Investment in carbon black capacity shifts towards Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Brazil
✍ Scribed by Reg Adams
- Book ID
- 104370391
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Volume
- 2004
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0969-6210
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✦ Synopsis
MARKETS 3-4 World consumes 27,000 tonnes/y of antimony oxide World consumes 115,000 tonnes/y of fumed silica China sets thresholds for new chrome yellow & iron oxide pigment plants PLANTS 4-7 Solvay to make more PCC in Austria Stahl closes paper & leather colorants plant in France Kerr-McGee closes sulfate TiO 2 unit in the US & boosts German plant capacity Tosaf installs five new masterbatch lines in Israel & United Kingdom Tor Minerals doubles alumina pigment capacity in the Netherlands Columbian/Sevalco to cease making thermal blacks at Avonmouth Huber increases its interest in Sparta kaolin resource Accel & Holland Colours expand US capacity EVENTS 8 Chemical Weekly, 7 Sep 2004, 50 (3), 115 China sets minimum capacities for iron oxide & chrome yellow plants China's chemical industry is characterised by the existence of a