# Titanium dioxide: Relationships

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/titanium_dioxide/links/

Every element and industry that Titanium dioxide is linked to, and how. Each pair has its own card explaining the relationships between the two.

- [Paints and coatings](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/paints-and-coatings-and-titanium-dioxide/): Titanium dioxide is the white pigment that gives paint its hiding power, and paint took about 56% of all TiO2 in 2020. It can be up to 40% of a paint's raw material cost, so pigment prices and trade duties flow into paint makers' margins; Chinese pigment met about 57% of India's demand in the investigation period, and India imposed new duties in October 2026. *(researched)*
- [Chlorine](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/chlorine-and-titanium-dioxide/): The chloride route to titanium dioxide chlorinates titanium feed into titanium tetrachloride and then burns it back to pigment, recovering most of the chlorine for reuse, so only make-up chlorine is bought. About half of world pigment is made this way, but in China, the largest producer, the sulphate route, which uses sulphuric acid instead of chlorine, still dominates. *(researched)*
- [Titanium](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/titanium-and-titanium-dioxide/): Titanium dioxide pigment is the main use of titanium ore, so the white pigment market, not aircraft metal, largely sets the price of ilmenite and rutile. Pigment and metal share one step, titanium tetrachloride, and China leads both industries. *(researched)*
- [Building materials](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/building-materials-and-titanium-dioxide/): Building materials depends on titanium dioxide.
- [Furniture](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/furniture-and-titanium-dioxide/): Furniture depends on titanium dioxide.
- [Natural gas](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/natural-gas-and-titanium-dioxide/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Organic pigments](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/organic-pigments-and-titanium-dioxide/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Paper and packaging](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/paper-and-packaging-and-titanium-dioxide/): Paper and packaging depends on titanium dioxide.
- [Pharmaceuticals](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/pharmaceuticals-and-titanium-dioxide/): Pharmaceuticals depends on titanium dioxide.
- [Plastic and rubber products](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/plastic-and-rubber-products-and-titanium-dioxide/): Plastic and rubber products depends on titanium dioxide.
- [Sulfur](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/sulfur-and-titanium-dioxide/): Sulfur is a raw material for titanium dioxide.
- [Sulphuric acid](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/sulphuric-acid-and-titanium-dioxide/): Their prices have moved together.

## Other sections

- [Summary](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/titanium_dioxide/index.md)
- [Overview](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/titanium_dioxide/overview/index.md)
- [Correlation](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/titanium_dioxide/correlation/index.md)
- [Production route](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/titanium_dioxide/routes/index.md)
- [Production](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/titanium_dioxide/production/index.md)
- [Feedstocks](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/titanium_dioxide/feedstocks/index.md)
- [Cycles](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/titanium_dioxide/cycles/index.md)
- [Trading](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/titanium_dioxide/trading/index.md)
- [Movement](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/titanium_dioxide/movement/index.md)
- [Regulation](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/titanium_dioxide/regulation/index.md)
- [Characteristics](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/titanium_dioxide/characteristics/index.md)
- [Emissions](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/titanium_dioxide/emissions/index.md)