China's cyclamate export: volume drop in Jan.-Nov. 2013

Data from China Customs showed that the average export price of China's cyclamate witnessed an increase to USD1,932/t in the first eleven months of 2013, but at the same time, its total export volume decreased by 4.3% YoY from 24,526 tonnes in Jan.-Nov. of 2012 to 23,480 tonnes in Jan.-Nov. of 2013, according to Sweeteners China News issued by CCM in January.

The export price increase was one important reason for the export volume decrease of China's cyclamate in Jan.-Nov. 2013. In fact, price advantage is the most useful weapon for cyclamate to compete with other sweeteners. However, RMB appreciated rapidly in 2013. For example, according to the People's Bank of China, the RMB/USD exchange rate was 6.2897 on 4 Jan. 2013, but it decreased to just 6.0969 on 31 Dec. 2013. As a result, the export price of China's cyclamate also increased in the same period. Thus, overseas downstream enterprises had to pay higher price for the same quantity of China's cyclamate, which reduced their import enthusiasm.

Meanwhile, China's cyclamate began to face more competitions from other high intensity sweeteners (HIS) in overseas markets, putting pressure on China's cyclamate export. It is reported that downstream enterprises in Argentina, the second largest destination of China's cyclamate exports in 2012, preferred stevia sweetener in 2013. For example, Coca Cola launched its "green cola" containing stevia sweetener. Argentinean downstream enterprises' preference for stevia sweetener could be the reason for the significant YoY decrease in the export volume of China's cyclamate to Argentina in 2013.

It is predicted that the total export volume of China's cyclamate will decrease in 2013, and domestic cyclamate producers may have a negative prospect in 2014. Actually, it is estimated that the demand for China's cyclamate from overseas market has been falling in 2013, compared with that in 2012. Data from China Customs showed that only the demand for China's cyclamate from Europe witnessed a slight increase in Jan.-Nov. 2013, while that from other continents declined to varied extents in the same period. At the same time, the appreciation of RMB will not have a significant change in the future, which means China's cyclamate will further lose its price advantage. Based on the above negative factors, domestic cyclamate producers have to plan for their future development.

Table of Contents of Sweeteners China News 1401:

Shandong Longlive's technology center rated state-level

National standard of feed sweeteners passes expert examination

QHT cooperates with GDHA on requirement of doctors and patients for microecological health

Chenguang Biotech obtains patent certificate for stevia in Nov. 2013

CNRIFFI's stachyose (P80) rated as “national key new product”

China's sweetener industry annual overview 2013

Gross profit of Shandong crystalline glucose producers rebounds in Dec. 2013

Domestic starch sugar producers shift sales focus to export in 2013

China's HFCS: sucrose price becomes more decisive factor for profit margin decrease in 2013

Expiration of patent protection for neotame in 2013 boosts neotame production in China

First-phase of Guangdong L&P's sucralose project completed in Dec. 2013

Low sucrose price in 2013 causes contrasting net profit growth between two FOS producers

Shandong Longlive opens online flagship shop at Tmall

Shandong Futaste became the first GMP (2010 edition)-certified producer of xylitol in China

China's saccharin: combined export volume of domestic designated producers decreases in Jan.-Oct. 2013

China's cyclamate export: volume drop in Jan.-Nov. 2013

Export overview of some sweeteners and raw materials in China, November 2013

Sucrose price in China continues to drop since Nov. 2013

Ex-factory prices of sweeteners in China in December 2013

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Healthcare products will promote functional sugar industry

It is believed that domestic healthcare product industry (including nutrition and health food) will provide great platform and opportunities for domestic functional sugar industry in future, according to CCM’s October issue of Sweeteners China News.

