Africa/Iscor (Empangeni)

VietNam: Bimal (Cat Khanh)

Pigments:

Belgium: Kerr-McGee (Antwerp)

Czech Republic: Precheza (Prerov)

India: TTP (Trivandrum)

Mexico & Taiwan: DuPont (Altamira & KuanYin)

Ukraine: ZMTK (Zaporozhye)

Other Sectors:

Zirconia: Alkane Exploration (Australia)

Zirconia: Tosoh & Sumitomo (Japan)

Zirconia: Palabora (South Africa)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Huntsman/Tioxide

Iluka Resources

Kemira

Kerr-McGee

Millennium

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Ticor

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Anglo American/De Beers/AECI/Namakwa

Lafarge/Holcim/Cemex (cement)

Chevron/Texaco

CVC & Cinven/Kappa/Lecta (European paper)

Domtar/Georgia Pacific

Iluka/Consolidated Rutile

Kvaerner/Aker Maritime

Mead/Westvaco

Norske Skog/Pacifica/Hansol/PISA/Haindl

UPM-Kymmene/Haindl

Weyerhaeuser/Willamette

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.9, No.3: May/Jne 2001

EDITORIAL

TiO2 pigment markets (again) - What goes up may come down (again)

MARKETS & TRADE

Germany: Pigment import price falls back below Euros 2000 per tonne

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Basin Minerals (Douglas)

Australia: BeMaX/Imperial One/Sons of Gwalia (Ginkgo & Snapper)

Australia: Mineral Deposits Ltd. (New South Wales)

Australia: Monto & Monadelphous (Goondicum)

Australia: Murray Basin Titanium (Wemen, Cylinder, Birthday Gift, et al.)

Canada: NAR Resources/Titanium Corp. of Canada (Truro, NS)

China: Yunnan Atlantic (synrutile)

Madagascar: Rio Tinto (Mandena, Sainte-Luce & Petriky)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Sierra Leone: MIL/US Titanium/Consolidated Rutile

South Africa: Ticor/Iscor (Empangeni)

United States: Iluka (Old Hickory, VA)

Pigments:

Belgium: Kerr-McGee (Antwerp)

Belgium & Canada: Kronos (chloride-route TiO2)

China: Huntsman Tioxide (Caojing, Changzhou, Taixing, et al.)

China: Pangang (Panzhihua, SI)

France: Millennium (Le Havre & Thann)

India: Kerala Minerals & Metals (Sankaramangalam)

Poland: Zachem Police (Police)

Ukraine: Krym Titan (Armyansk) & Sumsky Khimprom (Sumy)

United States: Millennium (Ashtabula, OH & Baltimore, MD)

Other Sectors:

Zircon: Iluka (Australia)

Titanium sponge: Zunyi (China)

Gypsum pigment: Kemira (Finland)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Huntsman/Tioxide

Iluka Resources:

Kemira

Kronos/NL Industries

Millennium

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM/Luzenac/Palabora

Ticor/Tiwest

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Albemarle/Martinswerk

BHP/Billiton

CPS Color/Rohm & Haas

Iluka/Consolidated Rutile

Paturle/Multibase

RONA/Revy (Canadian DIY retail)

TOR Minerals/Terminor

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.9, No.1/2: Jan/Apl 2001

EDITORIAL

Regional TiO2 pigment pricing - Who is in the driver's seat?

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Basin Minerals (Douglas, Culgoa & Oakvale)

Australia: BeMaX/Sons of Gwalia (Ginkgo)

Australia: Magnetic Minerals (Dongara)

Australia: Mineral Deposits Ltd. (Fullerton & Viney Creek)

Australia: Monto Minerals & Multiplex Construction (Goondicum)

Canada: Micrex Development (Burmis, AB)

India: Austpac/Ticor/IRE (Chatrapur)

India: Iscor/Ticor/MDL (Tamil Nadu)

India: Travancore Cochin Chemicals (Thottapally)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Sierra Leone: MIL/Consolidated Rutile

South Africa: Namakwa Sands (Saldanha Bay)

South Africa: Ticor/Iscor (Empangeni)

Ukraine: Irshansky GOK (ilmenite)

Pigments:

Germany: Kronos (Leverkusen)

Singapore/China: Huntsman Tioxide (ICON project)

Slovenia: Cinkarna (Celje)

Spain: Huntsman Tioxide (Huelva)

Ukraine: Krym Titan

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Billiton/Richards Bay Minerals

DuPont

Iluka Resources

Kerala Minerals & Metals

Kerr-McGee

Millennium

NL Industries/Kronos

Precheza

Tinfos/TTI

Zachem Police

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

BHP/Billiton

Ciba Specialty Chemicals/Megides/Techmer

CVRD/Bahia Sul

Huntsman/Bain

ICI Paints/Deco France

Mitsui/Caemi/Cadam

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.8, No.6: Nov/Dec 2000

EDITORIAL

World TiO2 pigment consumption growth accelerated in 2000, but how much longer can this go on?

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BeMaX/Sons of Gwalia (Ginkgo & Snapper)

Australia: RZM/Sons of Gwalia (Wemen & Mildura)

Australia: Tiwest/Kerr-McGee (Cooljarloo & Chandala)

India: Austpac/IRE/Ticor (Chatrapur)

India: Travancore Cochin Chemicals (Alapuzha)

India: Western Garnet International (Andhra Pradesh)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Mozambique: WMC/IDC/Southern Mining (Corridor Sands)

Russia: Klyuchevsky (Ekaterinburg & Yarega)

South Africa: Ticor/Iscor (Empangeni)

Uganda: Rhodia/Madhvani

Pigments:

Finland: Kemira (Pori)

Saudi Arabia: NTDC/Cristal (Yanbu)

Singapore: Ishihara Sangyo (Jurong)

Ukraine: Krym Titan (Armyansk)

United Kingdom: Huntsman Tioxide (Greatham)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

BHP, formerly Broken Hill Proprietary

DuPont

Huntsman/Tioxide

Kemira

Millennium

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Berkshire Hathaway/Benjamin Moore

DeBeers/AA

Dow Chemical/Union Carbide

DIY Retail (Great Mills/FDIA, Homebase/Schroder, Home Depot, New Kingfisher/B&Q)

Iscor demerger/Anglovaal/IDC

Kemira (water-treatment chemicals)

Kerr-McGee/Bayer

Laporte/Kohlberg Kravis Roberts/Degussa

Messer-Griesheim/Goldman Sachs & Allianz

Metsa-Serla/SCA/Georgia Pacific

Olin/OxyChem

Portucel/Soporcel

Valspar/Lilly Industries

Vopak/Ellis & Everard

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.8, No.5: Sep/Oct 2000

EDITORIAL

The impact of industry structural changes on pigment selling prices - or is it the reverse?

MARKETS & TRADE

TiO2 pigment prices raised in Europe & Japan

Australia: Revival in ilmenite export volume, after two year decline

China: Pigment imports heading for 150,000 tonnes this year

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Basin Minerals (Douglas)

Australia: BeMaX/Iluka (Ginkgo & Snapper/Trelega)

Australia: MDL (Fullerton & Viney Creek)

Australia: Multiplex/Monto/Tiomin (Bundaberg & Goondicum)

Australia: Southern Titanium/MBM (Mindarie)

Australia: Tiwest/Kerr-McGee (Cooljarloo & Chandala)

China: Henan province (rutile)

India: Austpac/Ticor/IRE (Orissa)

India: Iscor/MDL (Tamil Nadu)

Kazakhstan: UKTMK (Ust-Kamenogorsk)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Mozambique: WMC/IDC/Southern Mining (Corridor Sands)

Russia: Norilsk/Apatit (Murmansk)

South Africa: Ticor/Iscor (Empangeni)

South Africa: Namakwa (Saldanha Bay)

South Africa: Pinnacle/Mintek (Potgietersrus)

United States: Altair (Camden, TN)

Pigments:

Belgium: Kronos Titan (Langerbrugge)

Germany: Sachtleben (Duisburg-Homberg)

India: Kolmak (Tuticorin)

India: Tata (Tamil Nadu)

India: TTP (Trivandrum)

Malaysia: Huntsman Tioxide (Teluk Kalung)

United States: DuPont (De Lisle, MS)

United States: Kerr-McGee (Savannah, GA)

Other Sectors:

Paint: Akzo Nobel (China)

Precipitated calcium carbonate: MTI/Fimatec (Japan)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

NL Industries/Kronos

Kerr-McGee

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Anglo American Corp./AECI

Akzo Nobel/Dexter/Mason/Vachon

CPS Color/Industri Kapital/Tikkurila

Huntsman/ICI

ICI disposals (industrial chemicals, Indian polyurethanes, methanol, Seal Sands)

Johnson Matthey/Consolidated Rutile

Kerr-McGee/Bayer

London & Scandinavian/Wogen (FeTi)

Tikkurila/Alcro-Beckers/Mason (industrial paints)

WMC/Omya/Three Springs

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Altair (nanoparticulate TiO2)

DuPont (R-105)

Huntsman Tioxide (valid analytical measurement)

CHLORINE

The roller-coaster of chloralkali prices

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.8, No.4: Jly/Aug 2000

EDITORIAL

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Austpac (WIM-150)

Australia: Craton/Basin Minerals (Douglas)

Australia: Cable Sands (Yarloop)

Australia: Iluka/BeMaX (Ginkgo & Snapper/Trelega)

Australia: Iluka (Eneabba North)

Canada: NAR Resources/Titanium Corp. of Canada (Truro, NS)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Mozambique: WMC/Southern Mining (Corridor Sands)

South Africa: Ticor/Iscor (Empangeni) Iscor (Wavecrest)

Ukraine: Pennwood/Irshansky GOK (Mezhrechensk & Irshansk)

Pigments:

China: Xiwan & Songjiang

Saudi Arabia: Kerr-McGee/NTDC/Cristal (Yanbu)

Ukraine: Krym Titan/ITA Privest/Forum Bank (Armyansk)

United Kingdom: Huntsman Tioxide (Greatham)

United States: Millennium (Baltimore, MD)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Billiton/RBM

Fuji Titanium

Iluka Resources

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha

Millennium

Rio Tinto/RIT

Sakai Chemical

Tayca

Ticor

Titan Kogyo

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Focus Do-it-All/Wickes/Great Mills/ Homebase

Georgia Pacific/Fort James

Stinnes/Brenntag/Holland Chemical International

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.8, No.3: May/Jne 2000

EDITORIAL

TiO2 pigment demand: what goes up may come down, but when?

