my country’s sodium gluconate industry is developing well and production capacity will be further improved

Sodium gluconate is an organic substance, sodium polyhydroxycarboxylate, also known as sodium pentahydroxycaproate. Its molecular formula is C6H11NaO7. It is in the form of white or light yellow crystal particles or powder. It is easily soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol, and insoluble. Compared with ether, it has good retarding effect and good taste. Industrial production of sodium gluconate often uses electrolytic oxidation, biological fermentation, heterogeneous catalytic oxidation, homogeneous chemical oxidation, enzymatic and other processes. Among them, biological fermentation is the most widely used production process in the industry.

Sodium gluconate can be divided into food grade sodium gluconate and industrial grade sodium gluconate according to different uses. Food-grade sodium gluconate is often used in feed, baking, beverages, meat products, medicine, health products and other fields; industrial-grade sodium gluconate can be used to make glass bottle cleaning agents, high-efficiency retarder, high-efficiency chelating agent, high-efficiency water-reducing agent, Steel surface cleaning agents and other products are widely used in washing, water treatment, construction, textile printing and dyeing, electroplating industry, metal surface treatment and other fields.

According to the “Sodium Gluconate Industry In-depth Market Research and Investment Strategy Suggestions Report 2023-2027” released by the Industrial Research Center, from From the perspective of the downstream application market structure of sodium gluconate, concrete admixtures, gluconolactone, textile printing and dyeing auxiliaries, cleaning agents, and water quality stabilizers are the main application fields of sodium gluconate in my country. Among them, concrete admixtures accounted for 48.3% of the downstream application market share; followed by gluconolactone, accounting for 21.4%; and thirdly, textile printing and dyeing auxiliaries, accounting for 12.5%.

The development trend of my country’s sodium gluconate industry is good, which is mainly affected by the following aspects. First, with the development of my country’s industrialization and the rise of strategic emerging industries, my country’s industrial cleaning industry has developed rapidly. my country’s industrial cleaning agent market size will be 47.13 billion yuan in 2022, and is expected to reach 50.65 billion yuan in 2023. The scale of the industrial cleaning agent market continues to expand, driving the rapid development of the sodium gluconate industry.

Second, concrete admixtures are one of the important raw materials of concrete. With the continuous deepening of urbanization and infrastructure construction in my country, the domestic production of concrete admixtures continues to rise, and the market demand for sodium gluconate is increasing rapidly. Third, printing and dyeing auxiliaries produced with sodium gluconate as raw materials have good scale inhibition, corrosion inhibition and complexing abilities, which can enhance the bleaching effect, improve dyeing fastness, and improve the coloring effect of textiles. They are widely used in Textile industry. As the output of printing and dyeing auxiliaries in my country increases year by year, the market demand for sodium gluconate has further expanded.

Industry analysts said that currently, Shandong Xiwang Sugar Industry, Shandong Fuyang Biotechnology, Shandong Wanshan Group, Yufeng Industrial Group, Zhucheng Dongxiao Biotechnology, etc. are the main manufacturers of sodium gluconate in my country. Among them, Shandong Fuyang Biotechnology’s sodium gluconate production ranks first in the world, accounting for about 30.5% of the world’s total sodium gluconate production. In the future, with the construction and commissioning of investment projects by sodium gluconate manufacturers such as Shandong Fuyang Biotechnology, my country’s sodium gluconate production capacity will further increase.