Analysis of Market Situation of China's Sodium Chloride Industry in 2012
June 07, 2018
1, salt chemical industry production. In the past ten years, due to the rapid development of China's salt chemical industry and downstream industries, the demand for raw salt in China has also rapidly increased.
2. Consumption structure. China's salt chemical industry accounted for 73% (mainly soda ash and chlor-alkali, commonly known as "two alkalis"), *** accounted for 16%, and other salt accounted for 11%. Salt chemical industry is the decisive factor in the development of China's salt industry. Compared with developed countries, the salt consumption structure in China is mainly reflected in excessive salt consumption in salt chemical industry; the consumption ratio of road snow removal and other industries is too low (US snowmelt consumption is 19 million tons); the proportion of direct consumption of brine is too low (such as the United States Achieved 51%), and China's liquid salt consumption ratio is only about 10%, showing that China's salt industry's product structure is not reasonable.
3, there is a problem. First, the product structure is relatively simple. The development of high value-added products such as highway snow, livestock husbandry, water treatment, bath salts, and high-purity industrial salt has not expanded and satisfies market demands in terms of quantity, variety, quality, and other aspects. In particular, the development and utilization of liquid salts is still at a relatively low level, and the salt production only accounts for 12% of the total production of wells and salt. The deep processing series of brine chemical products, such as potassium magnesium fertilizers, flame retardants, pesticides, pharmaceutical intermediates, etc. have not yet formed scale and industrialization. The second is the low level of resource utilization. At present, the salt production industry is still mainly based on a single salt industry, and the resource utilization rate is very low.
The salt chemical industry in China that uses salt as its raw material is mainly "two alkalis". The development of "two alkalis" has stimulated the development of the salt industry. In recent years, due to continuous expansion of industries such as soda ash and caustic soda, the consumption of industrial salt has been rising, and supply has tightened and prices have risen. However, due to the demand for production, coupled with the continuous dry climate in northern China in recent years, the production of sea salt has increased. Moreover, due to the expansion of lake salt and well salt, the supply of salt in China is generally in balance between supply and demand, and prices have steadily increased. Therefore, China's salt resources can meet the needs of the long-term rapid development of the salt industry, and many provinces and cities have the resource conditions for the development of salt production and salt chemical industry.
