Tiwest Joint Venture

The [http://www.tiwest.com.au Tiwest Joint Venture] is a joint venture between Tronox Western Australia Pty Ltd and subsidiaries of Exxaro Australia Sands Pty Ltd. The Tiwest Joint Venture is a mining and processing company was established in 1988 to extract ilmenite, rutile, leucoxene and zircon from a mineral sands deposit at Cooljarloo, 14km north of Cataby,Western Australia.

Heavy mineral concentrate (HMC) is trucked from Cooljarloo, 1 hour and 15 minutes south to the Chandala mineral sands processing plant, near Muchea, 70km north of Perth.The concentrate is then separated in a modern facility known as a Dry Mill. This is done using a magnetic separation process.

Ilmenite is further processed on site in to Synthetic Rutile, which is used by pigment plants all around the world. All other minerals are sold as they are.

Most of the Synthetic Rutile from the Chandala operation is then trucked to Kwinana, 30km south of Perth where Tiwest has its own pigment plant.

The Pigment plant produces titanium dioxide pigment, the best whiting agent known to man kind. It is used in paints, plastics, food stuffs and other materials.

Tiwest's corporate office is located in Bentley, 5 minutes drive south of the Perth CBD. The corporate office houses its sales, marketing, accounting, corporate administration, information technology and other essential services.

A $100 million upgrade has recently been approved by the board of both companies to the Kwinana pigment plant. This will see production of titanium dioxide pigment increase by up to 50% by 2012.

External links

* [http://www.tiwest.com.au Tiwest Joint Venture]