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Hot years of titanium dioxide market since the second half of last year has continued to cool down, the price has gradually gone down. Up to now, a variety of titanium dioxide prices fell by more than 20% year-on-year. However, as a high-end product in the titanium dioxide industry, chloride titanium dioxide still has a strong resistance to decline.
"Chloride titanium dioxide is also the development trend of high-end transformation of China's titanium dioxide industry. In the market supply, technological breakthroughs, leading the way and other advantages, supported by the steady growth of domestic titanium dioxide chloride production capacity in recent years, especially the scale of the Long Bai Group titanium dioxide chloride device put into operation to break the high-end products subject to foreign situation, the high-end transformation of domestic titanium dioxide has been on the road." Shao Huiwen, a senior market commentator, said this.
Chlorination capacity continues to grow
"5 years ago, chlorinated titanium dioxide products accounted for only 3.6% of domestic production, the industrial structure is seriously unbalanced. Domestic high-end applications of titanium dioxide more than 90% depend on imports, the price is about 50% more expensive than domestic general-purpose titanium dioxide. High-end products have a large external dependence, and there is no industry discourse on chlorinated titanium dioxide products, which is also the bottleneck of high-end transformation and upgrading of China's titanium dioxide industry." Titanium dioxide industry innovation alliance vice chairman, China Building Materials Market Association titanium materials production and application branch vice chairman and Penryu said so.
Customs statistics show that in the first quarter of 2023, China's titanium dioxide imports accumulated about 13,200 tons, down 64.25% year-on-year; cumulative exports of about 437,100 tons, up 12.65%. Other data show that in 2022 China's titanium dioxide production capacity of 4.7 million tons, imports fell 43% compared with 2017, exports increased by 290% compared with 2012. "Domestic titanium dioxide imports have declined in recent years export growth because of the rapid expansion of the production capacity of domestic leading enterprises chlorinated titanium dioxide has effectively eased the dependence on imported high-end products." The head of a domestic paint company said.
And Benliu said that the mainstream process of titanium dioxide is divided into sulfuric acid, chlorination and hydrochloric acid method, of which the chlorination process is short, easy to expand production capacity, high degree of continuous automation, relatively low energy consumption, "three waste" emissions, to get high quality products, is the main titanium dioxide industry to promote the process. Global chloride titanium dioxide and sulfate titanium dioxide production capacity ratio of about 6:4, in developed countries in Europe and the United States, the proportion of chloride method is higher, China's ratio has now risen to 3:7, the future preparation of chloride titanium dioxide supply shortage will continue to improve the situation.
Chloride method included in the directory of encouraged categories
The National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Industrial Structure Adjustment Guidance Catalogue" will be included in the production of titanium dioxide chloride method to encourage the class directory, while limiting the new non-associated production of titanium dioxide sulfate method, which has become an opportunity for the transformation and upgrading of titanium dioxide enterprises, since then domestic titanium dioxide enterprises have begun to increase the research and development and research investment in the production technology of titanium dioxide chloride method.
"After years of technical research, solving a number of problems in the chloride method of titanium dioxide, Long Bai Group has developed a variety of high-quality series of high-end chloride titanium dioxide products, the overall performance of the international advanced level, some of the performance of the international leading level. We are the first enterprise that successfully innovated and applied large scale boiling chloride titanium dioxide technology in China, and the practice also confirmed that the chloride titanium dioxide technology is greener and more environmentally friendly, its waste residue stockpile is reduced by more than 90% compared with sulfuric acid method, comprehensive energy saving up to 30%, water saving up to 50%, the environmental benefits are very significant, and the product performance reaches the import standard, breaking the monopoly of foreign countries in the high-end market at one go, and the product has been market recognition. At present, Longbai Group has built the largest production base of titanium dioxide by chlorination in China, forming two major bases of titanium dioxide by chlorination in Henan New Materials Company and Yunnan Xinli Titanium Industry." Long Bai Group vice president of research and development, Long Bai research institute director, Yunnan State Titanium Company chairman Chen established said.
Longbay chloride method production capacity accounted for 61%
Shao Huiwen said, with the domestic new chlorinated titanium dioxide projects have been put into production, its production capacity as of 2022 has reached about 1.08 million tons, accounting for the total domestic production capacity also rose from 3.6% five years ago to more than 22%, greatly reducing the foreign dependence of the chlorinated titanium dioxide, the market supply advantage began to appear.
At present, a single enterprise chlorination capacity of more than 100,000 tons / year there are four, including the Long Bai Group chlorinated titanium dioxide capacity has reached 660,000 tons / year, accounting for more than 61% of the total domestic chlorination capacity, the leading leading effect is obvious.
Industry insiders believe that, based on the development trend of titanium dioxide high-end applications, as well as the current layout and status of the domestic industry, China's titanium dioxide high-end transformation has begun to break the game. It is recommended that the relevant government departments and the industry to increase the attention and guidance on the planning of chlorination projects, enterprises should also be targeted, abandoning the backward process, backward products and planning of project inputs, focusing on the development and application of high-end products to avoid the risk of excess low-end products.
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