Resumen de TZMI 2015: : TiO2 industry needs to get balance right
[Simon Turner] outlined self-help measures such as productivity improvement, including a 20% reduction in positions and capacity optimisation involving a 100,000 tpa cut in output from Huntsman's TiO[subscript]2 plant in Calais, France. He also pointed to restructuring in the company's German operations, specifically at its Duisburg facility, which makes speciality TiO[subscript]2 and performance additives, and at Uerdingen, where Huntsman runs a large scale TiO[subscript]2 plant. This restructuring is leading to staff reductions at the plants of 360 and 160, respectively.
Chinese TiO[subscript]2 producer Henan Billions Chemicals Co. expects to sell around 350,000 tpa TiO[subscript]2 between 2016 and 2018, including 100,000 tpa chloride-route TiO[subscript]2, the company's chairman, Ruiqing Tan, told delegates at TZMI 2015.
The company's total sales volumes reached 260,000 tonnes TiO[subscript]2 including exports, in 2014, a figure that the company expects to fall back to 250,000 in 2015, including 20,000 tpa chloride-route TiO[subscript]2, as a result of the weak market.
