Leading manufacturers of TiO2 such as Tronox Incorporated, Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, KRONOS WORLDWIDE INC, Cristal Global and DuPont Titanium Technologies have announced a Price increase of TiO2, which is effective from January 2012. Market analysts believed TiO2 price will increase in the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Asia Pacific, Western and Eastern Europe. The market of TiO2 remained strong as the higher demand from the downstream buyers.