The Analysis on the Glass Market in Russia(2009/7/30)

According to the statement, the total quantity of the glass market in Russia was increasing from 137,000,000 sqm in 2005 to 185,000,000 sqm in 2006.

The market scale was increased by nearly 36%. The survey shown, the rise of glass market is mainly caused by the increase of import. Recently, the speed of importing glass products is very fast by 25% to 50%. From Year 2005 to 2006, the influence of import is still obvious. Meanwhile the speed of glass production is also very high. And the development of villa-building is sooner and sooner. Furthermore, the demand for glass in villa is much more than in common houses.

Comparing with the glass products produced by Russia, the importing glass products makes a great impact on the Russian glass market. For a long time, the import quantum of glass products in Russia is very large, occupying 25%-50% market share of Russia. At present, there is the biggest demand for good-quality heat-treatment glass products. According to estimate, the market share of good-quality heat-treatment glass products occupies 70% in Russian glass market.
(by China Leiyuan, 2009/7/30)