A turning point in the soda ash market is beginning to emerge.
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The price of light gray has started to decline, while heavy gray remains relatively stable; 28 more production lines have been added for float glass.
What will be the trend going forward? Will it continue to decline?
Just as things started to improve, the price dropped again – what a situation in the soda ash market! ! !
There is an excessive surplus in production capacity, yet Luohe in Henan still plans to launch new projects!
Now, aside from Sanyou and Shilian starting production by the end of this year, there won’t be any projects with a production capacity of over 500,000 tons coming online next year, right?
Has Colorful Mining not already started operations? Shilian’s heavy ash production has not yet started.
I heard that it wasn’t fully operational yet – only 300,000 units were produced in the initial phase. Once the production lines are built, operations will start depending on market conditions. Transportation must also pose a problem for them
The coal industry is in a downturn, so it’s likely that the alkali from western alkaline plants will soon be transported by train to the east.
Electricity generation is still on the rise; there shouldn’t be any major issues with coal consumption. Transportation should remain a problem, depending on whether railways such as the Daqin Line II will improve the situation
What is the current production capacity of soda ash in China? What is the annual production volume in the domestic market? How much demand is there each year?
Has Shilian’s heavy ash production not started yet? What’s the reason?