Upward spiral in titanium dioxide prices slowing in second quarter

Supply disruption associated with the war in Ukraine and technical troubles at Tronox’ Stallingborough plant in the UK have compounded an already difficult supply situation for titanium dioxide. Until now, Ukraine has delivered both titanium dioxide pigments and titanium ores needed to make titanium dioxide. These...

Chemical companies Chemours, Tronox Holdings, both from the US, and Venator Materials in the UK addressed the trend in titanium dioxide prices in their recently published interim reports for the third quarter of 2021. Chemours said it raised its prices by an average of 6 per cent at the start of the third quarter....

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