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The Development and Use of Renewable Feedstocks in the Chinese Chemical Industry
He-Ro Consulting Ltd, March 2008, Pages: 162
The aim of this report by He-Ro Consulting Ltd., is to provide a clear understanding of the situation in China regarding the use of renewable feedstocks in the Chemical Industry, the factors leading to their introduction; usage today; and possible future developments.
The 162 page report is broadly divided into three main sections:
In Section 1 we look at the Chinese government: the key role it has taken in initiating the developments in the bio-resources area; the process by which
relevant central guidelines contained in the 5 Year Plans are transmitted via the various layers of the government apparatus, and refined into concrete
action plans with clearly defined goals and timelines for academia and the chemical industry.
We look at the specifics of government policy, for example the “2008 – 2009 biobase raw material high-tech industrialization project” announced by the National Reform and Development Commission on 11 December 2007. This calls specifically for biobase development – under detailed specified conditions - of polylactic acid (PLA), bio-ethylene, poly-hydroxy fatty acid esters, cellulose derivatives or monomer materials like 1,3-propanediol (PDO) Butane-1,4-diol (BDO), furfural etc.
We show how the role of government in the chemical industry is central to the development, and future use of, renewable feedstocks.
In Section 2 we look at the role of academia in research and development, and examine the patent situation. While more companies are now investing in
in-house R&D, a glance at the registered patents (included in full summary in the appendix) shows that few belong in the hands of manufacturing industry. Thus while primary research and, perhaps increasingly, initial market development is still largely the purlieu of academia, industrialized development lays takes place in the industrial sector..
In Section 3 we examine the actual situation in the Chinese chemical industry. While Bio-fuels is the largest sector within the renewable feedstocks group,
by volume, value, and ‘visibility’, it has been the subject of widespread analysis. Accordingly, we cover this sector in brief, principally in how it has
influenced government policy in the feedstock use issue of food vs energy/chemicals. Likewise, China has a very firmly established fermentation sector in the chemical industry and this report does not cover products such as Citric Acid, Monosodium Glutamate, Ascorbic Acid etc, where fermentation has become the ‘traditional’ method of production. Instead, in Section 3 we focus on those products identified within the government planning as the key development items: PLA, bio-ethylene, PHBV 1,3 propanediol etc. We provide details of the producers, routes of synthesis, announced production capacities.
In Section 4 we summarise and draw some conclusions from the preceding chapters in respect of possible future developments within the industry.
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