Is India's glass industry broken?

• Autores: Industrial Minerals
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 593, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Mayo)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The sector is expected to remain a major end user of these minerals for the foreseeable future, as demand for all the three major sub-segments of glass products - flat glass, container glass and tableware glass, is expected to register steady growth in coming years. The total size of India's flat glass industry is 120,000 tpm, consisting of sales to architectural, automotive, value-added glass, mirrors and furniture, which have a market share of 45%, 15%, 15%, 10% and 15%, respectively. Source: Glasspex, TechSci Research New capacity additions in the domestic soda ash market, combined with large and increasing imports from China, are expected to lead to oversupply and a potential price war in the Indian soda ash industry in 2017 and most of 2018. Since the cost of transporting silica sand from mines and processing units is often higher than the cost of the raw material itself, most of India's largest glass producers have set up their manufacturing plants close to silica sand resources. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the global glass industry consumes about 60% of worldwide feldspar production - a proportion that is reflected in India.