With the polyurethane (PU) investment focus gradually from Europe and the United States to the Chinese transfer, China PU industry regional distribution pattern has gradually become clear. Looking to the future, automobile industry, high-speed railway, building energy conservation, new energy and other fields will become a powerful driving force for the rapid growth of the PU industry.

Highlights 1: the world's largest consumer market PU products

Thanks to China's abundant labor, science and technology resources and broad market, at present domestic PU products in the consumption structure of synthetic leather slurry, soles dope, spandex and coatings occupy larger proportion, its production, consumption, foreign trade export volume ranks first in the world in 2009 years China PU production consumption of 500 million T, the 2012 to 2015 China will become major global Pu consumption market.

Highlights 2: Global PU raw material production capacity, one of the fastest growing areas of production

In 2009 China's MDI production capacity reached 1 million 140 thousand t/a with 300 thousand t/a, Ningbo Wanhua, Yantai Wanhua 300 thousand t/a 400 thousand t/a, BASF Chongqing, Huludao polyurethane industry base 160 thousand t/a, 50 thousand t/a and MDI Japan polyurethane production unit of Gansu silver 100 thousand t/a production in succession, by 2012 China's total production capacity will reach 2 million 450 thousand MDI t/a; 2009 China TDI production capacity of 350 thousand t/a, with 80 thousand t/a Shanghai Lianheng Shanghai, Bayer Material Science 300 thousand t/a, Gansu silver 50 thousand t/a, Cangzhou 100 thousand t/a, Huludao polyurethane industry base 50 thousand t/a 50 thousand t/a, LAN-STAR chemical, Yantai Juli 50 thousand t/a and Fujian 50 thousand t/a devices have been put into operation, by 2012 the domestic TDI production capacity will reach 1 million 50 thousand by t/a. China will become one of the world's MDI and TDI production capacity of the largest area. Among them, Yantai Wanhua and Ningbo Wanhua MDI to 2012 total production capacity of more than 1 million t/a, which will undoubtedly improve the industry of China PU International competitiveness and ensure its smooth development plays a decisive role.

Polyether polyol (PPG) production capacity has reached 1.5 million T / A, the larger enterprises include: Shanghai Bayer MaterialScience (25 million T / a), Shanghai Gaoqiao Petrochemical (30 kt / a), Guangzhou Yutian (15 million T / a) polyurethane, Suzhou of the polyurethane (10 000 t / a) and Shandong Lanxing Dongda chemical (10 000 t / a). The next few years, China will usher in a new round of PPG expansion climax is expected by 2011, PPG production capacity will reach 2.6 million T / A, and the domestic market consumption will reach 1.5 million tons, the market competition will be increasingly fierce.

Poly (tetrahydrofuran (PTMEG) as a high performance polyether polyol, used in 80% of the domestic production of spandex, at present production capacity of about 23 million t/a.PTMEG production technology content is high, the low molecular weight PTMEG technique is more difficult, most of the production of domestic enterprises in the field has not yet been achieved breakthrough technology.

Highlight 3: Global PU investment focus from Europe to Chinese

Global well-known multinational companies such as BASF, Bayer, Huntsman, Dow Chemical, INVISTA, shell, the gas Momentive, Albemarle, NPU, Mitsui and other companies are in the form of sole proprietorship or joint venture in mainland China or Hong Kong established PU raw materials, products production base and R & D center. In recent years these multinational companies increasing investment in the field of Chinese Pu and will some of the advanced manufacturing technology first launched in the Chinese market, to achieve the localization of production.

Highlights of the 4 regional distribution pattern will be formed

With Shanghai as the center of the Yangtze River Delta region at present domestic PU industry most developed area, about 50% of the PU raw materials and products from in the area. Among them, MDI production capacity has reached 89 million T / A, accounting for 82% of the country, to 2011 will reach 1.29 million T / A, the Yangtze River Delta region will become global MDI production capacity of the largest area of.TDI capacity is 16 million T / A, accounting for the domestic 50%, to 2011 will reach 46 million tons per year. In addition, the region also has 5 million T / a trimer (HDI) and 2 million t / a of Waterborne PU emulsion production line. By 2012, the region PPG production capacity will reach 80 million T / A, accounting for 30% of the.

In the center of Guangzhou's foreign trade developed domestic PU products in the Pearl River Delta region, is one of the most PU foreign investment and joint ventures.

In Yantai as the center ring Bohai Bay Area (including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong) at present domestic MDI and TDI in main producing areas, PU products is also the more developed one of the regions. With the Yantai Wanhua 50 million t/aMDI and Cangzhou Chemical (including Huanghua) 15 million t/aTDI the project formally put into production and the rapid development of Beijing Tianjin future PU industry, the region will become another domestic PU industry "engine".

