Chlorpyrifos, a broad-spectrum organophosphorus insecticide with its sales volume ranking first in the world, has the effects of contact killing, stomach poisoning and certain fumigant killing against many kinds of pests. At present, Dow Chemical Company is the largest producer of Chlorpyrifos technical, with the production capacity of 50,000t/a in 2004.
China started the production of Chlorpyrifos technical in the 1990s. However, before 2007, overseas Chlorpyrifos, mostly from Dow's Chlorpyrifos, had captured a large market share in China for a long time, over 25% of the total in 2006. Since 2007, the capacity and output of domestic Chlorpyrifos technical have soared in China to scales of tens of thousand tons per year. The homemade Chlorpyrifos has not only replaced imported Chlorpyrifos in the domestic market but also entered the overseas market. What great changes have been made to Chinese Chlorpyrifos industry in 2006~2007? You can find the answer in this report.
Despite the rapid growth of domestic Chlorpyrifos industry, the operation rate of Chlorpyrifos technical producers in China has been rather low, around 40% in recent years. Why the operation rate of Chlorpyrifos technical producers has been so low in recent years? What problems are Chinese Chlorpyrifos producers facing now? What is the consumption situation of Chlorpyrifos in China? These problems are also disclosed in the report.