The lack of production in the domestic market requires optimistic outlook for ethylene oxide

According to the latest news, China Sanjiang Chemical will invest in a production facility with an annual production capacity of 200,000 metric tons of ethylene oxide production in the Haiyan Economic Development Zone in Zhejiang Province.

Due to the large market demand and insufficient domestic production capacity, currently China's ethylene oxide production is insufficient. China Sanjiang Chemical's investment in the construction of ethylene oxide projects will have good prospects for development. According to relevant data, it is expected that by 2012, China's consumption of ethylene oxide will reach about 6.8 million tons, while domestic ethylene oxide production capacity is only 4.7 million tons, the market gap is larger.

In recent years, with the continuous growth of China’s economy and the improvement of people’s living standards, industries such as daily chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, textiles, printing and dyeing, rubber, and papermaking have developed rapidly. Non-ionic surfactants, polyether polyols The market demand for ethylene oxide-derived products such as ethanolamines, choline chloride, and pharmaceutical intermediates has greatly increased, which has driven the demand for ethylene oxide in China.

However, with the increase of ethylene oxide market demand, there is a certain bottleneck in the market supply of ethylene oxide in China. At present, the related technology of ethylene oxide in China is relatively backward, and the growth rate of ethylene oxide production capacity is slow compared with the demand growth rate. Moreover, because ethylene oxide is not easy to transport long distances and other issues, China's imports of ethylene oxide is also very small. Therefore, the market supply of ethylene oxide in China cannot fully meet the needs of the domestic market.

Ethylene oxide is mainly used in the production of non-ionic surfactants, polyether polyols, ethanolamines, choline chloride, pharmaceutical intermediates, etc. It has been widely used in daily chemicals, petrochemicals, and pharmaceuticals. , pesticides, textiles, printing and dyeing, rubber, papermaking and other fields.