Year-end summary: titanium dioxide industry in 2014 to keep and aftertaste
2015.03.03 09:44Since this spring, affected by the real estate recovery, titanium pigment in China exports soared, titanium dioxide prices rising steadily. But since entering the fourth quarter, the global value chain into the continuous decline in market price channel, a record low. European and north American chain, market prices are also falling. Back in 2014 the price of titanium dioxide, which experiences and enlightenment will bring us?
Supply and demand determine the price at home and abroad demand
Affect the price of titanium dioxide is the main reason of the supply and demand situation. In early 2014, China's exports of titanium dioxide. Month from monthly data for 50000 tons, some even more than 50000 tons. Exports, on the one hand, the reason is foreign real estate recovery, demand; On the other hand, the domestic titanium dioxide that the quality of the product is gradually accepted by the international market, at the same time because its price is lower, led to the 2014 titanium dioxide has boosted exports, the situation in the future is expected to become a new normal.
The titanium dioxide industry will usher in the spring? Here we have to think about the Chinese market. Titanium dioxide actual production for the first time in China, 2013, 2 million tons, 2.155 million tons, an increase of 14%, accounting for about a third of the global total, has surpassed the United States for several years, is the world's largest titanium dioxide producer and consumer. In 2014 in China's real estate business started to enter the cyclical adjustment, the market gradually cool, investment growth is expected to drop to around 10%. The real estate market slump, directly lead to the demand of titanium dioxide has fallen dramatically. Weaker domestic demand, it is containing titanium pigment into the process of price increases, the reason in our country, in the third quarter of 2014 years ago, titanium white price fluctuation is not big.
Exports rose does not mean that demand, the demand of titanium dioxide must be comprehensive foreign demand and domestic demand of the international and domestic considerations. In November, the demand of titanium dioxide into traditional off-season, chanting is also becoming a low price, most enterprises opened on trip, over half the price basis of this, the cumulative increase 2000 yuan/ton, up to the end of November, has been consumed by more than half the price need to half a year, the price as long as a month, so "waterfall" falling prices make manufacturers pressure non-small, together with the end of the receivable is very urgent, big companies depreciate downward to influence obviously, titanium pigment market seems to be in the fourth quarter of 2014 than winter "cold".
Capacity significantly improve enterprise inventory rapidly accumulating
Global titanium white production concentration is very high, by the end of 2013 before seven supplier holds the titanium white production capacity 4.01 million tons, accounting for 55.6% of global capacity, in addition to outside China miscarried could total about 400000 tons, while China after capacity expansion in recent years, titanium white production capacity has both over the United States, become the world's first major producer of titanium pigment, the titanium white production capacity of 2.8 million tons in 2013, accounting for 38.8% of the world's total capacity.
2006-2006, our country titanium white production capacity from 1.14 million tons to 2.8 million tons, annual average growth rate of 13.7%, productivity growth was rapid, formed the low end of the severe overcapacity, the phenomenon of high capacity. In 2013, China's production of titanium dioxide 2013 tons, up 13.47% from a year earlier. But according to the data show that by the end of 2013 titanium dioxide social inventory is about 300000 tons, from the beginning of 2013 titanium dioxide social inventory 5-100000 tons, to conclude that the 2013 domestic titanium dioxide real demand in 170-1.75 million tons, new capacity on the yield increment of failed to be effectively digest, business inventories accumulate quickly.
Get breakthrough chlorination process titanium pigment industry is good
From the production process, the global mainly include sulfuric acid method and the chlorination process titanium pigment production of two kinds of technology. The chlorination process titanium pigment production technology for a short process flow, large capacity, high product quality, pollution emissions and other significant advantages and developing rapidly, is already very mature in the international advanced technology, abroad since the 1980 s, titanium white production line adopts the technology of the new production line for the mainstream. At present, about 60% of titanium white production is using the chlorination process.
For a long time, the chemical giant on the chlorination process titanium pigment production technology abroad highly blockade and monopoly, the domestic existing sulfuric acid method for titanium white production capacity has reached the design capacity of 2.8 million tons, of which about 2 million tons of production capacity for nearly a decade, and distributed in dozens of manufacturers. Enterprise to small and medium-sized enterprises, low industrial concentration is obvious, the product mainly to mid-range, homogenized competition is intense. High-end products demand is still dependent on imports, imports around 200000 tons every year.
In 2014, the situation has improved, the domestic the chlorination process of titanium white is "prosperous". Recently, according to titanium dioxide industry, the domestic has 6 companies have mastered the chlorination process titanium white technology, and launched the chlorination process titanium white project construction, the end of the jinzhou titanium industry alone more than 10 years of history. At present domestic boiling chlorination process in the trial production titanium white plant 30000 tons/year of jinzhou titanium industry, yunnan new 60000 tons/year and 60000 tons/year of luohe hing mau first phase of the project, the late follow up henan hundred of 60000 tons/year project. The luo river hing mau titanium industry development is rapid, at present has entered a stage of large-scale normal production. The development of the domestic chlorination process of titanium white industry will play a positive role in promoting.