Abstract
China becoming increasingly influential in filler minerals industry contents
Growth in Chinese consumption of kaolin, precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC), ground calcium carbonate (GCC) and talc has been significant over the last decade, closely reflecting the booming demand for paper, plastics and paint in the Chinese economy. In general, China is self-sufficient in sources of marble and limestone for the manufacture of GCC, lime and hence PCC. There are still large resources of talc remaining, but shortages of higher quality Grade A talc are reflected in the decreasing production of these grades and increasing costs of lump talc for export. There are a large number of kaolin deposits in China but few show the potential to allow the production of coating kaolin. Unless a suitable deposit can be found, coating grade kaolin will continue to be imported from the USA and Brazil and potentially elsewhere. China has large reserves of hard kaolin associated with coal measures in the north of the country. Whilst some grades of calcined clay are still imported, the development of the current operations will make China a more significant exporter in the next decade. This report presents a summary of the location of deposits of kaolin, calcium carbonate (for both PCC and GCC) and talc, production facilities and a review of domestic and export markets for these minerals. The key trends, issues and developments in the market are analysed in this major new report from Roskill. It provides a clear insight into the industry and its trends, and an authoritative analysis of the prospects for the future.
What the report gives you
- Independent, in-depth research and analysis
- Essential market intelligence for successful business planning
- Maps and summaries providing details of major Chinese deposits
- Up-to-date profiles of the activities of over 70 current and potential filler minerals producing companies in China, including Asia Pulp and Paper, Imerys, Sun Paper and Chenming
- Forecasts for Chinese supply of filler minerals and demand from end-use markets, including paper, plastics, polymers and paints
Report highlights
Growth in Chinese production of GCC has been substantial with output in 2005 put at 5.52Mt, up from only 0.2Mt in 1990, an annual growth rate of almost 25%, to make China the second largest producer of GCC in the world. The main driving force has been investment by international paper companies in new paper mills, with current production levels of 55Mt forecast to rise to 80Mt by 2015.
Growth of both PCC and GCC in the Chinese paper industry is expected to increase at around 10%py for the next five to ten years. There are six new paper machines that are being commissioned in China that will open in 2006 that will increase demand for both GCC and PCC significantly.
Domestic production of hydrous kaolin for paper coating is insufficient to meet demand, so 243,000t was imported in 2005, mainly from the USA and Brazil. In 2006, imports of kaolin are expected to rise to 316,000t, an increase of 30% over 2005. Kaolin is now a sellers market in China, with price increases of 10-15% in early 2006 compared to 2005.
Production of calcined clay in China is the second largest in the world after the USA. Production is expected to double by 2010, with 27% destined for export.
Resources of high quality white and pink talc in China are becoming depleted and it is now difficult to buy top quality material. This has resulted in fundamental changes in the availability and pricing of talc, allied to the government restrictions based on the export of talc by a licensing system. With many international companies rely on purchasing lump talc from China, not only is there a serious shortage of high quality talc developing, but a restriction on the availability by the license system.
