The industry's prosperity is improving, and China's organic silicon production capacity will continue to expand
According to statistics from Zhuo Chuang Information, China's organic silicon monomer production capacity continued to expand from 2013 to 2017, and it remained at 3.09 million tons per year in 2018. In 2019-2020, as new organic silicon monomer production capacity continues to be put into production, organic silicon monomer production Production capacity is showing an upward trend. According to statistics from Baichuan Yingfu, as of the end of 2020, China's organic silicon monomer production capacity reached 3.325 million tons per year (including foreign capital and joint venture production capacity).
The industry's prosperity is improving, and China's organic silicon production capacity will continue to expand
According to statistics from Zhuo Chuang Information, China's organic silicon monomer production capacity continued to expand from 2013 to 2017 and remained at 3.09 million tons per year in 2018. From 2019 to 2020, as the new production capacity of organic silicon monomers is put into production one after another, the production capacity of organic silicon monomers is showing an upward trend.
According to statistics from Baichuan Yingfu, as of the end of 2020, China's organic silicon monomer production capacity reached 3.325 million tons per year (including foreign capital and joint venture production capacity).
In organosilicon, polysiloxane composed of silicon-oxygen bonds as the skeleton accounts for more than 90% of the total amount. In a narrow sense, organosilicon materials mainly refer to polysiloxanes. According to SAGSI statistics, China's polysiloxane production capacity in 2019 was 1.423 million tons/year.
At present, the per capita consumption of organic silicon in my country is less than 1kg. Compared with the per capita consumption of organic silicon in developed countries and regions such as Europe, America and Japan, it is close to 2kg. In the future, my country has great room for growth. China's polysiloxane production capacity is expected to reach 1.443 million tons in 2020, an increase of 1.4% year-on-year.
China's organic silicon capacity utilization rate has increased rapidly
From 2008 to 2010, the explosive growth of the production capacity of the domestic organic silicon industry, superimposed on the large gap between the technological level of domestic organic silicon enterprises and foreign countries, led to the low utilization rate of the overall industry capacity.
With the gradual digestion of excess capacity, technological advancement in the industry, and the improvement of enterprise process management level, based on the output and capacity of polysiloxane calculated by SAGSI, the overall capacity utilization rate of my country's industry has increased significantly from 42.31% in 2010. To 82.92% in 2019, it is expected that by 2020, my country's polysiloxane capacity utilization rate will further increase to 85%.
Jiangxi Xinghuo and Xin'an Chemical rank first in silicone production capacity
According to public information, as of the end of 2020, my country's organic silicon monomer production capacity reached 3.375 million tons, equivalent to 1.6875 million tons of rings. Among them, Jiangxi Xinghuo and Xin'an Chemical have the largest production capacity, reaching 500,000 tons per year.
In the future, China's organic silicon production capacity will increase at least 6.64 million tons per year
According to incomplete and forward-looking statistics, as of December 2020, the planned production capacity of organic silicon monomer projects under construction in China has been disclosed at 6.64 million tons per year, and the disclosed investment amount has reached 43.375 billion yuan.
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2026-07-27
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