Abstract
The report is devoted to analysis of glass fibre and glass fibre products
market in the CIS for promotional support of the customer.
Modern level of technological development owes demand for new materials with
special properties. Among such new synthetic materials is glass fibre. Glass
fibre materials has a number of valuable properties: inflammability,
resistance to corrosion and biological action, rather high strength and
relatively low density, in combination with excellent optic and electro-,
heat- and sound-insulating properties. The materials find growing application
in various branches industry.
The investigation includes the following main sections: technology of
production; kinds of products and requirements, imposed on glass fibre and
glass fibre products; production of glass fibre by CIS enterprises and their
current standing; analysis of foreign trade operations; determination of
consumers of glass fibre in various industrial end-uses.
Methodologically, the investigation is desk study. We considered and analyzed
all available information sources, first of all, data official state bodies:
Rosstat (Federal Service of State Statistics of Russia), Federal Customs
Service of Russia, Inter-State Committee on Statistics of CIS countries,
Customs Committee of Ukraine, Customs Service of Belarus, official Russian
domestic railage statistic of JSC RZhD (former Ministry of Railway Transport
of Russia), sectoral (industrial) and regional press, reports of companies,
data from web-sites of company-producers, as well as information from InfoMine
database and scientific-research literature.