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It's often said by professionals that glyphosate technical production adopting glycine route has the strongest competitiveness among the three routes (glycine, DEA, IDAN) because of its cost advantage, attributed to the recovery of monochloromethane, the by-product. However, the decreasing price of monochloromethane has compressed the profit margin of glyphosate technical adopting glycine route, according to CCM International’s April Issue of Glyphsoate China Monthly Report.

There is no doubt that fluorine industry has been one of the fastest developing and most promising chemical industries in China and China is the second largest economy in the world. Thus, fluorine chemicals, such as inorganic fluoride, refrigerant, fluor-polymer and fluor-intermediate four main sectors, are absolutely worth investigating.

South America is the fastest growing area for pesticide consumption in the world. As one of the most important agricultural area in the world, South America increases its soybeans planting area. In 2011, the planting area of soybeans has been over 46 million hectares, which becomes the rigid support for huge pesticide demand. Its total pesticide market value is estimated at USD10.5 billion in 2011, up 30% year on year. At the same time, it has accounted for 22% of the total market value in the world.

CCM International has newly launched South America Crop Protection Monthly Report, helping you seize hidden opportunities in the boosting market.

Recently, several large-scale grain & food processors have made steps towards further diversification – a sign of trends in the market which seem likely to accelerate in the future.

For the first time, China’s two leading phosphorus enterprises decided to step into the business of phosphorus-fluorine integration through a strong alliance.

However, Huayang Technology's rescue plan can't alleviate the worry about its dangerous situation, especially without the support from the assets exchange with Zibo Hongda Mining Industry Co., Ltd. (Hongda Mining). Because Hongda Mining participates two assets reorganizations at the same time and in the same industry, the assets exchange between Huayang Technology and Hongda Mining wasn't approved by CSRC in consideration of business independence and fair competition (Herbicides China News 1203: Assets exchange of Huayang Technology blocked). That is to say, Huayang Technology has to risk its future to drive its performance in 2012, the critical year for the company, according to CCM International’s April Issue of Herbicides China News.

The question that whether glyphosate SL mixtures with content lower than 30% are legal or not which has been debated in domestic pesticide industry for almost one year has finally drew to an end clearly. On 5 April, 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture of China (MOA) released Notice No. 1744 announcing that it will stop accepting and approving the application for field trial and registration of glyphosate SL mixtures with content lower than 30% from the release date of the notice, based on CCM International’s latest issue of Crop Protection China News.

From Feb. 27 to March 2, 2012, China Sugar Association (CSA), commissioned by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, ran a production examination on four state-mandated saccharin producers, namely Henan Kaifeng Xinghua Fine Chemical Factory (Henan Kaifeng), Tianjin North Food Co., Ltd. (Tianjin North), Tianjin Changjie Chemicals Co., Ltd. (Tianjin Changjie) and Shanghai Fortune Chemical Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Fortune). As disclosed in the examination, the profits of Chinese saccharin producers decreased obviously in 2011 due to high raw material cost and low selling price, according to CCM’s April issue of Sweeteners China News.

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang), lies in the northwestern corner of China, with unique natural environment for corn planting and corn seed production. In recent years, the status of Xinjiang has been highlighted in domestic corn seed production, with the more intensive competition of corn seed production in Zhangye City (Zhangye), Gansu Province, the largest corn seed production base in China, according to CCM International’s March Issue of Seed China News.