The report looks at the changes of China’s glyphosate industry that happened in recent two years, and will occur in the near future. The production, consumption, import & export, distribution situation of glyphosate in China is extensively researched. In addition, the report paid much attention to the raw materials, intermediate product including NPMIDA, and information about them is chiefly analyzed.
The capacity of glyphosate in China is seriously superfluous. To 2006, the capacity of glyphosate technical has exceeded 200,000t/a, while, the operation rate was only 50%. What has affected China's glyphosate supply?
The growth history of Chinese glyphosate industry, together with the endeavor that Chinese people input to improve the production technology, has shown to the world that China will play an important role in the world market in the future, even to become the world manufacturing base.
The fast increasing production volume in the past years has shown the competitiveness of Chinese manufacturers especially the big ones like Zhejiang Xin’an, Zhenjiang Jiangnan, Nantong Jiangshan and Fujian Sannong, as well as their aggressive attitude in dominating the world market. They have come from initially smaller factories to the ones enjoying economies of mass scale production.
Chinese glyphosate industry has turned from domestic-oriented to export oriented, and the product species range from solution form, to technical grade material until WP forms.
At last, glyphosate technical has become a commodity product in China. This is attributed to a few factors.
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At present, IDA pathway relies on the imported DEA as raw material. The antidumping issue on imported DEA is worsening the situation of players who use IDA pathway. However, some changes that are worthy of attention happened recently.
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It is well-known that the development of worldwide glyphosate industry is closely connected with the popularization of genetically modified glyphosate tolerant crops. While, in China the planting area of GMCs is currently small and the only variety is genetically modified pest tolerant cotton. Therefore, players who follow glyphosate industry of China should attach more importance to any changes about GMCs that will happen in the future.