Industrial Minerals


TZMI ‘11: Cristal plans 500,000 tpa Saudi titanium slag plant

10 November 2011

by Siobhan Lismore

Unit to use 800,000 tpa of ilmenite, but where will supply come from?

Keywords: Cristal Global, TiO2, pigment, titanium dioxide, ilmenite, titanium slag, Bemax

Cristal Global is planning to build a 500,000 titanium slag operation in Saudi Arabia which could double capacity if the market needed, the company told delegates at the TZMI Congress in Hong Kong.

The unit will be able to process 800,000 tpa of ilmenite into 500,000 tpa high grade slag titanium dioxide (TiO2) feedstock, vice president Thomas Van Valkenburgh said...