Titanium dioxide at the initial stage of development of high-end products

With the rapid expansion of production capacity of titanium dioxide , China has become the world 's largest titanium producer. However , the majority of our businesses are titanium dioxide to sulfuric acid production process based, and generic products are more high-grade rutile titanium dioxide and other special high-end product development and production is still in its infancy.Wholesale masking tape


In 2012, the global titanium dioxide industry ups and downs in the first half due to tight supply , prices often rise ; July as demand decreased significantly after entering a down cycle . Enter 2013 , three global manufacturer of titanium dioxide Huntsman , Kronos and Crist companies have announced to increase the price .

Among them, Huntsman and Kronos titanium dioxide prices in North America raised $ 220 / t price increase of 6% ; Crist European companies raised the price of titanium dioxide of about 200 euro / ton price increase of 4%. By contrast, in 2013 , the domestic titanium dioxide market weak demand , the actual estimated annual production of about 1.9 million tons of titanium dioxide , an increase of 1.1 % over the previous year ; domestic market apparent consumption of 1.69 million tons , an increase over the previous year 1.19%. Due to severe competition in low-end products , from January to September 2013 , China's total export volume of titanium dioxide, 213,500 tons , but export prices are in a downward channel.Masking tape


In 2012, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the " vanadium and titanium resource utilization and industrial development," second five "plan " has been clear: to actively promote the development of deep processing Panxi , Chengde, Hebei and other industrial base , and strive to 2015 , out of single annual production capacity of 20,000 tons and below the sulfuric acid process titanium dioxide production line ; annual production capacity of 15,000 tons and below the chloride process titanium dioxide production line ; chloride process titanium dioxide production companies to reach an annual production capacity of 60,000 tons and above , in-line production capacity 30,000 tons and above ; addition, to encourage new construction, renovation and expansion of chloride process titanium dioxide project , supporting the construction of large-scale chlor-alkali plant , air separation plant, titanium recovery of not less than 92%.

Research data show that 50,000 tons / year of titanium dioxide business is reaching a critical point of economic production scale . Currently, the domestic production capacity of 5 million tons / year , nearly 30 manufacturers , accounting for half of the total number of manufacturers of titanium dioxide , the total production capacity of 700,000 tons / year production capacity for all current industry accounted for 1/ 4 . For this reason, if the authorities greatly improve industry access threshold , some SMEs will face serious pollution consolidation pressures will ease pressure on the supply side largely .Washi tape


In the future capacity expansion , the more high-end chloride process titanium dioxide does not become the first choice of domestic enterprises . Industry analysts said that if the technology is not upgrading, product quality is not improved, the future market competition is not only unable to share the high-end market, but also may experience more severe situation that become second steel industry . Data show that , compared with the price of early October 2010 , the current perovskite has risen nearly 1.5 times, while only less than 10% of titanium dioxide increases .Sellotape