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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Further Government Focus on Infant Formula Standards

According to Dairy Products China News issued by CCM in June, On 4 June, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released an Action Plan for Improving the Quality Level of Formula Powder and Enhancing Consumer Confidence (the Plan), aiming to strengthen the competitiveness of domestic infant formula.

The Plan emphasizes several aspects as follows:

• Strengthening internal management procedures: MIIT will organize special inspections to assess the quality and safety of infant formula processors during June- August, aimed at driving them to improve and implement their internal quality and safety management systems, and take measures to improve consumer confidence. For example, they should publicize basic information about their business and make available a contact number for their chief executives on the National Food Industry Enterprise Credit Information Public Service Platform (a website which was launched in September 2011 by the China government to foster greater “integrity” amongst food enterprises). They should also make a public commitment in advertising media that they are working to ensure product quality and safety

• Strengthening management of industry development: the Plan aims to regularize the numerous investments in new plants or in plant refitting/expansion by reviewing these during the year and eliminating projects which are judged to be non-beneficial

• Boosting the industry’s restructure by encouraging M&A to achieve a more concentrated industry which can allocate more funds to R&D, whilst closing down backward production facilities

• Promoting technical renovations of infant formula enterprises to put in place better processes for quality control, safety and health, monitoring and testing of products, and establishing traceability systems

• Improving industrial standards: the government will speed up the formulation or revision of product standards, management and inspection standards, as well as increasing the transparency of the standard formulation process (an aspect which has encouraged no little controversy in the past)

• Strengthening the industry’s public image: in order to increase consumer confidence, infant formula enterprises should organize consumer visits to their plants. The industry association should work to raise awareness of food safety laws and regulations and relevant scientific knowledge, and strengthen the education and training of processors’ staff in terms of professional ethics and know-how

It is estimated that about half of the infant formula brands (both domestic and imported) will be eliminated from the Chinese market, if the Plan is implemented strictly. At present, most Chinese infant formula producers are small-scale. It is reported that overall local sales of infant formula stand at USD9.6 billion/RMB60 billion (USD6.2 billion/RMB38.5 billion in 2012 according to AC Nielsen), and that about USD1.6 billion (RMB10 billion) comprises product from small-scale producers, mostly operating as OEMs. If the Plan succeeds in requiring true traceability systems these products will not survive, opening up the USD1.6 billion (RMB10 billion) segment to national and some 2nd and 3rd tier brands.

However, such a dramatic level of industry restructuring seems ambitious to say the least − what the government wants and what the market provides may prove hard to align. Certainly the Plan represents the continuation of the State Council’s decision making. On 31 May, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang held an executive meeting of the State Council and emphasized that the government will further strengthen the quality and safety supervision of infant formula. This followed the release by the China Dairy Industry Association in April of a report which announced that the quality of domestic infant formula is much higher than that of imported infant formula, while the latter is twice as expensive. Unsurprisingly this prompted a good deal of consumer questioning, as it flew in the face of their perceptions. Whether realistic or not, the Plan does at least set out to address such matters in a more credible fashion.

Table of Contents of Dairy Products China News 1306:

Xinjiang Dairy Expansion Faces Challenges

Dairy Industry Overview, January-April

Further Government Focus on Infant Formula Standards 

Mengniu + Yashili: The Start of China’s Dairy Industry Integration

Mead Johnson Focus On Online Sales

Western Stock Raising Targets Infant Formula Market

Fengxing Dairy Expansion

Yahua Dairy Sets Up JV

Ningbo Dairy Responds to Products Incidents

Chinese Government Supports Milk Production

Mengniu Launches UHT Yoghurt

Bimbosan Introduces Super Premium Formula

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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

in technology

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(Guangzhou China, May 15, 2012)

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MIIT Releases 12th Five-Year Plan for Pesticide Industry

On 3 Feb. 2012, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released the 12th Five-Year (2011-2015) Plan for Pesticide Industry, which mainly focuses on adjusting industrial structure, improving technological innovation capacity, protecting the ecological environment and conserving natural resources, according to CCM International’s February issue of Insecticides China News.

 

In terms of industrial structure adjustment, it's stipulated in the five-year plan that the number of pesticide manufacturers in the country shall be substantially reduced during the period of 12th Five-Year Plan; large and influential manufacturers with various products shall be cultivated by the government.

 

Aiming to optimize the industrial layout, it is proposed in the plan to build three to five chemical industry parks across the country featured by a gathering of pesticide manufacturers, appropriate production scale, fully-equipped supporting facilities and efficient management.

 

Besides, optimizing product structure is also advocated. Efficient and environmentally friendly pesticides safe to use shall be developed with great emphasis. For example, insecticides against key pests, refractory pests, soil pests, nematodes and invasive alien pests shall be vigorously developed and promoted. Furthermore, pesticide formulations developed shall tend to be efficient and safe, such as water-based ones.

