Brunner Mond Adjusts To New Dawn

One of Europe's leading soda ash producers is negotiating a new business environment for its glass and detergents mineral following a 20-25% drop in demand over 2009. "Our UK plants are running flat out and we are sold out for the rest of the year," said John Kerrigan, MD or Brunner Mond, the UK Norwitch-based producer. While the world's soda ash producers, especially in the USA, are suffering from a drop in demand and competition from Chinese imports, the subsidiary of India-based Tata Chemicals Ltd has managed to offset the demand losses through last year's closure of its 420,000/tpa soda ash plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands.