Polyaluminum chloride market

Since the beginning of this year, the prices of mainstream transactions in the polyaluminum chloride markets in the country have shown a moderate upward trend, and the annual increase has been more than 10%. However, while prices have risen, profits have been declining. Next year, influenced by favorable factors such as policy support and new project demand growth, this phenomenon will change, and the polyaluminum chloride market is expected to usher in a new round of development opportunities.

The gradual increase in product prices was driven by the cost of raw materials, and the sales price of polyaluminum chloride was passively increased. Since the beginning of the year, the feedback from relevant enterprises in Gongyi City, Henan Province, a national water purification agent production base, indicates that the basic raw materials for polyaluminum chloride, aluminum ore and calcium aluminate powders, have generally increased in price, and the profit margin of polyaluminum chloride was originally low. Once again compressed, there is a contrast between good market demand and diminishing profitability. With the advancement of the reform of the national resource tax system, the cost of aluminum ore mining will continue to rise again. Therefore, companies are forced to adjust the sales price of polyaluminum chloride, of which more than 28% of polyaluminum chloride has been raised from the previous year's 1,450 yuan (t price, the same below) to the current 1,600 yuan, an increase of 10.3%. Affected by this, the market will continue to show a gradual upward trend next year.

According to Yuan Guoping, head of the Ding Dong Water Treatment Material Factory in Gongyi City, except for factors such as upstream promotion and demand growth, the increase in the price of high-content products is one of the main reasons for the mild rise in the overall market. Information from Guangzhou, where more polyaluminum chloride is consumed in the country, shows that the demand for high-content polyaluminum chloride (above 28%) has been increasing since the beginning of this year, and the market transaction price has also been greatly improved, and there has been a good increase in volume increase prices. momentum. This phenomenon has been reflected in Jiangxi, Fujian and Jiangsu.

Application areas gradually opened It is understood that the requirements of local environmental protection departments to improve sewage discharge standards is one of the main reasons for promoting the popularization of water purification products. The increase in sewage discharge standards has led to a demand for water purifying agents on the one hand, and has also led to higher prices for high-content products on the other.

Next year, the sewage treatment projects of many chemical companies will be put into use, providing a good market development opportunity for polyaluminum chloride. In the past two years, various large-scale chemical projects have been established in Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and other major provinces of resources, including coal chemical industry, chlor-alkali, dyes, and pesticides. According to the construction node, there will be nearly 100 billion yuan next year. The project will be put into production, of which the sewage treatment is an indispensable and important part, and the associated sewage treatment facilities will also be put into operation one after another. In addition, last year some industrial parks in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Shandong, and Henan provinces began to integrate sewage treatment and build large-scale sewage treatment plants, which are expected to be put into operation one after another next year. Demand for polyaluminium chloride, activated carbon and other water purifiers will have a big increase.

According to incomplete statistics, the current domestic polyaluminum chloride is mainly used for sewage treatment, accounting for 70% to 80%. Due to the high requirements on the purity of water purifying agents and the high unit price, the proportion of polyaluminum chloride used in drinking water is not as high. As people's awareness of environmental protection increases, and the country's requirements for drinking water quality standards increase, the demand for high-quality polyaluminum chloride for drinking water in the future will increase significantly. In addition, the urban renovation project in the past two years has been widely carried out throughout the country. In addition to the expansion of old water plants, there are many new water-supply plants and reservoir renovation projects that require large amounts of polyaluminum chloride products.

Policy support factors increased This year, due to factors such as weakening international markets and domestic macro-control, industries such as real estate, dyes, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides have been greatly affected. The operating rate of chemical companies that use more polyaluminum chloride has generally declined. The demand for polyaluminum chloride did not reach the expected growth effect. However, as the international market gradually stabilizes, the operating rate of domestic chemical companies is expected to increase, which will drive the growth of demand for polyaluminum chloride.

In the next year, economic policies will advance steadily and policy support factors will increase. It is understood that the Central Economic Work Conference that ended on December 14 has set the tone for steady progress in economic work next year. Among them, efforts to strengthen energy-saving and emission-reduction work and promote coordinated regional development have been listed as one of the key tasks, which has provided policy support for the control of sewage discharge of large quantities of water purification agent products. At the same time, the Central Economic Work Conference also proposed to continue to raise the level of opening up to the outside world and promote trade balance next year. Both will form a policy favorable for the export of polyaluminum chloride.

In addition, this year's earthquake in Japan, international and domestic oil spill incidents caused by oil spills, etc., gave the world a wake-up call and awareness of global water conservation will gradually increase. The future use of water purification agents to purify water sources has become an inevitable trend. A person in charge of a company specialized in the production of potable water purification agents in Gongyi City told reporters: “Right now, people in rural areas have draughts at home, and our polychlorinated aluminum products have to be regularly put in water tanks to purify water quality, which shows that the people are aware of environmental protection. The transition from perceptual to practical actions is certainly a good development opportunity for polyaluminum chloride companies."