china lithopone prices

China’s TiO2 exports were booming in 2016. The continuously depreciating RMB and the increasing export scales of China’s manufacturers have strengthened this development throughout the year. As a fact, many of China’s producers exported their products with a lower price while achieving higher profit margins in the domestic market of TiO2. Tranalysis, a trade analysis provider, now reveals the top 10 Chinese TiO2 exporters of the year 2016 with the original data of China Customs.

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 At present, Lide powder is mainly produced in China. Most of the domestic Lide powder production is still using traditional methods. The main raw materials are zinc oxide, sulfuric acid and barium sulfide (barite and coal are produced by high temperature reduction). Zinc 45% ~ 70%. The traditional method for producing the Liede powder process is to use zinc bakelite containing more than 45% zinc as a raw material to be leached with sulfuric acid to obtain a crude zinc sulfate solution, and then to remove iron by potassium permanganate, and then replace the heavy metal with zinc powder and filter to obtain zinc sulfate. The refined liquid is further subjected to metathesis reaction, pressure filtration, calcination, rinsing, drying, and pulverization with strontium sulfide to obtain a series of different types of lindose powder containing zinc sulfide of 30% or more. The whole process is carried out in an acidic (ra<7) environment, which consumes a large amount of sulfuric acid. The sulfuric acid has strong corrosiveness and requires high production equipment. The final discharged slag is acidic slag, which brings new pollution to the environment. High requirements, high production costs, and poor quality of the products obtained.

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Prof Maged Younes, Chair of EFSA’s expert Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings (FAF), said: “Taking into account all available scientific studies and data, the Panel concluded that titanium dioxide can no longer be considered safe as a food additive . A critical element in reaching this conclusion is that we could not exclude genotoxicity concerns after consumption of titanium dioxide particles. After oral ingestion, the absorption of titanium dioxide particles is low, however they can accumulate in the body”. 

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