Industrial Minerals


Toxic gas cloud shuts TiO2 plant

05 March 2010


TiO2 manufacturer Cristal Global has shut UK plant due to toxic gas escape

Keywords: titanium dioxide, TiO2, pigment, paints, Cristal

Cristal Global’s Stallingborough plant in the UK has been temporarily closed owing to a toxic gas cloud forming after a pressurised container of titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4) ruptured.

 

The plant, better known for producing 150,000 tpa of chloride titanium dioxide (TiO2), is...