MARKETS & TRADE

Pigment price rises posted for June/July in Europe & North America

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BeMaX/Craton Resources (Ginkgo, Yabbie & Shamrock)

India: Austpac/IRE/Ticor (Orissa)

Mozambique: IDC of South Africa/Southern Mining (Corridor Sands)

Pigments:

China: HuaYuan (Lanzhou)

China: Huntsman Tioxide (Caoqing)

Taiwan: DuPont (KuanYin)

Ukraine: Sumy KhimProm

UK: Huntsman Tioxide (Grimsby)

US: DuPont (New Johnsonville)

US: Millennium (Ashtabula)

Other Sectors:

Zircon milling: Johnson Matthey (Malaysia)

Zircon milling: Mario Pilato Blat (Spain)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Huntsman/Tioxide

Iluka Resources

Kemira

Kerr-McGee

MG Technologies, formerly Metallgesellschaft

Millennium

Precheza

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

AA/Frantschach/Neusiedler/LTA

BASF/NOF (Japan)

Danzac/Deutsche Post/Danzas Chemicals

Degussa/SKWTrostberg (Veba/Viag)

Dow Chemical/Union Carbide

Flint Ink/Alper/Manders/Creanova

Focus Do-it-All/Wickes

Hanna/Geon

Industri Kapital/Dyno/Neste Chemicals/Perstorp

Linde/Messer-Griesheim

Metsa-Serla/MoDo Paper/SCA/Holmens Bruk

Worms/Arjo Wiggins Appleton

LITIGATION

DuPont drops patent infringement action against Millennium over Tiona RCL-188

The issue of liability for lead paint damages: fatally flawed, but not dead yet

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.8, No.2: Mar/Apl 2000

EDITORIAL

Pigment price increase announcements are full of sound & fury, but have so far meant relatively little

MARKETS & TRADE

Prices for paper grades raised in North America

Two waves of European TiO2 price increases

China's TiO2 pigment consumption forecast to exceed 150,000 tonnes

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BeMaX/Imperial Mining/Probo (Ginkgo)

Australia: Consolidated Rutile (Yarraman & Ibis)

Australia: Craton (Douglas)

Australia: Iluka (Eneabba

Australia: North & Murray Basin)

Australia: MBM (Mindarie/Mercunda)

Australia: MDL (Fullerton)

Australia: Monto (Goondicum)

Australia: RZM Cable/Yardarino (Tutunup)

Australia: Sons of Gwalia/RZM Cable (Wemen)

Canada: NAR/TCC (Truro)

Canada: QIT (Sorel):

Canada: Uravan (Minas Basin)

India: MDL (Tamil Nadu)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Mozambique: Southern Mining (Corridor)

Russia: Kola

Russia: peninsula (ilmenite)

South Africa: Iscor (Empangeni)

South Africa: Namakwa (Saldanha Bay)

US: Iluka (Florida & Virginia)

Pigments:

Australia: Millennium (Kemerton)

Australia: Tiwest (Kwinana)

Brazil: Millennium (Arembepe)

Canada: Huntsman Tioxide (Tracy)

China: Jiaozuo-Zhongshan (Henan)

China: Yuxiang (Jinan)

China: Jinzhou-Taihe (Liaoning)

Czech Rep: Precheza (Prerov)

Finland: Kemira (Pori)

India: Kilburn (Tuticorin)

India: KMML (Sankaramangalam)

India: Travancore Titanium Products (Trivandrum)

Malaysia & Spain: Huntsman Tioxide (Teluk Kalung & Huelva)

Netherlands: Kerr-McGee (Botlek)

Saudi Arabia: NTDC/Cristal (Yanbu)

US: Altair (Reno)

US: DuPont (Edge Moor & Johnsonville)

US: Kerr-McGee (Savannah)

Other Sectors:

Synthetic zirconia: AFM (Australia) & Geratech (South Africa)

Paint: Tikkurila (Russia)

Printing inks: Hindustan Inks & Resins (India)

Plastics masterbatch: Ampacet (Thailand)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Iluka Resources

Kerr-McGee

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Ticor

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Air Liquide/Air Products/BOC

BP Amoco/Arco/Burmah Castrol

CanOxy/Occidental Petroleum

Galeries Lafayette/BHV

Hitox/Tor Minerals/MTC

International Paper/Champion International

Linde/Aga/Hoek Loos

Nippon Paper Industries/Daishowa

Norske Skog/Fletcher Challenge Paper

StoraEnso/Consolidated Papers

Williams/Masco/Jordan

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Millennium's new global research centre promotes teamwork approach to R & D

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.8, No.1: Jan/Feb 2000

EDITORIAL

Global economies roar on - or just roar?

MARKETS & TRADE

Kerr-McGee purchase from Kemira shuffles the world rankings

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BeMaX/Imperial Mining/Probo (Ginkgo)

Australia: Iluka (Mundijong)

Australia: RZM/Sons of Gwalia (Wemen)

Australia: Tiwest (Cooljarloo & Chandala)

Brazil: Millennium (Mataraca)

India: Austpac/IRE (Orissa)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile (Gbangbama)

South Africa: Iscor (Empangeni)

South Africa: RBM (Richards Bay)

Pigments:

China: Welex (Tengxian)

Czech Rep: Precheza (Prerov)

Japan: Tohkem & Sakai (Onahama)

UK: Huntsman Tioxide (Greatham)

US: Altair (Reno, NV)

Other Sectors:

Tinting systems: Tikkurila (China)

Paint: Berger (India)

Paint: Kansai (Indonesia)

Paint: Jotun (Thailand)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

ICI Paints

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha

Kemira

Kerr-McGee

Millennium

NL Industries/Kronos

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

AECI Coatings/PPG

Asian Paints/Delmege Forsyth

Barlows/Shalimar Paints

BASF/Rohm & Haas (coil coatings)

BASF (masterbatch)

BOC/Air Liquide & Air Products

BP Amoco/Arco

Colloids/Kafrit & Rovago

Daido Hoxan/Kyodo Oxygen

De Beers/AA

DIC/Sun/Coates Lorilleux

Dow/Union Carbide

Exxon/Mobil

Flint/The Ink Co./Polychem/CQIB

Hitox/Malaysian Titanium

ICI Paints/Ruetgers

Kerr-McGee/Kemira Pigments (Botlek & Savannah)

Linde/Aga/Messer-Griesheim

Millennium Performance Chemicals/Hanwha (zirconia)

PPG/Helios

TotalFina/Elf Aquitaine

Valspar/Dexter/Farboil/Coates Coatings India

CHLORINE

Contracts at $US 185-205 per short ton in Q1 2000

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.7, No.6: Nov/Dec 1999

EDITORIAL

TiO2 pigment consumption & feedstock requirements: Too much sand in the air?

MARKETS & TRADE

Germany: TiO2 pigment import prices hoisted beyond DM 4.00 per kilo?

South Korea: TiO2 pigment import boom resumes

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Billiton/Stuart (Coburn Sands)

Australia: Cable Sands (Yarloop)

Australia: MDL (Fullerton)

Australia: Minotaur (Casterton)

Australia: Monto Minerals (Goondicum & Gladstone)

Canada: Cross Lake/Gossan (Pipestone Lake)

Canada: NAR Resources (Truro)

China: Golden Thunder (Fangcheng)

China: Pangang (Panzhihua)

Gambia: Carnegie Minerals

Iran: Union Capital (Kahnooj)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Moma)

Mozambique: Southern Mining (Corridor & Matola)

United States: Altair (Camden, TN)

Pigments:

China: TiO2 pigment plant-list (50 plants, from CNCIC Directory)

China: Jinzhou Ferroalloy (Jinzhou-Taihe)

Japan: Furukawa (Osaka)

Malaysia: Huntsman Tioxide (Teluk Kalung)

United Kingdom: Huntsman Tioxide (Greatham)

Other Sectors:

Precipitated calcium carbonate: SMI/MTI (Japan & Portugal)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Huntsman-ICI

Kerr-McGee

Millennium

NL Industries/Kronos

Sachtleben

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

BASF/Norsk Hydro (coil coatings)

DuPont/Millennium/CheMatch

ICI/Ineos (acrylics)

ICI/Asahi Glass (fluoropolymers)

ICI/PPG (paints)

Kemira pigments

Ladish/Wyman-Gordon

PPG/Bellaria

Ticor (coal assets disposal)

Tikkurila/Baltcolor

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Altair/BHP (nanoparticulate TiO2 from ilmenite)

BASF/SunSmart (ultraviolet absorbers)

Billiton (low-radioactive slag, using boron)

Gawler Gold (synrutile)

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.7, No.4/5: Jly/Oct 1999

EDITORIAL

The pigment industry calms down - at last!

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Iluka (Murray Basin, Manjimup & Mundijong)

Australia: Tiwest (Cooljarloo & Chandala)

Brazil: Paranapanema (Sao Jos do Norte)

Brazil: Verena Minerals (Brejinko de Nazare)

Falkland Islands: Cambridge Mineral Resources

Kazakhstan: Shokash & Obukhovsk

Kazakhstan: UKTMK (Ust-Kamenogorsk: slag & sponge metal)

Norway: Tinfos Titan & Iron (Tyssedal)

South Africa: Iscor (Empangeni)

Ukraine: Kerr-McGee & Millennium & Irshansky GOK (Mezhrechensk)

United States: Iluka (Green Cove Springs, FL & Old Hickory, VA)

Vietnam: Austinh (Cam Hua)

Pigments:

Saudi Arabia: NTDC/Cristal (Yanbu)

Singapore: Ishihara (Jurong)

United States: Kerr-McGee (Hamilton, MS)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Billiton/RBM

Fuji Titanium

Iluka Resources

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha

Kemira

Sakai Chemical

Tayca

Ticor/Tiwest

Titan Kogyo

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

BASF/Shell (polyolefins)

Huntsman/Tioxide

MIL Investments/Nord Resources/Sierra Rutile

Tikkurila/Benjamin Moore (industrial paints)

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.7, No.3: May/Jne 1999

EDITORIAL

Tioxide: finally a done deal! Now what's to be done?

