TZMI specialises in all aspects of the global titanium and zirconium industries and provides confidential consulting services, including technical evaluations, plant audits, supply/demand analyses, technical process engineering, comparative cost studies and competitiveness assessments, benchmarking audits and cost reviews, strategic assessments, due diligence studies and independent expert reports.  

The strength of TZMI Consulting Services stems from its :

•    extensive practical experience in the mineral sands and TiO₂ pigment industries;
•    comprehensive database; and
•    approach and capability to apply commercial reality-checking at all stages.

TZMI uses its experienced consultants to provide specialised consulting services, often confidentially, for the titanium minerals, zircon, titanium sponge, Ti-metal and TiO₂ pigment industries. TZMI consultants have a combined direct experience in the production of mineral sands and TiO₂ pigment exceeding 100 years. These consulting services are augmented by TZMI’s extensive database which has been built up over two decades of industry research spanning the mineral sands industry. This knowledge base can be used in consulting assignments and technical audits to provide up-to-date data for feedstock supply/demand models and operating cost data for all major titanium feedstock and pigment producers.

TZMI’s consultants are also in a position to provide focused market assessments. Across two decades TZMI has been preparing long term projections of supply and demand and consequent price forecasts for the mineral sands sector (ilmenite rutile and zircon). These studies are prepared on a confidential, single-client basis for specific purposes and are additional to the more general industry data presented in TZMI’s publications.

TZMI has also developed a proprietary methodology that allows for a realistic cost competitive comparison of feedstock and TiO₂ pigment producers’ operations with widely differing product profiles. The methodology has been applied in many confidential assignments for existing feedstock and TiO₂ pigment producers and for potential new entrants to assess competitiveness and to provide benchmarking criteria.