Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Survey founds glyphosate and paraquat were Hunan's major herbicides for early rice in 2012


Aiming to establish the key market indicators of China's rice industry, CCM has carried out a syndicated research project, namely Syndicated Research Project of Hunan Rice Panel Data & Analysis Model, on rice production in Hunan Province——one of the largest rice production provinces in China, by conducting panel data investigations around basic information which include pesticides, seeds, fertilizers, diseases, pests and weeds, meteorology and agricultural products. The survey of pesticide's application features has been conducted in Hengyang City (Hengyang), Yueyang City (Yueyang) and Changde City (Changde) of Hunan Province and a total of 900 farmers in these three regions were interviewed.
                                                           
In those three districts, the demand for pesticides from early rice planting was similar. The findings are arranged by descending order of input value: insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and others. As predicted by CCM, in those three districts, in 2012, the total market value of herbicide products was USD88 million (RMB540 million) for the rice planting-including early season rice, mid-season rice and late season rice. Among the three districts, Hengyang's market value of herbicide products was the highest, reaching USD42 million (RM260 million).

In terms of herbicide categories used, out of 900 farmers interviewed in those three districts, 813 mentioned 19 kinds of herbicides. Among them, glyphosate and paraquat were most frequently mentioned, far ahead of other herbicides, accounting for about 30% and 15% respectively. It's noteworthy that in Yueyang, many interviewees, 34.1%, had no awareness of the kind of herbicides they were using, compared with Hengyang's 3.3% and Changde's 9.1%.

As for brands, over half of farmers (about 64%) in Hunan Province had no awareness of them. According to the herbicide brand survey from 510 farmers, 22 herbicides brands and four pesticides companies were mentioned. However, those mentioned brands are almost all from multinationals: 49.3% was Monsanto's Roundup (glyphosate formulation), 28.9% was Dow AgroSciences' Daojie (penoxsulam formualtion) and 5.6% was Dow AgroSciences' Daoxi (cyhalofop-butyl•penoxsulam formulation).

Retail stores of agricultural products are the main pesticides purchase channels in these three districts. Farmers usually buy pesticides by experience, and rarely accept recommendations from merchants, friends and governments.

Rice is one of the most important crops in China, and Hunan Province is a large rice producing province, with a planting area of more than four million hectares. It ranked first in rice-sowing area and rice output in China in the past few years. Changde, Yueyang and Hengyang are the three important rice planting cities in Hunan Province. According to CCM's survey, about 50% farmers plant rice twice annually (early season rice and late season rice) and about 40% farmers choose single mid-season rice annually.

The news above was sourced from CCM’s latest issue, Herbicide China News 1305.

Table of Contents of Herbicide China News 1305:
Survey founds glyphosate and paraquat were Hunan's major herbicides for early rice in 2012
Lier Chemical: both revenue and net profit achieved a double-digit growth in Q1 2013
Anhui Huaxing constructing projects with a total capacity of 417,000t/a
Jiangsu Dongbao bought a bio-herbicide from Nanjing Agricultural University
Sluggish acetochlor production in China in 2012
Ex-works price of nicosulfuron 95% TC soared in late April
Glufosinate-ammonium arouses interest in China
Paraquat still in short supply in late April 2013
Diquat production stays weak in early 2013
Difficult promotion for biological pesticides
Atrazine TC export volume surged but formulation fell in 2012
Chinese herbicides Imp. & Exp. witnessed increases in Q1 2013
15 herbicides TC registered in Australia from Jan. to March 2013
New registrations of herbicide technical in China in March and April 2013

Herbicides China News, a monthly publication issued by CCM on 15th, provides you with the latest occurrences, exclusive analysis on the market trend as well as professional reviews on competitiveness of companies, products and relative industries in China’s herbicide industry.

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Yellow phosphorus price to show downside


Price of yellow phosphorus is expected to keep downward trend and stay at the bottom till Oct., 2013, primarily due to the flat demand and seasonal production cost cut, according to Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report, the monthly newsletter issued by CCM.

In the wake of the weakening downstream consumption, China's demand for yellow phosphorus finally ended its high consumption growth during 2008–2011.

China saw a high growth in domestic demand for yellow phosphorus as of 2008. From 2008 to 2011, the apparent consumption volume of yellow phosphorus increased by a compound annual growth rate of 5.5% in China.