MARKETS & TRADE

Pigment price rises posted in Europe & North America

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Cable Sands (Jangardup South)

Australia: Ishihara (Dardanup)

Australia: RZM/Western Metals (Wemen)

Canada: Hoogovens/Nar Resources/TCC (Truro & Cape Breton, NS)

Canada: QIT Fer & Titane (Sorel, PQ)

India: Austpac/Indian Rare Earths (Orissa)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Norway: Tinfos (Tyssedal, Hardanger Fjord)

Pigments:

Australia: Millennium (Kemerton)

Czech Republic: Precheza (Prerov)

China: Shenyang Chemical

France: Millennium (Thann)

India: Kilburn (Tuticorin)

India: Mineral Sands India Pte. Ltd.

India: Travancore Titanium Products (Trivandrum)

United Kingdom: Tioxide (Greatham)

Other Sectors:

Calcined kaolin: Australian Kaolin Ltd. (Australia)

Calcined kaolin: Twenty Microns (India)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Kemira

Kerr-McGee

NL Industries/Kronos

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

MIL Investments/Nord Resources/Sierra Rutile

Iscor/Ticor

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.7, No.2: Mar/Apl 1999

EDITORIAL

TiO2 Feedstocks: the availability and cost dilemma

MARKETS & TRADE

Millennium pioneers pigment price increases in Brazil & Asia/Pacific

United States: Pigment inventories below the comfort level?

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BHP (Beenup)

Australia: Rio Tinto (Wimmera)

Canada: QIT (Sorel)

China: Golden Thunder (Hainan Dao)

India: Austpac & IRE (Chatrapur, Orissa)

Kazakhstan: Ust Kamenogorsk TMK (Bekhtimir)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Mozambique: Kenmare (Congolone/Moma)

Russia: Novosibirsk, Siberia

South Africa: Namakwa Sands

South Africa: RBM (Richards Bay)

Sri Lanka: Lanka Mineral Sands & ACI

Ukraine: Pennwood & Polymetals (Irshansk)

United States: Altair (Camden, TN)

Pigments:

China: Panzhihua Iron & Steel

Germany: Sachtleben (Duisburg-Homberg)

Malaysia: Tioxide (Teluk Kalung)

South Africa: Tioxide/AECI (Umbogintwini)

Ukraine: Krym Titan & ITA Privest & Forum Bank (Armyansk)

Other Sectors:

Titanium metal: Avisma (Russia)

Baddeleyite/zirconia: Palabora Mining (South Africa)

Titanium metal tubes: Sandvik (Sweden & US)

Titanium metal: Zaporozhye MTK (Ukraine)

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Mineral Technologies Inc. (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Iluka Resources

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

BASF Wattyl (vehicle refinish paints)

BOC/Praxair (oxygen & nitrogen)

BP Amoco/Arco

Georgia Pacific/Unisource

Hitox/Bernard Paulson & Megamin

Huntsman/Tioxide

Imetal/English China Clays

International Paper/Union Camp

Minorco/Engelhard

MoDo/SCA (fine papers)

PPG/ICI (vehicle refinish paints)

PPG/ICI & Sigma (specialty paints)

PPG/PRC deSoto/Akzo Nobel (aerospace coatings)

Sakai Chemical/Tohkem

Sovereign/Valspar (packaging coatings)

Sun/Brent (packaging inks)

Viag/Alusuisse

Zeneca/Solvay (precipitated calcium carbonate)

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.7, No.1: Jan/Feb 1999

EDITORIAL

The pigment market is improving: Don't believe the bad news, it's a matter of perspective

MARKETS & TRADE

Pigment price increases reaffirmed in Europe, Middle East & Africa

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BHP (Beenup)

Australia: Murray Basin Minerals (South Australian tenements)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Mozambique: Southern Mining (Corridor)

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile (Gbangbama)

United States: Altair (Camden, TN)

United States: DuPont (Folkston, GA)

Pigments:

China: Millennium

Korea, South: HanKook Titanium (Onsan & Incheon)

United Kingdom: Tioxide (Greatham)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Bayer

Billiton

Kemira

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

DuPont/Herberts

Engelhard/Minorco

Hanson/Westralian Sands

Huntsman/ICI/Tioxide

Takasaki Paper/Sanko Paper

Total/Kalon

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.6, No.6: Nov/Dec 1998

EDITORIAL

It's not over till it's over: DuPont's acquisition of Tioxide assets disallowed

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BHP (Beenup)

Australia: Mineral Deposits, ex-Nimbus (Hawks Nest & Murray Basin)

Finland: GTK & Kalvinit (Kalvia)

Iran: Union Mining & Itok

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

South Africa: Iscor (Kwazulu-Natal)

United States: Altair (Camden, TN)

Pigments:

India: Kerala Minerals & Metals (Sankaramangalam)

Netherlands: Kemira (Botlek)

United States: Kerr-McGee (Hamilton, MS)

United States: Millennium (Hawkins Point, Baltimore, MD)

Other Sectors:

Paint: BASF (World)

Paint: Asian Paints & ICI (India)

Paint: Akzo Nobel (Poland)

Paint: Davis-Frost (US)

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Faxe Kalk (Brazil & Finland)

Rare earths: Rhodia (China)

Magnesium: Dow (US)

Printing inks: Sun (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

ICI/Tioxide

Kerr-McGee

Metallgesellschaft

Millennium

NL Industries/Kronos

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Arjo Wiggins Appleton

Blue Mountain Wallcoverings/GenCorp

BP/Amoco

BPB Industries/Gyproc

Dexter/Akzo Nobel (aerospace coatings)

DuPont/Benchmark (titanates for oilfield exploration)

Exxon/Mobil

FMC/Elf Atochem (soda ash)

ICI disposals

Imetal/English China Clays

Kalon/Polifarb Cieszyn/Sigma-Lafarge Coatings

Langbein Pfanhauser/Solvay (wallpaper)

Lilly/Pinturas Dygro

Midwest Ink/Offset Printing Ink

Orica/PPG (industrial paints) & AECI

OxyChem/Geon (PVC)

Rohm & Haas/Morton

PPG/Akzo Nobel

RPM/Nullifire

Stora/Enso

Vestolit/Vinnolit

Viag/Alusuisse Lonza

ENVIRONMENT

RBM aims to improve public's image of mineral sands mining

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.6, No.5: Sep/Oct 1998

EDITORIAL

Some light on a cloudy subject: TiO2 feedstock supplies

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BHP (Beenup)

Australia: BHP/Nimbus (New South Wales)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Mozambique: Billiton (Moebase)

South Africa: Bushveld Alloys (Stoffberg)

South Africa: RBM (Richards Bay)

Pigments:

Finland: Kemira (Pori)

India: Travancore Titanium Products (Thiruvananthapuram/Trivandrum)

Netherlands: Kemira (Botlek)

United States: Millennium (Hawkins Point, Baltimore)

Other Sectors:

Powder coatings: Jotun (Czech Republic)

Powder coatings: Vitracoat (Mexico)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

BHP, formerly Broken Hill Proprietary

DuPont

ICI/Tioxide

Kerr-McGee

Millennium Chemicals

NL Industries/Kronos

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

CVC/Cartiere del Garda, Kappa Packaging & Smurfit Condat

DuPont Automotive Products/Herberts

ICI/DuPont (cyanide), Asahi (fluoropolymers) & Enron (Teesside utilities)

International Paper/Union Camp

Jefferson Smurfit/Stone Container

Kingfisher/Castorama

Metsa-Serla/UK Paper

RGC/Westralian Sands

Shin-Etsu/Rovin

Norsk Hydro/EVC

Stora/Enso

Tikkurila/Corob/Swisslog

TECHNOLOGY

Nagoya Institute's anti-bacterial composite made of apatite & photocatalytic TiO2

Tiomin granted patents for TSR process for making synrutile

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.6, No.4: Jly/Aug 1998

EDITORIAL

Is there any good news for pigment producers to set against the gloomy news from Asia?

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Nimbus Resources/MDL/BHP (Hawks Nest, Viney Creek & Fullerton)

Australia: RGC (Eneabba & Narngulu)

Mozambique: BHP/Kenmare (Congolone/Angoche/Moma North)

South Africa: Iscor (Empangeni)

South Africa: Namakwa Sands (Cape Province)

Ukraine: Volnogorsk/Vilnohirsk (Malyshev, Samotkan)

Pigments:

Japan: Fuji Titanium (Kobe)

US: Kerr-McGee (Hamilton)

Other Sectors:

Paint: Tanabe (Indonesia)

Paint: Akzo Nobel (Russia & Tunisia)

Paint: Norsk Hydro (South Africa & Spain)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Billiton

Consolidated Rutile

DuPont

Fuji Titanium

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha

Kemira

Millennium Chemicals

NL Industries/Kronos

RGC, formerly Renison Goldfields Consolidated

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Sakai Chemical

Tayca

Titan Kogyo

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

AAC/Minorco

Hoechst/Herberts/Kohlberg Kravis Roberts

Sasol/AECI

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.6, No.3: May/Jne 1998

EDITORIAL

Yet more acquisitions: how will they change the pigments industry?

