In 2017, polycarbonate will meet the boom
In 2017, polycarbonate will meet the boom
China's polycarbonate (PC) demand is large and is growing at an annual rate of 8% to 12%. China is a net importer of PC and chemical online statistics. In 2015, the apparent consumption of domestic PC was about 165,000 tons, and the import volume was 1427,000 tons, and the export volume was 211,000 tons, and the self-sufficiency rate was less than 30%. With the production of Shanghai PC in October 2016, the annual production of Shanghai PC can be doubled to 400,000 tons/year and the first phase of the luxiu chemical engineering project is put into production at the end of 2016. At the end of 2016, China's PC capacity is nearly 900,000 tons/year. China's PC capacity is mainly concentrated in foreign-funded enterprises, which account for more than 70 percent of China's total production capacity. According to regional statistics, China's PC is mainly concentrated in Shanghai, zhejiang, Beijing and shandong provinces. At present, the ministry of industry and information technology has carried out the import substitution work for new chemical materials and has included PC in it. Domestic PC enterprises have shown a better development momentum in recent years. The PC market will turn into the red sea in two years' time with the production of PC devices from domestic enterprises. Zhejiang iron winds chemical co., LTD. PC device has been widely concerned, as the domestic first set of with independent intellectual property rights of phosgene method of polycarbonate device, after more than three years construction, successfully put into production on April 20, 2015 rewrote the domestic no history of each of the independent industrial device. It is understood that the PC production process of the device adopts the original non-phosgene process technology route, which can realize the whole process of material recycling. Compared with the past photogas, there will not be a large amount of phenol wastewater, and it is not harmful to the health of the highly toxic photogas, which can consume 36,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year. The next two years will be the centralized release period for China's PC capacity. According to incomplete statistics, after 2016, more than one million tons of PC devices will be built, constructed or investigated. Among them, SABIC intends to establish a new 260,000 tons/year PC installation in tianjin petrochemical new plant with sinopec joint venture, which is under construction and is expected to start production in 2017-2018. Tongling nonferrous metals group plans to put into production a set of 100,000 tons of PC devices; The company is building a new 60,000-ton PC unit. Qingdao hengyuan is building a new set of 100 thousand/ton PC devices; The first phase of the project of lu xi chemical industry is stable and the company is ready to build two production lines for the second phase project; The PC unit of wanhua chemical group co., LTD. Is expected to go into production in the second quarter of 2017... With the production of PC devices of domestic enterprises, the import and export market has changed quietly in recent years. In January to November 2016, the cumulative volume of PC imports was 1.19 million tons, a 7.5% decrease from the previous year. Exports were 20.20 million tons, up 4.9 percent year on year. It is expected that the 2016 watch consumption will reach nearly 1.7 million tons, which is limited by the growth of 2015. PC and epoxy resin are the main areas of consumption of bisphenol A, which accounts for about 90% of the total consumption. In recent years, the traditional epoxy resin industry overall development slow, consumption of bisphenol A has decreased, while the PC industry because of its is at A high speed development, so the demand increased, proportion are also gradually increase. In 2015, the consumption proportion of the epoxy resin to bisphenol A was 65%, and PC consumption accounted for 30%. In 2016, the proportion is expected to be 59% and 39% respectively. In the last two years, the demand growth of bisphenol A has been steady, and with the limited development space of epoxy resin, the growth of the demand of bisphenol A will be led with the continuous expansion of the PC industry. In relative terms, the increase of domestic bisphenol A can be limited, so the dependence on the import of bisphenol A may be raised again, and the import dependence is expected to recover after the downward trend.