Table of Contents
1. Summary
- 1.1 Ground Calcium Carbonate (GCC)
- 1.2 Precipitated Calcium Carbonate (PCC)
- 1.3 Hydrous kaolin
- 1.4 Calcined kaolin
- 1.5 Talc
2. Position of China in the world economy
3. Ground calcium carbonate (GCC)
- 3.1 Marble resources of China
- 3.1.1 Marble resources in the Nanyang area
- 3.1.2 Marble deposits of the Fuyang Area
- 3.2 Estimates of GCC production in China
- 3.3 Producers of GCC in China
- 3.3.1 Producers of wet ground GCC for use in paper in China
- 3.3.2 Producers of GCC for use in paper in China
- 3.3.2.1 APP China Gold East Paper
- 3.3.2.2 APP Ningbo
- 3.3.2.3 Bohui Paper Group
- 3.3.2.4 Callisto International Company
- 3.3.2.5 Fuyang Guneng Fenticailiao Company Limited
- 3.3.2.6 Gold Huashen Paper Group
- 3.3.2.7 Hangzhou Xianjin Technological Chemical Company Limited
- 3.3.2.8 Imerys Fine Chemical (Changshu) Company Limited
- 3.3.2.9 Imerys Pigments (Wuhu) Company Limited
- 3.3.2.10 Nine Dragon papermill
- 3.3.2.11 Omya China
- 3.3.2.12 Omya
- 3.3.2.13 Shengxing GCC Company
- 3.3.2.14 Sun Paper Company Limited
- 3.3.2.15 Taishan papermill
- 3.3.3 Future GCC satellite plants planned in China
- 3.3.3.1 APRIL
- 3.3.3.2 APRIL
- 3.3.3.3 Oji Paper
- 3.3.3.4 Other potential GCC onsite facilities
- 3.3.4 Producers of dry ground GCC in China
- 3.3.4.1 Dalian Jinsheng Fine Chemical Company Limited
- 3.3.4.2 Dalian Keli Superfine Company Limited
- 3.3.4.3 Lih Hsiang
- 3.3.4.4 Mae Li Tai Company
- 3.3.4.5 Mae Li Tai Company
- 3.3.4.6 Omya Fine Chemical Company
- 3.3.4.7 Rong Far
- 3.4 Consumption of GCC in China
- 3.4.1 Consumption of GCC in paper in China
- 3.4.2 Consumption of GCC in plastics in China
- 3.4.3 Consumption of GCC in other markets in China
4. Kaolin
- 4.1 Deposits of kaolin in China
- 4.2 Reserves of kaolin in China
- 4.3 Production of kaolin in China
- 4.3.1 Hydrous kaolin deposits and operations in China
- 4.3.1.1 China Kaolin Company (CKC)
- 4.3.1.2 Longyan Kaolin Company (LKC)
- 4.3.1.3 Lianjiang Rongxing Industry Company Limited
- 4.3.1.4 Maoming Kaolin Science Limited Company (MKSC)
- 4.3.1.5 Maoming Petrochemical Mineral Limited Company
- 4.3.1.6 Maoming Shange Kaolin Company Limited
- 4.3.1.7 Yangdong International Kaolin Company
- 4.3.1.8 Zhanjiang Yeuxin Mineral Industry Company
- 4.3.2 Hydrous kaolin projects in China
- 4.3.2.1 Behei Kaolin Company
- 4.3.2.2 Shandong Laizhou Gold Corporation
- 4.3.1 Hydrous kaolin deposits and operations in China
- 4.4 Imports of kaolin into China
- 4.5 Exports of kaolin from China
- 4.6 Consumption of kaolin in China
- 4.6.1 Growth of the kaolin market in China
- 4.7 Hard kaolin for calcined clay
- 4.7.1 Resources of hard kaolin in China
- 4.7.2 Production of calcined kaolin in China
- 4.7.3 Producers of calcined clay in China
- 4.7.3.1 Engelhard Performance Technology (Shanxi) Company Limited
- 4.7.3.2 Golden Rock Kaolin Company
- 4.7.3.3 Inner Mongolian San Bao Kaolin Company Limited
- 4.7.3.4 Mengxi Kaolin Company Limited
- 4.7.3.5 Shanxi Jinyang Calcined Kaolin Company Limited
- 4.7.3.6 Shanxi Xidi Fine Chemical Company Limited
- 4.7.4 Consumption of calcined clay in China
- 4.7.5 Development of the markets for calcined clay in China
- 4.7.5.1 Use of calcined clay in paper in China
- 4.7.5.2 Use of calcined clay in medium and high quality paint in China
- 4.7.5.3 Use of calcined clay in plastics and rubber in China
- 4.7.6 Forecast market for calcined clay in China
- 4.7.7 Prices of calcined clay in China
5. Precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC)
- 5.1 Resources of limestone for PCC in China
- 5.1.1 Quality of limestone and lime in China
- 5.1.2 Quality of some limestone and lime in China
- 5.2 Manufacture of PCC from lime
- 5.2.1 Manufacture of PCC in satellite plants at paper mills
- 5.2.2 Physical properties of precipitated calcium carbonate
- 5.2.3 Producers of PCC in China
