DuPont to Increase Ti-Pure Titanium Dioxide Prices

DuPont, Wilmington, Del., USA, this week announced that it will increase prices on all of its titanium dioxide products sold in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific regions effective July 1, or as contracts allow as follows:

$200 per metric ton for DuPontTi-Pure® titanium dioxide grades sold in the Asia Pacific and Latin America regions
$200 per metric ton for DuPontTi-Pure titanium dioxide grades sold in the dollar markets or EUR 160 per metric ton in Eurozone markets in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region
$0.08 per pound for DuPont Ti-Pure titanium dioxide grades sold in the North America region with the exception of DuPont RPS Vantage™ titanium dioxide products sold into paper and paperboard applications, which will be managed separately.

DuPont Titanium Technologies operates plants at DeLisle, Miss.; New Johnsonville, Tenn.; Edge Moor, Del.; Altamira, Mexico; and Kuan Yin, Taiwan, all of which use the chloride manufacturing process. The company also operates a mine in Starke, Fla. Technical service centers are located in Paulinia, Brazil; Mexico City, Mexico; Mechelen, Belgium; Dzerzhinskiy, Russia; Kuan Yin, Taiwan; Ichon, Korea; Shanghai, China; Hyderabad, India; and Wilmington, Del., to serve the Latin American, European, Middle Eastern, Asian, and North American markets.

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