Saturday, April 28, 2012

South America Crop Protection Monthly Report Comes Out

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-Breaking news on joint ventures, foreign-owned enterprises and local companies
-Corporations, merges, and acquisitions between South America crop protection companies
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Boosting Crop Protection Market in South America

South America is the fastest growing area for pesticide consumption in the world. As one of the most important agricultural area in the world, South America increases its soybeans planting area. In 2011, the planting area of soybeans has been over 46 million hectares, which becomes the rigid support for huge pesticide demand. Its total pesticide market value is estimated at USD10.5 billion in 2011, up 30% year on year. At the same time, it has accounted for 22% of the total market value in the world.

South America’s key role in international pesticide industry has drawn more and more attention in the world, especially when South America crop protection market has entered a phase of rapid development and transform. This rapid development of crop protection market was aligned with the increase of main crops areas and their yields evolution, sugarcane and cotton high global demand and growing economies in the region. The evolution in crops production was also due to the implementation of new technologies as direct planting that needs more chemicals before planting, use of fertilizers and treated areas with chemicals to protect crops from diseases as Soybean Rust during last campaign in Argentina, Brazil & Paraguay or pests as MOR in Brazil & Argentina in order to optimize yields.

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Leading Phosphorus Enterprises Rushing Area of Fluorine Through Alliance

For the first time, China’s two leading phosphorus enterprises decided to step into the business of phosphorus-fluorine integration through a strong alliance, according to CCM International’s April issue of Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report.

On Apr. 5th, 2012, Hubei Xingfa Chemicals Group Co., Ltd. (Hubei Xingfa) and Wengfu (Group) Co., Ltd. (Wengfu Group) launched their third cooperation since they signed a framework cooperation agreement in Nov. 2011 (the details see page 8 issue 5, Vol.1: Hubei Xingfa joints hands with Wengfu for complementary advantage). As China’s two leading phosphorus enterprises, they would jointly develop and utilize accompanying resources (fluorine resources) in phosphorus ore. 
 
In accordance with the announcement issued by Hubei Xingfa, it will combine Wengfu Group to set up a 51:49 joint venture named Hubei Wengfu Lantian Chemical Co., Ltd. (Wengfu Lantian), through their respective holding subsidiary. With the investment of USD15.85 million in total, Wengfu Lantian will be mainly dedicated to the production and sales of fluorine products. Nevertheless, Wengfu Group and Hubei Xingfa are still negotiating the details of this cooperation.

Since the concept of phosphorus-fluorine integration was put forward in China, both phosphorus enterprises and fluorine enterprises have been keeping keen eyes on the accompanying resources in phosphorus ore. Also the China Government encourages relative projects out of effective resources utilization. Meanwhile, there are already some enterprises involved in this business—recovering fluorine resources from phosphorus ore to produce fluorine chemicals.
 
For now, there are four leading phosphorus enterprises engaged in phosphorus-fluorine business in China, including Hubei Xingfa (the details regarding other three leading phosphorus enterprises which are involved in this business see page 2 issue 2, Vol. 2: Guizhou phosphorus enterprises lead phosphorus-fluorine integration). In the meantime, Do-Fluoride Chemicals Co., Ltd. (Do-Fluoride Chemical)—an listed fluorine enterprise has also cooperate with Yunnan’s phosphorus mining enterprises to develop the fluorine resources contained in phosphorus ore early in 2011.

