Friday, September 30, 2011

Wengfu Extends Product Portfolio to improve Competitiveness

CCM’s Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report indicates that WengFu Group extends its product portfolio by cooperating with Onoda Chemical.

WengFu Group, a leading phosphorus chemical company in China, is extending its product portfolio, which is helpful to consolidate its competitiveness.

On July 14th, 2011, Wengfu Onoda Chemical Co., Ltd. (Wengfu Onoda), a joint venture of WengFu Group and Japan's Onoda Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (Onoda Chemical), was founded in Weng'an County, Guizhou Province. Wengfu Onoda is to produce feed grade tricalcium phosphate (TCP), with designed production capacity of 50,000t/a which is the largest capacity of its kind in China. It is win-win cooperation between WengFu Group and Onoda Chemical.

Through introducing technology to Wengfu Onoda by Onoda Chemical, WengFu Group is to get involve in feed grade TCP production. Meanwhile, Onoda Chemical's existing sales channel will help WengFu Group to enlarge its market share in international market. Based in Japan, Onoda Chemical produces chemical fertilizers, scientific feed, cryolite, sodium fluoride, sodium bifluoride, calcium silicate, feed grade tricalcium phosphate, etc.

In contrast, ample phosphorous resources of WengFu Group can provide resource for Onoda Chemical's development. At the moment, WengFu Group has phosphorus ore exploitation capacity of 4.5 million tonnes annually. Besides extending feed grade phosphate product portfolio, WengFu Group also extends its nonphosphate chemical product portfolio. On July 13th, 2011, Wengfu-Dazhou Chemical Inudstry Co., Ltd. (Wengfu-Dazhou), a subsidiary of WengFu Group in Sichuan Province, started trial production for DAP (diammonium phosphate ).

In the coming future, Wengfu-Dazhou will get involve in fluorine chemical and iodine production. Early in Dec. 2010, Guizhou Tianfu Chemical Co., Ltd., WengFu Group's another subsidiary, successfully produced the products based on coal, such as ammonia, methanol and methyl ether, etc. In 2010, WengFu Group was listed the 24th among China's Top 500 Chemical Companies. With the extension of product portfolio, WengFu Group will consolidate its position and competitiveness.

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(Guangzhou China, September 27, 2011)


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Phosphate Fertilizer Industry to See Industrial Integration

CCM’s Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report indicates that phosphate fertilizer industry is to see industrial integration.

In June 2011, China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation (CPCIF) released the Development Plan of Phosphate Fertilizer Industry (the Plan) in the12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015). The Plan indicates that China's phosphate fertilizer industry will focus on integrated production in the coming years.

CPCIF has set five development targets in the Plan, including:
-- Control the incremental production capacity at 2.5 million tonnes and eliminate 1.0 million tonnes inefficient capacity by 2015;
-- Make the top 10 producers holding 60% output volume share and reduce the number of phosphate fertilizer producer assorting phosphate acid production capacity from 90 to 50;
-- Increase the research & development investment to 3% of the sales income;
-- Substitute 1.5 million tonnes production capacity of thermal process phosphate acid by that of wet process phosphate acid purification;
-- Raise the national recycle rate of phosphate sum to 40%. CPCIF suggests China's phosphate fertilizer industry taking measures to achieve the targets mentioned above.

The measures include:
-- Control the total production capacity of phosphate fertilizer;
-- Raise the utilizing rate of low grade phosphorus ore;
-- Strengthen innovation on developing control release fertilizers and other specialty fertilizers, etc.
-- Raise the level of industry concentration through optimizing resource allocation, mergers and acquisitions;
-- Encourage companies to develop phosphate chemicals or phosphate fertilizer industries abroad, etc.

Phosphorus ore, the most important raw material of phosphate fertilizer, will draw more and more attentions, with the rising price and exhausting reserve. As a result, the companies holding ample phosphorus ore reserve will be the principal companies in the further mergers and acquisitions. Meanwhile, state-owned companies will be the merging sides as they are the main phosphorus ore resource holders at the moment.

Take China BlueChemical Ltd. (CBC) for example. As a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), CBC got involved in phosphate fertilizer production in 2009 through acquiring Hubei Dayukou Chemical Co., Ltd. and ZHJ Mining Company Limited.

In the coming years, CBC is to seek merger and acquisition opportunities that match its development strategies both in China and overseas. CBC aims to become the largest chemical fertilizer manufacturer and the most effective resource-processing enterprise in domestic chemical industry, and it has also geared up for competing in the international market.

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(Guangzhou China, September 26, 2011)


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Leibo County Strengthens Phosphorus Chemical Industry Development

CCM’s Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report indicates that enjoying rich phosphorus reserve, Leibo County strengthens phosphorus chemical industry development.

Enjoying ample phosphorus resource reserve, Leibo County in Sichuan Province is boosting its phosphorus industry.