However, the apparent consumption volume of yellow phosphorus dropped to 797,241 tonnes in 2012. Moreover, China's yellow phosphorus apparent consumption volume touched 103,803 tonnes in the first quarter of 2013, decreasing by 14.05% year-on-year as compared with that in the corresponding period of last year.

Generally speaking, the price of yellow phosphorus will remain on the downside with the coming wet season (June–Sept.), because the production cost of yellow phosphorus showed a 5–10% seasonal decline along with a price cut in electricity retail price during this period. However, the yellow phosphorus price is expected to usher in a decline in advance in 2013.

According to certain yellow phosphorus producers in Yunnan Province, they were orally informed that the retail price of electricity in May would be charged in line with that in wet season. In this case, the price of yellow phosphorus will be on the way down a month earlier than usual.

However, some yellow phosphorus purchasers have indicated that the main yellow phosphorus production province in China—Yunnan Province—generally suffers serious drought during the regular wet season, which causes wide electric power shortages and thus hold up the production of yellow phosphorus. Therefore, they are still worried that the drought might reverse the price decline.

Fortunately, Yunnan Province has made some preparations to resist droughts. In addition, the local water authority has advised that the current volumes of water in storage are more than that of previous years. Relatively speaking, these have reduced the possibility of electric power shortages in Yunnan Province.

Editor's Note
Headlines of Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report 1305
Phosphorus Ore
Phosphorus mining project moves smoothly in Mabian County
Yuntianhua's restructuring is expected to be accelerated
Yellow Phosphorus
Yellow phosphorus price to show downside
Phosphate Fertilizer
Wengfu's phosphogypsum utilization technique attracts overseas institute
Batian makes smooth progress in its APP fertilizer project
China's phosphate fertilizer to usher in export peak amid uncertain prospect
Fine Phosphate Chemicals
YPC's feed grade phosphate project to be put into operation
Polyrocks and NIMTE to jointly develop phosphorus-based fire-retardant material
Global Insight
Performance of phosphate fertilizer firms varied in Q1 2013
Supply & Demand
Market review of prime phosphate chemical in April 2013 10
International trade of phosphate chemicals in March 2013
Price Update
Price monitoring of some phosphate chemicals in April 2013

Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report, issued by CCM on 15th, keeps providing the latest company dynamics related to China’s phosphorus industry, and market analysis on supply and demand, import and export as well as global insight.

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Blossoming Opportunities in China’s Titanium Dioxide Industry


With the fast development of the TiO2 industry, China has reversed from a net importer of TiO2 to a net exporter in recent years. Meanwhile, China is also one of the most important TiO2 consumption markets worldwide. Under this circumstance, what opportunities will the TiO2 industry players meet? What will the supply and demand trend of China’s TiO2 industry be? In order to find out the answers, CCM has conducted a thorough research on China’s TiO2 industry and compiled the report China Titanium Dioxide Opportunity.
                                                                                  
The report focuses on “opportunity analysis”, which is one of the factors most concerned by the TiO2 industry players. Main contents regarding the opportunity analysis include: analysis on emerging markets in China’s TiO2 industry; analysis on China’s chloride TiO2 industry, and analysis on China’s SCR TiO2 industry. What’s more, CCM also put an emphasis on strategies for sales channels of China’s TiO2, and strategies for finding overseas titanium resources.

As introduced by CCM, it has been engaged in market research in the TiO2 industry since 2003. With more than 10 years’ experience, CCM can stay up-to-date with the dynamics of the TiO2 industry and release monthly newsletters and annual reports to reveal the market situation. With regard to the report, CCM remarked that the TiO2 industry’s players can discover opportunities in China’s titanium dioxide industry after perusing the report. Highlights are including:

l         Finding out emerging markets in China;
l         Finding out opportunities in China’s chloride TiO2 market;
l         Understand the current status and future trend of China’s SCR TiO2 market;
l         Obtain the intelligence on the consumption and price forecast of China’s TiO2 industry;
l         Understand the difference of the sales channels between domestic TiO2 companies and overseas TiO2 companies;
l         Know more about the strategies for finding overseas titanium resources;  

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Shenghong Group launches biological PDO and PTT program


On May 5, 2013, a ground-breaking ceremony of a 20,000t/a biological PDO and 50,000t/a PTT program was held by Shenghong Group Co., Ltd. (Shenghong Group). This program is owned by Suzhou Suzhen Biological Engineer Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Shenghong Group. The launch of this program enables Shenghong Group to have a whole production chain from biological raw material, PTT polyester to PTT spinning and fabric printing & dyeing, according to CCM’s latest issue of Biomaterials China News 1305.
 
