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Global Soda Ash Market: Demand Analysis Soda ash, also known as sodium carbonate or limestone, is an essential raw material used for the manufacturing of glass, chemicals, detergents, and various other industrial products. The glass industry is gaining strong traction across emerging economies on the back rapid construction across urban parts. Additionally, the chemicals and detergents industries are doing fairly well as well owing to increasing disposable income, which has incremented the sales of washing machines and mushroomed laundry services.  Another major factors boosting the global  soda ash market  is the technological advancements in terms of extraction processes, namely room and pillar mining technique. Soda ash is extracted from trona and sodium carbonate decahydrate. The world’s largest deposit of trona is in the Green river basin of Wyoming where 47 billion tons of soda ash can be recovered from 56 billion tons of bedded trona. Underground room and pillar mining, using co