Vegetable oil polymer materials have become the focus of research and development at home and abroad. The domestic market is in the early stages of development.

Vegetable oil polymer materials are polymer materials that use vegetable oil as raw material, obtain biopolymer materials or monomers through biological transformation, and then further polymerize them. The development of vegetable oil polymer materials can not only extend the vegetable oil industry chain and increase the added value of vegetable oil products, but also alleviate the shortage of petrochemical resources. Under the strategic goals of carbon neutrality and carbon peaking, vegetable oil polymer materials are expected to gradually replace petroleum-based polymers. Materials, the future market development space is broad.

With the increasing shortage of petroleum resources and increasingly serious environmental pollution, the issue of sustainable development of polymer materials has attracted great attention from governments around the world. How to convert renewable energy into polymer materials and monomers has become a global research and development hotspot. Against this background, the market of bio-based polymer materials has ushered in a good opportunity for development. Vegetable oil polymer materials are a type of bio-based polymer materials and have also been the focus of research and application development at home and abroad in recent years.

According to the “2021-2025 China Vegetable Oil Polymer Materials Industry Market Monitoring and Future Development Prospects Research Report released by the Industrial Research Center It shows that in European and American countries, vegetable oil polymer materials have been used to some extent in the fields of food and drug packaging, drug sustained release, and medical equipment. In contrast, the development level of my country’s vegetable oil polymer materials industry is relatively low and is currently in the process of transitioning from the laboratory to the laboratory. Moving towards the stage of industrial production and large-scale application. At present, the output of vegetable oil polymer materials in my country is far lower than that of petroleum-based polymer materials, and there is broad room for market development in the future.

According to different processing properties, vegetable oil polymer materials can be divided into vegetable oil thermosetting polymer materials and vegetable oil thermoplastic polymer materials. At present, foreign enterprise research mainly focuses on vegetable oil thermosetting polymer materials, such as alkyd resin, polyurethane, epoxy resin, etc. In the international market, companies related to vegetable oil polymer materials include BASF, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Evonik Industries, etc.

At present, bio-based materials have been included in the key tasks of the “14th Five-Year Plan” raw material industry planning. Driven by favorable national policies and enhanced corporate R&D capabilities, my country’s vegetable oil polymer materials industry has also made major breakthroughs in terms of technology R&D, product types, and application scope. At this stage, my country’s enterprises engaged in the research and production of vegetable oil polymer materials include Guangzhou Haierma, Skori New Material Technology, New Jinlong Bio-based Materials, etc.

Industry analysts said that under the strategic goals of carbon neutrality and carbon peaking, the market for vegetable oil polymer materials has broad development space. At present, my country’s vegetable oil polymer material industry is still in the early stages of development. In the future market development, relevant companies still need to further explore aspects such as preparation technology, new variety development, and market applications, while reducing production costs and preparing high-performance industrial products. materials to enhance the market competitiveness of my country’s vegetable oil polymer materials.