Production and Market of Aniline and Nitrobenzene in China_Report

The demand for aniline has kept increasing in recent three years. More aniline companies chose to set their office and plants in China, especially eastern China. Consumption of aniline in China, a report released by CCM in Jan 2011, points out that it becomes a trend for Chinese aniline producers to set their bases in eastern China, for it has the advantages of rich resources of downstream product manufacturers. According to this report, four MDI producers and most rubber ingredients, dyestuff and pigment are concentrated in East China, taking up about 80% of the aniline consumption market in China. It is possible to make full use of the advantages of regions for the rapid transportation and cost reduction. Based on the development of MDI, the major consumption market for aniline, CCM’s report forecasts a trend of aniline industrial agglomeration in East China.