MARKETS & TRADE

North America: DuPont to raise pigment prices in September

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BeMaX (Murray Basin)

Australia: Cable Sands (Jangardup, Yarloop, Sandalwood & Kemerton)

Australia: Consolidated Rutile (Yarraman)

Australia: RGC (Murray Basin)

Australia: Stuart Minerals (Shark Bay)

Canada: QIT (Sorel)

South Africa: Iscor/Austpac (Empangeni)

South Africa: Namakwa Sands (Cape Province)

South Africa: Southern Mining (Bothaville)

Sri Lanka: Consolidated Rutile (Puttalam)

US: Altair (Camden, TN)

US: RGC (Old Hickory, VA)

Pigments:

Czech Rep: Precheza (Prerov)

Netherlands: Kemira (Botlek)

UK: Millennium (Stallingborough)

Other Sectors:

Titanium sponge metal: UKMTK (Kazakhstan)

Titanium sponge metal: Zaporozhye MTK (Ukraine)

Paint: Finncolor (Russia)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

BHP, formerly Broken Hill Proprietary

DuPont

ICI/Tioxide

Kerr-McGee

NL Industries/Kronos

Millennium Chemicals

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Akzo Nobel/Courtaulds

Avisma/VSMPO/Creditanstalt

Bowater/Avenor/Halla Paper

EVC/Norsk Hydro

Ferro/Ningbo

Herberts/Red Lion/Plascon

Lafarge/MaxMeyer Duco

Millennium/Thann & Mulhouse/Tibras

NL Industries/Tioxide

Norske Skog/Abitibi/Hansol Paper

Stora/Suzhou Papyrus

Svetogorsk/International Paper/SCA

UPM-Kymmene/APRIL

Valspar/Plasti-Kote/Anzol

Viag/Goldschmidt/SKW Trostberg

Western Metals/Aberfoyle

Westralian Sands/RGC

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.6, No.2: Mar/Apl 1998

EDITORIAL

What goes down will surely come up: Pigment prices following market activity

MARKETS & TRADE

Germany: TiO2 pigments rebound to new peak

Spain: TiO2 pigment imports top the 70,000 tonnes mark

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BHP (Beenup)

Australia: Consolidated Rutile (Yarraman)

Australia: Monto (Goondicum)

Australia: RGC (Eneabba & Murray Basin)

India: Austpac/IRE (Orissa)

Kazakhstan: Frontier Pacific

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile (Gbangbama)

South Africa: Iscor (Hillendale, Rooiwater & Empangeni)

Sri Lanka: Consolidated Rutile (Puttalam)

Pigments:

South Africa: Tioxide/AECI (Umbogintwini)

South Korea: Hanwha

United States: Kerr-McGee (Hamilton, MS)

Other Sectors:

Paint: ICI/Swire Pacific (Songjiang, China)

Paint: PPG (Bursa, Turkey)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Bayer

DuPont

ICI/Tioxide

Kemira

Kerr-McGee

Rio Tinto/QIT & RBM

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Akzo Nobel/BASF & Courtaulds

Borealis (Statoil & IPIC & OMV, previously Neste)

Cookson/AlliedSignal

Courtaulds/Warba

Croda/Ameron

Cia. Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD, restructuring steel, paper & minerals)

IMC/Harris

International Paper/Olmuksa

McLeod Russel/Bancrofts

Millennium/Tibras

Sasol/AECI

Smurfit/Stone Container

Stora/Enso

Sun/Gibbon Inks

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.6, No.1: Jan/Feb 1998

EDITORIAL

1997 Wrap-up & 1998 Outlook: Will the Asian crisis infect the TiO2 pigments business?

MARKETS & TRADE

Heralding the unification of European TiO2 pigment prices

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Aberfoyle/RZM Cable Sands (Wemen)

Australia: BHP (Beenup)

Australia: Monto (Goondicum)

Australia: RDC/Steiner Holdings (Murray Basin)

Malaysia: Austpac/Malaysian Titanium (Ipoh)

Mozambique: BHP/Kenmare (Moma)

Sierra Leone: Nord Resources/Consolidated Rutile (Gbangbama)

United States: DuPont (Folkston, GA)

Pigments:

United States: Kerr-McGee (Hamilton, MS)

Other Sectors:

Paint: Tikkurila (Poland & Russia)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Billiton/Gencor/RBM

DuPont

ICI/Tioxide

Kemira

NL Industries/Kronos

RGC, formerly Renison Goldfields Consolidated

Rhone-Poulenc

Ticor/Tiwest

Westralian Sands

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Abitibi/Avenor

Assi Doman/Segezhabumprom

Cookson/Johnson Matthey

Courtaulds

Formica/BTR/CVC

Hanson/RGC

ICI/Williams

Johannesburg Consolidated Investments/Anglo American Corp./Lonrho/Randgold

Kerr-McGee/Bayer

KNP-BT/Buhrmann/Kappa Packaging

Millennium/Occidental/Lyondell/Equistar

Rengo/Settsu

SCA/PWA Fine Papers

UPM-Kymmene/APRIL

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.5, No.6: Nov/Dec 1997

EDITORIAL

Name of feedstock supply game set to change

MARKETS & TRADE

Price increase for North American TiO2 pigments posted for February

South Korea: resurgence in TiO2 pigment imports for first nine months of 1997

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Morocco: Aminsa (Guelmin)

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile (Gbangbama)

South Africa: Southern Mining/Bushveld Alloys (Stoffberg)

Pigments:

Australia: Millennium (Kemerton)

Finland: Kemira (Pori)

US: Kerr-McGee (Hamilton, MS)

Other Sectors:

Paint: Courtaulds (Egypt & Saudi Arabia)

Paint: ICI (India)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Kerr-McGee

Metallgesellschaft/Sachtleben

Millennium

Orica/ICI Australia

RGC, formerly Renison Goldfields Consolidated

Rhone-Poulenc

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

AAC/DeBeers

Akzo Nobel/Verilac

BASF/Salchi

Bayer/Advent & Chase

Cookson/Anzon & CMC

Flint Ink/Manders

Hanna/Melos & Techmer

ICI/fertilisers, explosives, terephthalic acid & TiO2

Ishihara/Zeneca

Johannesburg Consolidated Investments/Southern Mining

Kimberly-Clark/Scott

McLeod Russel/Eurogard

NL Industries/Rheox/Elementis

SAPPI Fine Papers

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.5, No.5: Sep/Oct 1997

EDITORIAL

The urge to merge is hard to resist: Millennium to acquire Rhone-Poulenc's TiO2 business

MARKETS & TRADE

Pigment prices: third rise this year posted in North America

Australia: rutile output up 10%, synrutile up even more

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Monto (Goondicum)

Australia: RGC (Murray Basin)

Australia: Westralian Sands (North Capel)

Canada: QIT (Sorel)

India: Cochin Minerals & Rutile (Kochi)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile (Gbangbama)

South Africa: Iscor (Hillendale & Rooiwater)

South Africa: Southern Mining (Bothaville)

US: Southern Mining/3R Minerals (Utah)

Pigments:

Finland: Kemira (Pori)

India: Kilburn Chemicals (Tuticorin)

Other Sectors:

Plastics masterbatch: Ampacet (Belgium)

Lithopone: Moravske CZ (Czech Rep)

Titanium sponge metal: Alta (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Bayer

DuPont

Hitox

ICI/Tioxide

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha

Kemira

NL Industries/Kronos

RGC, formerly Renison Goldfields Consolidated

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Sakai Chemical

Tayca

Titan Kogyo

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

AlliedSignal/Cabot

Assi-Doman/Segezhabumprom

Bertelsmann/Cartiere Holding

Ciba/Mallinckrodt

ConsPaper & Tolko/Repap

DuPont/Tioxide

Fletcher Challenge

Hickson/Gilde & Clariant

ICI Australia/Carpenter & Wesfarmers

ICI/Asian Paints

Kalon/Circle & Prominent Paints

Kemira/Eckart Werke

MegaMin/Austpac

Millennium/Thann & Mulhouse

Philip Johnstone/Cementone Beaver

Rio Tinto Minenco

SAPPI/KNP-Leykam

Sherwin-Williams/Pinturas Andina

Stora/Veracruz Florestal

UPM-Kymmene/APRIL & Blandin

Valspar/International Zinc

Wausau/Mosinee Paper

SULFUR & SULFURIC ACID

Prices steady in the US, but ratcheted up slightly in Europe and elsewhere

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.5, No.3/4: May/Aug 1997

EDITORIAL

The Future is not what it used to be - DuPont to acquire most of Tioxide

MARKETS & TRADE

Australia: Rutile & synrutile output increasing again

Germany: Pigment imports slip back in 1996

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

India: IRE/Austpac (Orissa)

Indonesia: Indomin/Austpac (Kumamba)

Kenya: Tiomin (Kwale)

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile (Gbangbama)

US: DuPont (Okefenokee)

Pigments:

Czech Rep: Precheza (Prerov)

Singapore: Ishihara (Jurong)

US: DuPont (New Johnsonville)

Other Sectors:

Monazite processing: Rhone-Poulenc (Australia)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Hitox

ICI/Tioxide

Kerr-McGee

Millennium

NL/Kronos

Rhone-Poulenc

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Asian Paints/ICI

DuPont/Tioxide

PPG/BASF

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.5, No.2: Mar/Apl 1997

EDITORIAL

Show me the money! Where are pigment prices?

MARKETS & TRADE

New wave of pigment prices ripples round the globe

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Cable (Yarloop)

Canada: Soquem & Norsk Hydro (Sept-Iles)

India: Westralian Sands

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile

South Africa: Namakwa Sands (Saldanha Bay)

US: DuPont (Florida & Georgia)

Pigments:

Germany: Tioxide (Wesel terminal)

Netherlands: Kemira (Botlek)

UK: Millennium (Stallingborough)

UK: Tioxide (Greatham)

US: DuPont (Antioch)

Other Sectors:

Gallium ex-monazite: Rhone-Poulenc (Australia)

Liquid CO2 ex-waste acid neutralisation: Air Liquide & Kronos (Canada)

Paint: ICI Paints (India)

Oxygen & nitrogen: Sabic (Saudi Arabia)

Precipitated calcium carbonate: SMI & Mondi Paper (South Africa)

Paint: TOA Paints & ThanLe (Vietnam)

Paint: Jotun (Vietnam)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Hitox

ICI/Tioxide

Kalon

Kemira

Kerr-McGee

Millennium

NL/Kronos

Rhone-Poulenc

Westralian Sands

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Assi-Doman/Sepap

Bic/Tipp-Ex

BTP/PCR (silanes)

Cudgen RZ (winding-up)

CVRD (privatisation)

DuPont/Carr's Paints

Enso/Holtzmann

James River/Fort Howard

Gencor/RBM

ICI/Polifarb Pilawa

Kemira (fibres & explosives)

Nippon Paper/New Oji

Repap/Avenor

RPM/Multicor (Argentina) & Chemrite (South Africa)

Valspar/SKW Trostberg

ENVIRONMENT

Case against Kronos Canada & President expunged

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.5, No.1: Jan/Feb 1997

EDITORIAL

More becomes less (pigments), while less becomes more (feedstocks)

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Monto (Goondicum)

South Africa: Namakwa (Saldanha Bay)

South Africa: Pyramid (offshore Kwazulu-Natal)

Pigments:

Finland: Kemira (Pori)

France: Rhone-Poulenc (Le Havre & Thann)

India: TTP (Trivandrum)

Other Sectors:

Clay-based paper pigment ex-tar sands: Solv-Ex (Canada)

Rare earth minerals: Rhone-Poulenc & Baotou (China)

Precipitated calcium carbonate, acid-tolerant: MTI & Myllykoski (Finland)

Water-treatment chemicals: Sachtleben (Germany)

Lithopone: Sachtleben & Guangzhou Huali (China & Germany)

Precipitated calcium carbonate: MTI & Myllykoski: Schaefer, Malaysia

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Kemira

Kerr-McGee

NL Industries/Kronos

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Ameron/Valspar

Dexter/Herberts

ICI/Superior

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.4, No.6: Nov/Dec 1996

EDITORIAL

What's the spin on the Tioxide spin-off?

