China has become the largest consumer of silicone materials. Due to the textile, electronics, electrical products of a large number of exports and domestic construction, textile, automotive, daily chemical and other industries on the strong demand for silicone materials, to promote and facilitate the development of China's silicone materials. 2010 China's silicone consumption reached 555,000 tons, accounting for 36% of the global total, becoming the world's largest consumer of silicone; China's processing and manufacturing industry-based industrial pattern, resulting in the Chinese Silicone consumption structure and other countries and regions around the world are very different, other countries and regions accounted for an average of silicone rubber and silicone oil, China is dominated by silicone rubber.
"Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, China's average annual growth rate of silicone consumption is expected to remain at about 18%, in 2015, the consumption of siloxane is expected to reach about 1.3 million tons, equivalent to about 2.6 million tons of silicone monomers. 2010, China's silicone (folded siloxane) production of about 410,000 tons; consumption of 555,000 tons. Silicone on the one hand in the traditional applications continue to maintain steady growth, on the other hand, in the new energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, health care and high-end manufacturing and other aspects of the development of new uses, especially in solar cells, LEDs, personal care products, rail transportation, and alternative petroleum-based products, the application of which has been developing rapidly. Because of the broad market space, silicone is included in the new materials "Twelfth Five-Year Plan". more than 20 silicone products included in the new materials "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" product catalog.
Silicone "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" will be strict access thresholds, control the growth of production capacity, production capacity in 2015 to reach 3 million tons to meet domestic demand outside the slight export. The plan puts forward, by 2015 to form 3-5 silicone monomer backbone enterprises with international competitiveness. Planning shows that the silane coupling agent to build 2-3 scale more than 30,000 tons / year, the use of green technology production enterprises, the total output in 2015 to reach 400,000 tons, the number of varieties more than 100.
Bioactive silicone plant purification so far only France and other developed countries to master. The important role of organosilicon on the organism makes the organosilicon products have a huge application prospect. In the next few years, the use of plant activity extracted silicone products will be in medicine, beauty, health care and other areas of explosive expansion.
The proportion of silicone products consumed in various industries depends on the industrial structure at the time. In Japan, for example, in 1988, the distribution of: electronic appliances accounted for about 25% -30%, construction accounted for 15% -20%, automotive accounted for 10% -15%, food and medical accounted for 10%, office machinery accounted for 10%, and the rest (including fibers, paper, plastics, paints, etc.) accounted for 15% -30%. It can be seen that electrical and electronic appliances, construction and automotive are the three pillars of the country's silicone market. The market development trend in recent years, electrical and electronic development rate is still in the first place, the reliability and durability of silicone materials, so that its application in the construction and automotive industry to continue to grow; due to the physiological inertness of silicone and the human body's safety, reliability has been further confirmed, and thus the number of silicone in the medical and cosmetic applications has grown dramatically. In 2011, China's industrial silicon production of 1.36 million tons, an increase of 15.2% year-on-year, the industry to achieve product sales revenue of 39.201 billion yuan, an increase of 46.43% since 2008, the average annual growth rate of more than 20%, to achieve a total profit of 3.352 billion yuan, an increase of 77.05%. 2012 January-June, China's silicone industry, the number of enterprises was 305 The number of enterprises in China's silicone industry was 305, an increase of 19.61% over the same period last year; 65,300 employees, an increase of 19.03% over the same period last year.
From the point of view of the scale of operations, in the first half of 2012, the industry's asset size of 32.445 billion yuan, an increase of 34.42%, to achieve sales revenue of 28.395 billion yuan, an increase of 56.98%, and realize the total industrial output value of 28.897 billion yuan. From the point of view of operating efficiency, in the first half of 2012, the silicone industry to realize product sales profit of 2.862 billion yuan, up 27.20% year-on-year, to achieve a total profit of 1.544 billion yuan, down 1.87% over the same period last year. Overall, in the first half of 2012, China's silicone industry overall business situation is better, assets and production and sales scale have achieved faster growth.
From the point of view of the consumption of silicone, data show that in 2011 China's domestic consumption of industrial silicon *** counted 610,000 tons, an increase of 27.1%, of which the consumption of silicone accounted for 32.79%, a decline of 3.67 percentage points compared with the previous year, the consumption of aluminum alloy casting has also declined, and the amount of polysilicon consumption of silicon metal has increased dramatically by nearly 10 percentage points.
From the import and export point of view, customs statistics show that in 2011 China's industrial silicon exports of 541,000 tons, down 5.8%. Among them, exports to Japan 161,000 tons, a year-on-year decline of 4.7%; exports to South Korea 96,000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 24.6%; exports to Europe 98,000 tons, a year-on-year decline of 14.1%, to achieve a total of import and export of 1,075 million U.S. dollars, of which imports of 779 million U.S. dollars, exports of 295 million U.S. dollars, to achieve a trade deficit of 484 million U.S. dollars, trade deficit year-on-year narrowed;;;;. From January to May 2012, the cumulative domestic exports of industrial silicon for 187,400 tons, of which the largest export volume is Japan, 61,500 tons, accounting for 32.8% of total exports; followed by South Korea, exports accounted for 14.7%; exports of the top ten countries accounted for the total amount of total exports accounted for 76% of all exports. In recent years and for a long time to come, the strongest demand for silicone from Asia, the demand growth center will be China and the Pacific region, the average annual growth rate is expected to reach 10% -15%, and with the development of China's electrical and electronic, construction, machinery, metallurgy, automotive, chemical, textile and medical industries, China's consumption of silicone will continue to be more than 20% growth rate and become the world's The fastest growing market. Status quo
China's organosilicon industry has made remarkable achievements after 20 years of independent development and construction, especially during the Tenth Five-Year Plan. Whether it is the production scale of methyl chlorosilane monomer, or the application technology of silicone products, there has been great progress.
In recent years, China's silicone market is the world's fastest-growing market, the development of the silicone market faster than the GDP growth rate, an increase of more than 25%. Domestic silicone monomer scale development is rapid, in 1999 the emerging materials into operation of the device is only 20,000 tons / year, in the second half of 2007 put into operation of the monomer device has reached 100,000 tons / year. By 2008, China has formed the Blue Star Spark, Xinan Group, Jihua Group, Meilan Group, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Hongda 5 silicone monomer production enterprises, with an annual capacity of 400,000 tons. China has about 350,000 tons of silicone production capacity under construction, and the proposed 80-1 million tons. China's deep processing of silicone and its applications, is forming a number of high-temperature adhesives, liquid silicone rubber, textile auxiliaries, silane coupling agents and other characteristic enterprises and industrial clusters, active in both domestic and foreign markets. But on the other hand, in recent years, the domestic silicone gap is still very large, in 2007 the annual import dependence rate of about 50%.
Outlook
It is expected that by 2010 the domestic silicone enterprise capacity will reach 1.2 million tons/year, plus Dow Corning and Wacker joint venture in Jiangsu Zhangjiagang built 400,000 tons/year device, the total capacity will reach 1.6 million tons/year. But the next 3-5 years China's silicone consumption will remain about 25% growth, before 2010, the self-sufficiency rate of domestic silicone monomer will remain at a low level. After 2009, China's silicone industry will enter a concentrated period of capacity release. It is expected that in 2009 China's new silicone monomer is about 200,000 tons or so. But the total domestic demand for monomer is about 96 million tons, foreign dependence is still as high as 50% or more.