Titanium dioxide industry is booming again
2021-04-19
Since the second half of 2009, the global economic environment as a whole has gradually gone out of the trough of the financial crisis, and the market demand has improved significantly, driving the price of titanium dioxide higher. The continuous phased price increase will push the price of titanium dioxide products in the international market to the peak in recent years. Under this background, the export volume of titanium dioxide in China continued to increase substantially. Coupled with the strong domestic market, the long-awaited thriving scene in the titanium dioxide industry has emerged.
The market situation has been a good move this year. The overall market for titanium dioxide has been positive. Under the influence of various favorable factors, from the beginning of the year, market demand has been on the right track, and the operating rate of enterprises has remained high. It is expected that due to the expansion of production projects or completion of projects, it is expected that The total production can reach 1.2 million to 1.4 million tons. Since the second half of the year, the titanium dioxide market has been steadily increasing, and various manufacturers across the country have continuously raised the price of titanium dioxide, and the price increase has been relatively large. By September, there has been a situation that there is price and no goods. The price of anatase rose from 10,000 yuan (t price, the same below) to 12,500 yuan, and the price of rutile was raised from 12,000 yuan to 14,500 yuan, an increase of more than 20%, which greatly promoted the prosperity of today's titanium dioxide market.
According to the monitoring by the Titanium Dioxide Center of the National Productivity Promotion Center of the Chemical Industry, by the end of November, the price of anatase has risen to 13,000 yuan, and that of rutile has reached 15,000 to 16,000 yuan. Whether it is an anatase product or a rutile product, this year has basically maintained a strong momentum and is expected to remain so at the beginning of the year and early next year.
The product structure has clearly optimized the output of titanium dioxide in 2009. The rutile type is 555,000 tons, accounting for 51.7% of the total titanium dioxide output; the anatase type is 485,000 tons, accounting for 45.1%; including non-enamel, electrode, and electronic grade The proportion of pigment grade products dropped to 3.2%, actually only played an embellishment role. China's titanium dioxide industry has grown from non-pigment-grade products in the 50s and 90s of the last century to pigment-based products including anatase and rutile products. In 2009, higher-grade rutile products were used. For the first time, it exceeded the anatase product. Moreover, the performance of various types of products is continuously improving, and some products have been able to be used in advanced fields together with imported advanced products.
Bi Sheng, head of the National Titanium Dioxide Industry Experts Group and director of the Titanium Dioxide Center of the National Productivity Promotion Center of the Chemical Industry, told reporters that rutile products are more than half of the products, which is the direct result of the product upgrading and productivity enhancement in the titanium dioxide industry over the years. In recent years, the titanium dioxide industry, especially the backbone enterprises, has strengthened the development of new products according to market demand, and various products that adapt to different fields have gradually emerged, and the phenomenon of relying on a single brand of products has gradually disappeared.
The process of industrial restructuring has accelerated In recent years, one of the trends in the world's titanium dioxide industry is that fewer and fewer manufacturers are producing more and more individual manufacturers. In 2009, with the exception of China, there are only 17 to 18 global titanium dioxide producers, 50 production plants, and a total production capacity of 4.5 million tons. Compared with China, there are 62 normal-production titanium dioxide enterprises, which belong to nearly 50 manufacturers and have a total capacity of only 1.5 million tons.
The industry believes that increasing industrial concentration is the only way for the healthy development of China's titanium dioxide industry. For more than a year, Pangang has taken over Titanium Dioxide, Jinzhou Titanium, and Panzhihua Oriental Titanium, and will control Jiangsu Titanium. In addition to Nanjing Titanium Dioxide, Jiangsu Jinpu will also control China Nuclear China Titanium ( 404 titanium dioxide); Hunan Wynn Holdings Hengyang Tianyou Chemicals, etc., indicating that the restructuring of the titanium dioxide industry has begun substantial progress.
Market risks can not be ignored Although China has made a series of advancements in improving the technical content of the titanium dioxide industry in the past five years, objectively speaking, it is only relative to the past. So far, the so-called expansion or launch of new products of various companies, whether it is anatase or rutile, its grade and performance quality, are basically the same grade. The industry has so far not yet produced a product that can fully compete with international high-level products such as Japan's R-930. If the industry average operating rate in 2009 is estimated to be 70%, the national titanium dioxide production in 2010 may reach 1.2 million to 1.4 million tons.
In recent years, titanium dioxide expansion projects have blossomed. According to statistics, in 2010, there will be 14 expansion projects that will be completed and the new capacity will be 795,000 tons per year. There have been 11 announced expansion projects in the next five years, involving a production capacity of 1.1 million tons/year. If it plans to achieve its expansion plan by 2015, the total annual production of domestic titanium dioxide may reach 2.3 million tons, which is 2.1 times the record level in 2009. As most of the new products and existing products are similar, so many competing products of the same class and type are flocking to the market. The degree of competition can be imagined.
Experts from the Titanium Divider Center of the National Productivity Promotion Center of the Chemical Industry believe that at present, both large and small enterprises in the titanium dioxide industry in the country are both prosperous and prosperous. However, the future is still not optimistic and there are many uncertainties. First, the market brought by the expansion of production. The pressure is obvious; the second is the “Evaluation Criterion for Cleaner Production of the Titanium Dioxide Industry”, which will soon be promulgated, which will increase the discharge of pollutants from the industry and deal with the pressure. Third, the national industrial policy may change, and the impact of policies on the titanium dioxide industry is crucial.
Titanium Dioxide is white powder, non-toxic, chemically inative, surface treated with aluminum compounds.
The products show good whiteness,high gloss,great hiding power,strong tinting power,favorable weatherability, high chalk resistance,low oil absorption,good wetting and are easy to disperse in a variety of systems.
1)In paint industry, It is used as white pigment and glaze of porcelain.
2)It can also be used as coating and filling in paper-making industry to help paper to be printable and opaque.
3)In metallurgical industry, it can be used to make spongy titanium, alloy of titanium and iron and hard alloy, etc.
4)It can also be used to make nonconductor, electric welding rod and porcelain enamel.
5)It can also be used in synthetic fiber, plastic, rubber, printing, dying, cosmetics, medicine fillings and food additives.
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