The newly-launched biological PDO and PTT program is just the first phase of Shenghong Group's whole PDO and PTT program, and is planned to be put into production at the end of 2013, while the second phase with capacities of 40,000t/a PDO and 100,000t/a PTT is expected to enter operation in 2015. By cooperating with Tsinghua University, PDO will be produced by biological method, fermented from glycerol—a by-product of biodiesel, which is different from the raw material of general biological PDO, such as DuPont's PDO.

This program will be perfection and expansion of Shenghong Group’s current PTT business.
 
PTT fiber is famous as a kind of "memory fiber", but the supply shortage of its core raw material—PDO hasseriously restricted the development of the PTT industry. In June 2011, Shenghong Group’s first domestic PTT production line with a capacity of 30,000t/a entered trial production, allowing the company to become the third one who mastered the core technology of PTT in the world, only after DuPont and Shell. However, the company does not have its own PDO production line, and most of PDO it needed is bought from Shell. According to Mr. Bian, the company’s chief engineer, the outsourced BDO cannot meet the company's production needs. Another industry insider, Mr. Han, also revealed that though Shenghong Group has a large PTT production capacity, its PTT output is far smaller than its capacity due to the supply shortage of PDO.
 
In the future, after the company’s new program is finished, the raw material bottleneck will be solved, and the newly-constructed PTT production line and the company’s integrated production chain will greatly help the company to win more market share.

Along with the technology innovation and the great development of the biodiesel industry, more domestic enterprises will enter the PDO industry, and China may become one of the largest PDO producers in the future.
 
In addition to Shenghong Group, Zhangjiagang Glory Biomaterial Co., Ltd. (Glory Biomaterial) also launched a biological PDO program, and the first phase with a capacity of 20,000t/a PDO has entered pilot production in Jan. 2013. Similar to Shenghong Group, Glory Biomaterial also produced PDO from glycerol by cooperating with another university—East China University of Science and Technology.

Table of Contents of Biomaterials China News 1305:
China's PVA market deteriorates continuously in 2012
Shenghong Group launches biological PDO and PTT program
The profit of Global Bio-Chem's polyol chemicals segment decreases sharply in 2012
Rainbow Fine Chemical has a bad performance in 2012
Lenzing constructs a jumbo lyocell fiber production line
China makes new progress in hydrolysis stabilizer development
Development of succinic acid commercial production technology in China
Corn price decreases slowly from Feb. 2013
China's PLA foreign trade improves in March 2013
China's import volume of fresh and dry cassava increases in March 2013
China's import volume and price of castor oil and its derivatives increase in March 2013
Rongsheng Petro Chemical's PTT fiber program delayed
Sulzer undertakes a contract for a PLA production plant in Asia
Coca-Cola launches plant-based bottle in China
Toray succeeds in production of bio-based PBT
Polythene UK successfully launches bio-based polyethylene

Biomaterials China News, with 12 to 14 topics in one issue, published by CCM on 8th every month, will bring you the latest information on the market dynamics, company dynamics, new biomaterials products, new biomaterials technology development, new legislations as well as policies and raw material supply dynamics, which are shaping the significant market intelligence of the industry.

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Multinational seed companies achieve localization in China


The Chinese version of this paper has been written by Tong Pingya, then translated and edited into English by CCM and issued in CCM’s latest monthly newsletter, Seed China News 1304. Tong Pingya, Researcher in the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has been involved in the scientific study on corn and agricultural development strategy for a long time. With his great experience, Mr. Tong acts as a senior consultant for both government departments and non-government organizations.

With its huge market, China is the second largest consumer of crop seeds, attracting great attention from multinational seed companies. The Chinese seed market has a great potential for commercial interests. Indeed, for multinational seed companies, China is not only a large consumer market, but also an unmatched production base for crop seeds. Entering the Chinese market and developing along with the development of the Chinese seed industry becomes an important strategy for multinational seed companies to achieve a global victory in the intense competition of seed market.

