Titanium dioxide industry "remove capacity" and release advanced capacity seek balance

Since the beginning of this year, the price of titanium dioxide in the domestic market has continued to rise. The recent mainstream quoted price of sulfuric acid-based rutile titanium dioxide has exceeded 14,000 yuan/ton, which has stimulated the release of production capacity. The titanium dioxide industry is seeking a balance between “de-capacity” and “release of advanced capacity”.

In the beginning of the thirteenth five-year plan, since the beginning of the year, the titanium dioxide market has continued to rise and has gradually shown to stimulate the release of domestic production capacity. According to customs data, the volume of exports from January to August this year reached 477,496.35 tons, an increase of 33.7% year-on-year. Against the backdrop of favorable exports and strengthened national environmental protection, “de-stocking” was immediately achieved, and “decapacity” was implemented. The reduction of inventory and the reduction of production capacity fundamentally drove the market price this year. When the market price of sulphuric acid-based rutile titanium dioxide recovered to 1,300-15,000 yuan/ton, the market price of sulphuric astragali rose to a breakthrough of 10,000 yuan/ton, for enterprises that experienced last year's "cold" production cuts and production cuts, Whether full-scale production resumes or continues to be suspended is the focus of industry and companies.

“De-capacity” is aimed at lagging, non-compliance of environmental protection, and high-cost production capacity. When the market needs to improve to release “advanced production capacity”, how to find a “balance point” between inhibiting backward production capacity and releasing advanced production capacity? Only the enterprise self-discipline, the relevant functional departments to strengthen the supervision of the industry to prevent backwardness, environmental protection, non-compliance, high-cost production capacity by the market rebound.

According to the forecast of the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” of China's paint industry, the output of paint will maintain a growth rate of 7% in the next five years, and the estimated growth rate of titanium dioxide production will be around 4-5% in the next five years. Based on this estimate, titanium dioxide production will be calculated from 2,323,600 tons in 2015, and it is expected that the output will increase to about 3 million tons in 2020. According to statistics from the Titanium Dioxide Industry Association, there were 3.096 million tons of existing production capacity in 2015 and 1.255 million tons of capacity under construction. Although, in the titanium dioxide industry in 2015, a certain amount of capacity reduction and abandonment of investment caused the overall capacity to shrink, but the excess capacity in the industry is still a prominent problem in the industry. “To improve quality” is to optimize the product structure in the thirteenth five-year plan. The magic weapon for survival during the period.

While strengthening regulation of the industry, the government will use the market to automatically regulate and fully utilize the positive role of coordination between the government, enterprises, and enterprises of the industry associations. It will be necessary to control the industry's reasonable and healthy development to lag behind the production capacity. According to the 13th Five-Year Plan of the industry, the The total integrated energy consumption of “clean production” for the production of titanium dioxide is reduced by 20% compared with the end of the “Twelfth Five-year Plan”; the utilization rate of ferrous sulfate is 100%, and the utilization rate of gypsum is more than 80%. Titanium dioxide enterprises must be strictly enforced. With national policies and industry regulations, the entire industry can enter reasonable and lasting development during the 13th Five-Year period.

The National Bureau of Statistics spokesperson and director of the National Economic Statistics Division Sheng Laiyun stated on the 19th that “three visits, one drop and one supplement” are driving deep-seated reforms in the relevant fields and must not change the immediate market environment. The retired enterprises must continue to push supply-side structural reforms in accordance with the established direction and path.

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