- 5.2.3.1 APP China Specialty Minerals Pte Limited
- 5.2.3.2 APP China Specialty Minerals Pte Limited
- 5.2.3.3 Changxing Biochemical Institute
- 5.2.3.4 Changzhou Calcium Carbonate Factory
- 5.2.3.5 Fujian Yonganshi Yueta Company Limited
- 5.2.3.6 Guangping Chemical Industrial Enterprise Company
- 5.2.3.7 Hangzhou Advanced Technological Chemical Company Limited
- 5.2.3.8 Hangzhou Huajing Calcium Carbonate Company Limited
- 5.2.3.9 Jiapu Chemical Company
- 5.2.3.10 Jiawei Chemicals Industrial Company Limited
- 5.2.3.11 Nanomaterials Technology (Shanxi) Company Limited
- 5.2.3.12 Quzhou Jinniu Calcium Carbonate Company Limited
- 5.2.3.13 Shanghai Dayu Biochemistry Company Limited
- 5.2.3.14 Shanghai Okutama Da Heng Calcium Carbonate Company Limited
- 5.2.3.15 Shanghai Xuemei Fine Chemicals Factory
- 5.2.3.16 Tianshi Calcium Carbonate Company Limited
- 5.2.3.17 Zhejiang Linghua Chemicals Group Company Limited
- 5.2.3.18 Other producers of PCC in China
- 5.2.4 Use of PCC in paper in China
6. Talc
- 6.1 Location of talc deposits in China
- 6.1.1 Dolomite hosted deposits of talc in China
- 6.1.2 Sedimentary deposits of talc in China
- 6.1.3 Ultramafic hosted deposits of talc in China
- 6.2 Reserves of talc in China
- 6.3 Production of talc in China
- 6.4 Producers of talc in China
- 6.4.1 Producers of talc in Guangxi province
- 6.4.1.1 Guilin Guiguang Talc Development Company Limited
- 6.4.1.2 Guangxi Hezhou Kelong Micropowder Company Limited
- 6.4.1.3 Other producers of talc in Guangxi province
- 6.4.1.4 Exports of talc from Guangxi province
- 6.4.2 Producers of talc in Liaoning province
- 6.4.2.1 Anshan XinXin Talc Company
- 6.4.2.2 China Haicheng Doyo Talc Powder Factory
- 6.4.2.3 Haicheng Hongda Talc Powder Company
- 6.4.2.4 Haicheng Ping Yang Talc Mining Company
- 6.4.2.5 Liaoning Aihai Talc Company
- 6.4.3 Producers of talc in Shandong province
- 6.4.3.1 Pingdu Talc Company Limited
- 6.4.1 Producers of talc in Guangxi province
- 6.5 Exports of talc from China
- 6.5.1 Exports of talc from China by country of destination
- 6.5.1.1 Exports of lump talc from China
- 6.5.1.2 Exports of talc powder from China
- 6.5.2 Future for top quality lump talc production in China
- 6.5.3 Export licence system for talc in China
- 6.5.4 Export quotas for talc from China in 2006
- 6.5.5 Main companies exporting talc from China
- 6.5.1 Exports of talc from China by country of destination
- 6.6 Imports of talc into China
- 6.7 Classification of talc and related products
- 6.8 Regional talc markets
- 6.9 Consumption of talc in China
- 6.9.1 Use of talc in paper in China
- 6.9.2 Use of talc in plastics in China
- 6.9.2.1 Purity of talc for use in plastics
- 6.9.2.2 Whiteness of talc for use in plastics
- 6.9.2.3 Structure of talc used in plastics
- 6.9.2.4 Particle fineness of talc used in plastics
7. Markets for filler minerals in China
- 7.1 Use of filler minerals in plastics in China
- 7.1.1 Consumption of plastics in China
- 7.1.2 Situation of plastics the industry in China in 2005
- 7.1.3 Increases in polymer output in China during 2005
- 7.1.4 Polymer producers in China
- 7.1.4.1 BASF-YPC
- 7.1.4.2 Cangzhou Chemicals Industry Company Limited
- 7.1.4.3 Formosa Plastics
- 7.1.4.4 LG Chem and Tianjin Bohai Chemical
- 7.1.4.5 PetroChina Company Limited
- 7.1.4.6 Sinopec
- 7.1.4.7 Suzhou Huasu Plastics Company Limited
- 7.1.4.8 Shanghai Chemical Industry Park
- 7.2 Use of filler minerals in paper in China
- 7.2.1 Production of paper by province in China
- 7.2.2 Top thirty producing paper companies in China
- 7.2.3 Coating pigments
- 7.2.3.1 Kaolin for coating
- 7.2.3.2 Ground calcium carbonate (GCC)
- 7.2.3.3 Calcined clay
- 7.2.3.4 Talc
- 7.2.3.5 Precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC)
- 7.2.4 Current growth in use of calcium carbonate in paper in China
- 7.3 Use of filler minerals in paint in China