  

On 11 September 2012, the Nanfang Daily reported that the sales value of domestic healthcare product industry reached about USD102.5 billion in 2011. Besides, domestic healthcare product industry is at a stage of rapid development now with the annual growth rate of sales volume of 20% before 2015. Meanwhile, the Chinese government pays more attention to drive the development of domestic healthcare product industry. For example, in the 12th Five-Year Plan of Food Industry of the Chinese government, the production value of domestic healthcare product industry will reach about USD157.2 billion before 2015. Besides, Chinese government plans to launch a series of regulatory measures to ensure the healthy and rapid development of healthcare product industry; such as Health food supervision and management regulations to be launched in coming months by State Food and Drug Administration. Healthcare product is one main downstream product of functional sugars, thus the demand of functional sugars from domestic healthcare product industry will increase in coming years.

  

The rapid development of domestic healthcare product industry will lead to the rapid output increase of functional sugar in future. In fact, the output volume of some functional sugars had increased with different degrees in the past years (FIGURE), mainly attributed to the increasing demand from domestic healthcare product industry and food industry. In detail, these functional sugars include malto oligosaccharide, isomalto oligosaccharide, fructo oligosaccharide, erythritol, crystalline fructose, xylitol, isomaltitol, etc. 

According to CCM's survey, three leading functional sugar producers in China (TABLE), namely Baolingbao Biology Co., Ltd. (Baolingbao), Shandong Futaste Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Shandong Futaste), Shandong Longlive Bio-technology Co., Ltd. (Shandong Longlive), agree that domestic healthcare product industry will promote the domestic functional sugar industry.

  

It is predicted that healthcare product industry will be a very important downstream for functional sugar industry in future. The three companies show great confidence in the development of domestic healthcare product industry. They all expressed that with consumers' rapidly increasing health attention and the improvement of people's living standards, the demand of healthcare products will also increase and the healthcare products will become popularized in every age group. Moreover, they revealed that they will pay more attention to develop clients from healthcare product industry. For example, Baolingbao has a planned function sugar project to meet various needs from healthcare product producers in future: a new production line of galacto oligosaccharide with the capacity of 5,000 t/a.

 

Since the three companies have different products, they don't worry about that competition will be more intense. In fact, healthcare product producers will give priority to the functionality of functional sugars when they select the appropriate functional sugars, which is helpful for the rapid and healthy development of domestic functional sugar industry. In the meantime, domestic functional sugar producers will focus on their current own product in future to avoid  the homogenization of competition. For example, Shandong Longlive said that the company will focus on the development of its current oligosaccharide products.

Source: Sweeteners China News 1210

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Content of Sweeteners China News 1210:

Output of foods containing sugar increases slightly in Aug. 2012

China imports 0.58 million tonnes of sucrose in Aug. 2012

Sun Paper to explore xylitol market

Chinese saccharin output reaches 12,375 tonnes in Jan.-July 2012

Export HS Code Classification of Sucralose Products Seminar held in Beijing

Wanfu Biotechnology's net profit decreases in H1 2012

GLG optimistic about prospects for stevia sweetener

Chinese sucralose industry may exert more pressure on Tate & Lyle

Cyclamate meets pessimistic prospect

Chinese GOS industry will develop smoothly in 2012

Healthcare products will promote functional sugar industry

HIS producers not excited about export policy adjustments

H1 2012: Xiwang Sugar and Global Sweeteners perform poorly in starch sugar

Shangdong Longlive performs bad in H1 but may do well in H2 2012

Guilin Layn suffers loss since 2010

Changzhou Niutang still depends on imported L-phe

Corn starch industry may undergo centralization in near future

Ex-factory prices of Chinese sweeteners in Sept. 2012

Temporary purchasing plan may have little positive effect on stabilizing sucrose price

Export overview of some sweeteners and raw materials in China, Aug. 2012

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Find Hot News in Sweeteners China News 1208

Published on the 5^th every month, Sweeteners China News is a monthly publication released by CCM International. It offers timely update and close follow up of China’s various kind of sweeteners market dynamics, analyze the market data and trends. Major columns include market dynamic, company dynamic, raw material supply, price update, import & export analysis, consumption trend & competitiveness.

Following are headline news of the latest issue of Sweeteners China News:

Domestic stevia sweetener market may develop slowly in future

Domestic stevia sweetener market developed slowly during past years, and this trend may remain in the near future.