Relatively speaking, the cooperation among domestic phosphorus giants has impressed phosphorus and fluorine industry to a greater extent than previous projects of phosphorus-fluorine integration invested by any other enterprise. After all, Hubei Xingfa has years of experience in production and marketing of fine chemical, while Wengfu Group has mastered mature technology in recovering fluorine resources from phosphorus ore.
Source: Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report 1204

Content of Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report 1204:
Phosphorus Ore
Company Dynamics: YPC to have largest flotation capacity in China  
Industry Dynamics: Leading phosphorus enterprises rushing area of fluorine through alliance
Policy & Legislation: Guiyang MIITC to set up new scheme for phosphorus mining
Yellow Phosphorus
Policy & Legislation: Energy saving in yellow phosphorus industry to surge in China
Phosphate Fertilizer
Company Dynamics: Yuntianhua to obtain injection of phosphorus business
Industry Dynamics: Increasing sulfur cost swallows Hubei Yihua’s DAP profit  
Industry Dynamics: Limited new phosphate capacity to be released in 2012
Industry Dynamics:Yunnan promotes more phosphorus cooperation with Vietnam
Fine Phosphate Chemical
Company Dynamics: Domestic STPP producers need to seek for their own future  
Company Dynamics: Hubei Xingfa increases capital investment in phosphorus business
… …

Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report, a monthly publication issued by CCM International on 15th of every month, provides you the latest information on company dynamic, industry dynamic, factors impacting the price fluctuation, technology improvement, supply & demand of China's phosphorus industry.

(Guangzhou China, April 16, 2012)
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Diversification of Large-scale Grain & Food Processors

Recently, a number of leading grain and food processors have moved towards increasing diversification and vertical integration. This is a signal of the growing integration of China’s food industry, a trend which is expected to pick up pace in the future and impact dairy markets as a result, according to CCM International’s April issue of Dairy Products China News

The prime example is Yihai Kerry, a leading agribusiness and food company processing oilseeds, grains, edible oils, palm and laurics into a wide range of high-quality food products, feed ingredients and oleochemicals at ~170 plants. The company is a leading player in multiple market segments in China, such as oilseed crushing, edible oil refining and consumer cooking oils as well as rice and wheat flour milling, etc.

On 3 March, Yihai Kerry announced the commissioning of its production lines for soy milk powder and liquid soy milk with capacities of 8,000 t/yr and 12,000 t/yr respectively: the resulting products will be launched in the East China market first, during June.

This is the group’s first involvement with liquid soy milk. It originally entered the soy milk industry early in 2009 when it acquired a soy milk powder processor in Heilongjiang with a capacity of 6,000t/yr; later, in 2011, it set up an 8,000t/yr soy milk powder production line in Qinhuangdao City, Shandong Province.

There are other similar examples, such as V V Group. On 9 March this leading grain and food processor announced that it will participate in the reconstruction of a white spirits company in Guizhou: it is to hold a 51% share of the new company once the deal is completed, which will be by the end of April. Investors seem supportive: after releasing the news, the company’s share price rocketed, reaching the upper circuit limit (10% in China) in the following days.

Also in March, the beverage giant Wahaha indicated its intention to expand into dairy farming in Australia, as well as to grow its health food and beverage business and supermarket operations in China (please see the following article in this issue, Wahaha to Invest in Dairy Farming in Australia?).

Previously we have seen COFCO buying into China’s largest liquid milk processor Mengniu. In July 2009 it acquired a leading stake of about 20% together with Hopu Investment Management– and this year has stepped this up to 28.09% after the quality scare hit Mengniu’s products. This has been the key example of diversification affecting China’s dairy sector: its involvement since then has undoubtedly allowed Mengniu to accelerate its expansion in China and overseas (please see Dairy Products China News Vol.2 August Issue, p7 & Vol.4 January Issue, p9).

The key goal of these large-scale grain & food companies is to optimise their product mix and increase their profitability and competitiveness: such diversification builds an increasingly integrated supply chain. There are also varying specific motives behind the expansion of these large-scale companies into new sectors. For example, for Yihai Kerry,the launch into liquid soy milk can help the company take full advantage of its upstream soy processing. For V V Group, its efforts to develop its white spirit business since 2009 have played an increasingly important role in the company’s development. In H1 2011, the company’s liquor business achieved sales of USD158.64 million – 41% of its total revenues and equaling the proportion of sales made up by its soy milk powder and soy milk business!

