Bai Youlu talks about the outlet of fertilizer enterprises: extending the industrial chain

In recent years, China’s nitrogen fertilizer industry has experienced severe overcapacity and rising raw material prices.
For small nitrogen fertilizer companies that account for nearly 70% of fertilizer costs, coal, gas, and electricity are undoubtedly a huge test, especially for many small companies.
The living conditions of synthetic ammonia companies are even more worrying, and the transformation of the industry has reached an urgent stage.
At present, the national policy gives small nitrogen fertilizer companies less and less room for development, and small nitrogen fertilizer companies have disadvantages such as small scale and backward technology.
However, in this round of structural adjustment, small nitrogen fertilizers also have certain opportunities.
Only by technological transformation and reasonable extension of the industrial chain can it gain a place in the fierce market competition.
? In recent years, the domestic compound fertilizer industry has developed rapidly, and various production processes such as towers and drums have gradually matured.
Compared with other traditional compound fertilizer production processes, the high-tower granulation production process of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium compound fertilizer has uniform product nutrients, uses high-tower spray granulation, integrates granulation, drying and cooling, and simplifies Production process and other advantages are not small.
For this reason, the author believes that this kind of production process can be the first choice for many nitrogen fertilizer manufacturers (urea, ammonium nitrate) to adjust the product structure, and some companies that do not produce nitrogen fertilizer also use the method of remelting urea or ammonium nitrate for high Tower granulation production.
? Statistics show that the compounding rate of fertilizers in developed countries has reached 65% to 75%, while that of China is only about 33%.
In the past, farmers used more single-element fertilizers such as urea, ammonium bicarbonate, superphosphate, and potassium chloride.
However, with the changes in agricultural planting structure and the large-scale use of mechanization, the current fertilizer structure of farmers is changing, and compound fertilizers are applied at one time.
It is equivalent to applying all three fertilizers of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, and the utilization rate is higher than that of elemental fertilizers, which is gradually being accepted by the majority of farmers.
? Some experts also said that the urea production tower is different from the compound fertilizer production tower, and questioned the idea of ​​the synthetic ammonia company to directly produce compound fertilizer after the urea production tower is transformed, but the difference between the two is mainly the height of the tower.
, There are no essential technical obstacles, and the above-mentioned problems can be overcome through the transformation of technicians.