The Paradigm Shift in TiO2 Pricing: Why Geopolitics and Costs Are Rewriting the Rules Yesterday, China’s largest TiO2 producer, LB Group, announced its third price increase this month, shocking the industry once again. Today, about 20 other Chinese producers followed suit. For a long time, the pricing logic in the TiO2 market was “Demand-Pull”: quotes […]
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Why paint margins look beautiful on a good year and disappear on a bad quarter Paint margins look beautiful on a good year. They disappear on a bad quarter. India’s paints industry is growing toward Rs 1.4 lakh crore by 2030. The market structure is being redrawn by Birla Opus and JSW Paints. New capacity […]
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The Middle East accounted for around 24% of global sulphur production at 83.87 million metric tons last year; including 50% of seabourne trade of sulphur — which must be exported via the Strait of Hormuz. Sulphur is essential to sulphuric acid which, in turn, is essential to processing critical minerals, including copper and nickel. And, the sulphuric acid market was already tight before the […]
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Swiss startup Seprify has raised €13.4 million to scale a cellulose-based alternative to one of the most widely used, and increasingly banned, industrial whiteners on the planet. IKEA is backing it. Somewhere in Southeast Asia, a small beetle called Cyphochilus produces the whitest surface found in nature, not through pigment, but through the microscopic structure […]
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Misconception 1: The higher the titanium content of TiO₂, the higher the whiteness?Truth: Whiteness is a comprehensive property, not determined by titanium content alone.Titanium content is only one of several influencing factors. Impurity control, particle size, and surface treatment are equally critical. LB Snow Lotus titanium dioxide is engineered through application-specific, fine chemical process control […]
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Misconception 1 “The higher the whiteness of titanium dioxide, the better the quality.” Reality: Whiteness matters, but it is not the only criterion. ✔️Overemphasizing a single whiteness index does not always lead to the best application performance. In certain scenarios, excessively high whiteness may even result in lower perceived hiding power due to contrast issues […]
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–Overview of the Chloride Process TiO₂ Industry– Chloride process TiO₂ is a titanium dioxide (TiO₂) pigment produced through the chloride process. The production process starts with titanium concentrate or high-titanium slag as raw materials, which are chlorinated to form titanium tetrachloride (TiCl₄), followed by oxidation and post-treatment steps to produce the final product. The tio2 […]
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On November 4, the China National Coatings Industry Association released a bulletin summarizing the final rulings in five anti-dumping investigations against Chinese titanium dioxide (TiO₂) initiated by foreign countries.According to the bulletin, since August 2023, five jurisdictions — the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), the European Union (EU), India, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia — have launched […]
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According to Huizheng Information and data from the BuyChem Research Institute, from mid-September to early October 2025, Chinese titanium dioxide suppliers implemented the fifth round of price increases, raising domestic prices by RMB 300 per ton and export prices by USD 40–50 per ton. With this round, the cumulative increase has reached RMB 1,900–2,400 per […]
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Titanium Dioxide markets posted diverging trends across the world. The U.S. experienced consistent demand from construction and plastics in the face of increasing freight and energy prices. In Germany, positive sentiment prevailed despite port and rail congestion due to robust industrial coatings demand as well as active imports. South Korea’s market declined further because of […]
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