China will step up kaolin production to 4 M tonnes/y

• Book ID: 104369685
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Weight: 31 KB
• Volume: 2002
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0969-6210
• DOI: 10.1016/s0969-6210(02)00508-8

✦ Synopsis

global market is assessed as being worth SFR 2.3 bn or $1.4 bn. About 75% of the sales revenue generated by Clariant's Pigments & Additives division (SFR 1.872 bn or $1.1 bn in full-year 2001) is accounted for by organic pigments and the division has 16 production facilities around the world. Of Clariant's organic pigment sales to the paint sector, 45% is accounted for by the industrial paints sector, 35% by the architectural paints sector and 20% by the automotive paints sector.