Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry: Keep Chemical Fertilizer Out of Chemical Fertilizer

After nearly two years of exploration, the industry has gradually become clearer about the direction of China's nitrogenous fertilizer industry, namely, to adhere to chemical fertilizers and get out of chemical fertilizers. This is the information that the reporter obtained from the 4th Standing Committee of the 5th China Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry Association held in Beijing on December 7th.

Li Shousheng, executive vice president of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation and chairman of the China Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry Association, said that since the 12th Five-Year Plan period, China's nitrogenous fertilizer industry restructuring has achieved positive results. However, the current urea capacity is still about 18 million tons surplus, and the production capacity is still increasing, and the contradiction between repeated construction is increasing unabated. The direction of structural adjustment, transformation and upgrading of nitrogen fertilizer industry is to adhere to chemical fertilizers and get out of chemical fertilizers. Adhering to chemical fertilizers is to uphold basic duties, and going out of chemical fertilizers is to expand the space for development.

He explained that modern agriculture can not only be inseparable from fertilizer, but also put forward higher requirements. According to the predictions of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, by 2015, China's agricultural fertilizer use per unit area will be 0.6 tons/ha, and by 2020 it will reach 0.75 tons/ha. Fertilizer demand will grow steadily over the next 10 years. The nitrogen fertilizer industry must not only guarantee the supply but also develop new fertilizer varieties. Adhering to chemical fertilizers is a political task for nitrogen fertilizer companies and a lifeline that cannot be shaken. At the same time, in the situation of severe overcapacity, nitrogen fertilizer companies must find a new way out of chemical fertilizers and establish new advantages. At present, many companies have actively explored.

According to reports, Shandong Luxi Chemical Co., Ltd. took advantage of the relocation and transformation, and on the basis of maintaining the original urea scale, improved the technology, quality, and agrochemical service level of nitrogen fertilizer and phosphorus compound fertilizer, and focused its development on coal chemical and salt chemical industry. Combined with fluorosilicon chemicals. The company will build a new plant with an annual output of 360,000 tons of methane chloride, 200,000 tons of ion-exchange membrane caustic soda, caprolactam, butyl octyl alcohol, and hydrogen peroxide, and will take steps to enter new chemical materials. The company's sales revenue in 2011 was 12.2 billion yuan, and the chemical output value accounted for 55% of the total output value. It was planned that by 2020 sales revenue would exceed 100 billion yuan, and the chemical output value would reach 80% of the total output value.

The delegates all affirmed the development direction of persisting in chemical fertilizers and getting out of chemical fertilizers. Jiangsu Jinmei Hengsheng, Junhua Huanhua in Henan, Sichuan Chengdu Yulong, Anhui Red Quartet, Guizhou Chitianhua and other companies shared their own experiences and ideas.

Yang Chunsheng, chairman of the Chemical Fertilizer Industry Association of Shandong Province, stressed that sticking to and going out of chemical fertilizers is not simply leaving a piece of production capacity as fertilizer, leaving the remaining capacity to do the other. "Insistence" must lead to prosperous business and "going out" must seek innovation and development. Avoid going out of an old surplus product and create a new surplus product.