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BPA Domestic Market Profile

BPA is produce in catalyst reaction with phenol and acetone as raw material, BPA products are mainly useful as polycarbonate (PC) and epoxy resin (EP) for production of raw materials.

The BPA market demand in China are cross the following:

• Liaoning, Hunan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Anhui Province in Eastern China, currently the main BPA producter is the following four company;
• China Lanxing New Material Company in East China(9+2.5+1.6)ten thousand ton/year;
• Bayer China, two production lines(10+10)ten thousand ton/year, SSMC 12ten thousand ton/year;
• Guangdong Zongxin Chemical Inductry Company Ltd. In south China 2.5ten thousand ton/year.

According to market research results, domestic market for the needs of Bisphenol A is as follows ：

• In the year of 2014,0.6Million tons(including 0.18million tons of PC),0.42 million tons is from import
• In the year of 2015,0.76Million tons(including 0.17million tons of PC),0.51 million tons is from import
• Predict: the year of 2016,0.83 Million tons(including 0.28million tons of PC),0.45 million tons is from import

Indicate by the data above: there was a certain scale BPA production plant over the past two or three years, the BPA almost are dependented on import from LG and Kumho from Korean; The Mitsui, Mitsubishi from Japanese, Mitsui in Singapore, and chemical company from Russia, the United States, European. The quantity and prices of BPA from oversea has a great impact and influence on the domestic market in China .

In the current market of BPA, the quality of BPA is marked as either polycarbonate grade or epoxy grade, The former one is useful as raw materials of all PC and EP's production. The latter applies only as raw materials of low end liquid EP and solid EP.

The Global Profile of BPA

• Anticipate 2016 Bisphenol-A in world production the ability will attain 5.946 million t/a, the Bisphenol-A in world produces ability for year all growth rate to maintain in 6.4%.
• Asia will become world's biggest Bisphenol-A production and consumption region, the production ability will attain 3.046 million t/a, take up 51.2% of total productivity in the world.