The production capacity will exceed 3 million tons! How many polycarbonate (PC) manufacturers are there in China?

Apr 02, 2022

Leave a message

Polycarbonate has good strength, toughness, transparency, heat and cold resistance, easy processability, flame retardancy and other comprehensive properties. The main downstream application fields are electronic appliances, plates and automobiles. These three industries account for about 80% of polycarbonate consumption. Others have also been widely used in many fields, such as industrial machinery parts, optical discs, packaging, office equipment, medical and health care, film, leisure and protective equipment, It has become one of the five fastest growing categories of engineering plastics.

In 2020, the global PC production capacity will be about 5.88 million tons, while China’s PC production capacity will be 1.94 million tons / year, with an output of about 960000 tons. In 2020, China’s apparent consumption of polycarbonate will reach 2.34 million tons, with a gap of nearly 1.38 million tons, which needs to be imported from abroad. The huge market demand has led to a large number of investment and production increase. It is estimated that there are many PC projects under construction and planned to be built in China at the same time. The domestic production capacity will exceed 3 million tons / year in the next three years, and the PC industry will accelerate its transfer to China.

As the only transparent plastic among the five engineering plastics, polycarbonate has excellent comprehensive performance and rapid growth in application in various fields. With China becoming the largest industrial manufacturing country, the market demand drives the rapid progress and growth of China’s PC industry.

In addition to being directly used as injection molding, plate and film materials, PC can also be blended with other resins for alloying or additive modification to further improve performance, such as blending with ABS to improve processability and notch sensitivity, blending with PMMA to improve scratch resistance and weather resistance, adding special flame retardant to make thin-walled transparent flame retardant PC, etc. Within three years, China’s PC production capacity will exceed 3 million tons, and the market competition will become fierce.