MONTREAL, Quebec – Argex Titanium Inc. has established a fully comprehensive research and development (R&D) center at its facility in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield (Valleyfield), Quebec, the planned site of its first industrial-sized titanium dioxide (TiO₂) plant.

With all of its production and R&D operations merged at a single site, Argex expects to achieve significant cost savings and benefit from the Quebec government’s tax credit regime for its R&D initiatives.

Argex will relocate the operation of its current test facility in Mississauga, Ontario, to the Valleyfield location, where it will serve as a training tool for the future operators of the new plant. Argex intends to increase significantly the stated TiO₂ production capacity of the pilot plant, which should translate into both significant cost savings for sample production and expedited production times to better serve Argex’s potential customers and collaboration partners.