MIIT begins accepting applications for enterprises to become qualified yellow phosphorus enterprises

According to Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report 1309 issued by CCM, On Aug. 12, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of People's Republic of China (MIIT) began accepting applications for enterprises to become qualified yellow phosphorus enterprises. The Entry Criteria for Yellow Phosphorus has been in operation since Jan. 1, 2009, and is aimed at obsoleting backwards production technologies and methods, promoting the transformation and upgrading of the domestic yellow phosphorus industry and optimising the distribution of resources. Enterprises must meet the requirements stipulated in the Entry Criteria for Yellow Phosphorus in order to become qualified yellow phosphorus enterprises.  

On Nov. 19, 2012, 36 domestic yellow phosphorus manufacturers were listed as the first group of qualified yellow phosphorus enterprises. They will be continuously monitored as stated in the recent announcement of MIIT. (for more details about the Entry Criteria for Yellow Phosphorus, please refer to P3, Issue 12, Vol. 2: Producers meeting Entry Criteria for Yellow Phosphorus decrease to 36) 

In recent years, some yellow phosphorus manufacturers have made considerable progress and achievements on energy conservation and clean production. These goals are emphasized in the Entry Criteria for Yellow Phosphorus. Professional energy-saving service companies have also played a part in this process.

On May 28, Baokang Chufeng Chemical Co., Ltd. (Baokang Chufeng Chemical), a subsidiary of Xingfa Group, completed its Waste Heat Utilization and Motor System Energy Saving Renovation Project. As a result of this project, Baokang Chufeng Chemical's energy consumption per RMB10,000 output value dropped by 28.2%.

Also, Datang Shidai Energy Conservation Technology Co., Ltd. (Datang Shidai Energy Conservation) obtained three patents on yellow phosphorus exhaust treatment and electricity generation in early August. The three patents are: the "Yellow Phosphorus Exhaust Treatment Purification and Electricity Generation", which uses combustible gases such as carbon monoxide, hydrogen and methane in yellow phosphorus exhausts to generate electricity; the "Purification Device of Yellow Phosphorus Exhausts"; the "Deep Purification Device of Yellow Phosphorus Exhausts".

Both the Purification Device of Yellow Phosphorus Exhausts and the Deep Purification Device of Yellow Phosphorus Exhausts clean the exhausts with the processing methods of alkali wash and water wash in order to eliminate corrosive substances such as dust, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, phosphorus and fluorine. There is no doubt that these patents will bring Datang Shidai Energy Conservation significant economical, social and environmental benefits. 

The overcapacity of low-purity yellow phosphorus and the shortage of high-purity yellow phosphorus are other major issues that should also be addressed. Yellow phosphorus is an important basic raw material for the fine phosphorus industry. The demand for high-purity yellow phosphorus is growing as a result of the increasing consumption of China's electronic grade phosphoric acid. Methods to address these issues include providing more subsidies or other preferential policies to help accelerate the development of China's high-purity yellow phosphorus and fine phosphorus chemical industries.

Table of Contents of Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report 1309:

Editor's Note

Phosphorus Ore

Hubei Province to upgrade its phosphorus industry and tidy the tax on phosphorus ore resources

Yellow Phosphorus

MIIT begins accepting applications for enterprises to become qualified yellow phosphorus enterprises

Phosphate Fertilizer

China's sulphur market is in deep trouble primarily due to the sluggish downstream phosphate fertilizer industry

Fanjie Tech achieves a breakthrough in fully utilizing phosphogypsum

Domestic phosphate fertilizer manufacturers call for more flexible export policy

Fine Phosphate Chemicals

Blue Sky Chemical to develop capacitor grade phosphoric acid and red phosphorus flame retardant

Jinning Fine Phosphorus Chemical Industrial Base approved as Late-model Industrialization Demonstration Base

Global Insight

Global phosphate fertilizer market folded by dark clouds as Indian Rupee continues depreciating and downstream demand remains sluggish

Brief News

Tianyuan and Annada to co-found a firm to produce iron phosphate

Hubei Xingfa and Wengfu Group affirmed as cleaner production demonstration enterprises

