British Titan Products Co Ltd

Sectors:

  • Chemical production Dyes & pigments production

Notes:

Traces origins to 1930 when established as a subsidiary of Imperial Smelting Corp Ltd. Reformed 1933 when owned by Imperial Smelting, ICI, Titan Co Inc and Goodlass,Wall & Lead Industries Ltd. Established a manufacturing plant at Billingham, later another at Grimsby, to make titanium tioxide, a brilliant white pigment used to give whiteness to industrial and household products. By 1990 ICI was sole shareholder. 1999 control acquired by Huntsman chemical business of USA and renamed Huntsman Tioxide

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