China Fluoride Materials Monthly Report

In Sept.-Oct. 2014, China’s fluorochemical market was in light trading and the prices of major products remained stable. Of this, the booming market of fluorine-enriched refrigerant, regarding R22 as the representative, also returned to stability after driving related upstream and downstream product to rise in production and sales in Q2 2014 (the traditional busy season for production and sales). However, the stable market still caught insiders’ high attention to China’s fluorine-enriched refrigerant industry due to the successive releases of related major policy documents and statements from domestic and overseas governments.

To be specific, in mid-Sept. 2014, FECO announced China’s first-batch enterprise list concerning the shutdown of HCFCs production lines and required that related enterprises have to close their HCFCs production lines, indicating that China will quicken the elimination of HCFCs in 2015. Then, will related downstream industries, like the air conditioning sector suffer an increasing sense of urgency? And where should these industries move towards to transform and upgrade themselves in terms of  refrigerant application? Moreover, what will be the market trend of R22, a representative product of HCFCs, in 2015 along with the implementation of the elimination policy?

By mid-Oct. 2014, the USDC announced that it firmly believed that the price of R134a imported from China was too low with a dumping intention and received excessive subsidies from the Chinese government. Thus, USDC is going to impose high tariff on China’s R134a. In this way, China’s R134a industry will be lashed again in its exports as it has been confined in the overcapacity and the domestic market downturn. So what kind of industrial layout adjustment will China’s R134a industry face?

These hot topics in China's fluorochemical market will be explored and reported by CCM in detail in this e-journal, China Fluoride Materials Monthly Report 1410. Please pay close attention.

The RMB/USD exchange rate in this issue is USD1.00=RMB6.1493 on 8 Oct., 2014, sourced from the People's Bank of China.

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