Supply & Demand

Market review of prime phosphate chemicals in Aug. 2013

Import & Export

International trade of phosphate chemicals in July 2013

Price Update

Price monitoring of some phosphate chemicals in Aug. 2013

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Yellow phosphorus producers meet the requirement of Entry Criteria for yellow phosphorus

The capacity owned by the 36 qualified yellow phosphorus producers has approached half of China's total manufacturing capacity and can completely meet domestic consumption. These advantages have left the 36 qualified producers with potential ability on expanding their market share, especially in face of those low-efficiency competitors.

By now, numerous yellow phosphorus production facilities owned by 72 unqualified yellow phosphorus producers in China, who hold the rest half capacity, haven't reached the energy performance standards set by the Entry Criteria. It's obvious that the 72 unqualified producers running in quite a small scale might be unable to afford additional costs for improving their inefficient facilities.

Take Yunnan Province for example, 47 yellow phosphorus producers are located there, while only 18 of them have met the Entry Criteria. In addition, the 18 qualified producers account for 63.46% of local output of yellow phosphorus, amounting to 267,000 tonnes in 2010. For the unqualified yellow phosphorus producers there, they either improve their production facilities to meet the requirements of the Entry Criteria, or quit yellow phosphorus business under the squeeze from stronger competitors.

Therefore, it can be forecast that China would be likely to see a reshaping in yellow phosphorus market in the next three or five years—due to market evolution and Chinese government's guidance.

Though there's no change in the Entry Criteria for Yellow Phosphorus (Entry Criteria), the number of qualified enterprises in China has decreased instead. High cost of maintaining green production of yellow phosphorus might be the major contributor to producers' failure to meet the Entry Criteria.

On Nov. 19th, 2012, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued the 2012 version of the list regarding qualified enterprises meeting the Entry Criteria. Compared with the previous public supervision version (details about the previous 2011 version see page 5, issue 1 Vol.1: 1st batch of enterprises meeting Entry Criteria for Yellow Phosphorus finally issued), the number of qualified enterprises had decreased from 45 to 36 in the 2012 version.  

Overall, the 36 qualified yellow phosphorus producers represented a group with stronger competitiveness in China's yellow phosphorus market.

On one side, the 36 producers are eligible for enjoying preferential policies which could be conductive to saving production cost for them. In accordance with the Interim Measures on Management of Yellow Phosphorus Producers (Interim Measures), these qualified enterprises could apply for preferential electricity price and enjoy a favorable enterprise income tax.

On the other side, the 36 qualified enterprises hold higher efficiency in production compared with those 72 unqualified producers who even failed to meet the standards listed in the Entry Criteria. It's known that the Entry Criteria has specified various process parameters for advanced production of yellow phosphorus, such as consumption limits on feedstock (including phosphorus ore and electricity), design capacity for yellow phosphorus production equipment, limits on the level of pollution, etc.

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MIIT to Further Standardize Existing Ammonium Phosphate Producers

In order to completely carry out the previously announced Entry Criteria for Ammonium Phosphate Industry (Entry Criteria) (the details see page 4 issue 1 Vol. 1: MIIT to promulgate Entry Criteria for Phosphate and Ammonium Production), China’s Ministry of Industrial and Information Technology (MIIT) issued Interim Measures of Entry Criteria for Ammonium Phosphate Industry (Interim Measures) on April 18th, 2012, according to CCM International’s May issue of Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report.

 

In accordance with the Interim Measures, provincial and municipal branches of MIIT are to pick out the qualified producers (in line with the criterion listed in Entry Criteria) among the local existing ammonium phosphate producers. Then a list of qualified ammonium phosphate producers will be published on the MIIT's official website. In addition, the list will be updated yearly mainly through reviewing the producers of the list and accepting new producers who live up to Entry Criteria.

For those producers failing to be included in the list, it'll become difficult for them to apply for loans from banks, obtain import and export qualification certificates from Ministry of Commerce, and even acquire sufficient electricity to satisfy production needs. Nonetheless, these unqualified producers can apply for entering this list next year as this list is updated yearly.