MARKETS & TRADE

Pigment price rises: Asia/Pacific, Middle East/Africa, Europe

Australia: Mineral sands output - RGC increases its lead

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

China: Chengde (slag/iron)

India: IRE/Austpac & Westralian Sands (Tamil Nadu)

Kenya: Tiomin (Sokoke & Mambrui)

South Africa: Iscor (Hillendale, Rooiwater & Wavecrest)

US: DuPont (Florida)

Pigments:

Belgium: Kronos (Langerbrugge)

China: Zhenjiang

France: Tioxide (Calais)

Netherlands: Kemira (Botlek)

US: DuPont/Harris (New Johnsonville, TN)

Other Sectors:

Precipitated calcium carbonate: SMI (Slovakia)

Monazite: Rareco (South Africa)

Iron-based water-treatment chemicals: E. & A. West/Tioxide (UK)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Hitox

ICI/Tioxide

NL Industries/Kronos

Millennium/SCM Chems

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Sherwin-Williams

Ticor/Tiwest

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Iwatani/Doral/AFM

Dry Branch/Nord Kaolin

Tikkurila/Jotun

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Ciba photoiniator for printing inks containing TiO2

PPG fibreglass reinforcer maintains TiO2 brightness

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.4, No.5: Sep/Oct 1996

EDITORIAL

Pigment price hikes: the wait is over - or has it just begun?

MARKETS & TRADE

Price announcements: flurry of activity before Christmas

South Korea: TiO2 pigment imports fall by more than 10%

Japan: Revived paint industry to suck in more pigment imports?

US: TiO2 pigment imports begin to tumble

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Canada/US: QIT (Havre St. Pierre) & Kerr-McGee (Mobile)

Korea, South: Gyeongnam

Mozambique: Gencor (Moebase)

Namibia: Caledonia (Walvis Bay/Swakopmund)

South Africa: Bushveld Alloys (Stoffberg)

South Africa: Iscor (Hillendale)

South Africa: Namakwa Sands (Saldanha)

Vietnam: Bimal (CatKhanh)

Pigments:

Finland: Kemira (Pori)

India: Aditya Birla

India: Reliance Industries

Japan: Ishihara (Yokkaichi SP)

Russia: Avisma (Berezniki)

Other Sectors:

Kaolin: Comalco (Australia)

Optical brighteners: Bayer (Germany)

Titanium sponge metal: Timet (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Hitox

Kemira

Metallgesellschaft

Rhone-Poulenc

JOINT VENTURES

Solv-Ex/Raisio

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Boeing/McDonnell Douglas

Tikkurila/Taotek/Corob/Matherson/Fernz/McWhorter

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Mitsubishi's paving slabs with TiO2 handle vehicle pollution

SunSmart uses plasma process to make microfine TiO2

CHLORINE

US prices to go beyond $US 220/tonne by June 1997?

SULFUR & SULFURIC ACID

Voluntary output cuts stem price decline

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.4, No.4: Jly/Aug 1996

EDITORIAL

Downturn in profitability causes fundamental changes in pigment marketing

MARKETS & TRADE

US: Kerr-McGee posts pigment price increase of 5 cents/lb

Australia: Preparing for a big jump in feedstocks output

Japan: Domestic shipments drop to lowest level for 10 years

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Tiwest (Chandala)

Canada: Vulcan (Goose Bay)

Kenya: Tiomin (Mambrui)

South Africa: Iscor (Gravelotte, Empangeni & Richards Bay)

Pigments:

Brazil: Tibras (Arembepe)

China: Tioxide/YuGang (Chongqing)

New Zealand: Austpac (Westport)

United Kingdom: Tioxide (Grimsby)

United States: DuPont (Edge Moor)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Bayer

Fuji Titan

ICI/Tioxide

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha

RTZ-CRA/QIT/RBM

Sakai Chemical

Tayca

Titan Kogyo

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Bayer & Sherwin-Williams/Globo

Gwalia/IMI Fabi

HEALTH & SAFETY

TiO2 & ZnO in sunscreens: no risk of skin cell DNA damage?

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.4, No.3: May/Jne 1996

EDITORIAL

What went wrong in the pigment business in 1995? Too much was produced and too little sold

MARKETS & TRADE

Taiwan: Pigment imports shrinking fast as KuanYin gears up

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BHP (Beenup)

Australia: Monto (Goondicum)

Canada: Solv-Ex (Athabasca)

Canada: Tiomin (Natashquan)

Finland: Kalvia

India: RGC/Chemplast/IRE/Kerala

Indonesia: Indomin (Kumamba)

Mozambique: BHP/Kenmare (Congolone)

Mozambique: Gencor (Moebase)

Sierra Leone: SRL (Gbangbama)

South Africa: Iscor (slag)

South Africa: Pyramid (Kwazulu Natal)

South Africa: RBM (Zulti)

Ukraine: Volnogorsky

US: Teck (Powderhorn)

Vietnam: Westralian/Austinh (HaTinh ilmenite)

Pigments:

Australia: SCM (Kemerton)

Australia: Tioxide (Burnie)

Finland: Kemira (Pori)

Singapore: Ishihara & Kemira (Jurong)

South Africa: Tioxide/AECI (Umbogintwini)

United Kingdom: SCM (Stallingborough)

United States: SCM (Baltimore)

Other Sectors:

Lithopone: Sachtleben & Guangzhou Huali (China)

Magnolite fertiliser additive ex-spent acid: Tioxide (France)

Kaolin: Engelhard & Prosyanoye (Ukraine)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Hitox

Kemira

Kerr-McGee

Millennium Chemicals/SCM

Renison Goldfields Consolidated

Ticor/Tiwest

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Rension Goldfields Consolidated/Cudgen/Consolidated Rutile

Barlows/Taubmans (Courtaulds Australia)

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.4, No.2: Mar/Apl 1996

EDITORIAL

Pigment capacity additions - Who needs them?

MARKETS & TRADE

DuPont raises pigment prices in Eastern Med & Middle East

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BHP (Beenup)

Pigments:

Australia: SCM (Kemerton)

Australia: Tiwest (Kwinana)

China: Yuxiang (Jinan)

Singapore: Ishihara & Kemira (Jurong)

United Kingdom: SCM (Stallingborough)

Other Sectors:

Micronised zircon: Cookson Matthey (India)

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Mineral Technologies Inc. (Indonesia)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Kerr-McGee

Kronos

Precheza

Rhone-Poulenc

Hanson Industries/SCM Chemicals

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Dry Branch Kaolin/Rio Capim

Engelhard/Mearl

Renison Goldfields Consolidated/Consolidated Rutile

Syrikat Megawati/Hitox

Timet IPO

ENVIRONMENT

TiO2 content of EU eco-labelled indoor paint

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Titanium black from Ako Kasei

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.4, No.1: Jan/Feb 1996

EDITORIAL

If pigment demand cools in 1996, will feedstock supplies catch a cold?

FEEDSTOCKS PRODUCTION DATA

Australian mineral sands: quarter-by-quarter production, Q1 1994 to Q1 1996, by company

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

South Africa: Bushveld Alloys (Stoffberg)

South Africa: Iscor (slag)

US: Renison (Old Hickory)

Pigments:

India: Kerala Metals & Minerals (Chavara)

India: Kolmak Chemicals/Sarda (Kalyani)

India: AO Pigment (Chuplin & Ratnagiri)

India: Travancore Titanium Products (Trivandrum)

Spain: Tioxide (Huelva)

Ukraine: Khimprom & Precheza (Sumy)

Other Sectors:

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Mineral Technologies Inc. (Brazil & Israel)

Paint: Kansai Paints & China Ocean Shipping Co. (China)

Paint: American Paints (India)

Zinc oxide: Breon Fine Chemicals (India)

Zinc oxide: Pondy Oxides & Chemicals (India)

Iron sulfate for animal feeds: Tioxide & Coogee (Malaysia)

Titanium metal, electronic grade: Johnson Matthey & Alta (US)

Ferric chloride: PVS Technologies (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Bayer

Hitox

ICI

Kemira

Kerr-McGee

Precheza

Renison Goldfields Consolidated

Tibras

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Corimon/General Paint/Colorin/Standard Brands

Hanna/Victor

ICI/Bunge & Born

Niachlor/DuPont/Olin

PPG/Matthews Paints

Quarzwerke/Amberger

Sherwin-Williams/PQM

Sun/Zeneca/CZ Inks

Valspar/Total

Wattyl/Taubmans

WMC/Pluess-Staufer/UPM

CALCINED PETROLEUM COKE

Supply tightens & world prices head towards $US 300 per tonne

CHLORINE

US contract prices rise 15-18% & will go higher in Q3

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.3, No.6: Nov/Dec 1995

EDITORIAL

Forecast 1996 pigment prices

MARKETS & TRADE

Australian mineral sands output

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: RZM (New South Wales mines)

Canada: QIT (Sorel)

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile

South Africa: RBM (St. Lucia)