Expansion of this type exemplifies the integration of China’s food industry over the last 2 years, and fits well with the 12th Food Industry 5-Year Plan released on 31 December 2011. According to that document, the government plans to perfect food companies’ organisational structure in order to help them become more competitive, to enhance consolidation in the sector and to eliminate businesses with outdated technology. The government also plans to “foster” around 23 food companies with annual sales in excess of USD1.58 billion (RMB10 billion) and 300 famous food brands. It plans for integration to be accelerated in the next 4 years, and the larger agribusiness companies will be the main beneficiaries of this approach (please see Dairy Products China News Vol.5 February Issue, p6, Launch of the 12th Food Industry Five-Year Plan (5YP)).

Source: Dairy Products China News  1204
http://www.cnchemicals.com/Newsletter/NewsletterDetail_22.html

Content of Dairy Products China News 1204:
Diversification of Large-scale Grain & Food Processors
New Zealand Exceeds Trigger Levels Again
Government to Support Leading Agriculture Enterprises
Yunnan Launches Management Measures for Local Food Safety Standards
Yili’s Investment Programme for 2012
Wahaha to Invest in Dairy Farming in Australia?
North Dairy Expands in Ningxia
Xiaoxiniu Biological Faces Challenge to Go Public
Companies Increasingly Target Milk Production
Avante International Launches Infant Formula Products
OZ Care Formula Launch
Auscow Launches New UHT Milk

Dairy Products China News, a monthly publication issued by CCM International on the 30th/31st of every month, brings you the latest information on new market dynamics, company dynamics, new dairy products and consumption trend, new legislations and policies and raw milk supply dynamics that are shaping the market.


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Huayang Technology and Shandong Dacheng Meets *ST

However, Huayang Technology's rescue plan can't alleviate the worry about its dangerous situation, especially without the support from the assets exchange with Zibo Hongda Mining Industry Co., Ltd. (Hongda Mining). Because Hongda Mining participates two assets reorganizations at the same time and in the same industry, the assets exchange between Huayang Technology and Hongda Mining wasn't approved by CSRC in consideration of business independence and fair competition (Herbicides China News 1203: Assets exchange of Huayang Technology blocked). That is to say, Huayang Technology has to risk its future to drive its performance in 2012, the critical year for the company, according to CCM International’s April Issue of Herbicides China News.

In comparison with Huayang Technology, Shandong Dacheng has more potential for its performance rescue because the assets exchange between Shandong Dacheng and Shandong Hualian Mining Co., Ltd. (Shandong Hualian) is still in process at present. If the mining assets are injected into Shandong Dacheng successfully, Shandong Dacheng will probably overturn its deficit in 2012. But there are still many uncertain factors in this assets reorganization and it's hard to predict now whether this assets exchange can be approved smoothly by the Chinese government.

It's noteworthy that Shandong Dacheng's deficit value in 2011 was especially huge, almost six times larger than that in 2010. To some degree, this huge deficit value will stimulate Shandong Dacheng to push its assets exchange aggressively. As expected by Shandong Dacheng, the company has to put more efforts to enhance its profitability through the assets exchange with Shandong Hualian.

No matter which way the two companies will choose to rescue their performance, it's believable that current major businesses such as pesticides in Huayang Technology and Shandong Dacheng are very weak. Hence, whether pesticide business can recover the two companies' performance in a short term is still a puzzle now.

In the past history, Huayang Technology and Shandong Dacheng were dragged down to a different extent by weak major businesses (Herbicides China News 1102: Huayang Technology's share auctioned publicly and Shandong Dacheng suspends share trade for the reorganization). It's rumored that, in a large manner, the heavy deficit of Shandong Dacheng last year was because of its thermoelectricity investment, one of Shandong Dacheng's major businesses at present.

