IM 2012 Round-ups: Soda ash

• Autores: Emma Hughes
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 544, 2013
• Idioma: inglés
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  • "China's treatment of SOEs is of particular concern to ANSAC because nearly half (48%) of China's soda ash production comes from producers that are either fully or partially state-owned, including two of its largest producers," John Andrews, ANSAC president wrote.

    The company, India's largest producer and global number two, said in its financial year Q1 results that while demand for soda ash was stable in the first quarter, "the demand environment could weaken".

    Elsewhere, [R Mukundan] said that Tata faced "unprecedented challenges during the quarter, which adversely impacted the operating performance". This included the flooding of the company's Magadi soda ash plant in Kenya, following an unseasonably heavy rainfall.