Cristal Global is planning to build a TiO2 slag plant in Saudi Arabia

Cristal Global (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) is planning to build a TiO₂ slag plant in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. The company has selected Outotec (Espoo, Finland) to build the plant, which will process 800,000 t/y of ilmenite ore to produce 500,000 t/y of 85% TiO₂, with 235,000 t/y of high purity pig iron as a valuable co-product.

The plant will be constructed on a turnkey basis, and is expected to become operational in Q4 2013. It will be scalable to a maximum production of 1m t/y of TiO₂ slag, Cristal said. The company signed a letter of intent for the project with Outotec on 31 October 2011.

Source: Cristal Global