Resumen de Iron oxide pigment producers seek to cut environmental burden of production
The increased pressure from environmental oversight is spurring producers in China to develop new processing methods to lighten the burden of government regulation.Tightening environmental regulations in China are hitting iron oxide production there, according to Lanxess, the world’s largest producer. According to Lanxess, the total number of Chinese iron oxide production locations halved between 2008 and 2017, although the company did not provide an estimate on the number of locations. “Unfiltered laughing gas is currently generated by the Penniman production process for red iron-oxide pigments in China, accounting for as much as 7.6 million metric tonnes of CO2-equivalents per year,” said Holger Hüppeler, head of the Inorganic Pigments business at Lanxess.
