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QIT TiO2 closes for 3 months

07 April 2009

by Simon Moores

Summer hiatus at Sorel-Tracy titanium dioxide feed complex as demand evaporates

Keywords: QIT, Rio Tinto, titanium dioxide, ilmenite, pigment

One of the world’s leading titanium dioxide (TiO2) feedstock producers, QIT-Fer et Titane, has announced a full shut down of all operations for three months.

The closure of its Sorel-Tracy complex, which smelts ilmenite for primary use in TiO2 pigment, and its Havre-Saint-Pierre mine will be between 12...








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