2014年1月22日,科斯特和Tasnee公司宣布与日本东邦钛业公司成立合资公司,投资4.2亿美元在沙特阿拉伯的延布工业城建设一个年产1.56万t的海绵钛生产厂。该厂将建于科斯特延布工业城现有钛白粉厂附近,后者可向其提供四氯化钛。新合资公司的战略目标是从科斯特现有业务和东邦的先进生产技术中获得规模和协同效应,以生产价格具有竞争力的 On January 22, 2014, Kost and Tasnee announced a joint venture with Japan’s Toho Titanium Co., Ltd. to invest 420 million U.S. dollars in a 15,600-tonne titanium sponge plant in Yanbu City, Saudi Arabia. The plant will be built near the existing titanium dioxide plant in Kostanbu, an industrial city where titanium tetrachloride can be supplied. The strategic goal of the new joint venture company is to gain scale and synergy from Koster’s existing operations and Toho’s state-of-the-art production technology to produce competitively priced