Industrial Minerals


Velta aims for December startup at Ukraine ilmenite project

26 October 2011

by Mark Watts

Capacity expansion planned for mid-2012; titanium slag plant in the pipeline

Keywords: Velta, ilmenite, titanium dioxide, TiO2, Ukraine, titanium

Velta LLC is preparing to start up its Birzulivske ilmenite mine and processing plant in Ukraine in December before immediately working on a capacity expansion.

The Birzulivske project, located near Korobchino in Kirovograd oblast, will come on stream with a capacity of 185,000 tpa ilmenite.

“We are now at the stage of design works for further capacity increase,” Velta’s general...