Aniline crisis is difficult to suppress Shanxi "chemical impulse"

Tianxi Chemical's aniline leak incident has caused people to suddenly notice that on the edge of a small city, there is such a dangerous coal chemical company with an annual net profit of over RMB 100 million. Environmental protection risks and high water consumption are always the culprits in the coal chemical industry, but they have no choice but it will still be the new direction of Shanxi's energy industry.

In the first month of 2013, the crisis caused by the leakage of aniline in Tianji Chemicals made Shanxi's coal transformation road difficult. How to balance environmental protection and development is also the topic of all local governments.

The new pillar Tianji Coal Chemical Group is the largest nitro-chemical fertilizer and nitro-chemical base in China. At present, the total output of the high-performance nitro-fertilizer and nitro-chemical products of the Tianji Group is more than 1.7 million tons. Shanxi Province uses about 1.03 million tons of chemical fertilizer annually. A person in charge of the Propaganda Department of the Tianji Group told the reporter that the phosphate fertilizer produced by Tianji has consistently occupied 90% of the market share of the same type of fertilizer in the country.

The aniline, the protagonist of the accident, was a profitable main product that was favored by Tianji Group and had just achieved expansion production, according to a related report several months ago. Aniline is an important organic chemical intermediate in the industrial chain dominated by **-aniline-MDI. This industry chain generates hundreds of billions of yuan in output value every year. At present, aniline production enterprises take Jilin Petrochemical and Yantai Wanhua as leading players, with an annual production capacity of approximately 2.7 million tons. Tianji Chemical's annual production capacity of 133 thousand tons of aniline in October 2012 has reached 260,000 tons. Tons, accounting for about 1/10 of the market share.

MDI is the most important target market for aniline, but at present, the aniline-MDI industrial chain tends to be integrated in production, that is, companies that produce MDI often provide aniline production equipment. This makes the aniline market tend to shrink and can only be sold in the direction of rubber chemicals, but its demand is also very limited. Aniline production capacity is nearly saturated.

Invested 560 million yuan Newly completed and put into production of only 130,000 tons of aniline projects and 250,000 tons of aniline-calcium projects for only two months, so that the senior level of the ridge quite pleased, they predict that these two "golden eggs" will increase the company's output value 2 billion yuan, profits increased by 300 million yuan. Unexpectedly, on the eve of New Year's Day, this dream suddenly broke hard.

Closed with the Tianji at the same time, 112 coal chemical companies along the Weihe River. Jindongnan is a relatively concentrated area of ​​coal chemical companies. According to the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” of Shanxi Province, Changzhi and Jincheng are one of the three major coal chemical bases in Shanxi Province: the Jindongnan Coal Chemical Industry Base.

Chemical Impulse Shanxi is a well-known coal province with coal reserves and annual production accounting for 1/3 and 1/4 of the country respectively, but Shanxi is a small coal chemical industry. 80% of Shanxi's annual output of coal is shipped to other provinces. The province's coal chemical conversion rate was 2.2% in 2012. Shanxi coal chemical industry accounted for the proportion of the national chemical industry's output value, from the beginning of the period during the "Eleventh Five-Year" period to 1.03 at the end of the period, accounting for the proportion of the province's industry, also fell from 5.9% to 4.4%. Compared to provinces such as Shandong and Jilin, which are coal chemical provinces, Shanxi's industrial scale is obviously incompatible with its resource advantages.