Ion-Exchange Resins Market Research ..

Domestic enterprises cover only one third of the demand for ionites in Russia.

The present demand for ionites in Russia is 14-15K mt/y, while Russia locally produces just 5.5K mt/y of ionites (source: Merchant Research & Consulting Ltd.).

Import fills in 80% of the current demand for ionites. Ukraine accounts for 44% of this import. The major share of the Russian ion-exchange resin market is catered for by the foreign companies, such as Purolite, Rohm & Haas, Dow Chemical, Lanxess (former division of Bayer), Azot (Cherkassy, Ukraine) and Smoly (Resins) GP (Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine). These companies provide the bulk of Russian import. Russian producers are as follows: Azot JSC (Kemerovo), Tokem JSC (Kemerovo), Urals Chemical Company (Nizhniy Tagil), Omis JSC (Omsk).

The total rated capacity of these enterprises is equal to 18K mt/y. However, they operate at 25-30% of their rated capacity.

The market for ion-exchange resins is controlled by 10 large firms which account for 65% of the market.

Ion-exchange resins belong to the class of ionites, ion-exchange sorbents, which represent solid, insoluble substances capable of ion exchange. Ionites can easily trap and release ions in a process called ion exchange.

This feature of ion-exchange resins determines their application in many areas, including food industry, pharmacology and medicine (production and purification of antibiotics, vitamins, medicines, hydrolyzates; blood plasma conservation).

Other uses include organic synthesis, production of chemical reagents, catalysis; radio-electronics and electro-technical industry (water desalination).

The popular application areas comprise waste water treatment, heat and power industry (radioactive waste processing), hydrometallurgy, extraction of precious metals (gold, platinum, silver).

"Ion-Exchange Resins Market Research" also features the following information:

• Market for ion-exchange resins in Russia;
• Main producers of ion-exchange resins;
• Prices for ion-exchange resins;
• etc.

The objective of this review is to analyse the global and CIS markets for ion-exchange resins. We describe their production, application areas, brands, major producers etc. The selection of investment proposals is provided.

Contents

1. ION-EXCHANGE RESINS: GENERAL DESCRIPTION, PRODUCTION, USES

1.1 General description of ion-exchange resins
1.2 Production of ionites
1.3 Ion-exchange resins uses
1.4 Technical specification of ion-exchange resins manufactured in the CIS countries

2. MARKET FOR ION-EXCHANGE RESINS IN RUSSIA

2.1 Market overview
2.2 Manufacturers of ion-exchange resins
2.3 Foreign trade with ion-exchange resins
2.4 Grades of ion-exchange resins sold in Russia and other CIS countries
2.5 Prices for ion-exchange resins in Russia

3. MARKET FOR ION EXCHANGE RESINS IN UKRAINE

3.1 Market overview
3.2 Foreign trade with ion-exchange resins in Ukraine
3.3 Prices for ion-exchange resins in Ukraine

4. GLOBAL MARKET FOR ION-EXCHANGE RESINS

4.1 Main market volume parameters
4.2 Manufacturers of ion-exchange resins
  Europe
  USA
  Canada
  China
  Japan
  Thailand
  Taiwan
  India
4.3 Foreign trade with ion-exchange resins
  France
  Germany
  Romania
  Sweden
  UK
  USA
  Canada
  China
  Japan
  South Korea

5. COMPANIES PRODUCING ION-EXCHANGE RESINS

5.1 Dow Chemical
5.2 Purolite
5.3 Rohm & Haas
5.4 Food-grade ion-exchange resins made by Granion’s plant in Jangsu Suqing (China)
5.5 Mitsubishi Chemical's
5.6 VarionEx (Nitrochemie, Hungary)
5.7 Selan Traiding Ltd
5.8 Jiangsu Suqing Water Treatment Engineering Group
5.9 Taiyuan Resin Factory
5.10 Kingland Chemicals Company Limited
5.11 ResinTech, Inc.
5.12 Finex Oy
5.13 Resins and their analogues supplied to the CIS market

6. TRADERS AT THE ION-EXCHANGE RESIN MARKET

7. INVESTMENT PROJECTS

8. CONSUMERS OF IONITES

9. RESIN-IN-PULP PROCESS