Vietnam: Westralian/Austinh

Pigments:

Australia: Tioxide (Burnie)

Australia: Tiwest (Kwinana)

Belgium: DuPont (Mechelen & Antwerp)

China: Shanghai Pacific

China: Tioxide/Yu Gang

India: Tioxide (Thane)

Saudi Arabia: NTDC/Cristal (Yanbu)

South Africa: Tioxide/AECI (Umbogintwini)

Ukraine: Sumy

US: Kerr-McGee (Hamilton)

Other Sectors:

Rhone-Poulenc (monazite/gallium)

Gallium ex-monazite: Rhone-Poulenc (Australia)

Paint: ICI Paints & Swire Pacific (China)

Zirconium silicate pigments: Cerdec (France)

Paint: Goodlass Nerolac (India)

Paint: Jensen & Nicholson/Herberts (India)

Paint: Rajdhoot Paints (India)

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Faxe Kalk (Portugal)

Kaolin: Serina (South Africa)

Kaolin: Evans Clay (US)

Powder coatings, via VAMP process: Ferro (US)

Paint: Guardsman Products

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Bayer

DuPont

Hanson Industries/SCM Chemicals

Metallgesellschaft/Sachtleben

Rhone-Poulenc/Thann & Mulhouse

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Akzo Nobel

Courtaulds

DuPont/Huels

Georgia Pacific/Domtar Gypsum

Imetal/Dry Branch Kaolin & Georgia Marble

IMI/Timet

Jacobs/Serete

Kelly Moore/Universal Paint

MEL & Magnesium Elektron (management buy-out)

Metsa-Serla/Myllykoski

Japanese polyolefins Mitsubishi Chemical/Tonen Showa Denko/Nippon Petrochemicals Mitsui/Ube

PPG/Lilly (vehicle refinishes) & Eastman (powder coatings)

Praxair/Liquid Carbonic

RGC/PanCon

RTZ/CRA

Sherwin-Williams

Stratton Investments/Czech paper & chemicals

Valspar/Sunbelt Coatings

Wattyl/Taubmans

Witco/OSi (silanes)

ENVIRONMENT

Mabo issue (Australia)

UK landfill tax

DuPont deep-welling

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

TiO2 for dry-cell batteries & self-cleaning windscreens

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.3, No.5: Sep/Oct 1995

EDITORIAL

Growth in pigment production strains tight feedstock supplies - Is relief right around the corner?

MARKETS & TRADE

Australia: Synrutile output up, saleable natural minsands down

US: Last 10,000 tons of natural rutile from Govt. stockpile

CEFTA: Masterbatch suppliers thinking of manufacturing

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Monto Minerals (Goondicum)

Canada: QIT (Sorel)

Canada: Tiomin/Shairco (Natashquan)

India: Travancore Cochin Chemicals (Kerala)

South Africa: Iscor (Empangeni)

Pigments:

China: Shanghai Pacific

France: Rhone-Poulenc (Le Havre & Thann)

India: Hindustan Organic & IRE (Kerala)

India: ICI/Tioxide

Italy: Tioxide (Scarlino)

Norway: Kronos (Fredrikstad)

Saudi Arabia: Cristal (Yanbu)

United Kingdom: SCM (Stallingborough)

Other Sectors:

Neopentyl glycol, pigments surface-treatment: BASF (Germany)

Paint: Snowcem (India)

Paint: NOF Corp. (Japan)

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Mineral Technologies Inc. (Southeast Asia)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Fuji Titan

Hanson Industries/SCM Chemicals

HTXA/Hitox

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha

Kemira Rhone-Poulenc/Thann & Mulhouse

Metallgesellschaft/Sachtleben Chemie

Sakai Chemical

Tayca

Titan Kogyo

JOINT VENTURES

HanKook Titanium/Tioxide

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

M.A.Hanna/Bergmann/Cimco

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Fluorination to make TiO2

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.3, No.4: Jly/Aug 1995

EDITORIAL

Pigment prices continue to rise everywhere, as production costs increase

MARKETS & TRADE

US: More rutile disposals from the Government stockpile?

Germany: TiO2 output on the rebound

Japan: Rise in domestic shipments for ink & plastics

US: TiO2 price trends for paper grades still lagging

Western Europe: Boom in paper production continues

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Cable (Hopelands)

Australia: RZM (NSW mines)

Australia: CRA (Wimmera)

Vietnam: MMC/Bimal (CatKhanh)

Vietnam: Westralian/Austinh (CamHua)

Pigments:

Germany: Sachtleben (Duisburg)

Japan: Titan Kogyo (Ube)

Other Sectors:

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Mineral Technologies Inc. (Brazil & Israel)

Iron sulfate: Tioxide (Malaysia)

Ground calcium carbonate slurry: English China Clays (Italy)

Plastics masterbatch: Ampacet (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Consolidated Rutile

DuPont

Precheza

Renison Goldfields Consolidated

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

AKW & Mitsubishi (Brazil kaolin)

Delcor/National

Gypsum

ICI/Fuller O'Brien/PPG

Iscor/Ticor

Laporte/Brockhues

Metsa-Serla/Kyro

Repola/Kymmene

RTZ/CRA

SULFUR & SULFURIC ACID

Prices reach a plateau

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.3, No.3: May/Jne 1995

EDITORIAL

Murphy's Law works! Chlorinatable feedstocks tighten further

MARKETS & TRADE

Australia: Synrutile output boom, but rutile disappoints

Germany: Increased pigment imports from most suppliers

Spain: TiO2 pigment imports pass the 50,000 tonnes mark

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

India: RGC/Chemplast/IRE/Kerala Govt. (Chavara)

Norway: BHP/Tinfos (Tyssedal)

US: Solv-Ex (Albuquerque)

Vietnam: Westralian/Austinh (CamHua)

Pigments:

Asia: Ishihara

Australia: SCM (Kemerton)

India: Shentracon (Hooghly)

Israel: DSW (Sdom)

Taiwan: DuPont (KuanYin)

Ukraine: Krymsky (Armyansk)

UK: SCM (Stallingborough)

US: DuPont (New Johnsonville)

Other Sectors:

Paint: ICI Paints (Asia/Pacific)

Monazite processing: Rhone-Poulenc (Australia)

Micronised zircon: Consolidated Rutile & Wujin County (China)

Gypsum pigment: Kemira (Finland)

Iron-based water-treatment chemicals: Kemira (Finland)

Plastics masterbatch: Schulman (Mexico)

Paint: Berger International & Bago Trading (Myanmar)

Ferric chloride: Polifin (South Africa)

Organometallics: Tioxide (UK)

Paint: Dexter (US)

Pearlescent pigments: Mearl (US)

Paint: Nippon Paint (Vietnam)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Hitox

ICI/Tioxide

Kerala Minerals & Metals

Kronos

Rhone-Poulenc

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

BTR/Nylex/Formica

CIN/Valentine

Fondat/Italmineraria

Huber

Kerr-McGee/Austpac

Scott/Kimberly Clark

Wattyl Paints/Coronado/Carolina Coatings/MCI

Quality Coatings/Norfolk Paints

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Thermal's non-woven based on titanium for HEPA filters

Krupp & Mannesmann's 'Tikrutan LT-31' for offshore work

Engelhard's new kaolin-based TiO2 extender for paints

Rohm & Haas' hollow-sphere pigment for coated papers

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.3, No.2: Mar/Apl 1995

EDITORIAL

Pigment prices continue to increase in all markets - But where has all the pigment gone?

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: RGC (Eneabba & Narngulu)

Madagascar: RTZ/QIT (Toalgnaro)

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile (Gbangbama)

Pigments:

Brazil: Tibras (Arembepe)

South Korea: HanKook (Incheon & Onsan)

South Africa: Tioxide/AECI (Umbogintwini)

US: DuPont (New Johnsonville)/FMC (Green River)

Other Sectors:

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Mineral Technologies Inc. (World plant-list)

Plastics masterbatch: Inabata & Sanyo Kako (Malaysia, Philippines & Thailand)

Plastics masterbatch: Ngai Hing Hong (China)

Kaolin: Guangdong Zhanjiang (China)

Iron sulfate: Kemira (Estonia)

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Faxe Kalk ( Finland)

Precipitated calcium carbonate ex-acetylene: Kemgas (Poland & Germany)

Iron oxide, magnetic: Ishihara (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Gencor/Richards Bay Minerals

Hanson Industries/SCM Chemicals

Hitox

ICI/Tioxide

Westralian Sands

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Alcan/MEL Chemicals

Corimon/Grow/Standard Brands

Enso Gutzeit/Veitsiluoto

ICI/Grow Group

Schulman/Eastman/Huber

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.3, No.1: Jan/Feb 1995

EDITORIAL

World TiO2 pigment consumption recovers with a bang

MARKETS & TRADE

Tioxide raises West European prices for Q2 1995

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BHP (Beenup)

Australia: ISK (Dardanup)

Australia: RZM/Aberfoyle (Murray Basin)

Australia: Westralian Sands (Capel)

Canada: QIT (Orissa feed at Sorel)

Canada: Tiomin/Shairco

India: RGC/IRE/Chemplast/Kerala

Mozambique: BHP/Kenmare

Panama: Tiomin

Russia: Ural Titan

South Africa: Bushveld Alloys

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile (Gbangbama)

Pigments:

China: Small plants & projects

Germany: Kronos (Leverkusen)

India: Kilburn (Tuticorin)

Malaysia: Tioxide

Singapore: Ishihara

UK: SCM (Stallingborough)

US: DuPont (Edgemoor)

US: Kemira (Savannah)

US: Kerr-McGee (Hamilton)

Other Sectors:

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Mineral Technologies Inc. (Canada & US)

Ferric chloride: Elf Atochem (France)

Paint: Berger Paints (India)

Silanes: OSi Specialties (Italy)

Water-treatment chemicals: Kemira (Finland & Russia)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Bayer

Hitox

Kerr-McGee

NL Industries/Kronos

Rhone-Poulenc

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Metallgesellschaft/Sachtleben

Hanson Industries/SCM Chemicals

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

BPB Industries/National Gypsum

CNP/Mehnert & Veeck

Cookson/Tolaram

Kalon/Total

Kerr-McGee/Austpac

Renison/Pancontinental Mining

ENVIRONMENT

Australian High Court rules against WA on Native Title

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

RGC develops SREP mark II with very low Ca, U & Th

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.2, No.6: Nov/Dec 1994

EDITORIAL

TiO2 feedstocks forecast for 1995

MARKETS & TRADE

Tioxide pioneers 9-14% price hikes in West Europe

1994 was a very good year for Australian mineral sands

Another fall in Japanese TiO2 shipments to paintmakers

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: BHP (Beenup)

Madagascar: QIT (Toalagnaro)

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile (Gbangbama)

United States: Teck (Powderhorn, CO)

Pigments:

US: DuPont (Edgemoor, DE)

Kerr-McGee (Hamilton, MS)

Other Sectors:

Micronised zircon: Consolidated Rutile & Wujin County (China)

Plastics colorants: National Plastics Color Inc. (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

Fuji Titan

Kerala Minerals & Metals Ltd.

