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Article: Research and Markets: Changing Consumer Tastes Could Affect Future Demand for Bentonite.
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- August 2, 2005
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DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c21788) has announced the addition of The Economics of Bentonite to their offering.
In most of its high-volume markets, such as foundry sands, iron ore pelletising and drilling muds, the consumption of bentonite and fuller's earth is driven to a large extent by macroeconomic trends, which determine the overall level of demand in end-use markets i.e. iron and steel, and petroleum products. Somewhat unusually for a mineral commodity, however, non-economic factors are also important. Demand for cat litter is governed, at least partly, by consumer marketing and even weather. Similarly, ...