Market Flash

Nutraceutical ingredients from the ocean are changing. Innovative companies and research institutes are looking for new solutions to old 'drugs', for example, in some cases re-engineering well-known ingredients.

• Marine functional food

On May 24, the average price of domestic LNG was 6,666 CNY/ton, down 3.50% from the price of 6,908 CNY/ton on last Tuesday (17th), and up 92.47% compared with the same period last year.

• LNG

On May 19, 2022, Beijing time, the World Health Organization released information on its official website, officially listing CanSino Bio’s recombinant covid-19 vaccine

• CanSino
• covid-19 vaccine

This week, the domestic potassium sulfate market has risen from a high level, and the spot price has generally continued to rise.

• Potassium sulfate

On May 21, the U.S. FDA announced that it approved the expanded indication of Dupixent (dupilumab), a blockbuster IL-4/IL-13 inhibitor jointly developed by Sanofi and Regeneron

• Anti-inflammatory

Gene Therapy is the use of genetic material to treat or prevent diseases—often rare, inherited disorders that can be life-threatening or debilitating and have limited treatment options.

• gene therapy

A few days ago, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended that European countries suspend the use of about 100 generic drugs.

• EMA
• generic drug

The latest April report released by ANRPC predicts that global natural rubber production is expected to increase by 13.6% to 941,000 tons in April; natural rubber consumption is expected to increase slightly by 0.3% to 1.21 million tons.

• natural rubber

According to FiercePharma statistics, the list of TOP20 companies with total revenue in 2021 has been released.

• mRNA
• covid-19 vaccine

As of May 18, 2022, the average ex-factory price of domestic industrial-grade propylene glycol is 12,200 CNY/ton. Compared with the price on May 14, 2022

• Propylene Glycol

Recently, a study from the team of Professor Zhang Xumei and Associate Professor Liu Huan of Tianjin Medical University, and the research team of Professor Zhang Xuguang of By-Health Nutrition and Health Research Institute found for the first time

• Astaxanthin

Aspartame, as a conventional sweetener, has a wide range of applications, involves many varieties, and has a relatively stable market size.

• Aspartame
• sweetener

According to the latest data from Minet.com, in 2021, the sales of terminal blood lipid regulator chemical drugs in China's online pharmacies will be close to 580 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 70.86%.

• Blood lipid lowering
• drug

Recently, Tianyuan Group issued a price adjustment letter, saying that starting from May 17, for the domestic market, the sales price of different brands of chlorinated titanium dioxide will be increased by 500 CNY/ton

• chemicals
• Titanium Dioxide

The average domestic liquid caprolactam market price was RMB 13,966 per tonne on May 9 and RMB 14,233 per tonne on May 16. Caprolactam prices rose by 1.91%.

• Caprolactam

On May 16, Anke Bio announced that the company and Afana recently signed a formal "cooperation agreement", and reached a consensus on the development and industrialization of "COVID-19 Omicron and other mutant mRNA vaccines".

• Vaccines
• covid-19
• Omicron

According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on May 16, from January to April, the national fixed asset investment (excluding farmers) was 15,354.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.8%.

• statistics
• chemicals

On May 16, CNNC Titanium Dioxide (002145.SZ) issued an announcement. According to the recent market demand for titanium dioxide, the company's price committee decided to comprehensively increase the sales price of various types of titanium dioxide

• Titanium Dioxide

According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on May 16, in April, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size fell by 2.9% year-on-year and 7.08% month-on-month.

• statistics
• chemical

The domestic liquid ammonia market continued to push up. Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi and other northern regions have strong increases, ranging from 200-500 CNY/ton.

• Urea
• liquid ammonia