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December 2015
21 December 2015
A roundup of the year's main events in the global soda ash industry.
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September 2015
26 September 2015
Turkey’s mineral diversity is well known and the country is home to some of the world’s leading producers of borates, soda ash and magnesite. However, political uncertainty and recent instability in Turkey’s mining legislation has hindered its development as a mining nation, Aykut Karaca, IM Correspondent, explains.
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26 September 2015
The company, which is controlled by the Turkish conglomerate, Ciner Group, has seen its two major expansion projects delayed time and again for reasons to do with financing and construction issues. Now, Eti Soda says that its plans that will make Turkey the biggest soda ash producer in Europe by 2018 are back on track.
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August 2015
25 August 2015
Rising supply and contracting domestic demand for Chinese soda ash is upping the rate of overspill into exports. Laura Syrett, Acting Editor, looks at how this trend is threatening the market share of other exporters, including the highly influential North American trade body, ANSAC.
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March 2015
20 March 2015
With installed capacity of around 3m tpa, India is already a significant producer of soda ash for its own domestic needs. But its main market players have ambitions to go increasingly global, Sunder Singh, IM Correspondent, discovers.
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20 March 2015
Until 1979, Turkey was unaware that it was sitting on two of the largest deposits of trona ore, the main source of natural soda ash, in the world. Since then, the industry has moved in fits and starts to sit on the cusp of becoming a top contender in the global soda ash market. IM takes a look at the history of Turkey’s soda ash industry and how it hopes to develop in the future.
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January 2015
24 January 2015