Butylene oxide production capacity is highly concentrated and BASF occupies a major market share

Compared with imported products, domestic butylene oxide products have no advantages in terms of purity, quality, production cost, etc. Therefore, downstream customers tend to choose imported products, resulting in a decline in sales of butylene oxide in my country and a reduction in the number of companies in the industry. . At this stage, my country’s butylene oxide market demand still relies on imports. Related domestic production companies include Guangzhou Dayou Fine Chemicals, Sinopec Yanshan Branch, Wuhan Lanabai Pharmaceutical Chemicals, etc.

Butylene oxide, also known as 1,2-butylene oxide, butylene oxide, etc., is a chemical substance with a three-membered ring structure. Butylene oxide appears as a colorless liquid, is flammable, highly toxic, and can explode when mixed with air. Butylene oxide is an important chemical raw material, mainly used in the manufacture of intermediates and polymers, such as butylene carbonate, 1,2-butanediol, etc. At the same time, butylene oxide is also 1,1,1-tris Stabilizer for ethyl chloride and other chlorinated solvents, its downstream application areas involve synthetic rubber, plastics, surfactants and other fields.

According to the “2021-2025 Butylene Oxide Industry Market In-depth Research and Investment Prospects Forecast Analysis Report released by the Industrial Research Center In recent years, the new production capacity of butylene oxide has been limited, and the market is in a slow growth trend. In 2020, the global butylene oxide market revenue will reach more than 62 million US dollars. It is expected that the global butylene oxide market revenue will reach 80 million US dollars in 2025. Dollar. Butylene oxide production capacity is highly concentrated. Globally, butylene oxide production capacity mainly comes from BASF.

Butylene oxide has a wide range of downstream applications, but because butylene oxide is a hazardous chemical, flammable, explosive, and toxic, it limits the expansion of its application fields to a certain extent. In 2017, 1,2-butylene oxide was included in the list of Category 2B carcinogens by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer. Against the background of increasingly high environmental protection and safety requirements, butylene oxide has limited room for market development.

my country’s butylene oxide production process is still dominated by the chlorohydrin process. Hypochlorous acid is first used to chlorohydrin butene-1, and then epoxidation is performed to obtain butylene oxide products. The chlorohydrin process causes serious environmental pollution. In recent years, under the background of increasingly strict safety and environmental protection and the optimization and adjustment of industrial structure, the market has increased restrictions on the chlorohydrin process. Butylene oxide is an important epoxy compound. With the development and application of new processes and catalysts, butylene oxide raw materials and production technology will show a diversified development trend in the future.

Industry analysts said that butylene oxide production capacity is highly concentrated. Globally, BASF occupies the main market share, and my country’s market Still dependent on imports. Butylene oxide is an important epoxy compound. Under the increasingly stringent dual-carbon and environmental protection requirements, the butylene oxide market is bound to undergo transformation and upgrading. As the production process continues to be optimized, the butylene oxide industry will Upgrade to the direction of integration and environmental protection.