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Titanium dioxide, Chemours & Lomon Billions
Wilmington (Delaware), United States / China39.74°N 75.55°W
computed criticality31/100
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world capacity ≈9.9 Mt/year; China leading producer; Chemours ≈half of North America
2024Fault line
TiO2 is the universal white pigment, paints, plastics, paper, and a marker of global construction. The chloride process (Chemours, Tronox) gives the purest grades; the more polluting sulphate process dominates in China, where Lomon Billions has risen to world's top producer. Western closures (Chemours shut Taiwan in 2023) and Chinese expansion are reshaping a supply in which the West is losing ground on a product it invented.
Actors
Chemours (Wilmington)
Tronox (Stamford)
Lomon Billions (Jiaozuo)
Kronos (Dallas)
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