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Ticor/Tiwest

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Hitox/Fluid Minerals Espanola

MG/Dynamit Nobel/Sachtleben

ENVIRONMENT

Cast iron on the seas to solve greenhouse gases problem?

CHLORINE

Booming NaOH demand takes pressure off chlorine prices

SULFUR & SULFURIC ACID

Prices bounce back from historical lows

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

SCM's TiO2 for can coating

Idemitsu/Kanebo's ultrafine TiO2

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.2, No.5: Sep/Oct 1994

EDITORIAL

Pigment price forecast for 1995

MARKETS & TRADE

DuPont raises North American pigment prices

RBM "back to normal" after 7-week lockout

Bayer, Kerr-McGee & Sachtleben rearrange UK sales

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

India: IRE & others (Andhra Pradesh)

South Africa: Iscor (Empangeni)

Ukraine: RGC, mineral sands deposits & tailings

Pigments:

Australia: SCM (Kemerton)

Canada: Tioxide (Tracy)

Finland: Kemira (Pori)

Netherlands: Kemira (Botlek)

South Africa: Tioxide (Umbogintwini)

Spain: Oligo/Tioxide (Huelva)

Taiwan: DuPont (KuanYin)

UK: SCM (Stallingborough)

UK: Tioxide (Greatham)

US & Mexico: DuPont (Altamira, De Lisle & New Johnsonville)

US: Sacco/Tioxide (Forest Park)

UK: SCM (Baltimore & Ashtabula)

Other Sectors:

Automotive paint: Herberts (France & Germany)

Lithopone: Sachtleben (Germany & China))

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Mineral Technologies Inc. & International Paper (Poland)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Hanson Industries/SCM Chemicals

Kemira

Sakai Chemical

Tayca

Titan Kogyo

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Airtrust/Hitox/MTC

Coating Resource/Seaside Cookson/Johnson Matthey

Colorin/General Paint

ICI/AECI

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

DuPont launches 'Ti-Pure R-706'

Moscow Institute's TiC anti-corrosion coating

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.2, No.4: Jly/Aug 1994

EDITORIAL

Survival of the fittest - or just survival?

MARKETS & TRADE

SCM posts 5 cents/lb. price rise in US market

US pigment output heading for a new record high

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Monto Minerals (Goondicum)

Australia: Westralian (Capel)

Russia: Amur Titan (East Siberia)

Russia: Seamet (Tambov)

South Africa: AAC/De Beers (Namakwa)

South Africa: Iscor (Empangeni)

Pigments:

Australia: Tioxide (Burnie)

India: DuPont (Joint venture with Thapar, TVS or Reliance?)

India: Kilburn Chemicals (Tuticorin)

Spain: Tioxide (Huelva)

Other Sectors:

Paint: Jotun & China Ocean Shipping Co. (China)

Paint: Shenyang Paints & Marcel Guest (China)

Plastics masterbatch: Ampacet (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Akzo Nobel

Consolidated Rutile

Courtaulds

DuPont

ICI/Tioxide

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha

Kerr-McGee

NL Industries/Kronos

Metallgesellschaft/Sachtleben

Renison Goldfields Consolidated

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Fuller/Koch

Guardsman/Moline

Gencor/Billiton

ICI Malaysia

Kerr-McGee/Ticor/Tiwest

Manders/Morrison, Ensor & Premier

Chinese Petroleum Corp./Syncrude

ENVIRONMENT

Mining industry access to Shoalwater Bay

ZIRCON

Prices heading for $Aus 300 per tonne, f.o.b.

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.2, No.3: May/Jne 1994

EDITORIAL

Upgraded feedstocks: Will the return on investment equal the return on effort?

MARKETS & TRADE

Pigment price increases posted in Canada & Europe

West European paper industry TiO2 demand

Scandinavian TiO2 pigment imports up 10%

US pigment inventories trimmed to 34 days' output

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Cable (Jangardup)

Australia: Consolidated Rutile (Gordon)

Canada & Tanzania: Tiomin

Vietnam: Malaysian Mining Corp.

Pigments:

Australia: Tioxide (Whyalla)

China: Lishu (Jilin province)

India: IPICOL (Chattarpur, Orissa)

South Africa: Tioxide (Umbogintwini)

Spain: Tioxide (Huelva)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Hanson Industries/SCM Chemicals

Kemira

Nord Resources/Sierra Rutile

Precheza

Rhone-Poulenc

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Allied/Manfield

Cloverdale/Farwest

Coates/TZPK

Dainippon Ink & Chemicals/Moscow Printing Ink

Grow Group/Sinclair/Corimon

Kerr-McGee/Ticor/Tiwest

Pratt & Lambert/United Coatings

RPM/Rust-Oleum

UPM/Finnminerals

LITIGATION

CRA Hybrid & RGC SREP patents

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.2, No.2: Mar/Apl 1994

EDITORIAL

Pigment prices rising in all markets

MARKETS & TRADE

Australia: raw material output trends

Japan: paint industry recession forces TiO2 cutbacks

Southeast Asia: TiO2 pigment imports rose by 13% last year

Malaysia & South Africa: import & anti-dumping duties

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Canada: Tiomin (Quebec), synrutile

Pigments:

Finland: Kemira (Mantyluoto)

Japan: Tayca (Saidaji)

Japan: Titan Kogyo (Ube)

Russia: Vocco (Volgograd)

Spain: Tioxide (Huelva)

UK: SCM (Stallingborough)

UK: Tioxide (Grimsby)

US: Kerr-McGee (Mobile)

Other Sectors:

Kaolin: Amberger Kaolinwerke (Brazil)

Kaolin: Cadam & CVRD (Brazil)

Paint: Courtaulds (China)

Paint: ICI Paints & Swire Pacific (China)

Paint: Kansai Paint & Shenyang Paints (China)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Akzo Nobel

Bayer

DuPont

Hitox

ICI

Kemira

Kronos

Metallgesellschaft/Sachtleben

Precheza

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Hanson Industries/SCM Chemicals

Standard Brands

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Coates Lorilleux, India

Cookson/Johnson Matthey

Guardsman/Atlantic Sundries

Herberts/Nobilies, Poland (paint)

ICI Glidden/Decratrend

PPG/Akzo

3M/Atlantic Research

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Tioxide uses plasma-phase technology to make ZrO2

Titan Kogyo's potassium titanate strengthens aluminium

Toto's antibacterial ceramics incorporate TiO2 in the glaze

CHLORINE

Oxychem tries another price hike

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.2, No.1: Jan/Feb 1994

EDITORIAL

World pigment consumption drifts downwards

MARKETS & TRADE

UK: imports account for about 40% of TiO2 consumption

Germany: TiO2 pigments output fell by 8% during H1 1993

Canada: TiO2 imports nearly quadrupled in three years

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: RGC (Capel), synrutile

China: Panzhihua, titaniferous magnetite, slag & TiO2

Sierra Leone: Sierra Rutile (Gbangbama), rutile

Pigments:

Australia: Tioxide (Whyalla)

India: Kilburn (Tuticorin)

Japan: Ishihara (Yokkaichi)

Taiwan: DuPont (KuanYin)

Ukraine: Krymsky Titan (Armyansk)

UK: SCM (Stallingborough)

US: Tioxide (Chicago)

Other Sectors:

Paint: Jotun & Spolek (Czech Rep)

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Faxe Kalk & Veitsiluoto (Finland)

Paint: ICI (Thailand)

Titanium sponge metal: Timet & Toho Titanium (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

DuPont

IG Farben

Kalon

Kemira

Kenmare Resources

Kerr-McGee/Cristal/Tiwest

Metallgesellschaft/Sachtleben

Minproc

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Rhone-Poulenc

Tioxide/ICI

Westralian Sands/ICI/Ishihara Sangyo

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Akzo/Nobel

Allied Chemical/Total

Attiva/Keller Vernici

Courtaulds/Croda

Honshu Paper/Takasaki

ICI/DuPont/IDAC

Laporte/Fuller/Dexter

MIM Holdings/Renison

ENVIRONMENT

Four EU governments fail to confirm compliance with TiO2 waste law

Land access for mineral sands companies in Queensland

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

DuPont develops P-114 grade for plastics masterbatches

Neturen/ISI's plasma technique for making ultrafine TiO2

Nippon Sheet Glass develops new UV-absorber in flake form

CHLORINE

US prices move past the $US 200 mark and head towards $300/tonne

ENERGY

Continuing slide in crude oil prices

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.1, No.6: Nov/Dec 1993

EDITORIAL

TiO2 feedstocks forecast for 1994: improved demand, but no real upward pull (or push) on prices

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Brazil: Gutierrez/CVRD, anatase

South Africa: AAC (Namakwa),

South Africa: Bushveld Alloys (Stoffberg)

South Africa: RBM (St. Lucia)

Pigments:

Australia: Tioxide (Burnie)

Brazil: DuPont (Uberaba)

Brazil: Tibras (Arembepe)

China: Chonqing Paint (Sichuan)

China: Shanghai Pacific/Tioxide

China: Zhuzhou Chemical (Hunan)

Germany: Stuhrenberg/Kronos (Nordenham)

India: Travancore Titanium Products (Trivandrum)

UK: Tioxide (Greatham & Grimsby)

