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Article: Titanium dioxide varieties in high demand lose balance. (Market Report).
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- China Chemical Reporter
- Article date:
- January 26, 2003
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Titanium dioxide is an important inorganic chemical product used extensively in coating, plastic, papermaking, printing ink, chemical fiber and rubber sectors. Superfine titanium dioxide has a higher application value. Nanometer titanium dioxide has bright application prospects in automobiles and sun-care cosmetics.
The sales amount of titanium dioxide in the world is around 4.0 million tons and the sales volume is around US $3.0 billion. Titanium dioxide has become one of the 3 inorganic chemical products with the biggest sales volume in the world, second only to ammonia and phosphoric acid.
Production methods of titanium dioxide include the sulfuric ...