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Technical issue at Cristal’s Saudi slag project to keep high-grade titanium feedstocks tight in 2019

Thursday, 01 November 2018

Cristal’s much anticipated Saudi Arabian Ilmenite Smelter Project has encountered a technical issue, setting its start-up back to the second half of 2019.
It’s complicated: How mineral scarcity and human ingenuity shape the world of TiO2 feedstocks

Monday, 22 October 2018

Amid growing concern about the supply of titanium dioxide feedstocks, Fastmarkets examines the scarcity of these minerals and how processors are adapting to changes in availability.
Rio ramps up titanium slag production following disruptions; RBM labor dispute ongoing

Thursday, 18 October 2018

Rio Tinto increased its titanium slag production by 28% in the third quarter of the year, following supply disruptions in the prior quarter. The company also noted that labor disputes at its South Africa-based Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) operation are continuing.
Venator attempts a further round of TiO2 price increases in the Americas

Friday, 05 October 2018

Letters seen by Fastmarkets IM call for titanium dioxide (TiO2) price increases of 5 cents per lb in the United States.

TiO2 prices hold steady; market reaches equilibrium

Friday, 10 August 2018

But a looming feedstock shortage has sustained fears of further supply constraints to come in 2018.
IM's May Price Movements

Tuesday, 05 June 2018

IM's monthly price movements.
IM's January Price Movements

Thursday, 01 February 2018

IM's monthly price movements.
TZMI 2017: Chloride TiO2 capacity increases will drive slag shortage

Thursday, 14 December 2017

The market for titanium dioxide (TiO2) faces a major chloride slag shortfall if production is not ramped up in the next few years, delegates at the annual TZMI conference in Hong Kong told Industrial Minerals.

Supply Situation Report: Light at the end of the tunnel for TiO2 feedstocks

Tuesday, 02 July 2013

The titanium dioxide (TiO2) feedstock industry underwent a significant period of upheaval during 2012: prices rose, prices fell and production was cut by some of the largest producers.
Projects in the pipeline: Green hills of Africa not as important as its sandy beaches

Monday, 25 March 2013

2013 is to be Africa's year with Kwale to be first online followed by Minerals Commodities' Tormin and Mineral Deposits' Grand Cote
EU H&S policy

Wednesday, 01 February 2006

SMEs are at the core of the EU’s entrepreneurship policy revamp. Michelle Wyart-Remy, IMA Europe General- Secretary, describes the problems industrial minerals SMEs may encounter when facing the EU health and safety programme.