Nitrogen backbone enterprises should take the lead in transforming high-end

At present, there is a serious excess of nitrogen fertilizer production capacity, and structural adjustment and upgrading are urgently needed. This depends on the adjustment of the backbone enterprises' own product structure. If the backbone enterprises can actively transfer surplus production capacity to high-end fine chemical products, they will be able to control the total amount of nitrogen fertilizers during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period. The entire industry and the enterprises themselves can easily achieve product structure adjustment, optimization and upgrading, and improve core industry competition. force. This is a reporter’s expert opinion on the coal gasification technology and nitrogen fertilizer (methanol) enterprise product structure adjustment seminar.

Last year, the country’s nitrogenous fertilizer production capacity reached 47 million tons (equivalent to pure nitrogen) and urea production capacity reached 66 million tons (in kind), ranking first in the world. However, the urea production capacity exceeded 10 million tons. Overcapacity has become one of the outstanding issues in the industry. . At present, there are many difficulties and challenges in adjusting the industrial structure and transformation and upgrading. With the construction of large-scale fertilizer facilities in the western raw material base, the construction capacity has exceeded 20 million tons/year. If we count these production capacity in the western region, there will be excess nitrogen fertilizer production capacity. amazing. In the case of overcapacity, the enterprise has become the executor from the maker of fertilizer prices. The nitrogen fertilizer enterprises have not yet been able to transfer to the downstream products, and the loss of enterprises has increased, which has brought certain difficulties for the accumulation of capital. At the same time, nitrogen fertilizer production is characterized by resources and energy. Under the environment where the whole society attaches great importance to energy conservation and emission reduction, nitrogen fertilizer companies are detained with “two high and one capital” hats. In order to complete energy-saving and emission reduction targets, local governments have included nitrogen fertilizer companies in key assessment targets. The preferential policies of local governments have greatly devalued. In addition, railway freight and electricity prices have been raised several times, and coal prices have gradually increased, making the production and operating costs of nitrogen fertilizer enterprises. rise.

Participating experts believe that the bottom line of the adjustment of nitrogen fertilizer business structure is to achieve the elimination and balance of production capacity, digestion capacity can not rely on large-scale increase in agriculture, in the next few years, the growth rate of agricultural application rate at most 3%. Can not rely on exports to pull, the international market demand is also falling. In terms of total amount, the production capacity of large-scale enterprises accounts for a large proportion, and the enterprises producing 500,000 tons/year of synthetic ammonia in the country account for 77% of the total output capacity of synthetic ammonia in the country, while the production capacity of small-sized devices is small.

In addition, nitrogen fertilizer companies that use coal as raw materials are a branch of coal chemical industry, and nitrogen fertilizer companies have a prerequisite for the development of coal chemical industry. At the same time, the traditional nitrogen fertilizer enterprises are located in the market center and have strong social supporting capabilities. The development of coal chemical industry has obvious advantages. Nitrogenous fertilizer companies use gasification as a leader and ammonia alcohol as a basis for deep processing of syngas. They can make use of the advantages of resources in the western region, achieve industrial upgrading through diversification of related products, and develop and promote mutual development of chemical fertilizers and chemical industries in order to effectively channel and transfer surplus production capacity and improve economic efficiency.

Yang Chunsheng, president of the Shandong Chemical Fertilizer Association, believes that the restructuring and upgrading of the nitrogen fertilizer industry depends on the adjustment of the backbone enterprises' own product structure. Through the adjustment of product structure, the production capacity was actively transferred, and the excess capacity was shifted to high-end products and fine chemical products.

According to report, some enterprises in the industry have begun to take the initiative in transition. Anhui Huaihua Group Co., Ltd. has taken the lead in eliminating backward production capacity in the industry, eliminated 180,000 tons/year of synthetic ammonia production equipment, and completed 300,000 tons/year of synthetic ammonia technology upgrade. Synthetic ammonia capacity is 480,000 tons/year. The company proposed that during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the urea production capacity should be maintained at 520,000 tons/year, accelerate the upgrading of technology, enrich the fine chemical product chain, and open up new chemical materials. By the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, the company’s coal chemical industry sales revenue exceeded 10 billion yuan. Sichuan Chemical Holdings (Group) Co., Ltd. will develop strategic emerging industries during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period to reduce dependence on fertilizer production and operations and increase the proportion of new chemical products in the company's products. Shandong Union Chemical Industry Group Co., Ltd. uses the advantage of coal chemical resources to build a new 50,000-tonne/year ethyleneamine project and move toward fine chemicals. They use the advantages of petrochemical resources to implement coal chemical and petrochemical integration strategies. At present, they are planning to build an octanol project to further expand the fine chemical industrial chain.

Yang Chunsheng said that if 50 large companies take 60,000 tons of synthetic ammonia capacity to transform other products, they will digest 3 million tons of synthetic ammonia and 5 million tons of urea production capacity, which is equivalent to the country's total urea exports in 2008. He pointed out that it is easy for large-scale backbone enterprises to take 60,000 tons of synthetic ammonia production capacity to turn to other products and it is also easy to do.