Titanium dioxide market runs smoothly

The 2018 National Titanium Dioxide Industry Annual Meeting, co-sponsored by the National Chemical Industry Productivity Promotion Center Titanium White Center, Titanium Dioxide Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance and China Coatings Industry Association Titanium Dioxide Branch, was held in Sichuan recently. The experts at the meeting believed that the titanium dioxide industry entered a period of steady development this year.

According to Bi Sheng, director of the Titanium Dioxide Center of the National Chemical Industry Productivity Promotion Center, China's titanium dioxide industry has gradually adjusted from the peak of 2016 to 2017 after entering the predicament at the end of 2015, and entered the normal development period. The overall operation of this year is good.

Bi Sheng pointed out that although environmental protection supervision has become stricter this year, most enterprises, especially large and medium-sized enterprises, have relatively complete environmental protection facilities and clean production plans, which are relatively less affected by environmental protection. From January to August, the estimated output of titanium dioxide in the whole industry is about 2 million tons, up about 4% year-on-year; the total annual output will reach 3.1 million tons, an increase of 250,000 to 300,000 tons.

Bi Sheng said that this year's new capacity of titanium dioxide will be less than 200,000 tons, which will further increase the capacity utilization rate. The average operating rate of the whole industry is expected to reach over 92%.

It is understood that this year China's titanium dioxide industry comprehensive production capacity will reach about 3.4 million tons / year. Among them, the newly added capacity mainly includes 100,000 tons/year of Gansu Oriental Titanium, which is owned by China National Nuclear Titanium, 30,000 tons/year of Guangxi Xiqiao Chemical, and 40,000 tons/year of Longjing Lilian Chlorination. 170,000 tons / year.

From the market point of view, this year is relatively flat. Although many companies have raised prices, the lack of downstream support has made the market reaction unrelenting and has not continued to rise.