中国酸度调节剂季报

Welcome to Acidity Regulator Quarterly China Report-Q2 2022.

Lactic acid (LA) industry:

The EIA of Golden Far East's 100,000 t/a lactide / PLA and 200,000 t/a LA project and the EIA statement (resubmission) of Tiger Biotech's 25,000 t/a recycled LA project were publicised.

Citric acid industry:

CBFIA made public the Industrial Standard for Citrate Anhydrous (Exposure Draft).

The EIA documents of 1,000 t/a potassium citrate and sodium citrate (for IMF use) project of RZBC Boyuan were approved by local government.

Sodium gluconate (SG) industry:

The EIA reports of BBCA Biochemical's 50,000 t/a SG project and another project of 10,000 t/a SG and 20,000 t/a L-alanine were released to the public.

In Q2 2022, the prices of citric acids remained high, the quarterly average ex-works prices of monohydrate citric acid and anhydrous citric acid were USD2,299/t (RMB15,373/t) and USD2,467 t/a (RMB16,498 t/a), respectively.

The USD/CNY exchange rate in this period is 6.6863, sourced from the People's Bank of China on 1 July, 2022. Except for special instructions, all prices involved in this period include VAT.