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| TABLE 4 | ||||||||
| U.S. PRODUCERS OF TITANIUM DIOXIDE PIGMENT1, 2, 3 | ||||||||
| (Metric tons per year) | ||||||||
| Company | Plant location | Yearend capacity4 | ||||||
| Du Pont Titanium Technologies | De Lisle, MS | 340,000 | ||||||
| Do. | Edgemoor, DE | 154,000 | ||||||
| Do. | New Johnsonville, TN | 380,000 | ||||||
| Louisiana Pigment Co. L.P. | Lake Charles, LA | 146,000 | ||||||
| Millennium Inorganic Chemicals Inc. | Ashtabula, OH | 220,000 | ||||||
| Do. | Baltimore, MD� | 50,000 | ||||||
| Tronox Inc.5 | Hamilton, MS | 225,000 | ||||||
| Do. | Savannah, GA | 110,000 | ||||||
| Total | 1,630,000 | |||||||
| 1Estimated operating capacity based on 7-day-per-week full production. | ||||||||
| 2Table does not include TOR Minerals International Inc.'s Corpus Christi, TX, | ||||||||
| production capacity of about 26,400 metric tons per year of buff that is produced� | ||||||||
| by refining and fine grinding of synthetic rutile. | ||||||||
| 3Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown. | ||||||||
| 4All plants use the chloride process to manufacture TiO2 pigment. | ||||||||
| 5Correction posted April 8, 2008. | ||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program