Titanium dioxide is beneficiated by end-users to provide brilliance and opacity to products such as paints, plastics or paper.
Manufacturers mainly use rutile in welding rod fluxes as it stabilises the arc and protects the molten metal from oxidation - forming a superior welding joint. In its titanium metal form, it is used extensively in the aerospace and aviation industries because of its lightness, strength and corrosion – and heat-resistance. These properties also make it ideal for use in artificial hip joints, pacemakers and spectacle frames.

This dataset represents a market activity in the ecoinvent database. A market activity is an activity that does not transform inputs, but simply transfers a specific intermediate exchange (i.e. products, including wastes and by-products) from supplying transforming activities to other transforming activities that demand this intermediate exchange as an input, e.g. from glycerine at the supplier to glycerine at the consumer. A market dataset collects all activities with the same reference product in a certain geographical region. Furthermore, it typically includes average transport requirements for that product within the geography in question, as well as inputs of the product itself to cover any losses in trade and transport. In other words, market activities are generally intended to represent consumption mixes of a given product in a certain geographical region. For more information: https://www.ecoinvent.org/support/faqs/methodology-of-ecoinvent-3/what-…