Who owns the "rubber gold" market voice?

Compared to natural rubber, synthetic rubber general, the thermoplastic elastomer SBS for rubber, SEBS in the industry has a 'rubber gold' reputation as a high-end synthetic rubber. SEBS is a product of the hydrogenation of SBS, as the performance can be widely used for production of high-end automobiles, toys, wire and cable and other fields. At present, the main imports from abroad. Experts said that Chinese enterprises should speed up the process of high value-added synthetic rubber research and development and production, to ease the supply of contradictions, the market for the right to speak.

High-end behind the development of synthetic rubber

Earlier this year, domestic natural rubber price break 20,000 yuan per ton, the domestic supply of synthetic rubber on the low side has a great deal. As the climate and natural rubber planting area of greater impact, more than 70% of China's need to import natural rubber. China Synthetic Rubber Industry Association Under-Secretary-General Zhou Rong said that if the domestic SEBS such as the high value-added synthetic rubber production and supply increases, not only can ease the internal contradictions in the supply of synthetic rubber, can substitute for part of the natural rubber and reduce domestic The market's natural rubber imports of relying too heavily on the market for the right to speak.

In China's rubber market, the use of synthetic rubber ratio of 45% to 55% of natural rubber, synthetic rubber in China use 53 percent less than the world average, lower than the level of developed countries. Despite the 'Five-Year Plan' period, the domestic synthetic rubber products, the restructuring has achieved some degree of success, but a single brand of products, lack of product serialization of the status quo has not been a fundamental change, a number of special varieties of high value-added and there are vacancies in or yield grade Small, compared with the needs of users, lagging production capacity of domestic enterprises.

Bristol consulting firm AMI predicts that around 2008, SEBS will be gradually replaced by SBS, European countries are expected to SEBS demand will be 6.5 percent annual growth rate. Rong Zhou believes that the future of our country SEBS demand growth even more. It is understood that, SEBS as a high-tech materials, the industrial production of the past 35 years has been the monopoly of foreign and domestic downstream users have to spend a long time a large number of high-priced imports SEBS, because of cost considerations or to renounce the use of.

Well-known international companies to increase investment

It is said that the United States each year consumes 40 percent of the world's SEBS for automobile manufacturing, production of motor vehicles, noise barriers, instrument panel, steering wheel cover, such as water pipes. U.S. Food and Drug Administration that the SEBS non-toxic materials, human tissues do not have allergies, and the variation of rejection, with good air tightness, temperature, anti-aging properties, to the use of high-temperature cooking and direct ultraviolet disinfection, as a result of medical Equipment on the basis of material, such as surgical kits, surgical clothing, infusion tube, tourniquet, the blood separator, such as rubber plug. Therefore, SEBS rubber became famous for enterprises. According to the China Synthetic Rubber Industry Association experts, Shell was one of the first SEBS R & D enterprise, industrial production is currently the largest manufacturers. In addition, the company Enichem Italy, Spain Dynasol, Japan's Asahi Kasei, Japan Synthetic Rubber Corporation, Japan and Feng Li Cola Company, Japan's elastomers, also completed the construction of SEBS or similar device products. At present, the international SEBS an annual production capacity of 150,000 tons or so.

Should be developed to speed up the pace

A few years ago, as China did not achieve the industrialized production of SEBS, SEBS used to rely solely on imports, due to the monopoly of foreign manufacturers, the import price per ton SEBS products as much as 80,000 yuan.

In recent years, Sinopec Baling Petrochemical Company of SEBS synthesis of research. In 1996, they successfully developed a synthetic SEBS technology, key technology patents in China. In 2002, the company's success to produce a linear and star of two series of SEBS grades 6, to become the first domestic production of SEBS enterprises, the product price per ton less than half of the imported products. This year, the company also completed the construction of China's first set of million-ton thermoplastic elastomer rubber production line, marking China's high-performance synthetic rubber-based core technologies and the development of special technology to make significant progress.

China Synthetic Rubber Industry Association experts believe that more companies have joined to develop high value-added synthetic rubber to the ranks of. Only by increasing the proportion of high value-added products, China is expected to be rubber from the major powers into a rubber power.