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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


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