Considering the disparity of culture and values between China and the West, multinational seed companies know well that they have to adopt a localization strategy to settle, develop and expand in China, especially workforce localization. Following the saying "When in Rome, as do as the Romans do", they try to tap into Chinese economy and society as soon as possible in terms of talent training and reserve, from germplasm resources collection to variety breeding, corporate culture to the public welfare, technology transfer from home to R&D in China, etc. With a solid base for the localization in China, multinational seed companies have a clear path to achieve a rapid expansion.

There are generally four major strategies for multinational seed companies to achieve their localization in China.

The first is setting up joint ventures. Multinational seed companies clearly understand that they can't set up a company and dominate the Chinese market by themselves in a short time. Nevertheless, they can do so by cooperating with large seed companies in China. For example, in the 1990s, Monsanto respectively set up joint ventures with local seed companies in Hebei Province and Anhui Province, successfully introducing its Bt cotton variety in China. Some other multinational enterprises like DuPont, Syngenta and KWS followed this kind of strategy and successfully tapped into the Chinese seed market.

The second is setting up R&D bases. Aiming to strengthen technology export and market-oriented R&D, multinational seed companies have built a variety of R&D institutes in China. For example, in Oct. 2008, Syngenta established a biotechnology R&D center in Beijing, China's first agricultural biotechnology research institution set up by foreign capital. Then, in Oct. 2012, Syngenta jointed the Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences to set up an innovation center for natural products in Wuhan City, Hubei Province. Besides, in 2009, Monsanto established a R&D company named Monsanto Biotechnology Research (Beijing) Co., Ltd. The same year, Monsanto started conducting a collaborative research with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in various ways by signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the latter.

The third comes with the employment of senior consultants. This is another crucial step for multinational enterprises to achieve their localization in China though it demands some preparatory work. For example, some multinational seed companies or international consulting institutes provided a financial aid for a number of scientific researchers who went abroad for study or training in the 1980s and 1990s. After returning China, most of these researchers occupied a position in research institutes, universities, associations or even government agencies. Many of them became senior consultants in multinational seed companies, including those who were promoted as academicians or important officials influential in certain field. With the combination of their senior consultants and capital strength, multinational seed companies are likely to influence the Chinese political, economic and scientific decision-making, helping to accelerate their localization in China.

Training professionals is another far-sighted and prepared strategy for multinational seed companies to completely tap into the Chinese market. Since 2000, DuPont has established scholarships in China's key universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, China Agricultural University, etc., with a total annual grant of USD100,000 divided among 2,000 students. In Oct. 2010, with the help of China's Ministry of Agriculture, Monsanto launched the Monsanto Scholarship Program in the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China Agricultural University, Shandong Agricultural University, etc. Monsanto tends to award the outstanding undergraduate and graduated students determined to engage in R&D or industry in agriculture and life sciences' fields. It is worth mentioning that some masters and PhD hold key positions in research institutes and seed companies that had granted them, like Monsanto.

The disorder and underdevelopment of the Chinese seed industry means a great business opportunity for multinational seed companies. Their localization strategy paves the way to their sole proprietorship in the future. Currently, multinational seed companies are still prohibited for sole proprietorship or operation holding in China, but their acceptance is only a matter a time after their localization in the Chinese market. After all, being confident with the Chinese seed market, policy and law, multinational seed companies will transfer their joint ventures into sole proprietorship rather than withdraw their investment,

In the operating strategy, multinational seed companies comply with the Law of Global Chain, namely "customers' following" and "global key accounts". They tend to study seriously the local seed market, sales network, management localization and appropriate partners before expanding their business chains into a country. They won't hesitate to tap into a market when they believe that there is an opportunity with desirable customers or appropriate partners. Therefore, the Chinese seed market is not only facing world-class leading multinational seed companies, but also the huge and effective international industrial chain.

Table contents of Seed China News 1304:
Winall Hi-tech' M&A gets reward in 2012
Seed business of DBN develops stably in 2012
Shandong Denghai performance sees growth in 2012
China's first fund for seed industry set up
Second batch of seed enterprises gain operation license nationwide
Multinational seed companies achieve localization in China
Domestic fresh corn industry under vigorous development
Domestic potato seed companies hard to become bigger
Large grain growers: thriving but in straits
Wang Feng: "Super Rice" subjective gauge rather than objective standard
China's soybean import dramatically reduces in Q1 2013

Seed China News, a monthly publication issued by CCM at the end of every month, mainly covers a diversity of topics, including market dynamic, company dynamic, crops, seed market, etc. With the latest news in seed industry and in-depth analysis on government direction and market competition, Seed China News can provide you with valid information which would help you make rational decisions in investment, production, marketing, etc.

