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The last several years have been a roller coaster ride for anyone associated with the Ti[O.sub.2] industry, including raw material suppliers and both producers and consumers of Ti[O.sub.2] pigment products. [...]

The Boston piano bar where Edward Nardell sings cabaret songs would typically be an ideal setting for airborne diseases to spread. In the meantime, Nardell says that in the piano bar where he performs, the far-UV lamps provide the equivalent of 35 air exchanges per hour, probably making it one of the safest venues for singing on the planet. But Nardell and his audience are protected from the COVID-19 pandemic by the far-ultraviolet (UV) lights that he had installed to shine down from the ceiling. There's hope that far-UV lamps based on light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will eventually provide cheaper and longer-lived alternatives to the gas lamps currently being used, but prototype LED far-UV lamps are currently restricted to impractically low levels of power, says Eadie. [Extracted from the article]

The landscape of the Ti[O.sub.2] industry is changing rapidly and there is no guarantee that the market fundamentals of the last 20 years will return during the next five years. [...]