The Becher process is an industrial process used to produce rutile, a form of titanium dioxide, from the ore ilmenite. It was developed in the early 1960s in Western Australia by a joint initiative between industry and government, and was named after Robert Gordon Becher, who invented, developed and introduced the technique to the Western Australian Mineral Sands industry. The process is competitive with the chloride process and the sulfate process, which achieve similar net conversions. The Becher process exploits the conversion of the ferrous iron (FeO) to ferric iron (Fe2O3) and involves four steps: oxidation, reduction, aeration, and acid leach. The process is suitable for weathered ilmenite that has low concentrations of chromium and magnesium.

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