Lanfeng Biochemical Continues to Perform Well in Q1 2012

Jiangsu Lanfeng Biochemical Co., Ltd. (Lanfeng Biochemical), one of the leading carbendazim producers in China, which has achieved a sound performance in 2011, continued to perform well in the first quarter of 2012, which is beneficial to enhance its integral competitiveness and enterprise image to a great extent, according to CCM International’s June issue of Fungicides China News.

 

In detail, both the total revenue and net profit of Lanfeng Biochemical witnessed increase in Q1 2012, reaching USD48.25 million (RMB304.44 million) and USD4.13 million (RMB26.09 million) respectively, up 20.50% and 16.86% over the same period of last year.

 

According to Lanfeng Biochemical's Q1 2012 financial report, its good performance is primarily attributed to the rise in sales of pesticides and intermediates, two major businesses of the company. Furthermore, Lanfeng Biochemical increased its supply with the expansion of some products both in variety and capacity during the course of its relocation, which greatly promoted the company's sales of main businesses. 

Take carbendazim for example, Lanfeng Biochemical's sales volume of this fungicide has considerably soared up in the first three months of 2012, and statistics from China Crop Protection Industry Association (CCPIA) show that domestic sales volume of the company's carbendazim technical has exceeded 1,000 tonnes only in Feb. this year.

 

Owing to the large quantity of demand for carbendazim from both at home and abroad as well as good product quality, Lanfeng Biochemical's capacity and output of carbendazim technical have been rising to a great extent in recent years.

 

According to CCPIA, the capacity and output of Lanfeng Biochemcial have hit 15,000t/a and 14,677 tonnes respectively in 2011, increasing by 9,000t/a and 10,069 tonnes over 2008. So far, Lanfeng Biochemical is the second largest manufacturer of carbendazim technical in China, just next to Anhui Guangxin Agrochemical Co., Ltd.

 

Lanfeng Biochemical expanded not only its fungicide production but also insecticides and herbicides. For instance, the company's capacity of acephate technical (an organophosphate insecticide) has been expanded to 8,000t/a in Feb. 2012 from the original 2,000t/a. 

It is worth noting that Lanfeng Biochemical has realized the importance of strengthening the development in domestic market due to the outbreak of financial crisis and the European debt crisis. Therefore, the company has been making great efforts to heighten its product marketing and brand promotion in China in recent years on the basis of cementing its overseas business.

 

"Our company brought out some new products and further widened domestic terminal market through the implementation of detailed promotion measures in early 2012," said Mr. Liang, General Manager of Lanfeng Biochemical.

 

In the next few months of this year, Lanfeng Biochemical plans to increase investment in domestic market, optimize the structure of its sales regions, and strive to achieve a considerable breakthrough–seizing more market share of pesticides to continue to enhance its overall performance to a great extent. 

Source: Fungicides China News 1206

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Main content of Fungicides China News 1206:

Lanfeng Biochemical continues to perform well in Q1 2012

Lier Chemical's net profit sharply slides in Q1 2012

Changqing Agrochemical's Q1 2012 profit up 17.39% year on year

ABA Chemicals to establish joint venture

China's output of fungicide technical down 16.2% year on year in Q1 2012

Mancozeb technical experiences flourishing production and sales in Q1 2012

Registrations of kresoxim-methyl hot in early 2012

China intends to solve vegetable pesticide problem through joint tests

Administrative Regulations on EHS of Chinese Pesticide Industry to be issued soon

… …

(Guangzhou China, June 11, 2012)

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Hot Fungicides in China in 2011

China's fungicide industry has been in the ascendant trend in recent years with the pull of demand contributed by the gradually extended planting areas of vegetables and fruits which resulted in more disease varieties, the poor resistance of most crops against diseases as well as the enlarged application range, like fresh-keeping for vegetables and fruits, industrial anti-mildew, etc., according to CCM’s February Issue of Fungicides China News.

Under the circumstances, a series of fungicides have become mainstream products in domestic fungicide market in 2011. In detail, some conventional fungicides such as carbendazim, thiophanate-methyl, triadimefon, cymoxanil•mancozeb, propiconazole, etc., have been greatly welcomed in the market of several major diseases' control, like rice sheath blight, rice false smut, wheat sheath blight, wheat stripe rust, late blight of vegetables and potato and so on, with over 5% proportion of the total sales value of fungicides in 2011. 