In Huludao for strong center of Northeast China Petrochemical based raw materials, is the current focus on the domestic PPG and TDI resources one of the regions. The regional PU raw materials and more kinds of products, capacity, and the output is high, the market wide and strong basic chemical, is the future development of domestic PU industry a bright spot in the region.

In Lanzhou as the center of the northwest region mainly around Gansu Yinguang TDI and proposed MDI products as the center, forming relatively independent, with its own characteristics of the downstream PU products industry chain.

As the center of the southwest region relying on domestic the most abundant natural gas resources in Chongqing powerful chemical raw material base, the proposed in 40 million t/aMDI device of the regional construction and downstream PTMEG and 1,4-butanediol (BDO) project, once in operation, southwest will become China's future PU production industry development in key areas.

In Quanzhou, Fujian for center of the west coast region at present domestic PU shoes industry and foreign trade the most developed one of the regions, the region can make full use of China Taiwan in PU products and technology advantages, the Fuqing City is planning to build six million t/aTDI production line.

Highlight 5: building energy efficiency will become an important driving force for the rapid development of the PU industry
To 27.6% of the total power consumption of our country in energy consumption, building energy consumption has accounted for the whole society. At present, our country started a new building in more than 95% is still high energy consumption, if do not take effective energy-saving measures, to 2020 national energy will have 50% is consumed in the construction. According to the Ministry of construction to develop the construction of energy-saving goal: by 2010, cities and towns throughout the country, new buildings to achieve energy-saving 50%, to 2020, the north and coastal economic developed area of new buildings to achieve energy-saving 65%, China's building energy efficiency market potential is huge. According to the Chinese construction market annual new construction area of 20 million square meters and the 400 million square meters of buildings every year 20 million m2 energy saving calculation, the next few years China's building energy efficiency each year to PU Rigid foam insulation materials about 200 million tons.

Highlight 6: the expansion of domestic demand and the birth of a new growth point

(1) auto industry

China's auto production in 2009 has exceeded 10 million, accounted for the proportion of total global consumption has reached 12%. The automobile industry strong development effectively pulling the PU industry rapid development. The global automotive manufacturing industry of PU materials, has more than 100 million tons. The, American PU materials in automotive applications has more than other cars with plastic material, PVC is second only to Germany, the quantity of the PU; Japan and China Pu in automotive plastic varieties after PP and PVC, ranked third.

According to statistics, a fancy car Pu average amount of applications for 22kg and maximum dosage is 30kg. Our car car Pu average amount for 18 ~ 20kg. Along with the rapid development of China's automobile industry as the technology continues to improve, increasing yield, PU materials in automotive applications will become more and more broad.

(2) the construction of high-speed railway, subway, urban rail transit and other infrastructure

High speed railway, subway and urban rail traffic is the key areas of China's infrastructure investment over the next few years. According to the Ministry of Railways < medium and long term railway network plan >, in the next few years into 2 trillion yuan of funds for the construction of the railway, including 2 million km of new railway network and 7000 kilometres of cables, a high-speed rail network.

High speed railway, subway and urban rail transit, rail with high speed, high reliability, high stability and high durability, and has excellent aseismic, anti noise performance, traditional railway sleeper has been unable to fully meet the above these performance requirements, and following PU elastomer products for satisfy this requirement.

Pu 1km to the long-term attention than hard Pu] sleeper is a kind of glass fiber reinforced Pu microporous elastomer with high intensity, shock absorption, noise reduction, high electrical insulation, high durability and environmental protection and other excellent performance, the current has been Pu and railway industry is global PU materials research community a hot topic. According to the national development of high speed railway plan, in order to adapt to the high speed train speed requirements, the development of Pu sleepers to replace or partially replace concrete sleepers will be the future development trend. According to the experience of foreign high speed railway need 1800 or so sleeper, 7000 kilometres of cables, high speed railway sleepers market scale will reach 500 billion yuan, which undoubtedly will give our country new PU elastomer bring huge market space.

] Pu tie plate is a PU microcellular elastomer, for rail and sleeper (or cement sleeper), with good elasticity and damping performance, the cache is generated when vehicles pass through the strong vibration and shock and to protect the roadbed; requirements has excellent wear resistance and electrical insulating properties and resistance to natural aging and resistance to high temperature (40 to 80 DEG C), each Pu tie plate about a few hundred grams. At present in the domestic high-speed railway and subway have been widely used, the market space enormous.

] Pu sleeper pad is elastic pad for between rails and concrete sleeper, in order to meet the concrete sleeper vibration, reducing noise and enhancing the durability of the technical requirements, with high wear resistance, high strength, high elongation and long service life characteristics, in high-speed rail, subway and urban rail transit has broad application prospects.

