It also has agreed to buy Romania's only other soda-ash producer, Uzinele Sodice Govora.

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Dalmia also is taking advantage of India's new global outlook by buying soda-ash companies abroad, expanding a soda-ash business that's already India's third-biggest.

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The government recently imposed fresh anti-dumping duties on Chinese imports of sodium bicarbonate, for example, at the request of Penrice Soda Holdings, Australia's sole producer of soda-ash crystals, which appear in everything from animal feed to antacids.

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