The domestic situation of formic acid

China began to use from the 1989 production of sodium formate, as of April 2008 statistics, a total of more than 60 manufacturers, with a total installed capacity of about 350 000 t / a, which Feicheng Acid Chemicals Company (60,000 t / a ), Nanjing YPC joint unit (50,000 t / a), Jinan Chemical (20,000 t / a) and Xin'an Chemical (10,000 t / a) hydrolysis process using methyl formate, sodium formate method process the rest are , lower level of production, material and energy consumption is higher. Chinese calendar formic acid consumption increased year by year. Domestic market consumption of formic acid is about 150 000 t, which consumes 50% of the proportion of the pharmaceutical, chemical 15%, 13% of pesticides, rubber chemicals 9%, other 13%.

Formic acid is one of China's traditional export products, of which 80% exported to Southeast Asian countries, 12% export to Europe, the rest of Oceania. In recent years, China's export volume of formic acid increased rapidly, especially in the larger export growth rate nearly two years.

With the vigorous development of China's animal husbandry, and formic acid as a silage crop storage agents, preservatives will have a larger potential market. With the domestic attaches great importance to environmental protection, such as formic acid in tanning and dyeing industry in the application better market prospects. Some foreign companies have started to shift to China formic acid production, such as BASF and Chinese joint venture in Nanjing built Yamba 50,000 t / a formic acid unit, has become a large-scale joint device Nanjing petrochemical part of the U.S. company also put AAT production of formic acid shifted its focus to China. Therefore, China's small device using sodium formate process may face competitive pressures, the need to continuously improve the level of production, reduce material consumption, energy consumption, improve product quality, in order to improve the overall level of Chinese production of formic acid.

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