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DuPont offers rewards for protecting its patent insecticides


On 10 April, 2013, Shanghai DuPont Agricultural Chemicals Limited (DuPont) posted a reward announcement. According to the announcement, anyone offering evidence of infringement of its patents for its two major products—chlorantraniliprole and cyantraniliprole—will receive a reward from DuPont, the maximum reward reaching USD24,270 (RMB150,000) per individual. This reveals that DuPont is fighting infringement of its patents on a national scale.

In detail, this reward targets five illegal patent infringement activities: producing and selling fake pesticides under the name of chlorantraniliprole and cyantraniliprole; producing and selling chlorantraniliprole and cyantraniliprole technical (TC); export of the aforementioned products with the name of other chemical products; adding the aforementioned products as recessive ingredients to other insecticides; transporting the aforementioned products.

The announcement does not limit the type of occupations. Anyone (including farmers) discovering evidence of these five illegal activities around the country can call or send a SMS to the hotline of DuPont until 31 May, 2013. The reward value depends on the effect of evidence and the type of case, with a maximum of USD24,270, which is attractive enough to stimulate the public to cooperate with DuPont to crack down on illegal activities and products.

The patent products of DuPont and other international enterprises has been suffering patent infringement in China, as counterfeiting of these patent products and selling other products under their names  generates abundant profits. Chlorantraniliprole and cyantraniliprole are DuPont's core insecticides with valid patent and intellectual property in China and they are also the targets of counterfeiting.

The high profit obtainable and high product awareness have incentivized many domestic producers to illegally produce chlorantraniliprole products, disturbing DuPont legal business operation since it introduced chlorantraniliprole into China in 2008. As revealed by an insider, DuPont discovers more than 60 cases involving infringements of its chlorantraniliprole patent in every province in China annually. Of these, adding chlorantraniliprole or counterfeited chlorantraniliprole into other insecticides as recessive ingredient is the most frequently discovered type of chlorantraniliprole patent infringement case.

Besides, producing chlorantraniliprole TC illegally should not be ignored, as the illegal production of chlorantraniliprole TC is one source of other illegal activities of infringement of patents. For instance, one company namely Nantong Tianye Fine Chemical Co., Ltd. once owned a   chlorantraniliprole TC production line, and sold its chlorantraniliprole in 18 provinces from 2009 to 2010, with a total sales value of USD5.67 million (RMB35 million). It is one of the largest patent infringement cases in China's pesticide industry.

Similarly, cyantraniliprole, a new insecticide registered by DuPont in Sept. 2012 in China, is predicted to face this problem in the process of its promotion in the domestic market. In order to protect legal intellectual property and guarantee normal business operation of the company, DuPont has to pay attention to cracking down on illegal activities involving chlorantraniliprole and cyantraniliprole.

According to an insider, DuPont mainly uses two methods for cracking down on illegal activities. Hiring specific operators to investigate illegal activities which infringe its legal benefits is the major method.

Offering reward is considered another effective method and a supplement for hiring specific operators, as the reward announcement can be spread widely, compared with hiring specific operators. The investigation scale can cover the whole country using people with different occupations such as farmers and couriers, if DuPont strengthens the advertising of the reward. DuPont advertises through specific media, targeting dealers and salesmen in the agrochemical industry. These advertisement targets can provide more accurate evidence as they are familiar with the supply and sales channel in their local regions.

Meanwhile, the reward announcement can also warn infringers. Some infringers who are afraid of becoming involved in lawsuits will probably stop their infringement behaviour, which is also the aim of the reward announcement by DuPont. Obtaining compensation for infringement rights through the court is not DuPont's original purpose.

The reward announcement has had a quick achievement. It is reported that an individual workshop producing counterfeit pesticides with a big output volume was caught in mid-April 2013 by local officials of Yueyang City, Hunan Province, with the assistance of DuPont. It is probably a case of counterfeiting chlorantraniliprole.