Chinese cyclamate enjoys good development abroad

Chinese cyclamate enjoyed a good development abroad in H1 2012, which can be tracked from the increased export volume and the stable export price.

National policies have great influence on sweetener enterprises

In last two months, the Chinese government released several policies on food safety construction to strengthen the supervision on food safety, and it is a good time for sweetener enterprises to take advantage of these policies to develop themselves.

Opportunities and challenges coexist in Chinese maltose syrup industry

In H2 2012, opportunities and challenges will coexist in Chinese maltose syrup industry.

Guangdong L&P's sucralose expansion project enters construction bidding phase

In July 2012, Guangdong L&P officially published the tender notice about the civil engineering construction of the first phase of its sucralose expansion project, suggesting that the company has already planned to expand its production capacity of sucralose.

Shandong Huayi puts crystalline glucose production lines into production

Shandong Huayi puts its crystalline glucose production lines with total capacity of 380,000t/a into pilot production in July 2012.

Anhui Jinhe's new acesulfame-K project seems unpromising

Anhui Jinhe formally put a new acesulfame-K production line into production in July 2012; however, some insiders of acesulfame-K have a negative outlook about this project.

Profit of Baolingbao grows in H1 2012

Baolingbao's revenue and net profit have increased by 6.11% and 18.10% respectively in H1 2012 over H1 2011.

China's corn starch performs poorly in H1 2012

China's corn starch witnessed a poorer performance in H1 2012 than that in H1 2011, due to increased price of raw material and weak demand.

Ex-factory prices of Chinese sweeteners in July 2012

Ex-factory prices of Chinese sweeteners in July 2012

Domestic price of aspartame suffers decrease in H1 2012

Domestic market price of aspartame witnessed a downtrend in H1 2012 and it's estimated that the price may remain the decrease with a small range in H2 2012.

Domestic prices of three key sugar alcohols will increase in H2 2012

Domestic prices of three key sugar alcohols, including maltitol, xylitol and sorbitol, are expected to increase in H2 2012.

Export overview of some sweeteners and raw materials in China, June 2012

Export overview of some sweeteners and raw materials in China, June 2012

Export volume of sucralose rises 180% in Jan.-May 2012

Export volume of domestic sucralose reached about 565 tonnes in Jan.-May 2012, increasing by about 180% over the same period of 2011.

Yucheng City awarded as China Nutrition and Health Industry City

Yucheng City is awarded as China Nutrition and Health Industry City.

Xinghua Green to launch solution about no after taste of stevia sweetener(RA98)

Xinghua Green is to launch solution about no after taste of stevia sweetener(RA98).

QHT formally changes its company name

QHT has formally changeed its company name.

Application for issuing corporate bonds of Nanning Sugar approved

Application for issuing corporate bonds of Nanning Sugar is approved.

JK Sucralose continues market expansion through IFT Food Expo 2012

JK Sucralose continues market expansion through IFT Food Expo 2012.

Layn's operating profit loss reaches about USD3.2 million in H1 2012

Layn's operating profit loss reaches about USD3.2 million in H1 2012.

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Domestic stevia sweetener market may develop slowly in future

Domestic stevia sweetener market developed at a slow speed during past years, and it is predicted that this trend will continue in the near future, according to CCM International’s August issue of Sweeteners China News.

In fact, China is the biggest production country of stevia sweetener in the world, with capacity and output coming to 20,400t/a and about 3,500 tonnes respectively in 2011. From 2007 to 2011, the capacity posted a CAGR up to 35.1%, and the output also grew at a CAGR of 21.8% due to the rapidly developing oversea stevia sweetener market. However, the domestic stevia sweetener market has not developed as rapidly as expected. For example, the consumption volume of stevia sweeteners was about 720 tonnes in China in 2011, only with a CAGR of 4.6% during 2007 to 2011. Moreover, the stevia sweeteners consumed in China are low-purity in general, since their price is lower than that of high purity.

