Latest price hikes of titanium dioxide have led to bulk purchasing, instead of demand reducing expected, as downstream userssee a trend of further price increases.

 

As one of the indispensable raw materials in coatings production, titanium dioxide’s prices have great effects on coatings’ cost, a coatings manufacturer says. In 2011, titanium dioxide’s price boom even forced coatings manufacturers to seek forsubstitute materials to control producing cost.

 

Besides coatings industry, the biggest consumer of titanium dioxide, plastics, ink, paper making and chemical fiber industries are also significantly influenced by titanium dioxide prices.