Besides DuPont, another agrochemical giant Syngenta has also taken legal action to protect its patent rights. It filed a lawsuit with Shanghai First Intermediate People's Court (Court) against Xiangtan Changsheng Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd. (Xiangtan Changsheng) for infringement of its thiamethoxam patent. Syngenta appealed to the Court for an injunction prohibiting Xiangtan Changsheng from producing, using and selling (including exporting) thiamethoxam and thiamethoxam derivatives which had infringed its patent; meanwhile, Syngenta petitioned the Court to destroy all derivatives of thiamethoxam and thiamethoxam from Xiangtan Changsheng.

The news was sourced from Insecticides China News, issued by CCM in May.

Table of Contents of Insecticides China News 1305:
CCPIA to launch pesticide exhibitions in Ukraine and Myanmar
China's chlorpyrifos witnesses price rebound in 2013
New technology reduces 30% production cost of pyrethrin
Consumption of wheat insecticides in heading stage to decrease this year
Abamectin and fosthiazate to be mainstream nematicides in China
Emamectin benzoate + indoxacarb becomes a hotspot
Jiangsu Huifeng to expand capacity of intermediate of bifenthrin to 2,000t/a
Shandong Rainbow expands insecticide registrations overseas
DuPont offers rewards for protecting its patent insecticides
Nanjing Redsun constructs project of 50,000t/a intermediate for chlorpyrifos
Jiangxi Tianren acquires USD28.5 million investment from IFC
Nantong Changqing to launch 1,000t/a acetamiprid TC project
China's dimethoate export volume & value soared in 2012
Price Update Table

Insecticides China News, a monthly publication issued by CCM on 10th, provides the latest and influential analysis on insecticide industry. Major contents include special report, company dynamics, market dynamics, supply and demand, price analysis, policy, raw material and intermediate.

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China’s Natural Extract Market Endowed with Remarkable Market Potential


As a major supplier of plant extracts in the world, China has more than 2,000 plant extract producers and traders. At present, China's natural extract industry primarily relies on foreign trade—about 80% of the domestic plant extracts is exported every year. However, the sales value is small. What are the reasons for this situation? What are the main barriers to domestic manufacturers’ business development at home and abroad? What is the relevant trend in the overseas market?

On the other hand, the domestic plant extract consumption volume increased with a CAGR of around 10% during 2008–2012. With the emerging new products, there is remarkable market potential, for example, the consumption in the food industry is growing quickly. Why has the food industry grown faster than other traditional downstream industries? Has the Chinese government begun to instruct the plant extract industry to develop new applications? What investment opportunities will emerge in the downstream industries? And how will the future plant extracts market develop in China?

In order to obtain  an overview of China’s natural extract industry and discover more opportunities in the natural extract market, CCM has conducted an in-depth research on China’s natural extract industry—Natural Extract Research in China.

The report has made a survey on China's widely applied plant extracts, namely ginkgo balboa extract, green tea extract, ginseng extract, liquorices extract and honeysuckle extract. The report features the following highlights:

-Overview of the global and domestic natural extract market
-Supply and demand situation of five types of natural extracts in China, 2008–2012
-Import and export situation of natural extracts in China 2008–2012
-Raw materials supply situation and price trend of five types of natural extracts in China
-Technology of natural extract production in China
-Overseas consumption of natural extracts 2008–2012
-Price trend of five natural extracts in China 2008–2012
-Influential factors in the natural extract market in China
-Forecast on the supply and demand of natural extracts in China, 2013–2017

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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Domestic epoxiconazole industry enjoys rapid growth in recent years due to great overseas demand


CCM’s market report, the first edition of Production and Market of Epoxiconazole in China is published in April 2013. Epoxiconazole is a highly effective triazole fungicide widely used to control a variety of crop diseases such as damping off, powdery mildew, and other diseases on grain crops (wheat), economic crops (beet, peanuts), etc. In this updated report, CCM describes the current situation of epoxiconazole industry in China, including capacity, output and key manufacturers of epoxiconazole industry, as well as the overview of the price, export, domestic consumption volume of epoxiconazole industry.

Domestic epoxiconazole capacity has reached 2,200t/a as of March 2013, with the output of about 500 tonnes in 2012. The export volume of epoxiconazole in China has kept increasing since 2010 because of great overseas demand. As for the technical, its export quantity has also increased greatly from 2010 to 2012 with the main destinations including Europe and East Asia. It is predicted that the demand for epoxiconazole in the domestic and overseas markets will increase during 2013–2017.