Source: Herbicides China News 1204
http://www.cnchemicals.com/Newsletter/NewsletterDetail_11.html

Content of Herbicides China News 1204:
Sulfonylurea herbicide regulation impacts little on China
Huayang Technology and Shandong Dacheng meets *ST
Pesticide business being enhanced in Huapont
Sanonda killed USD8.4 million in 2011 net profit
Tianrong group relocates-Jiangsu Ruihe & Jiangsu Zhongyi under relocation now
Diquat keeps weak in China
Oxadiazon weak in China
Herbicide registration of OD formulation in China
Wanquan Hongyu did 1st domestic formal metamitron registration
Acetochlor meets easy supply in Q1 2012
… …

Herbicides China News, a monthly publication issued by CCM International on 15th of every month, 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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Notice to Further Manage Glyphosate SL Mixtures with Content Lower than 30%

The question that whether glyphosate SL mixtures with content lower than 30% are legal or not which has been debated in domestic pesticide industry for almost one year has finally drew to an end clearly. On 5 April, 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture of China (MOA) released Notice No. 1744 announcing that it will stop accepting and approving the application for field trial and registration of glyphosate SL mixtures with content lower than 30% from the release date of the notice, based on CCM International’s latest issue of Crop Protection China News.

Those approved registrations of glyphosate SL mixtures with content lower than 30% are required to change the content to upper than 30% before 31 Aug., 2012. The content of those products which have got the approval certificates of field trial but still unregistered should be changed to upper than 30% when being registered.

Actually, the contents of the Notice have already been put forward at the 10th Plenary Meeting of the 8th National Pesticide Registration Review Committee held on 15-16 Dec., 2011. However, the results from the review committee didn't have any legal effectiveness. The Notice released this time has put an end to the production of glyphosate SL mixtures with content lower than 30% in China.

So far, there are three kinds of glyphosate SL products with content lower than 30% in China, namely 10.8% 2,4-D·glyphosate SL, 15% MCPA·glyphosate SL and 20% dicamba·glyphosate SL. These products have ever been predicted to enjoy a large share of domestic pesticide market after the retreat of 10% glyphosate SL since 1 Jan., 2012.

However, the release of the Notice has caused direct impact on the three products, especially 10.8% 2,4-D·glyphosate SL and 15% MCPA·glyphosate SL.

Owing to the high production cost and high sales price of 20% dicamba·glyphosate SL, it faces difficulties in promotion in domestic market. Plus, because the technology requirement of applying it on broad leaf weeds is high, it is now mainly used in commercial forest land. It is believed that even if the notice was not released, 20% dicamba·glyphosate SL would also retreat from domestic market automatically.

One one side, producers of 10.8% 2,4-D·glyphosate SL and 15% MCPA·glyphosate SL will suffer greatly from now on. Compared with glyphosate 30% SL (ammonium salt) and glyphosate 41% IPA, the production cost of 10.8% 2,4-D·glyphosate SL and 15% MCPA·glyphosate SL is much lower, about USD952.38/t. Plus, the lower use cost of the two products is also lower than that of glyphosate SL with content upper than 30%. Thus, the channel profit of 2,4-D·glyphosate SL and 15% MCPA·glyphosate SL will be much higher than that of high-content glyphosate SL products. The Notice has undoubtedly hit hard on the producers who are engaged in the production of low-content glyphosate SL.

On the other side, to those high-content glyphosate SL producers, it seems to be a piece of good news, but not definitely. Some of these producers are still worried about the long buffer period for low-content glyphosate SL products and they still believe that it will continue to affect their business in one or two years.

Source: Crop Protection China News 1207

Content of Crop Protection China News 1207:
Notice to further manage glyphosate SL mixtures with content lower than 30%
New registration policy encourages bio-pesticides' development
Financial policies support grain production
Banned pesticides detected in tea products
Investment wants discretion
Pesticides with growing price in 2012
Hubei Sanonda expects to collaborate with MAI
Noposion & Maruyama co-run agricultural machinery corporation
Jiangsu Limin to complete construction of new production base

Crop Protection China News, a semimonthly publication issued by CCM International on 15th and 30th(31st) of every month, aims to gain a deep insight into Chinese market, supply the latest market data and strategy support, analyze the newest legislation and policy and grasp the future market trend.


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