Located in Sichuan Province, Leibo County holds over 4,400 million tonnes phosphorus proved reserves (P2O5 25-35%) which is one of eight rich phosphate areas in China. Though Leibo County enjoys ample phosphorus reserves, it was exploited until the end of 2008. With the soaring price of phosphorus ore and the optimizing infrastructure projects, Leibo County attracted three investors during the 9th Western China International Fair in Oct. 2008, with the total investment of USD536.43 million.

Since then, phosphorus industry developed fast in Leibo County. In 2010, Leibo County sold over 1.30 million tonnes phosphorus ore. Meanwhile, Sichuan Leibo Yangfeng Fertilizer Co., Ltd., one of the third phosphate chemical producers in Leibo County produced over 200,000 tonnes ammonium phosphate chemical in 2010. After the three investors completed their investment plan, Leibo County will become an important phosphate chemical production base in Southwest China.

In the 12th Five-Year-Plan (2011-2015), Leibo County will further strengthen its phosphorus industry. According to the development plan, Leibo County aims to set up a comprehensive phosphate chemical production base in the next five years, including 3 million tonnes phosphorus ore flotation, 2 million tonnes phosphate fertilizer and 100,000 to 200,000 tonnes yellow  phosphorus, as well as one million tonnes fine phosphate chemicals, etc. projects.

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(Guangzhou China, September 27, 2011)


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Integration of Phosphorus Industry Seems Inevitable in Future

CCM’s September issue of Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report has come out recently, indicating integration of phosphorus industry seems inevitable in future.

Guided by the government, yellow phosphorus industry tends to develop clean production technology, which is in favor of fulfilling environmentally friendly and sustainable development and keeps in line with the 12th Five-Year Plan in China.

In the whole phosphorus industry chains both in domestic and abroad, it sees the booming upstream industry. More and more phosphate enterprises energetically expand upstream industry and improve the structure of its phosphate industry. Integration of phosphorus industry seems inevitable in future.

Generally speaking, the development of phosphorus industry is expected to evolve towards policy-orientation and market-orientation in China.

Meanwhile, integration and snatch of phosphorus are also happening in the global. Even under the depressed global economic situation, some of phosphate fertilizer enterprises are still optimistic about the future of  phosphorus industry especially for the upstream. It predicts that this condition will last for some time.

Phosphorus ore
-Global Insight: Investment on phosphorus ore upsurging worldwide
-Industry Dynamic: Phosphorus-fluorine integrated industry emerging in China 
-Company Dynamic: Hubei Yihua strengthens phosphorus ore exploitation
Yellow phosphorus
-Global Insight: World less depends on China's yellow phosphorus
-Policy & Legislation: China's yellow phosphorus industry to promote clean production technology 
Phosphate fertilizer
-Policy & Legislation: Export tariff curbs urea and DAP export in H1 2011
-Global Insight: Brazil's phosphate fertilizer industry attracts investment
-Company Dynamic: Shandong Kingenta to develop phosphate chemicals in Weng'An County
Fine phosphate chemicals
-Company Dynamic: Double Dragons to develop TCP
-Company Dynamic: Yoke Technology accelerates upstream extension 
Import & export
-International trade situation of phosphate chemicals in July
Price Update
-Price monitor of some phosphate chemicals in August

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(Guangzhou China, September 26, 2011)


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China Encourages Low Grade Phosphorus Ore Exploitation

CCM’s Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report indicates that China encourages low grade phosphorus ore exploitation.

China will strengthen phosphorus ore resource exploitation in the coming years and the low grade phosphorus ore exploitation is encouraged.

According to the Development Plan of Chemical Mining Industry (the Plan), released by China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation (CPCIF) in June 2011, China will focus on the exploitation of phosphorus, sulfur and potassium resources in the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015).

The Plan indicates that China aims to realize phosphorus ore self-sufficiency by achieving annual output of 75 million tonnes by 2015. To achieve the target, CPCIF suggests rising the utilization rate of phosphorus resource by means of levying lower resource tax to encourage the exploitation of low grade phosphorus ore and raising the entry criteria of phosphorus ore exploitation on scale. Meanwhile, it suggests Chinese government perfecting phosphorus resource reserving mechanism to protect phosphorus resource.

In H1 2011, China totally exploited 36.78 million tonnes phosphorus ore, increasing by 25.5% year on year. Hubei, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan are the main production areas. According to the announcement of the Sate Council in June 2011, the Sate Council will continue to encourage phosphorus resource exploitation in Yichuan of Hubei Province, the middle part of Yunnan Province and Kaiyang of Guizhou Province to develop local phosphorus chemical industry and set up phosphorus chemical bases.

Besides levying lower resource tax, the government also directly rewarded companies on encouraging low grade phosphorus ore exploitation. In Feb. 2011, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Land and Resource jointly rewarded USD1.55 million (RMB10 million) to Hubei Dayukou Chemical Co., Ltd. which has made great progress in exploiting and utilizing low grade phosphorus ore.

Moreover, government will continue to implement phosphorus ore export quote system in the coming years to protect phosphorus resource and to realize phosphorus industry sustainable development in China.

