Ferric chloride sharply shrinks profit margins
The first is the rapid rise in raw material prices. Since 2008, the domestic market for ferric chloride has become more competitive, and in the situation where the ferric chloride raw material has risen at a relatively high rate, the sales price has gradually increased. In June of this year, the sales price of ferric chloride of some trading companies was between 5,000 and 5,500 yuan (t price, the same below), but the actual sales price was different. The transaction price in East China has reached 3,800 to 4,000 yuan, in northern China. The price is 39,004,100 yuan.
Since the beginning of this year, iron scrap and liquid chlorine have also risen to 3,600 yuan and 1,600 yuan respectively. The prices of these two raw materials have increased by 30% to 40% year-on-year. If the cost of producing ferric chloride per ton of the production enterprise cannot be controlled below 3,000 yuan, the profit margin of the product in 2008 will be reduced by 20% to 30% compared with 2007.
The second is the pressure on the company's environmental protection. It is understood that China's ferric chloride production plant is still in a relatively single' condition. The drawback of this device is that if the control is not good, there will be a slight volatilization of harmful gases, causing adverse effects on the human body. In the context of increasingly stringent environmental protection requirements, ferric chloride companies are extremely careful and strive to strengthen safety and environmental management.
It is understood that in the case where the state of the ferric chloride production facility is not good, the company basically stops immediately and rectifies the device. Therefore, before ferric chloride production achieves further technological transformation, China's ferric chloride enterprises can only touch the stones and carefully develop. It is reported that German scientists are currently revising ferric chloride production facilities. Perhaps this will bring good news to the ferric chloride industry.
Again, the size of the production company. Different. According to a person in charge of a large-scale ferric chloride production company in Shandong, China's ferric chloride production enterprises are mainly located in the central and eastern regions. There are three large-scale ferric chloride producers in China, two in Shandong Province and one in Anhui Province. After a series of expansion, the total ferric chloride production capacity of these three companies has reached 30,000 tons this year.
In addition, several other small companies have a combined capacity of 22,000 tons/year of ferric chloride. Among them, although Shandong Qingdao Jintun Chemical Co., Ltd. currently only has an annual production capacity of 2,000 tons of ferric chloride, the development momentum is promising. In 2008, China had a total of approximately 42,000 tons of ferric chloride production capacity. These enterprises were either started or stopped. When the market price of liquid chlorine was lower than the average price, the ferric chloride production plant was driven; At the average market price, the device will stop.
At present, ferric chloride is mainly used as a water treatment agent, an etching agent for printing plates, an oxidant and a mordant for the dye industry, a catalyst for the organic synthesis industry, and a raw material for producing other iron salts and pigments, as well as for beneficiation and the like. It is reported that at present, domestic iron chloride downstream companies can only digest less than 40,000 tons/year of production capacity. In the face of the harsh reality of oversupply, the three major domestic producers of ferric chloride can only adopt measures to reduce the production burden to cope with the current difficult situation.