With the continuous improvement of people's living standards and the growing development of the plastics industry, people increasingly demanding the performance of plastic products, plastic processing industry is more willing to use a variety of easy to operate the masterbatch to achieve lower raw material costs, process costs, Improve production efficiency, giving plastic products the purpose of different performance to meet the changing market demand. The face of the new 2017, masterbatch industry supply and demand situation, what kind of development prospects? Today and Yu Jie together into the world of masterbatch to find out.

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Masterbatch basic concept

Masterbatch is a super-constant pigment attached to the resin and made in the aggregate, is a widely used in plastic and chemical fiber coloring products. Masterbatch usually consists of pigments, resins and additives, in which the pigment is the basis of coloring components; resin from the carrier; the role of different additives are not the same. The additives include dispersants, fillers, antioxidants, light stabilizers, antistatic agents, antibacterial agents, flame retardants, lubricants and the like, in which the filler increases, enhances, reduces the cost of masterbatch production and improves The use of lubricants can play to make the plastic film easy to open, reduce the rejection rate, improve the production efficiency of the role; the use of anti-static agent can reduce the plastic products, surface resistance, electrostatic attenuation half-life , In order to achieve the effect of the effect of surface dust.

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Masterbatch production supply and industry competition

Domestic masterbatch first appeared in the mid-70s of last century, to trial production. At that time, masterbatch products in the field of polypropylene spinning has been applied, but poor quality. Until 1984, Guangdong appeared in the first domestic introduction of foreign advanced equipment to produce fiber grade polypropylene masterbatch business. After the last century, 90 years, the industry began to achieve scale expansion and rapid development has been through 40 years of history. China Dyestuff Industry Association Masterbatch Professional Committee of the domestic masterbatch industry more than 200 enterprises for many years follow-up survey, the total output in 2005 about 250,000 tons, to reach 500,000 tons in 2008, in 2011 reached about 650,000 tons The
2011 included in the statistical range of the domestic 236 major masterbatch enterprises, the annual output of less than 1,000 tons of 80 enterprises, the output of the total output of 5%; annual output of 1,000 tons to 3,000 tons of enterprises have 76 Home, its output accounted for 17% of the total output; annual output of 3,000 tons to 10,000 tons of enterprises have 63, its output accounted for 43% of the total output; annual output of 10,000 tons of more than 17 enterprises, Accounting for 35% of the total output. It can be seen, large and medium-sized masterbatch enterprises in China is the pillar of the development of masterbatch industry. These enterprises are mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Shandong and other regions. The total number of enterprises in these five regions 166, the annual output of 10,000 tons of enterprises have 15, 3,000 tons to 100 million tons of enterprises have 52. Guangdong has 61 masterbatch production enterprises, the annual output of 10,000 tons of more than 9 enterprises, 3,000 tons to 100 million tons of enterprises have 26.

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Masterbatch market demand situation

According to the global industrial analysis company report predicts that in 2017 the global masterbatch market size will reach 8.25 billion US dollars. The future growth rate of international market demand will depend to a large extent on the growth of demand in developing economies such as the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the global masterbatch market demand will be 6% compound annual growth rate Growth, China's annual demand for masterbatch growth rate of about 20% in other Asian countries, the average annual demand for masterbatch growth rate of 7% to 9%.
Specifically, masterbatch is widely used in plastic and chemical products such as coloring. In the field of plastic products, masterbatch use is more mature and common. In recent years, China's plastic production has maintained steady growth in 2011, 2012 and January-September 2013, the national plastic products production were 54.473 million tons, 57.818 million tons and 44.603 million tons, respectively, year on year growth rate of 22.35% 5.62% and 8.82% respectively. In the field of chemical fiber products, compared with the traditional dyeing method, chemical fiber coloring method (that is, resin and masterbatch processed into colored fiber directly after the textile) has a small investment, no waste and the advantages of low cost of coloring, but the current proportion Only about 4%. With China's environmental protection requirements and chemical fiber masterbatch production technology is increasingly mature, the future of chemical fiber coloring will be more common. In 2011, 2012 and 2013, the total output of the national chemical fiber products were 33.6236 million tons, 381.19 million tons and 37.6450 million tons, respectively, year on year growth rate of 22.35%, 13.35% and 7.59%. The following focuses on the further analysis of plastic products from the field of coloring.