Besides, some relatively new fungicides, such as enostroburin, SYP-1620, SYP-Z048 (developed by Shenyang Research Institute of Chemical Industry), thiodiazole-copper (developed by Zhejiang Longwan Chemicals Co. , Ltd.), etc., have also been received favorably in domestic market in 2011.

 

It is worth noting that some mixed fungicide formulations, like flumorph•mancozeb and pyraclostrobin•dimethomorph to fight against potato late blight, myclobutanil•mancozeb and propiconazole•azoxystrobin to control banana leaf spot have seized good market share last year. 

It is well known that rice fungicide market is a fierce battlefield for agrochemical companies driven by the handsome profit. Besides some traditional fungicides like kitazine, iprobenfos, isoprothiolane, etc., the demand for other new fungicides with high efficiency, especially ethylicin, kresoxim-methyl, tetramycin, prochloraz, etc., to prevent and control rice blast has been rising in China last year.

 

In terms of rice sheath blight's control, the market share of jingangmycin has been gradually shrinking in Chinese major rice planting areas in recent years, suffering carve-up to a great extent from other fungicides mainly including hexaconazole, tebuconazole, polyoxin, propoconazole•difenoconazole, etc. 

As to fungicide categories, triazole fungicides, which play an increasingly important role in the disease control on various crops, have been selling well in domestic market in 2011. The consumption volume of triazole fungicides with broad spectrum and high efficiency has exceeded 10,000 tonnes in China last year, accounting for about 15% of the total sales volume of all fungicides. Thereinto, tebuconazole, propiconazole and triadimefon were the top three triazole fungicide varieties in China in 2011 by market value.

 

Meanwhile, some overseas companies' fungicides have seized larger market share in China last year, thanks to their excellent control effect, vigorous promotion and sound brand image, such as pyraclostrobin•metiram 60% WDG, pyraclostrobin 250g/L EC, kresoxim-methyl•boscalid 300g/L SC, azoxystrobin 250g/L SC, difenoconazole•azoxystrobin 325g/L SC, trifloxystrobin•tebuconazole 75% WDG and so forth. 

In 2012, the demand for fungicides will increase in China and is predicted to reach about 78,100 tonnes, up 7.26% compared with that in 2011. However, the market competition of fungicides will be more and more brutal due to the expanded capacity, the price hike of most raw materials and the forceful impact from multinational enterprises in the future.

Source: Fungicides China News 1202

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Main content of Fungicides China News 1202:

Hot fungicides in China in 2011

Lier Chemical registers azoxystrobin 95% TC 

Noposion aims at kresoxim-methyl formulation market

Jiangsu Sword relocates pesticide production lines to JBCIP

Veyong's net profit down 63.07% year on year in 2011

Hymexazol's sales volume rises in 2011

Carbendazim's market competition to be fiercer in 2012

Shandong's pesticide industry recovers tortuously in 2011

Ji'an Tongrui to run gibberellic acid technical production

Jiangsu Anpon to seize more market share of ethephon 

Jixi Agricultural's difenoconazole 30g/L FS sells well in 2011

Ex-factory price of tricyclazole 95% TC rises in early 2012

Diseases and insect pests' occurrence area to up 4% year on year in China in 2012

Major crop diseases to seriously occur in Jiangsu in 2012

About 30% of dimethomorph technical exported in China in 2011

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Fungicide in Orange Juice Affects Export of China’s Carbendazim

The American media reports recently that Coca-Cola found there was unapproved fungicide in the Brazilian orange juice and the company has informed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about this. FDA discovered that some Brazilian growers had sprayed their trees with a fungicide, namely carbendazim, which was not registered for use in the U.S.

It is reported that carbendazim has been used in Brazil for more than 20 years. Although the dose of carbendazim in Brazil is over 100 times more than the tested level of that in America, carbendazim is not considered to be harmful in Brazil.

Jianhua Ju, Researcher of CCM International explains that carbendazim is a broad-spectrum fungicide. It is widely used in disease prevention and pest control of fruit trees, vegetables, flowers and field crops. The U.S. government has forbidden the registration of carbendazim for the sake of food safety. Since carbendazim is mainly produced in China, the issue would directly or indirectly decline the export of carbendazim in China. Related governmental departments should encourage use safety and strengthen regulation. In addition, some experts also point out that pesticide residues in food processing is usual, because there will be chemical residues during thermal decomposition or filtration of pesticide. It is no need to be panic.

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