Rubber Predators Swim Into The Chinese Market

In recent years, the rapid development of China's non tire rubber products industry has greatly stimulated the market demand for synthetic rubber such as nitrile rubber, hydrogenated nitrile rubber, neoprene, and three ethylene propylene rubber.

However, due to capacity constraints, China's production of three EPDM, NBR, neoprene and so on, regardless of yield or performance, can not meet the market demand, import volume is still very large every year.

In 2007, China imported 1 million 412 thousand tons of synthetic rubber, an increase of 8.4% over the previous year, with an average price of 2011 US dollars / ton, an increase of 10.2% over the previous year, and import and average prices reached a record high.

It is estimated that the entry of synthetic rubber will reach 1 million 900 thousand tons in 2010.

The huge market has attracted the world's synthetic rubber producing predators, and they have intensified their efforts to expand the Chinese market.

During the 2008 China International Rubber and plastic exhibition held in the near future, Sun Jia Chao, Asia Pacific market manager of Lansheng industrial rubber products business department, told reporters: "although we have not set up a production base in China, we are absolutely interested in entering the Chinese market.

The rapid development of China's rubber industry provides huge space for business growth and profitability for Lansheng industrial rubber products.

Market: attracting international predators in recent years, the output of China's non tire rubber products has been increasing year by year, and the consumption of rubber has also been increasing.

According to the China Rubber Industry Association, in 2007, the output of China's non tire rubber products were: the conveyor belt was 170 million square meters, an increase of 10.7% over the previous year; V took 990 million meters, an increase of 8.1% over the previous year; the hose 550 million meters, an increase of 7.5% over the previous year; 1 billion 800 million pairs of rubber shoes, 13.1% more than the previous year.

Take the rubber hose industry as an example, as the second largest rubber product industry in China, it occupies a large proportion in non tire rubber products.

According to the China Rubber Industry Association, the total consumption of adhesive tape in 2007 is about 173 thousand tons.

In the next few years, market demand for rubber hose will continue to increase year by year.

If calculated by an annual increase of 7%, it is estimated that the output of China's conveyor belt will be 182 million square meters in 2008, the output of V belt will be 1 billion 285 million A meters, and the output of rubber hose will be 560 million meters.

In 2010, the output of China's conveyor belt is 210 million square meters, the V belt production is 1 billion 500 million A meters, and the output of rubber hose is 640 million meters.

Driven by the development of the automobile industry, China's automobile: special V belt and special hose will increase greatly.

According to the prediction of the output of three large tube belts, the rubber consumption of rubber hose will be around 185 thousand tons in 2008, of which 100 thousand tons of synthetic rubber will be consumed, and the consumption of rubber will reach 212 thousand tons in 2010, of which 112 thousand tons of synthetic rubber will be consumed.

Sun Jiazao told reporters that synthetic rubber accounts for about 60% of the rubber materials used in non tire rubber products.

For example, elastomer materials for conveyor belts are mainly styrene butadiene rubber, butadiene rubber, nitrile rubber, ethylene propylene rubber, neoprene rubber, polyurethane rubber and so on.

The main material of the belt is pition from natural rubber and styrene butadiene rubber to neoprene, and gradually develops towards hydrogenated nitrile rubber and other elastomers with good properties.

Rubber raw materials for rubber hose almost include natural rubber and all synthetic rubber.

Sun Jiazao said this provided an opportunity for Lansheng's industrial rubber products to enter the Chinese market.

It is understood that Lansheng industrial rubber products business, including nitrile rubber, hydrogenated nitrile rubber, neoprene, three ethylene propylene rubber and ethylene ethyl acetate rubber (EVM), are widely used in automobiles, shoes, construction, electronics and household appliances and other industries.

Among them, the automobile manufacturing industry is the most important market in the sector, accounting for about half of the total sales.

Products: introduction of green environmental protection advanced Sun Jiazao.

Lansheng industrial rubber product is a leading supplier of non tire rubber products. It is a leading technology leader in the market, and many rubber products rank among the top of the market.

The products manufactured by lanxen industrial rubber products have important properties such as good wear resistance, heat resistance and bad environmental impact.

Its 5 product lines have broken through the application fields of traditional synthetic rubber.

Acrylonitrile butadiene rubber has good oil resistance, suitable for heavy conveyor belts, seals and hoses. Hydrogenated nitrile rubber has longer service life under high temperature or dynamic application. Ethylene propylene rubber has excellent weatherability and can be used for sealing parts, etc. it is widely used for chlorine and has excellent price performance ratio. EVM has low viscosity and strong durability, and is suitable for high filling materials such as halogen free cables.

Sun Jiazao said that Lansheng's advanced rubber products also boosted the development of green chemical industry.

For example, automotive use of ethanol gasoline and other environmentally-friendly fuels, the use of traditional rubber products manufactured rubber parts are vulnerable to corrosion, but the use of Lansheng advanced hydrogenated nitrile rubber can be unaffected.

LANXESS's latest development for tread tread.

Nanoprene rubber additives can greatly reduce tire wear, without affecting the tire grip and rolling resistance, and benefit the energy saving and environmental protection of tires.

At present, LANXESS's industrial rubber products have been widely used in the Chinese market.

For example, Lansheng Ben EPT9650 three yuan ethylene propylene rubber has excellent weather resistance, can effectively resist ultraviolet and ozone erosion, is an ideal building sealing material.

The product has been successfully applied to one of the 2008 Olympic Games soccer stadium, the Shenyang Olympic Sports Center Stadium.

Lanxen, another three brand of ethylene propylene rubber, is also successfully applied to the top seal of the Tianjin Olympic Stadium in EPT6470.

R & D: to ensure future status, to enhance the innovation capability of Lansheng industrial rubber products, and constantly improve the level of existing products and promote the R & D and application of new products, LANXESS industrial rubber products business department has established a technology center in Shanghai, focusing on the research of product application and formulation. In cooperation with Qingdao University of Science & Technology, it plans to set up a new laboratory in Qingdao this year, focusing on improving and developing polymers to meet the growing demand of Chinese customers.

Sun Jiazao said, all of these are for Lansheng's greater development in China.

In 2008, the demand for nitrile rubber in the Asia Pacific region will increase by 5.4%, neoprene will grow by 5.6%, and three yuan EPDM will grow by 5 and 3%, all over the world and the growth rate of Europe and the Americas.

Sun Jiazao said LANXESS has unlimited hope in China.