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Titanium dioxide: the world situation to 2000
Additives for Polymers
December 1996
demand will be fairly evenly split between each of the main masterbatch types, but additive masterbatches will grow fastest, at 13 %/year (but on low volumes). Individual markets vary considerably in their development. While Argentina and Brazil have well-developed markets with a large number of suppliers, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Peru and Paraguay are relatively underdeveloped, with few suppliers. The best growth prospects are Columbia and Chile, the latter of which has a stable and sound economy, with a developing plastics processing sector, but there are only two masterbatch producers, resulting in high imports. Geographical distribution of masterbatch production and demand in Latin America in 1995 is estimated at (% share): Masterbatch in Latin America (% share) Production
Demand
Brazil
43.9
36.5
Mexico
22.6
27.6
Argentina
15.9
12.9
Columbia
7.8
6.7
Venezuela
6.7
5.9
Chile
2.1
5.0
Others
0.9
5.4
Countly
Columbia has a more developed masterbatch business, but production is dominated by Hoechst’s Concentrados Plasticos, with 5-6 other very small suppliers. Again, a fastdeveloping plastics processing industry is demand expected to fuel masterbatch growth by 1S%/year, for the next five years. Many of the leading North American and European masterbatch companies are active in the region. BASF and Clairant have plants in Brazil, Hanna and Schulman in Mexico, Hoechst in Columbia and Clairant and Ferro in Venezuela. Contact: AppliedMarket Information Ltd, MI House, 45-4 7 Stokes Croft, Bristol B3 I 3QP, UK; tel: +44-117 924 9442; fax: +44-II7 989 2128
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Titanium dioxide: the world situation to 2000 Bringing together suppliers and users in the $7.6 billion titanium dioxide industry, Intertech’s fifth international business development conference, TiO, 97 - a View to 2000 will be held in Vancouver, Canada, from 28 to 30 April 1997. Four sessions will cover: market outlook and forecasts, critical markets and applications, feedstock supply and demand and manufacturing and environmental challenges. Despite overcapacity in TiO, pigment in 1995-96, which forced postponement of some capacity expansions, two producers (SCM and Kerr-McGee) have announced price increases effective, respectively, on October 1 and January 1, hoping for a turnaround in 1997. DuPont’s strategic increase in its capacity in Taiwan, to 88 000 tonnes/ year was hit by the drop in the Asian market from an estimated 8-9% growth to 4%. Tiwest and SCM also dropped their intended plans for 100% increase in Australia, again due to the soft market conditions. However, global demand for TiO, is still forecast to increase 3.3% in 1997, as stockpiles decrease. Increase in supply of titanium from the CIS and a new ilmenite processing plant there could also increase availability of feedstock in crucial regions. Paints and coatings (60% of which is in the hands of just ten producers) account for some 60% of the TiO, pigment market and, although regulatory pressures have called for a move from conventional solvent-based systems to a waterborne technology, demand for high solids coatings and glossy finfurther ished will continue to provide growth for TiO,. Contact: Intertech Conferences, 41 I US Route One, Portland, ME 04105, USA; tel: +I-207 781 9800; fax: +I-207 781 2150
0 1996 Elsevier Science
December 1996
demand will be fairly evenly split between each of the main masterbatch types, but additive masterbatches will grow fastest, at 13 %/year (but on low volumes). Individual markets vary considerably in their development. While Argentina and Brazil have well-developed markets with a large number of suppliers, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Peru and Paraguay are relatively underdeveloped, with few suppliers. The best growth prospects are Columbia and Chile, the latter of which has a stable and sound economy, with a developing plastics processing sector, but there are only two masterbatch producers, resulting in high imports. Geographical distribution of masterbatch production and demand in Latin America in 1995 is estimated at (% share): Masterbatch in Latin America (% share) Production
Demand
Brazil
43.9
36.5
Mexico
22.6
27.6
Argentina
15.9
12.9
Columbia
7.8
6.7
Venezuela
6.7
5.9
Chile
2.1
5.0
Others
0.9
5.4
Countly
Columbia has a more developed masterbatch business, but production is dominated by Hoechst’s Concentrados Plasticos, with 5-6 other very small suppliers. Again, a fastdeveloping plastics processing industry is demand expected to fuel masterbatch growth by 1S%/year, for the next five years. Many of the leading North American and European masterbatch companies are active in the region. BASF and Clairant have plants in Brazil, Hanna and Schulman in Mexico, Hoechst in Columbia and Clairant and Ferro in Venezuela. Contact: AppliedMarket Information Ltd, MI House, 45-4 7 Stokes Croft, Bristol B3 I 3QP, UK; tel: +44-117 924 9442; fax: +44-II7 989 2128
10
Titanium dioxide: the world situation to 2000 Bringing together suppliers and users in the $7.6 billion titanium dioxide industry, Intertech’s fifth international business development conference, TiO, 97 - a View to 2000 will be held in Vancouver, Canada, from 28 to 30 April 1997. Four sessions will cover: market outlook and forecasts, critical markets and applications, feedstock supply and demand and manufacturing and environmental challenges. Despite overcapacity in TiO, pigment in 1995-96, which forced postponement of some capacity expansions, two producers (SCM and Kerr-McGee) have announced price increases effective, respectively, on October 1 and January 1, hoping for a turnaround in 1997. DuPont’s strategic increase in its capacity in Taiwan, to 88 000 tonnes/ year was hit by the drop in the Asian market from an estimated 8-9% growth to 4%. Tiwest and SCM also dropped their intended plans for 100% increase in Australia, again due to the soft market conditions. However, global demand for TiO, is still forecast to increase 3.3% in 1997, as stockpiles decrease. Increase in supply of titanium from the CIS and a new ilmenite processing plant there could also increase availability of feedstock in crucial regions. Paints and coatings (60% of which is in the hands of just ten producers) account for some 60% of the TiO, pigment market and, although regulatory pressures have called for a move from conventional solvent-based systems to a waterborne technology, demand for high solids coatings and glossy finfurther ished will continue to provide growth for TiO,. Contact: Intertech Conferences, 41 I US Route One, Portland, ME 04105, USA; tel: +I-207 781 9800; fax: +I-207 781 2150
0 1996 Elsevier Science