Abstract
The report is devoted to investigation of current standing of market of sodium
sulfate in CIS countries and forecast of its development. The report consists
of 6 Sections, contains 66 pages, including 18 Figures, 34 Tables and
Appendix. This work is desk study. As information sources, we used data of
Rosstat, Inter-state Committee on Statistics of CIS countries, Federal Customs
Service of Russia, official domestic railage statistic of JSC RZhD (former
Ministry of Railway Transport of Russia), sectoral (industrial) and regional
press, annual and quarterly reports of companies, as well as data from
web-sites of company-producers.
The first Section of the report presents data on available technologies of
production of sodium sulfate, their features, required resources and their
grade. The section also presents data on deposits of natural sodium sulfate.
The second Section is devoted to analysis of production statistics of sodium
sulfate in CIS countries. The Section presents requirements (of valid
normative documentation) imposed on quality of sodium sulfate of various
kinds: technical (natural), crystallization, granular and bichromate one. The
Section presents statistic data on volumes of production of sodium sulfate in
CIS countries, and describes current standing of the greatest producer of the
products.
The third Section is devoted to analysis of Russian and Ukrainian foreign
trade in natural and synthetic sodium sulfate for 1999- the first half of 2006.
The fourth Section is devoted to analysis of domestic prices on sodium sulfate
in 2006, as well as analysis of data on dynamics of export-import prices on
the product for the latest 8 years.
The fifth Section presents analysis of consumption of sodium sulfate in
Russia. The Section offers supply-demand balance of supply-demand balance of
the product, sectoral and regional structure of consumption, description of
current standing of the main end-uses of sodium sulfate and current standing
and prospects of development of the greatest company-consumers of the product.
The sixth, final Section of the report presents forecast of development of
Russian market of sodium sulfate up to 2010
The Appendix includes addresses and contact information on the main
company-producers of sodium sulfate in Russia.