The PA Export Quantity Increased Significantly (Jan-Aug, 2017)

Chinese PA Market

The global capacity of phthalic anhydride (PA) is about 6,500kt per year. The PA capacity in China occupies more than 43% by 3,000kt/year. Other manufacturers in the world are mainly located in South Korea, India, the Taiwan area, Thailand and so on. That is to say, China in fact becomes one of the largest producer of PA in the world.

In general, Chinese PA mainly is supplied for domestic market. However, according to the data above, from 2017, the Chinese PA export quantity increased dramatically, while the importing quantity declined greatly. There are several reasons. Firstly, the Chinese PA capacity increased, as some new production line established. Secondly, the environment protection supervision was still strict. As the downstream demand decreased, PA factories sought export opportunities. Lastly, as Chinese real estate industry became soft, the downstream demand for PA was flat. As a result, Chinese PA market started to export.

ECHEMI PA partner

As one of the largest B2B platform, ECHEMI can provide many high-quality suppliers. One of ECHEMI PA partner in China was founded in 2013 and 25% shares are the state owned. The capacity of naphthalene based PA in this factory is 100kt per year. Because of the high quality, we sell PA produced by our partner to North America, Latin America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and ECHEMI has many PA buyers, such as COIM, National Paint etc.