Production and Market of Epoxiconazole in China covers the situations such as supply & demand, import & export analysis, competitiveness, price update, explaining and forecasting the trends in the future. If you are interested in this report, please feel free to contact us through econtact@cnchemicals.com.

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Flutriafol industry in China is expected to develop rapidly in the next five years


Flutriafol, a triazole fungicide, is used on many different types of plants including crops, fruit, vegetables and turf by foliar spray and used for seed treatment as well. Flutriafol is highly effective against many different fungal diseases, especially powdery mildews, rusts, and many leaf-spotting fungal diseases. Flutriafol is  registered in many countries nowadays.

Production and Market of flutriafol in China is published by CCM in April 2013. This intelligent report introduces the key flutriafol manufacturers’  capacity and output during 2008–2012, as well as the product price, export situation and consumption situation of flutriafol in China; forecasts the development of Chinese flutriafol industry from 2013 to 2017. It offers you the first-hand information about flutriafol market dynamics and in-depth data analysis.

In China, the flutriafol industry grows very slowly in the past. However, domestic flutriafol capacity has reached 2,660t/a as of March 2013, while the output reached about 1,350 tonnes in 2012. The export volume of flutriafol, especially of the technical, has grown significantly from 2010 to 2012. It is predicted that the domestic demand and export volume of flutriafol technical will be expected to increase greatly in the next five years. If you want to know more about flutriafol industry, please contact us.


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CCM anticipate China's TiO2 export volume to increase in 2013


Judging either from the production scale or the actual production output, China’s titanium dioxide has grown significantly in recent years and China has become one of the most important TiO2 producers in the world. CCM’s experts focus closely on China’s TiO2 market and have their unique perspectives about the development of this industry. With professional market investigations and accurate data, CCM will provide the most impartial, reliable and scientific consultancy service.

According to the TiO2 branch of the Chemical Industry Productivity Promotion Centre of China, the 2012 TiO2 output in China was 1.89 million tonnes, a YoY growth of 7.7% compared to the 1.76 million tonnes (after adjustment) in 2011. In 2012, the TiO2 export volume to the US, Brazil, India and the ASEAN-5 were 77,000 tonnes, 63,000 tonnes, 58,000 tonnes and 147,000 tonnes, increasing by 15.29%, 34.97%, 11.99% and 19.84%, respectively, compared to that in 2011. According to World Bank, the global economic growth is expected to come in at a relatively weak 2.4 percent in 2013, which is better than that in 2012. GDP growth in developing countries is projected to rise to 5.5% in 2013, due to improved financial conditions, a relaxation of monetary policy and stronger high income country growth. GDP growth in high income countries is projected to expand a mediocre 1.3%. Growth should begin firming during 2013. As a result, we anticipate China's TiO2 export volume to increase in 2013.

On the other hand, more than half of China's TiO2 is used in the coatings industry. Furthermore, architectural coatings accounts for 30%–40% of total coatings output in China. Architectural coatings consumption depends on the real estate market. After it entered H2 2012, real estate enterprises showed more initiative to stock up land than in H1 2012, indicating real estate enterprises consider 2013 to be more optimistic than 2012. Low interest rates along with fixed asset investment and resurgence of the whole economy will together raise the YoY growth rate of 2013 social construction starts to 8%. The amount invested in the real estate industry in 2013 is projected to rise by 17.5%. With the gradually improving real estate market, architectural coatings demand will likely increase and push up TiO2 consumption. Thus, we expect 2013 TiO2 output to increase by 10%–15%.

Titanium dioxide export analysis published by CCM will provide clients indentify export situation with exclusive research methods, to offer the target products’ export volume, price, time, source/destination countries, specification, application, the information of exporters, manufacturers, etc.,so as to help customers predict the future of TiO2 industry in China and make wise business decision.

About CCM
CCM is dedicated to market research in China, Asia-Pacific Rim and global market. With a staff of more than 150 dedicated highly-educated professionals, CCM offers Market Data, Analysis, Reports, Newsletters, Buyer-Trader Information, Import/Export Analysis, and consultancy service. 

For more information, please visit http://www.cnchemicals.com.

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