Enlargement of the European Union brings opportunities for raising pigment sales & investment
✍ Scribed by Reg Adams
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Weight
- 93 KB
- Volume
- 2004
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0969-6210
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✦ Synopsis
In this issue MARKETS 3-4 TiO 2 price rises -uniformly in North America, not so elsewhere World beta-carotene consumption at 1430 tonnes/y West European uses 6000 tonnes/y of chrome yellow & molybdenum orange 2-3% increase in North American demand for carbon black China to meet more of its TiO 2 needs from domestic sources? PLANTS 4-6 First worldscale Sb 2 O 3 plant in China comes on-stream Titan Kogyo switches production from Japan to China Omya nears completion of 500,000 tonnes/y GCC plant in the Netherlands COMPANIES 6-7 BASF extends Colorflexx scheme to Mexico Platinum Equity buys DyStar Tosco takes control of Colloids EVENTS 8