 

Obviously, the Interim Measures will drive ammonium phosphate producers to innovate their existing ammonium phosphate facility in line with the Entry Criteria. If ammonium phosphate producers still fail to meet the Entry Criteria at the end of 2013, they will be incapable of maintaining stable production.

In short, the Interim Measures will further promote energy saving and emission reduction and eliminate backward production capacity of phosphate fertilizer. Besides, along with the high cost of entry, it will also accelerate the integration in phosphate fertilizer industry.

Source: Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report 1205

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Content of Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report 1205:

Phosphorus Ore

Company Dynamics: Replacement of cooperator promotes asset injection scheme of Hubei Xingfa 

Industry Dynamics: Phosphorus ore moves closer to be feedstock of hydrogen fluoride 

Policy & Legislation: Five new measures to further regulate phosphorus resources exploitation

Company Dynamics: Kailin Group preparing for expansion of phosphorus ore capacity

Yellow Phosphorus

New Application: Yellow phosphorus off-gas to show huge economic value

Phosphate Fertilizer

New Application: Phosphogypsum expected to be applied as soil conditioner in China

Company Dynamics: Kingenta’s foreignshare holders to cash in stocks

Policy & Legislation: MIIT to further standardize existing ammonium phosphate producers

Fine Phosphate Chemical

Industry Dynamics: Booming semiconductor industry expect to drive high purity phosphoric acid

Industry Dynamics: Phosphorus chemicals alliance set up for making a breakthrough

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(Guangzhou China, May 15, 2012)

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China Restricts Inorganic Fluoride Development by Rising Entry Criteria

China's government raised the entry criteria to guide the development of inorganic fluoride industry, according to CCM’s January Issue of China Fluoride Materials Monthly Report.

On February 14th, 2011, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the P.R.C. (MIIT) promulgated the Entry Criteria for Hydrogen Fluoride (HF) Industry (the Entry Criteria) which aims to restrict the blind expansion of HF.

The Entry Criteria sets up regulations in industry distribution, scale, technology& equipment, energy saving and comprehensive utilization of resources, environmental protection, product quality, etc.

According to the Entry Criteria, in principle, it is not allowed to set up new plant or expand the existing scale, except the development and production of specialty high grade products for high purity and ultra-clean electronics industry and the raw material for the utilization of enterprises themselves. Regarding to the new plants, the production capacity shall not be less than 50,000t/a and the single set device capacity shall not be less than 20,000t/a.

Besides, the new plants must have matching devices for waste treatment.

Regarding to energy saving and comprehensive utilization of resources, it requests that in producing one tonne of HF, fluorite (CaF2>97%) shall be no more than 2.25 tonnes; integrated water consumption shall not exceed one tonne; the average annual overall energy consumption of coal shall not be more than 450 kg. Meanwhile, HF production enterprises shall develop circular economy, improving the comprehensive utilization of energy, echelon fluorite and fluorine gypsum slag. The content of calcium sulfate in gypsum slag containing fluoride shall not be less than 90%, with the calcium fluoride content of no more than 2%, and the sulfuric acid content shall not exceed 0.5%, with the comprehensive utilization rate of over 90% (including commission processing and utilization of long-term contracts). The existing manufacturers which can not meet these requirements must be shut down.

Moreover, the Entry Criteria also regulates that fluorite enterprises can not sell fluorite to the HF producers which can not meet the Entry Criteria. Meanwhile, the HF producers can not purchase fluorite from the fluorite enterprises which can not meet the Entry Criteria for Fluorite which came into effective in Mar. 2010.

Apart from the Entry Criteria, the Guided Catalogue for Industrial Structure Adjustment (2011)(Guidance Catalog), which was promulgated by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in March 2011, also restricts the development of inorganic fluoride chemicals, including HF and AlF3.

According to the Guidance Catalog, new HF plant and AlF3 production lines with single line production capacity of lower than 20,000t/a are restricted. And HF and AlF3 with the production capacity of lower than 5,000t/a shall be shut down.