US: DuPont (New Johnsonville)

Other Sectors:

Paint: Courtaulds (China & Indonesia)

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Faxe Kalk (Finland & US)

Talc: Fuji Talc & Nichimen (Japan)

Paper ex-recycled fibre: SCA & Mondi European (UK)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Courtaulds

Consolidated Rutile

DuPont

Indupa

Kemira

Metallgesellschaft/Sachtleben

Nord Resources/Sierra Rutile

Rhone-Poulenc

Hanson Industries/SCM Chemicals

Westralian Sands

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Akzo/Nobel

Assi Doman/NCB

Cementone/Multitrust Corimon/Pinco

Dexter/Potter & Service

Fletcher Challenge Gencor/Billiton

Henkel

Kronos/Tioxide

La Seigneurie/Cofidep

Manders/Croda/Total

Nord/Consolidated Rutile/SierraRutile

Ruberoid

Valspar/Cargill

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Mintek's DC plasma-arc ilmenite smelting process

Austpac's synrutile manufacturing process

SULFUR & SULFURIC ACID

Ever-increasing sulfur stockpiles exert permanent dampening influence on prices

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.1, No.5: Sep/Oct 1993

EDITORIAL

Pigment prices forecast for 1994: the end is near (or already here) for the era of low prices

MARKETS & TRADE

Pigment prices: Increases posted in Europe & Asia/Pacific

Japan: Lower feedstocks intake by pigment industry in H1

US: Feedstock prices lower, but RBM slag bucks the trend

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Tiwest (Chandala)

Canada: Tiomin (Natashquan)

Malaysia: MMC (Perak & Selangor)

Pigments:

France: Tioxide (Calais)

Japan: Titan Kogyo (Ube)

Korea, South: HanKook Titanium (Incheon)

Spain: Tioxide (Palos de la Frontera)

Thailand: Thai Petrochemical Industry (Rayong)

Other Sectors:

Printing ink: Coates Lorilleux & Taiyuan (China)

Calcined kaolin: Engelhard (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Anglo American Corp./Minorco

Akzo

Bayer

Cookson

Cristal/Worlee

DuPont

Kemira

Precheza

Renison Goldfields Consolidated

Rhone-Poulenc

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Hanson Industries/SCM Chemicals

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Air Liquide/Kemira

Akzo/PPG

Amberger/Kick

AAC/AECI

Bayer/Todo Kogyo

Bunge/Colorin

Cyanamid

Jotun/Spolek

NBH Peko/Renison

Lundbergs/Mo & Domsjo

Pyosa/Cavenpi Quantum

Tremont/Bentonite/Baroid

West/ICI Watercare

ENVIRONMENT

EPA laws on VOC emissions

EPA risk assessment criteria

Government.to pay damages in Minamata case

Australia's Mabo issue

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Fujikura's rheological fluids, incorporating TiO2

Titanium metal, increasingly popular as a building material in Japan

CHLORINE

OxyChem raises US prices by $US 60/ton

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.1, No.4: Jly/Aug 1993

EDITORIAL

Current economic conditions & their impact on pigment demand and prices - What is the price???

MARKETS & TRADE

Australia: feedstock output recovery continues

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

South Africa: Richards Bay Minerals (St. Lucia)

Pigments:

China: Precheza/Smelt (Gansu & Shandong provinces)

Finland: Kemira (Mantyluoto)

Mexico: DuPont (Altamira)

Taiwan: DuPont (KuanYin)

United Kingdom: SCM (Stallingborough)

United Kingdom: Tioxide (Grimsby)

Other Sectors:

Kaolin: Comalco (Australia)

Iron sulfate: Kemira (Estonia)

Titanium carbide: Furukawa (Japan)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Hanson Industries/SCM Chemicals

Nord Resources/Sierra Rutile

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

AECI/Sasol

Casco Nobel/Iamcolor

Constantia/Barvy & Laky

Corimon/Grow Group/Sisons

ECC/Calgon

Hanson/Quantum

Kalon/Croda

Nordkalk/MTI

Pfizer/MTI

Sierra Rutile/Nord Resources/Consolidated Rutile

Tikkurila/Lenbytchim

Williams/Hammerite

ENVIRONMENT

EC laws on TiO2 plant wastes disposal

Chlorine industry hits back at environmental lobbyists

Thann & Mulhouse gypsum (ex-TiO2) dump at Le Havre

Tioxide completes Lstg 115 million environmental program

Tioxide must pay $Can 4 million for Tracy plant's pollution

INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

Degussa's fumed TiO2, for water treatment, personal care & cosmetic products

Kemira's 'Finnstabi' soil stabiliser, derived from TiO2 plant waste

Tayca's 0.5 micron barium titanate crystals

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.1, No.3: May/Jne 1993

EDITORIAL

Minerals, minerals everywhere - But are they the right type?

MARKETS & TRADE

United States: Paint output & TiO2 pigment demand

Italy: regains its place as world's third largest import market for TiO2

Pigments:

Taiwan: US displaces Japan as the major import source for TiO2 pigments

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Canada: Tiomin (Natashquan)

India: Cochin Minerals & Rutile (Alwaye Ernakulam)

Mozambique: BHP/Kenmare

South Africa: Gencor/Shell

US: DuPont (Maxville)

Pigments:

Belgium: Bayer (Antwerp)

India: Prudhvi Industries (Chatrapur)

Japan: Furukawa (Osaka)

Japan: Ishihara (Yokkaichi)

Korea, South: DuPont (Onsan)

Singapore: Ishihara (Jurong)

Other Sectors:

Paint: ICI (Australia)

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Mineral Technologies Inc. & Metsa-Serla (Finland)

Printing ink: Sakata (Malaysia)

Printing ink: Toyo Ink (Philippines)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Bayer

Consolidated Rutile

DuPont

Hitox

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha

Renison Goldfields Consolidated

Rhone-Poulenc

Sakai Chemical

Stora

Tayca

Titan Kogyo

Tiwest

Westralian Sands

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Courtaulds/Nippon Paint

Cookson/Sandoz/Hanna

Dexter/Vernicolor Gencor/RBM

Grow/Zynolyte

Guardsman/Mar-Lak

Gurit Essex/Rorec

ICI Paints/McLeod Russell/Lilly/Ferro

Kemira/Tiofine

KNP-BT/Job Parilux

RPM/Dynatron Bondo

Tintas Renner/Pamex

ENVIRONMENT

Dutch Government bans waste storage in salt domes

Akzo wins battle to move more chlorine by rail

SULFUR & SULFURIC ACID

Prices drop to $US 20/tonne or less

CHLORINE

Q3 contract prices raised by 50-70% in the US

CALCINED PETROLEUM COKE

US Gulf prices gently rising

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.1, No.2: Mar/Apl 1993

EDITORIAL

Kronos & Tioxide to share technologies & Lake Charles plant - Much ado about much?

MARKETS & TRADE

United States: new records for TiO2 pigment output, inventories & exports

Japan: TiO2 pigment output & demand, by end-use sector - Output cut back below consumption

South Africa: divergent trends in slag exports to the US & Japan

Netherlands: TiO2 pigment import prices still edging downwards

Middle East: Cristal faces price-cutting in local markets, but aims to widen its horizons

ENVIRONMENT

Personal liability suits faced by Canadian TiO2 managers

EC law on dust emissions & chloride-process TiO2 pigment plant wastes takes effect

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Ishihara (Waroona & Dardanup)

Vietnam: Westralian/Central & provincial governments (HaTinh)

Pigments:

Canada: Kronos (Varennes)

China: Guanxi & Shandong provinces

India: Chemplast

Japan: Furukawa/Tioxide (Osaka)

Kazakhstan: Ust-Kamenogorsk

Russia: Ekaterinburg & Ukhta

Other Sectors:

Automotive paint: Kansai Paint (China)

Paint: Nippon Paint & Wathelam (China)

Automotive paint: Herberts & Dainippon Toryo (Japan)

Paint: Akzo & Chemolak (Slovakia)

Paint: Nippon Paint (Thailand)

Precipitated calcium carbonate: Mineral Technologies Inc. & Mead (US)

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Bayer

Consolidated Rutile

English China Clays

ICI/Tioxide

Kemira

Kerr-McGee

Renison Goldfields Consolidated

Rio Tinto/QIT/RBM

Sachtleben

Westralian Sands

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

KNP/Buhrmann Tetterode/VRG

Oji/Kanzaki Paper

CHLORINE

Lime-soda curtailments may take upward price pressure off chlorine

TiO2 WORLDWIDE UPDATE
Vol.1, No.1: Jan/Feb 1993

EDITORIAL

Pigment consumption up 5%, but prices set to fall further

MARKETS & TRADE

South Korea: TiO2 pigment imports soar by over 20% in 1992

France: TiO2 pigment import price average up in Q3, but will it hold?

Australia: rutile & ilmenite exports - Prices slide further

MINES, PLANTS & PROJECTS

Feedstocks:

Australia: Cable Sands (Jangardup)

India: Synrutile project

South Africa: Anglo American Corp (Namakwa)

Ukraine: Du Pont, ilmenite

Pigments:

Brazil: Tibras (Arembepe)

Canada: Tioxide (Becancour)

China: Gansu province

China: Chori/Zhenjiang Golden Butterfly

Malaysia: Tioxide (Teluk Kalung)

Taiwan: DuPont (KuanYin)

Thailand: Thai Petrochemical Industry Co.

United Kingdom: SCM, Stallingborough

United States: SCM, Baltimore

CORPORATE & FINANCIAL

Consolidated Rutile

Renison Goldfields Consolidated

Hanson Industries/SCM Chemicals

Kemira

ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS

Akzo/Dexter

Cominco/Aberfoyle

Croda/Mebon/Manders

Ethyl/Potasse & Produits Chimiques (Thann)

Falconbridge/New Pascalis/Tiomin

Hanson/Renison

Goldfields Consolidated

ICI Paints/PPG & Courtaulds

Kemira/Nord Kaolin

Pfizer Specialty Minerals

Tikkurila/Eesti Varv

Billiton/Tiofine

CHLORINE

ICI says power costs threaten viability of chloralkalis manufacture in the UK

US prices to reach the $US 100/ton mark by April?

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