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(Guangzhou China, September 26, 2011)


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Taurine Industry in China is Flourishing

CCM has published a new report entitled Production and Market of Taurine in China, indicating that the domestic demand of taurine as well as overseas demand is thriving with the increasing recognition of nutrition enhancer. The domestic market is of great potential while overseas market is still an important motive force for the development of China’s taurine industry.

The report aims to give you a comprehensive perspective on China’s taurine industry, from aspects of production situation, price, consumption pattern and future forecast.

Taurine is popular in developed countries for its indispensable role in strengthening nutrition. Driven by the increasing demand, taurine industry in China has kept developing in recent years, posting an increase of 27,639 tonnes in output with a CAGR of 36.1% from 2008 to 2010.

Taurine is an export-oriented product in China—almost 90% of the global taurine is produced by China, which is mainly exported to the US, Europe and Japan. During 2008 and 2010, China's export volume of taurine has been increasing quickly with a CARG of 36.6%.

Moreover, the apparent consumption of taurine in China has been increasing rapidly in recent years for the surging demand from domestic market, especially the food and beverage industry. It can be estimated that the taurine industry in China will keep flourishing.

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(Guangzhou China, September 27, 2011)


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Rising Stevia Sweetener Production in China

As a natural kind of high intensity sweetener (HIS), the usage of stevia sweetener has been approved by more and more countries and it has been becoming more and more popular in overseas market, according to CCM’s Sweeterner China News.

The booming domestic production is mainly driven by the rising demand from foreign countries. Nowadays, foreigners prefer natural food additives to artificial ones. The US, Japan and South Korea are the most important stevia sweetener markets in the world. China's stevia sweetener is mainly exported to neighboring countries and North America in the past three years. Malaysia, the US, Mexico, South Korea and Japan are the most important export destinations of China's stevia sweetener.

China is the largest stevia sweetener supplier in the world, and around 80% of its total output of stevia sweetener is sold to overseas market. From 2006 to 2010, the capacity of stevia sweetener has increased from 5,160t/a to 13,475t/a with a CAGR of 27.12%.

China's stevia sweetener production is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi Province and Shandong Province. There are mainly 25 active stevia sweetener producers in China by now. PureCircle (Jiangxi) Co., Ltd. is the biggest one, whose capacity and output reached 4,000t/a and 1,400 tonnes in 2010, accounting for 29.68% and 35.80% of the total domestic capacity and output of stevia sweetener respectively.

The above is extracted from CCM’s Sweeterner China News. You will find more sweeteners in it, including the latest information on new market dynamics, company dynamics, new sweetener products and downstream consumption trend, new legislations and policies and raw material supply dynamics.

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 (Guangzhou China, September 27, 2011)


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Friday, September 23, 2011

Promising Future of Modified Starch in China

At present, modified starch industry in China situates in a growing stage; it's believed that there's still plenty of room for its further development, according to CCM’s September issue of Corn Products China News.

China's total output of modified starch reached about 1.24 million tonnes in 2010, realizing a 17.4% year-on-year growth. Paper industry and food industry are still the top two largest downstream markets of modified starch in China in 2010 and 2011.

In fact, modified starch industry in China is still not fully developed yet, with a promising future laying ahead. Statistics show that the per-capita consumption volume of modified starch in China was only 1 kg in 2010, while it averaged out at 1.2 kg all over the world, and that of the US reached 10 kg. Thus, the industry in China has great room for development.

Besides, the first national standard for modified food starch will be published in the future, which can promote the further fast development of modified food starch industry.

For the further development of domestic modified starch industry, producers should pay much attention to the development of  proper varieties and expansion of product mix so as to enter a new market and cater to specific demand from customers. Domestic producers should also improve R&D capability so that modified starch industry in China can develop better and faster.

-China's corn starch industry puts on good performance in H1 2011, with some major producers' -gross profit margins seeing a slight increase over H1 2010.
-Output of modified starch in China witnessed a 17.4% increase in 2010 over 2009.
-Both China's import and export volume of corn products witnessed an uptrend in July 2011, especially the former one with a 1,035% rise over the previous month.
-Domestic price of citric acid has witnessed a downtrend since July 2011 due to sluggish demand from export.
-China's average price of lysine remains high and stable in Sept. thanks to booming market demand.
-Technical Specifications for Treatment of Monosodium Glutamate Industrial Wastewater (draft) will be issued in the near future, which can further increase the industry concentration.
-Global Bio-chem puts on great performance in H1 2011, posting a gross profit margin increased to 24% from 16% in H1 2010.
-Despite the slight year-on-year decline in gross profit margin in H1, Fufeng Group is hopefully puts on great performance this year.
-Northeast Pharmaceutical changes its pricing benchmark of raising non-public offering of stock to 3 Sept. 2011 from 22 June 2011 due to its bad performance in H1 2011.
-Global Sweeteners decides to carry out capacity expansion during 2011 and 2013, covering corn starch, HFCS, crystalline glucose and maltodextrin.
-DDGS price in China stays at a high level in Sept. and it may continue in the near future.
-Corn output in 2011 is expected to witness a rich harvest in China, and corn price may stay relatively stable in the rest months this year.

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(Guangzhou China, September 22, 2011)


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