The polyurea elastomer coating on Gao Tiezhong's application because of the high iron with ballastless track, the protective layer has waterproof requirements, basic performance of anti-seepage and anti crack, but also can withstand the speed of the train caused by high speed, heavy load, alternating shock effect. The polyurea coating no seams, strong adhesion, truly waterproof, at the same time also has the wear resistance, excellent impact resistance, cracking resistance, UV resistant and low temperature resistant performance, can meet the special requirements of high iron. The protection engineering of polyurea material Beijing Tianjin high iron project reached 950 thousand m2, the Beijing Shanghai high-speed railway length 1318km polyurea amount of more than 2000t. is being built, need polyurea elastomer coating 20 thousand T, aliphatic PU the surface layer of 868t coating, PU waterproof coating 6707t, the project amounted to 2 billion yuan. In addition to the high-speed, high-speed rail supporting and subsea tunnel, crossing tunnel, tunnel and subway tunnel, there were a large number of polyurea coating.

(3) home appliances to the countryside

Refrigerator, freezer, container is China's PU Rigid foam is mainly applied to the field, in the government take home appliances to the countryside, the incentive policy of expanding domestic demand, PU Rigid foam used in home appliances increased significantly, to PU Rigid foam has brought new business opportunities.

According to the forecast of the Ministry of finance, home appliances to the countryside was implemented 4 years, realize product sales of 4.8 million units, accumulated stimulating consumption 920 billion yuan. Home appliances to the countryside in the refrigerator is the main species, if the future 4 years of home appliances to the countryside to make the refrigerator NEW consumer market average growth rate reached 30%, pulling the Pu consumption growth of 8% the left and right.

Highlight 7: new energy and environmental protection to promote the rapid growth of PU

(1) fan blade

Wind power equipment of wind power generator blade is extremely important parts of, accounted for about 20% of the total cost. At present domestic wind turbine blade most of the glass fiber reinforced epoxy resin composites, but epoxy composites are a lack of toughness, the shortcomings of poor low temperature performance, in cold regions, and climate conditions are harsh environment, life will affected.

PU composite materials with excellent comprehensive properties, as the fan blades can overcome the shortcomings of epoxy resin composite materials, especially suitable for high power, ultra high altitude and climatic conditions harsh environment operation of wind generation. Europe and the United States have been made of the PU composite wind turbine blade, and has been applied, domestic units are also developing such materials. In addition, PU adhesive and PU coating on the blade has also been applied.

(2) solar energy

The development of solar energy and PU material closely, including solar battery thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer (TPU) new film material with heat, back panel of the solar photovoltaic component and a backing plate with PU material.

(3) green PU new material

] water PU2008 in China PU products in the total organic solvents up to 33%, the development of water-based PU products is very urgent. At present our country waterborne PU total capacity of 10 million T / A, actual output of 6 million tons, mainly used in leather finishing agent (49%), industrial water coating (12%), architectural latex paint (10%), industrial adhesive (9%), automotive paint (8%), gloves coated glass cluster (5%), woven fabric coating glue (4%), wood coatings (3%). In the future the major direction for the development of Waterborne PU is industrial coating, adhesive, architectural coatings and waterborne PU leather coating.

] green biomass derived polyols can replace part of PPG (20% ~ 30%) used in the manufacture of a variety of PU materials, including PU Rigid foam, adhesives, coatings, elastomers and plastic runway, has in the field of automobile, building exterior insulation and refrigerators and other applied. According to the information reported, material polyol and oil polyol compared the energy consumption reduced by 23%, non renewable resource consumption is reduced by 61%, to atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases reduction of 36%.

The preparation of biomass polyol raw materials are mainly vegetable oil (including castor oil, soybean oil, palm oil, rosin oil) and plant cellulose, lignin polyol (general raw material for wood, bamboo, bagasse, grain crop straw, wheat straw, hay etc.) and sucrose, starch and so on. The current biomass polyol has been industrialized and castor oil polyol application, mainly in India, technology from Dow Chemical and BASF of Germany; soybean oil polyol in North America; palm oil polyol mainly in Malaysia. China Academy of Forestry Sciences Research Institute of chemical industry of forest products have been successfully developed and grease based polyol ester resin, and with the Jiangsu strong chemical company built 50 thousand t/a production line. Shanghai synica and Shandong Laizhou Jintian chemical industry has made soybean oil polyol, Fujian Xinda thermal insulation material has been made with bamboo as raw material plant Cellulose polyol.

Highlight 8: textile industry is the most strong pulling force

China is the top five global PU products manufacturing center, including furniture, home appliances, leather, footwear and spandex, also the five series of products is our country the main PU products for export. 80% of our Pu soft foam consumption in furniture, 70% of PU Rigid Foam consumption in home appliances, this projection, every year the five major series of Pu consumption has accounted for about 50% of total domestic PU products. There is no doubt, light industry and textile industry is pulling the PU industry the most powerful dynamic factors.