Production and Market of Boron Carbide

• Publication date: October 2012
• Report size: 36 pages

Boron carbide is a high hardness boride, commonly called artificial diamond. The development of boron carbide in China started late in 1970 compared to the US, Japan and Germany, but China’s boron carbide industry has developed fast and China has been one of the largest boron carbide producers and exporters all over the world. There are 18 boron carbide producers in China, but most of them are only able to produce low-end boron carbide d...

Boron carbide is a high hardness boride, commonly called artificial diamond. The development of boron carbide in China started late in 1970 compared to the US, Japan and Germany, but China’s boron carbide industry has developed fast and China has been one of the largest boron carbide producers and exporters all over the world.

There are 18 boron carbide producers in China, but most of them are only able to produce low-end boron carbide due to the limitations of technology. What’s the current boron carbide production situation in China? How about the future?

On the whole, the boron carbide price keeps rising from 2007. What are the influencing factors for the growth in boron carbide price? And what’s the price trend of boron carbide in China?

China is a large boron carbide exporter and lots of boron carbide is exported to overseas. How is the export situation of boron carbide in China from 2006 to now?

Boron carbide can be widely used in refractory industry, ceramic industry and abrasive industry. What’s the consumption situation of boron carbide in China? How about the future demand trend?

In this report, it will give the answers to the above questions and show the truth to penetrate into domestic boron carbide market. Besides, other points in domestic boron carbide industry are included:

- Capacity and output of boron carbide in China, 2008-2011
- Main producers of boron carbide in China, 2011
- Market price of boron carbide in China, 2009 to now
- Influencing factors of boron carbide price in China
- Price trend of boron carbide in China
- Import and export analysis of boron carbide in China
- Consumption structure of boron carbide by volume in China, 2011
- Forecast on capacity and output of boron carbide in China, 2012-2016
- Forecast on demand of boron carbide in China, 2012-2016

It is the first edition report of boron carbide in China by CCM, finished in Sept. 2012. As to the content, the key points of this report are listed as below:

- Overview of boron carbide in China
- Production of boron carbide in China, 2008-2011
- Production technology of boron carbide in China
- Supply of raw materials in China, including boron reserves and boric acid
- Analysis on the price of boron carbide, including the current boron carbide price (Jan. 2009-Aug. 2012), the influencing factors of the price and the forecast on the price (2012-2016)
- Analysis on the export and import situation of boron carbide in the past years in China
- Consumption situation of boron carbide in China, 2008-2011
- Consumption pattern of boron carbide in China, 2011
- Development of the downstream industries of boron carbide in China in the past years
- SWOT analysis of China’s boron carbide industry
- Forecast on the capacity, output, demand of boron carbide in China, 2012-2016
- Conclusion of the development opportunities of China’s boron carbide in the future

Besides, the analysis on the domestic production and consumption situation or something else is to be penetrated in the next update version.

Advanced Material Industry in China

Executive summary
Methodology
1 Boron carbide overview
1.1 Introduction of boron industry chain
1.2 Development of boron carbide
2 Boron carbide supply in China
2.1 Boron carbide production in China
2.2 Production technology of boron carbide in China
2.3 Raw materials
3 Price
3.1 Boron carbide price in China
3.2 Influencing factors of boron carbide price in China
3.3 Price trend of boron carbide in China
4 Import and export analysis of boron carbide in China
4.1 Import situation
4.2 Export situation
5 Boron carbide consumption in China
5.1 Consumption situation of boron carbide in China
5.2 End use segmentation of boron carbide in China
6 SWOT analysis of China’s boron carbide industry
7 Forecast on China’s boron carbide industry
8 Conclusion
9 Profiles
9.1 Producers
9.1.1 Dunhua Zhengxing Abrasive Co., Ltd.
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9.1.5 Dalian Zhengxing Abrasive Co., Ltd.
9.2 Consumers
9.2.1 Zhengzhou Zhendong Technology Limited
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9.2.4 Beijing Zhengda Huayi Boron Carbide Products Co., Ltd.


LIST OF TABLES


Table 2.1-1 Main producers of boron carbide in China, 2011
Table 2.2-1 Comparsion of boron carbide production methods
Table 5.2-1 Market info of refractory products in China, 2009-2011, '000 tonne
Table 5.2-2 Some consumers of boron carbide in refractory industry in China, 2012
Table 5.2-3 Some consumers of boron carbide in ceramic industry in China, 2012
Table 6-1 SWOT analysis of China's boron carbide industry, 2012
Table 9.1.1-1 Company info of Zhengxing Abrasive, 2011
Table 9.1.1-2 Specifications of Zhengxing Abrasive's boron carbide, 2012
Table 9.1.2-1 Company info of Jinma Boron, 2011
Table 9.1.3-1 Company info of Qianjin Boron Carbide, 2011
Table 9.1.4-1 Company info of Yincheng Technology, 2011
Table 9.2.1-1 Company info of Zhengzhou Zhendong, 2011
Table 9.2.2-1 Company info of Qingdao Huaye, 2011


LIST OF FIGURES


Figure 1.1-1 Boron industry chain in China, 2011
Figure 2.1-1 Capacity and output of boron carbide in China, 2008-2011
Figure 2.1-2 Output, export volume and export dependence of boron carbide in China, 2008-2011
Figure 2.1-3 Distribution of boron carbide producers in China, 2011
Figure 2.2-1 Technology procedure of carbothermic reduction method with electric-arc furnace
Figure 2.3-1 Distribution of boron ore basic reserves all over the world, 2011
Figure 2.3-2 Distribution of boron ore proven reserves in China, 2011
Figure 2.3-3 Consumption volume, import volume, output and import dependence of boric acid in China, 2007-2011
Figure 3.1-1 Market price of boron carbide (325#-0, content?94%) in China, Jan. 2009-Aug. 2012
Figure 3.2-1 Market price of boron carbide (325#-0, content?94%) and boric acid (technical grade, content?99%) in China, Jan. 2009-Aug. 2012
Figure 4.2-1 Export volume of boron carbide in China, 2006-July 2012
Figure 4.2-2 Export situation of boron carbide in China, 2011-July 2012
Figure 4.2-3 Main export destinations of boron carbide in China, 2011
Figure 5.1-1 Apparent consumption of boron carbide in China, 2008-2011
Figure 5.1-2 Consumption structure of boron carbide by volume in China, 2011
Figure 5.2-1 Output of crude steel in China, 2007-2011
Figure 7-1 Forecast on capacity and output of boron carbide in China, 2012-2016
Figure 7-2 Forecast on demand of boron carbide in China, 2012-2016
Companies mentioned

Dunhua Zhengxing Abrasive Co., Ltd., Dalian Jinma Boron Technology Group Co., Ltd., Mudanjiang Qianjin Boron Carbide Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou Zhendong Technology Limited, Qian'an Le-da Special Ceramic Products Co., Ltd.