Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operation   Economic Spying Case
Over China, Chemical Grows Mon, 03/12/2012 - 10:10am Paul Elias,
Associated Press  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Chinese call it
"Titanium white." And it does make many things white, from the
inside of Oreo cookies to the paint on cars. Paper, toothpaste,
plastics, cosmetics and just about any other commonplace item
colored white includes titanium dioxide.  It's a $17 billion-a-
year industry and no one makes the whitener better than DuPont,
which has been in the titanium dioxide business for 70 years and
controls 20 percent of the world market.  China can't get enough
of the stuff and buys more from the West than it makes
domestically. So, U.S. prosecutors say, Chinese Communist
leaders decreed that duplicating — or obtaining — DuPont's
manufacturing method was a national economic and scientific
imperative.  As DuPont was unwilling to sell its method to
China, the Chinese government stole it through a company it
controlled called Pangang Group Co. Ltd