 Three main reasons may explain why domestic stevia sweetener market developed at a slow speed during the past years.  

Actually, because of the strong demand from abroad, many domestic stevia sweetener producers focus on the oversea market, which can be reflected from the export volume of stevia sweeteners: China exported about 80% of its total output of stevia sweeteners in 2011. Besides, some new players of stevia sweetener industry are also attracted by the strong demand from abroad. For the latest example, Hunan Weijia Biotechnology Co., Ltd, a plant extract producer in China, signed up a stevia sweetener project with capacity of 500t/a in March 2012. And the company expressed that the project is for meeting the strong demand from overseas stevia sweetener market. Thus, the promotion of stevia sweeteners from domestic stevia sweetener producers isn't enough currently. And the popularity of stevia sweeteners is low in downstream (food and beverage) companies and consumers in China, which further leads to the small consumption.  

Besides, according to an insider from GLG Life Tech Corporation (GLG), one major stevia sweetener producer in China, domestic downstream companies tended to choose high intensity sweeteners (HIS) with low price during the past years, such as cyclamate, acesulfame-K and aspartame. In fact, according to CCM International's Price Update, the average ex-factory price of  steviol glycosides (RA95) has been higher than those of other HIS in China, and its latest quotation was USD133,363/t in June 2012. In addition, according to CCM International's investigation, the total consumption of cyclamate, acesulfame-K and aspartame was about 27,300 tonnes, accounting for 90.9% of the national HIS consumption in 2011, while the consumption of stevia sweeteners was only about 700 tonnes.  

At last, the government hasn't attached great importance on the development of domestic stevia sweetener industry. According to GLG, the company has enjoyed some preferential policies issued by the government only because it is a high-tech enterprise and owns patents of stevia seeds, while the government hasn't launched any preferential policies specifically for stevia sweetener industry during the past years. Thus, some small-scaled stevia sweetener producers may even have no chance to enjoy the preferential policies at all.

In fact, combined with consumers' growing awareness of natural and safe foods in many countries, the room for stevia sweeteners' demand increase will be huge in future. However, due to the demand from oversea market may continue to increase and the price of stevia sweeteners may still be too high for domestic downstream industry, the domestic stevia sweetener producers may remain their focus on overseas market while neglect domestic market, which may go on bringing negative impact to domestic stevia sweetener market in the near future.

Source: Sweeteners China News 1208

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Content of Sweeteners China News 1208

Yucheng City awarded as China Nutrition and Health Industry City

Xinghua Green to launch solution about no after taste of stevia sweetener (RA98)

QHT formally changes its company name

Application for issuing corporate bonds of Nanning Sugar approved

JK Sucralose continues market expansion through IFT Food Expo 2012

Domestic stevia sweetener market may develop slowly in future

Chinese cyclamate enjoys good development abroad

National policies have great influence on sweetener enterprises

Opportunities and challenges coexist in Chinese maltose syrup industry

Guangdong L&P's sucralose expansion project enters construction bidding phase

Shandong Huayi puts crystalline glucose production lines into production

Anhui Jinhe's new acesulfame-K project seems unpromising

Profit of Baolingbao grows in H1 2012

Layn's operating profit loss reaches about USD3.2 million in H1 2012

China's corn starch performs poorly in H1 2012

Ex-factory prices of Chinese sweeteners in July 2012

Domestic price of aspartame suffers decrease in H1 2012

Domestic prices of three key sugar alcohols will increase in H2 2012

Export overview of some sweeteners and raw materials in China, June 2012

Export volume of sucralose rises 180% in Jan.-May 2012

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Overview of Neotame in China

Though neotame is a globally patented product of NutraSweet Property Holdings, Inc. (NutraSweet), still a few neotame producers are operating in China. And according to CCM's investigation, some neotame producers improve production technology or expand capacity in order to explore domestic and oversea market after 2013, when the patent of neotame expires, revealing in the September Issue of CCM’s Sweeteners China News.

