Abstract
The subject of the present report is overview of the current situation on the
market of building stone in Russia and the forecast of its development. The
report consists of seven parts, contains 129 pages and includes 25 figures, 57
tables and an appendix. The report is a kind of the cabinet investigation.
Data was used, as informational sources, from the State Statistics Committee
of Russia, State Statistics Committee of CIS, Federal Customs Office of RF,
official statistics of railway transportation of the Ministry for
Communications of RF, branch and regional media, annual and quarterly reports
from issuers of securities, as well as from web sites of manufacturing
enterprises. Trucking transportation is not subject to compulsory statistical
reporting in Russia, so, at the present report, only data are presented on the
transportation via railway, as well as data from some enterprises.
The first chapter of the report contains information on reserves of raw
materials for producing crushed stone, gravel and rubble stone in Russia. At
present, only centralized stocktaking of building-stone reserves remains in
Russia, while the reserves of sand-gravel materials are assessed at the
regional level, which fact considerably complicates the evaluation of the
current state of raw material base for producing the materials in question.
The second chapter of the report describes analyzing production statistics for
the period from 1997 to 2006. In this section, data are presented on the
volumes of production of crushed stone, gravel and rubble stone in Russia for
the said period, dynamics of production of these items is traced, and regional
pattern of production is presented.
In the third chapter, quality requirements are described for crushed stone
used for construction work and for ballasting railways according to
requirements of the current state standards, and existing classifications of
the crushed stone are presented.
The fourth chapter of the report describes current state of some large
manufacturers of building stone. Data are presented on the raw material base
available, production technology and equipment used, range and quality of
output product, production volumes and directions of deliveries of the
products for the recent two years.
The fifth chapter describes analysis of external trade operations with
building stone in Russia in 1997-2006. On the background of rather stable
small volumes of export of this product, dynamic increasing of its import may
be observed during recent years, which is caused by increasing demand on the
home market and uneven allocation of production capacities for manufacturing
high-quality products.
The sixth chapter of the report describes consumption of building stone in
Russia. Production-consumption balance for the product is presented in this
section. As experts say, consumption of crushed stone, gravel and rubble stone
in Russia has increased nearly two fold during the recent 8 years, and
exceeded 148 million m³. In addition, in the sixth chapter, price review
is presented for the products in question, seasonality of supplies is
analyzed, and branch and regional consumption patterns are evaluated.
In the seventh, last, chapter of the report, forecast is presented of
development of the Russian market of building stone for the period to 2010.
According to experts of “InfoMine”, growth rate of consumption of
building stone in Russia would remain in the nearest future on the level of
not less 5% per year, and at favorable economic situation would be 9-11%,
which fact would lead to increasing consumption of the product up to the level
of 210-240 million m3 in 2010.
Appendix contains addresses and contact information of the principal
enterprises manufacturing building stone.
| 
View Cart
