Titanium dioxide industry will vigorously reduce production capacity during the 13th five-year plan

The 2016 National Titanium Dioxide Industry Annual Conference was held in Texas from 24th to 25th
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At the meeting, Yang Yuande, secretary general of China Coatings Industry Association and China Titanium Dioxide Industry Association, introduced the "13th Five-Year Plan" of the titanium dioxide industry and revealed that the goal of the plan is to promote the supply-side structural reform of the titanium dioxide industry.
Promote the "three eliminations, one reduction and one supplement", to reduce overcapacity, destocking, deleveraging, reduce costs, make up for shortcomings, deal with "zombie companies", and promote the resolution of excess capacity
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He said that in terms of the planned development goals, titanium dioxide manufacturers should combine local resource advantages to achieve competitive advantages such as ecologicalization, parkization, large-scale, low cost, and high added value
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Encourage strong alliances, mergers and reorganizations of titanium dioxide enterprises, accelerate the integration of the titanium dioxide industry through complementary advantages, improve the technical level of the industry, increase the scale of enterprises, and increase industrial concentration
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Focus on creating 2-3 cleaner production sulfuric acid process companies with an annual output of more than 300,000 tons; 2-3 chlorination process companies with an annual output of more than 100,000 tons
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Cultivate into a brand with global influence
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Focus on cultivating medium-sized enterprises with great development potential, and lay a solid foundation for China's titanium dioxide industry to become a manufacturing powerhouse
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"During the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period, the domestic economy still maintains a relatively high growth rate, but the growth rate is decreasing year by year.
The titanium dioxide industry is affected by downstream demand and the industry's relative overcapacity is expected to reduce the growth rate of titanium dioxide output in the next five years
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" Yang Yuande said, According to the forecast in the "Thirteenth Five-Year" development plan of China's coatings industry, the output of coatings will maintain a growth rate of 7% in the next five years, and it is estimated that the growth rate of titanium dioxide output in the next five years will be about 4-5%
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According to this estimate, the output of titanium dioxide will increase from 2.
46 million tons in 2014 to 3 to 3.
3 million tons in 2020
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The production capacity of 3.
296 million tons in 2015 basically met the requirements
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In view of the actual situation of China's titanium resources, the plan will encourage the development of chlorination process and advanced cleaner production sulfuric acid process simultaneously.

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Through independent research and development and introduction of cooperation, the development of complete sets of production technology for chlorination titanium dioxide in China will be promoted, so that the proportion of chlorination products will reach more than 20%
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Outdated production capacity will be eliminated, mergers and acquisitions will be accelerated, and the production capacity concentration of the top 10 enterprises in the industry will increase by 20% compared with the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period
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