Chemical Guide

Research Summary: The report presents detailed overview of the AMK Downstream Products market in the world and regions (CIS countries in particular) by contemplating and analyzing its various parameters. Firstly, brief introduction is provided. Thus, amk downstream products properties, application areas and manufacturing technologies are considered. Further goes the analysis of global amk downstream products market with...

Research Summary: The report presents detailed overview of the N-Butane market in the world and regions (CIS countries in particular) by contemplating and analyzing its various parameters. Firstly, brief introduction is provided. Thus, n-butane properties, application areas and manufacturing technologies are considered. Further goes the analysis of global n-butane market with emphasis on its main components which...

Research Summary: The report presents detailed overview of the UPR, THF, PTHF and BDO market in the world and regions (CIS countries in particular) by contemplating and analyzing its various parameters. Firstly, brief introduction is provided. Thus, upr, thf, pthf and bdo properties, application areas and manufacturing technologies are considered. Further goes the analysis of global upr,...

Research Summary: In Jan-Feb 2007, the main business revenue of China electronic information enterprises above designated size reached RMB 606.2 billion, up 16% year-on-year, among which the manufacturing industry was RMB 541.2 billion, rising 15.5%, and the software industry RMB 65 billion, 20.5%. Total profits of the whole industry achieved RMB 14.41 billion, down 7.6% from a...

Research Summary: The profit of China steel industry amounted to RMB 169.95 billion in 2006, up RMB 39.758 billion with a growth rate of 30.6% year-on-year, which was the highest level in recent years. The domestic steel market had a good beginning in the year of 2007. The profit of the steel industry increased 3.6 times in...

Research Summary: The production value of China machine tool industry in 2006 grew at 37.7%, far higher than the world’s average level of 9.34%; China machine tool industry accounted for 22% of global consumer market; self-sufficiency ratio of machine tool was roughly 45% and that of CNC machine tool was 30%; 60% of machine tool worldwide is...

Research Summary: In 2006, the amount of generated electricity nationwide achieved 2.86 trillion KWh with the year-on-year increase of 13.5%, among which the generated hydropower achieved 416.7 billion KWh with year-on-year increase of 5.1%; generated thermal power 2.3573 trillion KWh with year-on-year increase of 15.3%; nuclear power 54.3 billion KWh with year-on-year increase of 2.4%. 1 PERFORMANCE OF...

Research Summary: The global aluminum consumption grows strongly and can basically digest the increased output: the global aluminum consumption in 2006 was higher than the expectation again with the increase of 8.0%, and the gap between supply and demand was 490 thousand tons. And China was still the most important driver in the global aluminum consumption growth...

Research Summary: China may currently produce TDI (Tolylene Diisocyanate) 264 thousand tons annually; of which 11.4%, that is 30 thousand tons, is produced by Hebei Cangzhou Dahua Group. As global supply of TDI falls short of demand, production stop for explosion of the group will cause rise in TDI price. Driven by consumption upgrading and export increase, demand...

Research Summary: The fast development of China Mobile in rural areas relies upon its ever decreasing charges. At present, China Mobile is strategically expanding mobile network business in rural markets (China Mobile invests about RMB100 billion into the expanding of network capacity and the upgrading to EDGE). Moreover, lowering charges of China Mobile is also a threat...

Research Summary: In the first quarter of 2007, China accumulatively produced crude oil 46,041,000 tons, up 1.5% from the same period of 2006, and concentrated nitric acid (converted into 100%) 475,000 tons, growing by a year-on-year 14.4%. Production of organic chemical raw materials was fast growing; especially production of fine methanol, which grew by quite a large...

Research Summary: In Jun, 2007, the coal price in Shanxi province rebounded. The price of steam coal started to rebound from the late period of May, and that of in Datong increased RMB 5/ton, which shook off the situation of continuous drop since the beginning of the year, while the price of coking coal rose RMB 40/ton,...

Research Summary: In 2006, China’s mobile phone output reached 455 million units, accounting for 43.75% of global total of 1.04 billion units. And baseband is the heart of semiconductor devices of mobile phone. The developing trends of mobile phone baseband are as follows: 1. Integration level is about to be further improved. Currently, RF transceiver (small signal) has been...

Research Summary: The market demand for navigation devices and GPS soared. Although the main civilian consumption market of navigation devices is still the vehicle navigation, the proportion of the personal leisure navigation devices is boosting up as well. Meanwhile, the integral vehicle navigation device has transferred to PND in vehicle navigation market since 2001, and this kind...

Research Summary: Among all the handset non-semiconductor components, display shares the largest proportion in terms of cost. OLED shares a negligible proportion, while TFT-LCD is absolutely prevailing with the proportion of over 60%. Furthermore, due to the sharp decline, the proportion of CSTN will drop to below 10% in 2007, and CSTN manufacturers will secede from the mobile...

Research Summary: China’s fiberglass industry has shared 41% of the global market. China Fiberglass Co., Ltd, Yunnan Yuntianhua Co., Ltd and Taishan Fiberglass Inc. have become new international tycoons in the world fiberglass industry. China’s fiberglass industry enjoys accelerating demand and the demand for fiberglass will maintain at 18% in the five years to some. By 2010, domestic...

Research Summary: In 2006, Meili planted trees in its own 30,000-mu forest land; it also signed tree purchase contract with farmers on 14,200-mu land. The construction of fast-growing plantation directly decreases the company’s cost of chemimechanical pulp. Thanks to growing trees by itself, the company has low chemimechanical pulp cost. Currently, the price of poplar chemimechanical pulp...

Research Summary: Urban and inter-city rail traffic is China’s investment hotspot during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period. Among over 40 large cities of 1 million or above population in China, 30 more cities have begun the preparation of constructing urban rapid rail or are at early construction stage. About 14 large cities reported the plan of urban...

Research Summary: The global yearly sales value of wax products amounts to more than USD 10 billion now; the total market consumption volume and growth level are comparatively steady; the annual sales value in European market is more than USD 5 billion, while USD 3 billion in USA market. About 70% families consume candles, so the market...

Research Summary: China’s yield of Titanium sponge keeps a fast growth. And the supply of titanium sponge exceeds market demand. Zunyi Titanium Plant, China’s biggest producer of Titanium sponge, realized a yield of 10,000 tons in 2006 and will achieve 14,000 tons in 2007. China’s yield of Titanium sponge reached 26,000 tons in 2006, and the figure...