The market of import of feldspar in Russia

Commodity flows (production, import, export, consumption, prices) of feldspar raw materials in Russia for the period 2001–2017 are considered in dynamics. A list of consumers – manufacturers of ceramic granite, ceramic tiles, sheet and container glass, porcelain insulators, etc. is presented. The Russian market of feldspar raw materials has an intensive growth due to the creation of new productions of ceramic granite, which increased the consumption of raw materials from 300 to 1340 thousand tons / year. Also, the growth is provided by an increase in its imports from 10 to 660 thousand tons/year. Main supplier-countries are Turkey (up to 430 thousand tons/year) and Ukraine (up to 380 thousand tons/year). The maximum annual import of feldspar raw materials amounted to 612 thousand tons by weight (46.4% of consumption) in the amount of $41 million. The raw material base of feldspar raw materials in Russia is practically unlimited. Productions operating in Karelia and the Urals can easily increase production of feldspar. The creation of new extracting enterprises in the North Caucasus and Southern Yakutia is possible. As measures of import substitution, it is proposed to create new production facilities for the extraction of feldspar raw materials, measures for the development of enrichment technologies and the possibility of using already extracted volumes of nepheline raw materials in the production of ceramic raw materials.

V.Yu. KHAT’KOV^{1, 2}, Head of Department, Engineer

¹ Gazprom PAO (2, Pobedy Square, Saint Petersburg, 196143, Russian Federation)
² National research Tomsk Polytechnic University (30, Lenin Avenue, Tomsk, 634050, Russian Federation)

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