EU rejects German appeal for more extensive restrictions on azo colorants
- Book ID
- 104370248
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Weight
- 62 KB
- Volume
- 2004
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0969-6210
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✦ Synopsis
Russia: Aricom -TiO 2 plc was floated as a separate entity on the London Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in December 2003, with the objective of creating a vertically integrated mining, production and distribution group for TiO 2 feedstocks and pigments, principally in Russia and other former Soviet republics. Aricom has inherited all the TiO 2 -related assets and businesses of Peter Hambro Mining (PHM), leaving PHM free to focus on its gold mining and exploration activities.
By the end of 2005, Aricom plans to have begun mining an ilmenite deposit at Kuranakh in the Amur region of Russia's Far East. Ore beneficiation facilities will be constructed as close as possible to the mine, probably at Olekma (55 km northwest of Kuranakh), where there is already a station on the main Baikal-Amur-Magistral railway line. They will be designed to treat 735,000 tonnes/y of wet concentrates, yielding 117,650 tonnes/y of ilmenite and 392,150 tonnes/y of titaniferous magnetite.
In the second stage of this project, Aricom will establish a 50,000 tonnes/y sulfate-route TiO 2 pigment plant, probably at Tynda (440 km along the railway line from Olekma). Technology will probably be supplied by Sachtleben. Total investment in the project has been budgeted at $120 M.
Aricom has also acquired from PHM full ownership of the Chemelt subsidiary. Chemelt (based in Moscow) was established in December 2002 as a trading company, specialising in TiO 2 pigments and by-products. It was recently appointed as exclusive distributor for the Russian market for Krym Titan's products (notably TiO 2 and iron oxide pigments). Chemelt is currently selling about 1800 tonnes/y Ukrainian TiO 2 pigment to Russian customers.