As a high intensity sweeteners (HIS), neotame has been approved to be used in food and beverage by the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China since October 2003. So far, it can also be used in all kinds of food and beverage without maximum dosage, while most HIS can only be applied within a maximum dosage, such as saccharin, cyclamate, sucralose, acesulfame-K, etc.

Neotame has been produced in China for several years, but only 10 neotame manufacturers are operating at present, most of which are small-scaled ones. According to some neotame makers, their major sale comes from domestic market. And neotame is applied in food and beverage or as a raw material of complex additives. However, in correspondence with CCM's investigation result, a few domestic neotame producers have started exporting through distribution. In order to get rid of the patent restriction, their exported neotame has to be renamed, as some insiders revealed.

At present, most neotame producers manufacture neotame 8,000 times sweeter than sucrose, which is quite preferred among their customers. However, some producers make neotame with lower sweetness—diluted neotame—only 7,000 or even 200-400 times of sucrose's. For example, a domestic producer expressed that it applies crystalline glucose as carrier to produce low purity neotame.

The price of domestic neotame may arrange from about USD85,030/t to USD100,490/t, while the price of imported one reaches a much higher USD618,400/t at present. In consideration of this, some Chinese food processors choose domestic neotame in production.

However, though the price of domestic neotame is much lower than that of imported one, the quality of most home-made product is very close to the latter on the palate thanks to similar techniques, a point shared by some distributors of imported neotame in China. For instance, a distributor of NutraSweet said that the only substantial difference between domestic and imported neotame lies in that imported neotame is produced by regular producers with global patent.

In fact, the development of domestic neotame industry is under restriction of neotame's global patent. On one hand, domestic neotame is mainly consumed by small downstream producers, whose awareness of intellectual property is rather weak, while large-scale food processors rarely use it. Compared with other HIS, the downstream application of neotame is still narrow. Moreover, it is difficult to use the name "neotame" to export domestic neotame.

Since global patent of neotame will expire in 2013, domestic neotame producers are attracted to improve their production technologies or expand capacity in order to explore domestic and oversea market. For example, a manager of a main neotame producer located in Qingdao said that the company planned to expand its capacity of neotame from H2 2011, which serves as a preparation for increasing its market share upon the expiration of neotame patent. For another instance, a manager of  a neotame producer located in Ji'nan confirmed their determination to do the same thing.

Most domestic neotame producers believe in their better development after 2013, when they can output and sell more products in domestic and oversea market without any worry. Luckily, it is estimated that the price of neotame may rise thanks to future demand increase.

A domestic producer predicted that if NutraSweet doesn't cut down the price of its neotame, domestic neotame may take up 80% of global neotame market due to its price advantage. What's more, domestic producers are very likely to continue expansion, even some other companies may join in the production to take a bite.

Source: Sweeteners China News 1109

(Guangzhou China, September 6, 2011)

Content of Sweeteners China News 1109:

Profit of erythritol decreases in H1 2011

Aspartame industry develops well in H1 2011

About 290 tonnes sucralose exported in H1 2011

Overview of neotame in China

Net profit of QHT falls nearly 50% in H1 2011

Star Lake Bioscience to market HFCS in Oct. 2011

Anhui Jinhe's acesulfame-K business may develop better in near future

Jincheng starch puts its crystalline glucose production line into trial production

Yongli Milk to build FOS production line

Global Sweeteners expanding its corn starch capacity of 210,000t/a

Ex-factory prices of Chinese sweeteners in August 2011

Import & export analysis of Chinese saccharin in Jan.-July 2011

Import & export analysis of Chinese sorbitol in Jan.-July 2011

GLG to launch zero-calorie carbonated soft drinks in Aug. 2011

Government strengthens adjusting control of sucrose price

Bright Dairy buys 75% stake of Manassen Foods

Corn may have bumper harvest in China in 2011

CNRIFFI announces that research of stachyose gains success

Conference of national beet industrial system held in Urumchi

COFCO offers AUD120 million to purchase Proserpine Sugar

Output of foods containing sugar increases much in July 2011……

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