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DuPont to add 350,000 tpa capacity worldwide
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Feedstock suppliers eye supply deficit
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Expert forecasts peak in TiO2 price boom
Mark Watts, Siobhan Lismore
A series of capacity expansions by the world’s biggest titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment producer, USA’s DuPont, in the next three years could lead to an increasingly tight market and rising prices for pigment feedstock minerals, according to raw material suppliers.
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However, an industry expert has forecast that capacity expansions in the pigment industry could put a ceiling on TiO2 pigment price increases, which would then filter upstream.
US speciality chemicals company DuPont announced it would add about 350,000 tpa of global capacity by the end of 2014 to meet increased demand from its customers.
For an investment of over $500m., DuPont plans to construct a new production line at its site in Altamira, northern...