China is the biggest producer of HF in the world. There are about 50 HF manufacturers in China. Among these producers, 40 have the production capacity of over 10,000t/a, and 10 have capacity of over 30,000t/a. The total domestic capacity of hydrogen fluoride is about 1,253,000t/a in 2010.

Source: China Fluoride Materials Monthly Report 1201

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Main content of China Fluoride Materials Monthly Report 1201:

Fluorite resource attracts more investment

China continues to revoke export quota system for fluorite ore in 2012

Phosphorus-fluorine integrated industry to benefit fluorine industry

China to completely eliminate HCFCs by 2030

Shanghai 3F benefits from capacity expansion and price raising

China's global market share for AlF3 shrinks in 2010-2011

China restricts inorganic fluoride development by rising entry criteria

India extends anti-dumping duty on China's PTFE for five years

China's fluoropolymer industry attracts more foreign investment

Zhejiang Juhua to extend fluoride product portfolio

Fluoride fine chemical production booming in Fuxin, Liaoning

LiPF6 production to boom in China

China still a net exporter of fluoride chemicals

Prices of fluoride materials drop in November

China Fluoride Materials Monthly Report, a monthly publication issued by CCM International on 20th of every month, covers the sectors on policy & legislation, company dynamic, supply & demand, price update, etc. of China’s fluoride material market. It will help you follow the dynamic throughout the whole value chain immediately.

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China Continues to Eliminate Yellow Phosphorus Inefficient Production Capacity

China will continue to eliminate yellow phosphorus inefficient capacity in 2011, which helps to upgrade domestic yellow phosphorus industry, according to CCM’s newly-released Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report.

In May 2011, Guizhou and Sichuan Province announced their goals of eliminating inefficient capacity of yellow phosphorus in 2011. According to the announcement, the two provinces are to eliminate yellow phosphorus production capacity of 59,500 tonnes and 10,000 tonnes respectively.

To restrict its chaotic development of yellow phosphorus in China, the government has announced the Entry Criteria for the industry in January 2009. In the past five years, Yunnan Province, the largest production area of yellow phosphorus in China, has eliminated 220,000 tonnes of yellow phosphorus inefficient production capacity.

The government has been eliminating the inefficient yellow phosphorus production capacity, which will not affect the supply of yellow phosphorus. In contrast, the elimination helps to upgrade domestic yellow phosphorus industry. By the end of 2010, China's total production capacity of yellow phosphorus still had reached about 2,000,000t/a, with the output of 957,994 tonnes in 2010.

In 2011, some yellow phosphorus producers in Yunnan, Guizhou and Hubei Province are going to launch new yellow phosphorus production lines, with total capacity of 108,500t/a which exceeds the eliminating capacity. Meanwhile, the transformer capacity of unit furnace of these new production lines are all above 20,000KVA (convert into production capacity 10,000t/a), required by the Entry Criteria.

Source: Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report

The following highlights are covered in the first issue of Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report:

-China encourages low grade phosphorus ore exploitation.

-Large phosphorus ore exploiters are benefited from policy switch.

-Yellow phosphorus export is still sluggish without special export tariff.

-China continues to eliminate yellow phosphorus inefficient production capacity in 2011.

-MIIT is to promulgate Entry Criteria for Phosphate and Ammonium Production in 2011.

-Phosphate fertilizer industry is to see industrial integration, with the regulation of the Development Plan of Phosphate Fertilizer Industry.

-Enjoying rich phosphorus reserve, Leibo County strengthens phosphorus chemical industry development.

-NDRC regulates the development of phosphate industry in Guiding Catalog of Industrial Structure Adjustment (2011 edition).

-WengFu Group extends its product portfolio by cooperating with Onoda Chemical.

-Hubei Xingfa cooperates with Dequest to develop phosphate chemicals.

-Phosphorus ore and yellow phosphorus see decreased export volume with soaring prices.

-Prices of phosphate chemicals keep stable in August while see uptrend in the coming months.

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(Guangzhou China, August 30, 2011)

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