The future of China's TiO2 industry: Consolidation and clean up

• Autores: Albert Li
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 579, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Enero)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Yijiang Fu, vice secretary of the TiO[subscript]2 branch at the China Coating Industry Association, suggested that China should work harder to make breakthroughs in chloride-route production, which is considered to be a more efficient process and produces higher quality TiO[subscript]2.

    The key to sustainable manufacturing should be clean production and a circular economy, with extensive use of sulphate-route TiO[subscript]2 waste and byproducts, [Xiaokui Zhou] said. He added that the company relies on the rich ilmenite resources in the Panzhihua area and has plans to speed up R&D on a circular sulphuric TiO[subscript]2 technique.

    Angang said it used ilmenite from Panzhihua in Sichuan province as a source material to develop a titanium slag upgrade technique to produce high quality titanium-rich material, with a TiO[subscript]2 content of 88%-95%, SiO[subscript]2 less than 2.5%, CaO less than 0.15% and MgO less than 1%, to satisfy chloride route requirements.