General Industrial News – Late August 2026
Streamlined production at a chemical plant has restarted, months after its former owners made hundreds of employees redundant.
The titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment production facility at Greatham, in Hartlepool, has reopened as newly created company, Tioxide Materials Limited.
LB Group, who own the subsidiary, bought the plant from Venator Materials UK after that company went into administration last year with 270 job losses across Venator’s Greatham, Wynyard and Birtley sites.
