TABLE 5
CAPACITIES OF U.S. TITANIUM DIOXIDE PIGMENT PLANTS ON
DECEMBER 31, 19931L


Pigment capacity
(metric tons per year)
Company                       Plant location       Sulfate       Chloride
process       process
E.I. du Pont de Nemours, & Co. Inc.:  Antioch, CA               
  -
         40,000
De Lisle, MS                 -         245,000
Edge Moor, DE                -         129,000
New Johnsonville, TN         -         297,000
Kemira, Inc.                          Savannah, GA             54,000   
     91,000
Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp.             Hamilton, MS                 -    
    114,000
Kronos Inc.                           Lake Charles, LA             -    
    100,000
SCM Chemicals Inc.                    Ashtabula, OH                -    
    165,000
Baltimore, MD            66,000         50,000
Total                                                      120,000      1,231,000
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'Table does not include Hitox Corp.'s Corpus Christi, TX, production capacty
or aout iO,4WU Uas per year or Dut
TiO2 pigment that is produced by refining and fine grinding of synthetic
rutile.


TABLE 6
COMPONENTS OF U.S. TITANIUM DIOXDE PIGMENT SUPFLY AND DEMAND
(Metric tons unless otherwise specified)


1990                     1991                     1992                  
 1993
Component               Gross       TiO2         Gross       TiO2       
 Gross       TiO2         Gross      T14
weight      content      weight     content      weight      content    
 weight      content
Production1                    978,659     913,275      991,976     926,506
   1,137,038  *1,059,982    1,161,469   1,090,192
Shipments:2
Quantit                    1,116,431   1,045,748    1,124,194  1,052,350
    1,261,812  1,178,902    1,285,773   1,202,644
Value      thousands      $2,404,282  $2,404,282   $2,381,906  $2,381,906
 '$2,535,255  '$2,535,255  $2,479,664  $2,479,664
Exports                        202,288    *189,544      211,854    *197,872
     270,422    '252,304     290,191    '272,373
Imports for consumption        147,592    *138,294      166,094    *155,464
     169,260    *160,797     171,939    *161,382
Stocks, yearend                 61,721     *57,597       72,108    *67,493
      108,173    *102,764     123,079    *115,522
Consumption, apparent          925,447     863,196      935,829    874,064
     '999,811    '933,204    1,028,311   *965,173


'Estimated. Revised.
'Excludes production of buff pigment.
2Includes interplant transfe.
'Productionpphu imports minmus exports pw stdock decrae or minmus stock incre.
Sources: Bureau of the Census and U.S. Bureau of Minea.


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