Prix Tronox Holdings PLC (TROX)

Tronox Holdings Plc engages in the mining and inorganic chemical business. The company is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut and currently employs 6,500 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2012-06-18. The firm is a vertically integrated manufacturer of TiO2 pigment. The company mines titanium-bearing mineral sands and operates upgrading facilities that produce high-grade titanium feedstock materials, pig iron and other minerals, including the rare earth-bearing mineral, monazite. The company operates titanium-bearing mineral sand mines and beneficiation and smelting operations in Australia and South Africa to produce feedstock materials that can be processed into TiO2 for pigment, high-purity titanium chemicals, including titanium tetrachloride, and ultrafine TiO2 used in certain specialty applications. The firm supplies and markets TiO2 under the brand names TIONA and CristalActiv. The company has nine pigment facilities located in the United States, Australia, Brazil, and the United Kingdom, among others.