Plastic products are intermediate products, the market demand is mainly concentrated in the industrial transport and engineering plastics products (such as home appliances, automobiles), building plastic products (such as pipe, profiles), agricultural plastic products (such as plastic sheeting), packaging plastic products , Bags) and so on. One of the home appliances, automobiles, packaging and other downstream industries on the masterbatch coloring requirements are higher, and the amount of large, the development of masterbatch industry play an important role in promoting the development. The following mainly for the three major industries to do a brief analysis.

(1) home appliance industry

As China's income levels continue to increase, the demand for cars gradually increased. According to the National Bureau of Statistics website data, in 2014, China's automobile production for 23.89 million, 2006-2014 annual compound annual growth rate of 16.02%. Lightweight and environmental protection is the main direction of the current development of automotive materials to reduce the weight of the car itself is the industry recognized to reduce vehicle emissions, improve the efficiency of combustion one of the effective measures. Plastic is one of the most important automotive lightweight materials, it can reduce the weight of the car at the same time can significantly reduce the production costs of automobile manufacturers. In recent years, with the continuous development of plastic modification technology, more and more auto parts to achieve the plastic material design requirements, the use of plastic in the car from the traditional decorative parts extended to the functional components. At present, China's high-class car plastic consumption of about 100-130kg / vehicle, far behind the automotive industry in developed countries, the maximum amount of automotive plastics 200-300kg / vehicle, accounting for 20% of the vehicle quality of the technical level 1. With the continuous improvement of the level of automotive light, the future domestic and international automotive plastic consumption and the proportion of vehicle quality will be further improved. Therefore, China's plastics and masterbatch in the automotive industry in the application of space is very broad.

(2) the automotive industry

As China's income levels continue to increase, the demand for cars gradually increased. According to the National Bureau of Statistics website data, in 2014, China's automobile production for 23.89 million, 2006-2014 annual compound annual growth rate of 16.02%. Lightweight and environmental protection is the main direction of the current development of automotive materials to reduce the weight of the car itself is the industry recognized to reduce vehicle emissions, improve the efficiency of combustion one of the effective measures. Plastic is one of the most important automotive lightweight materials, it can reduce the weight of the car at the same time can significantly reduce the production costs of automobile manufacturers. In recent years, with the continuous development of plastic modification technology, more and more auto parts to achieve the plastic material design requirements, the use of plastic in the car from the traditional decorative parts extended to the functional components. At present, China's high-class car plastic consumption of about 100-130kg / vehicle, far behind the automotive industry in developed countries, the maximum amount of automotive plastics 200-300kg / vehicle, accounting for 20% of the vehicle quality of the technical level 1. With the continuous improvement of the level of automotive light, the future domestic and international automotive plastic consumption and the proportion of vehicle quality will be further improved. Therefore, China's plastics and masterbatch in the automotive industry in the application of space is very broad.

(3) plastic packaging industry

Plastic is widely used in the packaging industry with its unparalleled superior performance. More than a quarter of modern plastic production is used to make packaging materials. A wide range of plastic packaging products, generally can be divided into film, bags, bottles, large hollow containers, tray and tray and so on. Each package is divided into many varieties because of the use and the materials used. According to the China Packaging Federation website data, the current plastic packaging materials in all types of packaging materials accounted for more than 30%, second only to paper products. With the improvement of people's living standards, consumers demand for product packaging is also increasing, and plastic packaging products with its wide variety, superior performance, adaptability, wide application and other advantages have good prospects for development, which will drive the Masterbatch demand.

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Masterbatch industry prospects

At present, China's masterbatch industry is towards multi-functional, high pigment content and high-tech content direction. In order to comply with the development trend, the domestic pigment, dispersant, carrier resin and equipment related enterprises, should improve the technical content of its products for the masterbatch manufacturers to provide high-quality pigments, dispersants, special grades of carrier resin and advanced production equipment , Detection equipment and application software. Masterbatch manufacturers should strengthen the overall quality management, to produce a stable quality, variety, full-featured masterbatch products, to promote China's plastics and fiber industry to contribute to the development.