2022yearRussian-Ukraine conflict broke out, European energy crisis, the new crown continued to rage, high inflation in Europe and the United States, the Fed raised interest rates aggressively, and the global economy is facing recession. Propylene oxide– The polyether polyol industry chain is also facing heavy losses,2022Apparent consumption of polyether polyols decreased in 20228.3%.
2019-2022Apparent consumption and growth rate of domestic polyether polyols in 2010 (10,000 tons,%)
Polyether listed company Lucontinued release2022Annual performance report, net profit decline18%-34%The severe situation cannot be tolerated optimism. Inventory competition, market sinking, and product extension seeking new profit growth points are the key for companies to break through in the post-epidemic era. It is also conducive to the sustainable development of enterprises and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises themselves.
4month10day, Wanhua Chemical released500t/year isopropanolamine (IPAM) The environmental impact report draft of the industrialization test project is publicized.
Isopropanolamine is a monoisopropanolamine (MIPA), Diisopropanolamine (DIPA), Triisopropanolamine (TIPA), is a kind of fine chemical raw material with green environmental protection and excellent performance, which is widely used in synthetic surface Active agent, industrial and civil cleaning agent, desulfurization agent in oil and gas refining, curing agent, cement admixture, pharmaceutical and pesticide intermediates, titanium dioxide, metal cutting, electronic cleaning, propylenediamine, coatings and other industries, diethanol mono Isopropanolamine (modified isopropanolamine) is mainly used in the field of cement additives (grinding aids), facing the cement market.
Isopropanolamine manufacturers are mainly concentrated in China, Germany, the United States and other countries, such as BASF in Germany, Dow Chemical in the United States, etc. At present, there are only a dozen companies in the world that can produce isopropanolamine , Domestic Hongbaoli has independent intellectual property rights of isopropanolamine, adopts supercritical technology, and has a large scale of production equipment 410,000 tons/years, the scale of a single set of devices exceeds the aforementioned Production enterprises, and another plant scale of diethanol monoisopropanolamine5Ten thousand tons/years, total capacity scale9 tons. Even though there is no first-mover advantage, Wanhua relies on its strong R&D capabilities and capital investment, relying on its own propylene oxide/ Ethylene oxide–polyether polyol–The integrated advantages of the whole industry chain of isopropanolamine have overcome difficulties all the way, and will highlight its advantages in higher-end research and development and differentiated applications in the later stage Advantage.
Isopropanolamine consumer markets are mainly concentrated in Europe, America, Africa, the Middle East, China, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Taiwan and other countries and regions. With the development of society and economy, the advantages of China’s entire industrial chain are becoming more and more obvious , China’s huge consumer market has attracted some countries’ industries to transfer to China, such as Japan and South Korea’s electronic semiconductor industry. Isopropanolamine has a cleaning effect and has begun to be used in the domestic semiconductor electronics field. Some new applications, such as disinfectant hand sanitizers; increased demand for propylenediamine in textile consumption, etc., market demand has driven the prosperity of the isopropanolamine industry.
In the future, with the further enhancement of the economic and environmental awareness of isopropanolamine from all walks of life in the society, the implementation of national carbon neutral planning, energy conservation and emission reduction policies will continue to increase, as well as technological progress, isopropanolamine Many functions of alcoholamine will be better utilized, its new technology and new application will be developed, its application will be further broadened, and the consumption demand of isopropanolamine will continue to increase. For example, in the future, domestic desulfurization standards will be improved, the cement industry will reduce production capacity, and new energy will apply to isopropanolamine.
From a global perspective, isopropanolamine is more environmentally friendly than similar products such as ethanolamine. Isopropanolamine started relatively late, while ethanolamine consumes a large amount of the world. Countries around the world are paying more and more attention to environmental issues, and are gradually restricting the application of ethanolamine as an industrial raw material. For example, developed countries such as the United States, Japan, and Western Europe have issued the “Pollutant Discharge and Transfer Registration System”, which lists ethanolamine as a harmful substance and prohibits ethanolamine from being used in certain industries. used in some fields. Isopropanolamine shares some of the same properties as ethanolamine and can be used as a substitute in more and more consumer areas where ethanolamine used to be.
China’s cement production capacity is huge, triisopropanolamine and diethanol mono The role of isopropanolamine products is beneficial to cement production enterprises to reduce production energy consumption, improve product quality and production efficiency. More and more cement production enterprises have used it, and the development space of isopropanolamine industry in the future is broad.