 

According to the 12th Five-Year (2011-2015) Plan for Pesticide Industry, 22 kinds of highly toxic pesticides like fenamiphos, fonofos and phosfolan-methyl shall be phased out and banned in batches. Besides, inefficient pesticides and production technology and equipment shall also be gradually eliminated. 

During the period of the 11th Five-Year Plan (2005-2010), China reached new heights in expanding pesticide production scale and optimizing product structure.

 

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, total pesticide output in China amounted to 2.34 million tonnes (100% purity) in 2010, with an  average annual growth rate of 15.3% during the period of the 11th Five-Year Plan.

 

In term of the product structure, the proportion of insecticides in pesticides has declined from 41.8% in 2005 to 31.9% in 2010. With smooth progress in reducing highly toxic pesticides, markedly the ban on five highly toxic organophosphorus kinds (including methamidophos and monocrotophos) for production in 2007, the proportion of highly toxic pesticides in all pesticides also shows a significant downtrend. 

 

During the period of the 11th Five-Year Plan, China also increased investment in R&D of new pesticides and developed 15 efficient varieties with intellectual property rights, including several insecticides such as meperfluthrin and 1-[(6-chloropyridin-3-yl)methyl]-7-methyl-8-nitro-5-propoxy-1,2,3,5,6,7-hexahydroimidazo [1,2-α] pyridine. The consumption of self-developed pesticides in China accounted for nearly 10% of the total of pesticides in 2010, rising from 5% in 2005. 

Before the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China Crop Protection Industry Association (CCPIA) also released the 12th Five-Year Plan for Pesticide Industry on 26 July 2011. Actually, CCPIA's plan is almost an inheritor of the Pesticide Industry Policy released in Sept. 2010, adding some concrete measures for better implementation in practice. Some specific goals are set in CCPIA's plan, aiming to expand industrial scale, concentrate pesticide technical players, improve the international competitiveness of domestic pesticide enterprises etc. 

If the development plans could be smoothly implemented, the whole pesticide industry in China would develop sustainably, with continuous optimization of industrial structure and improvement in enterprises' R&D capacity. Leading pesticide enterprises are believed to benefit a lot from the preferential policies in the long run.

Source: Insecticides China News 1202

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Main content of Insecticides China News 1202:

Five insecticide patents to expire in 2012-2015 

Professional control of pests works well in 2011

MIIT releases 12th Five-Year Plan for Pesticide Industry

Jiangsu Lanfeng merges Taicang Otsuka for carbofulran business

Jiangsu Jiujiujiu's STCP predicted to be well-performing in 2011

Hebei Veyong relocates and upgrades insecticide production lines

Jiangsu Frey to launch thiamethoxam in H2 2013

SYRICI to launch SYP-9080 acting on ryanodine receptors

Insect pests to hit rice and corn fields harder in 2012

Sichuan to face serious damage from major crop pests in 2012

Qingdao Hailier's imidacloprid innovative technology accepted

Jiangsu Flag: second domestic registrant of clothianidin technical in China

Jiangsu Rotam gets first domestic registration of flubendiamide SC (non-repacking)

Raised rice purchase price would promote rice insecticide price

Emamectin benzoate price hits bottom in Feb. 2012

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Entry Criteria for Phosphate and Ammonium Production to be Launched

CCM has launched a newsletter, entitled Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report. One of the news in Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report is that Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is going to promulgate the Entry Criteria for Phosphate and Ammonium Production (the Entry Criteria) in the remainder of 2011.

The factories to remove or new entrants are not allowed to build new wet process phosphoric acid (WPA), monoammonium phosphate (MAP) and diammonium phosphate (DAP) projects or make any expansions within three years, according to the Entry Criteria. Besides, existing compound fertilizer production plants have to relocate if they are located in county-level ecological protection areas, scenic areas, nature reserves, cultural heritage protection areas, etc., The factories to remove or  new entrants should have their own phosphorus ore and sulfur ore resources, fluoride recovering devices and ardealite utilization matching projects.

The Entry Criteria also sets requirements on energy consumption and environmental protection for new entrants and existing companies. The implement of the Entry Criteria will certainly drive companies to pay more attention to phosphorus resource, energy consumption and environmental protection.

By the end of 2010, there were 466 phosphate fertilizer producers in China, with the total production capacity of over 21.00 million tonnes per year and the output of 17.01 million tonnes (100%P2O5) in 2010, while the apparent consumption volume was only 14.75 million tonnes (100%P2O5). That is to say, China's phosphate fertilizer industry is facing overcapacity.

The most important is that many phosphate fertilizer producers that have to relocate their plants have no phosphorus ore resource of their own. To sustain long-term development, phosphate fertilizer producers will pay more attention to phosphorus ore resource.

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(Guangzhou China, September 28, 2011)

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Phosphorus Ore Resource Draws Wide Attention

China Agriculture Investment Bimonthly Report is a bimonthly newsletter that CCM newly-released recently. The newsletter indicates that phosphorus ore resource draws phosphate fertilizer producers' wide attention.

