Industrial Minerals


Rockwood invests $140m in Chile lithium plant

06 February 2012

by Mark Watts

New 20,000 tpa project will go towards doubling US group’s capacity by 2013

Keywords: Rockwood Holdings, Chemetall, lithium, lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide

Rockwood Holdings Inc. plans to invest $140m to build a new lithium carbonate plant in Chile, through its Chemetall subsidiary, the US speciality chemicals company said.

The new investment, along with an existing expansion programme in the US, will double Rockwood’s capacity to 50,000 tpa lithium carbonate equivalent...