Industrial Minerals


Rockwood TiO2 facilities to operate at 75% capacity for 2012

02 August 2012

by John Ollett

Long term outlook is strong but “market is too fluid” in the short-term

Keywords: titanium dioxide, TiO2, Rockwood, crenox, Germany, US, paint

US-based sulphate-route titanium dioxide producer Rockwood Holdings Inc. will be operating its production facilities at 75% capacity for 2012, CEO Seifi Ghasemi revealed in a conference call following the release of the company’s Q2 results.

“We, overall, are going to run all facilities in general at around 75% capacity (...) which is approximately 330,000 tonnes,” said Ghasemi.

Rockwood completely sold out of its TiO2 capacity from its sulphate plants...