With the exhausting phosphorus ore resource, phosphate fertilizer producers are to acquire phosphorus ore resource to sustain long-term development, driven by the strict entry criteria for phosphate and ammonium production.

China is the second largest phosphorus ore reserves country in the world, only next to Morocco. Among the proven phosphorus ore reserves of 16.786 billion tonnes, only about 4.1 billion tonnes with actual economic value can be exploited technically in China, capturing 24% of the total reserves. In addition, only 52% of China's phosphorus ore reserves with actual economic value can be exploited under current technology.

China exploited 68.07 million tonnes of phosphorus ore in 2010, increasing by 18.5% over last year, but China totally consumed 67.17 million tonnes of phosphorus ore in the same year, soaring by 17.2% year on year.

Driven by the soaring demand and exhausting resource, phosphorus ore price has seen an uptrend with fluctuation during 2008 to 2010, which brought many risks to phosphate fertilizer producers. And only the phosphate fertilizer producers holding ample phosphorus ore resource can avoid the risk of phosphorus ore price fluctuation.

Besides being beneficial for long-term development, phosphorus ore resource is essential for factory removal and new entrants. On March 25, 2011, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) promulgated the exposure draft of the Entry Criteria for Phosphate and Ammonium Production (the Entry Criteria), which requires that the factories to remove and new entrants should have their own phosphorus ore and sulfur ore resources. According to the Entry

Criteria, in principle, the factories to remove and new entrants are not allowed to build new wet process phosphoric acid (WPA), monoammonium phosphate (MAP) and diammonium phosphate (DAP) projects or expansions within three years.

Besides, if the existing compound fertilizer production plants are located in county-level ecological protection areas, scenic areas, nature reserves, cultural heritage protection areas, etc., they have to relocate. By the end of 2010, there were 466 phosphate fertilizer producers in China, with the total production capacity of over 21.00 million tonnes per year and the output of 17.01 million tonnes (100%P2O5) in 2010; while the apparent consumption volume was only 14.75 million tonnes (100%P2O5). That is to say, China's phosphate fertilizer industry is facing overcapacity. The most important is that many phosphate fertilizer producers that have to relocate their plants have no phosphorus ore resource of their own. To sustain long-term development, phosphate fertilizer producers will pay more attention to phosphorus ore resource.

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 (Guangzhou China, September 27, 2011)

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MIIT to Promulgate Entry Criteria for Phosphate and Ammonium Production

In the remainder of 2011, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is to promulgate the Entry Criteria for Phosphate and Ammonium Production (the Entry Criteria), according to CCM’s first issue of Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report.

On March 25th, 2011, MIIT promulgated the exposure draft of the Entry Criteria and stopped asking for opinions on April 30, 2011.

According to the Entry Criteria, in principle, the factories to remove and new entrants are not allowed to build new wet process phosphoric acid (WPA), monoammonium phosphate (MAP) and diammonium phosphate (DAP) projects or expansions within three years. Besides, if the existing compound fertilizer production plants are located in county-level ecological protection areas, scenic areas, nature reserves, cultural heritage protection areas, etc., they have to relocate. The factories to remove and new entrants should have their own phosphorus ore and sulfur ore resources, fluoride recovering devices and ardealite utilization matching projects.

Besides the requirements on plant distribution and matching devices, the Entry Criteria also sets requirements on energy consumption and environmental protection for new entrants and existing companies. The implement of the Entry Criteria will certainly drive companies pay more attention to phosphorus resource, energy consumption and environmental protection.

By the end of 2010, there were 466 phosphate fertilizer producers in China, with the total production capacity of over 21.00 million tonnes per year and the output of 17.01 million tonnes (100%P2O5) in 2010; while the apparent consumption volume was only 14.75 million tonnes (100%P2O5). That is to say, China's phosphate fertilizer industry is facing overcapacity.

The most important is that many phosphate fertilizer producers that have to relocate their plants have no phosphorus ore resource of their own. To sustain longterm development, phosphate fertilizer producers will pay more attention to phosphorus ore resource.

(Guangzhou China, August 24, 2011)

Source: Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report

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Content of Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report 1108:

MIIT to promulgate Entry Criteria for Phosphate and Ammonium Production

Yellow phosphorus export still sluggish without special export tariff

NDRC regulates phosphate industry development

China continues to eliminate yellow phosphorus inefficient production capacity

Import & export analysis of some phosphate chemicals

Phosphate fertilizer industry to see industrial integration

China encourages low grade phosphorus ore exploitation

Leibo County strengthens phosphorus chemical industry development

Wengfu extends product portfolio

Hubei Xingfa cooperates with Dequest to develop phosphate chemicals

Large phosphorus ore exploiters benefit from policy switch

Price monitor of some phosphate chemicals

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