Welcome to the May issue of Sweeteners China News published by CCM International, a professional consulting company which has been extensively and intently focusing on dynamics of China's sweetener industry.
In April 2012, Chinese government published some policies to dampen down the development of corn deep processing industry, which may drag down the price of corn in the coming months. Besides, some national standards on sugar alcohols start to solicit opinions from industries.
In addition, the HFCS industry is still full of potential in China. For example, Global Sweeteners expanded its HFCS business in April 2012 through acquiring equity interests in HFCS business from Cargill.
Finally, we have also paid special attention to the development of some sweeteners in China. Mogroside, one natural sweetener extracted from grosvenor momordica, may become one of the most popular natural sweeteners globally in the future. And the performance of China's sucralose industry will be better due to the industry concentration is getting higher.

