Polyether defoamer raw materials are in sufficient supply and have a wide range of applications.

There are many types of defoaming agents. According to different raw materials, they can be divided into polyether defoaming agents, silicone defoaming agents, vegetable oil defoaming agents, self-emulsifying defoaming agents, etc. Polyether defoaming agent is a representative product in the defoaming agent market. It refers to a nonionic surfactant made from polyoxyethylene and polyoxypropylene as raw materials in the presence of an initiator. Polyether defoaming agents have the advantages of green environmental protection, good dispersion, wide temperature range, and strong foam suppression performance. They are widely used in papermaking, textiles, printing and dyeing, medicine, food processing, fermentation manufacturing, coatings and other fields.

Common polyether defoaming agents include GPES type defoaming agent, GP type defoaming agent and GPE type defoaming agent. GPES-type defoamer is an emerging product of polyether defoamer. Compared with GPE-type defoamer, it has the advantages of strong defoaming ability and strong surface activity. It has broad applications in many fields such as water treatment, industrial fermentation, and textiles. Prospects; GP type polyether defoaming agent is a traditional product of polyether defoaming agent, which has excellent anti-foaming and defoaming properties, but has poor hydrophilicity; GPE type defoaming agent is an improved product of GP type defoaming agent, and its It has good hydrophilicity and is the mainstream of polyether defoaming agent market.

The main components of polyether defoaming agents are amine ethers, fatty acid esters and polyether polyols. Polyether polyols are widely used in the production process of polyether defoaming agents. In recent years, driven by market demand, my country’s polyether polyol production capacity has expanded rapidly and output has continued to grow. In 2022, my country’s polyether polyol output will reach 4.613 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 14.2%. The advantages of raw materials have laid a good foundation for the development of my country’s polyether defoaming agent industry.

Polyether defoaming agents have a wide range of applications. In the field of medicine, polyether defoaming agents can be used to prepare various antibiotics such as tetracycline, gentamicin, and oxytetracycline; in the field of food processing, polyether defoaming agents can be used in the preparation of soy milk, juice, beer, ice cream, and meat products. processing. Benefiting from the increasingly strong market demand, the development speed of my country’s polyether defoaming agent industry has accelerated. According to the “2023-2028 China Polyether Defoamer Industry Market In-depth Research and Development Prospects Forecast Report released by the Industrial Research Center It shows that my country’s polyether defoaming agent market size will reach US$190 million in 2022.

The global polyether defoaming agent market is mainly concentrated in Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries. Japan’s Shin-Etsu Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (Shin-Etsu) and the American Dow Chemical Company (Dow) are world-renowned polyether defoaming agent manufacturers. There are only a small number of polyether defoamer manufacturers in my country and their scale is small. Overseas companies dominate the Chinese market. Sixin Technology, Daejeon Chemical, and Takata New Materials are the main manufacturers of polyether defoamer in my country.

Industry analysts said that polyether defoaming agents are representative products in the defoaming agent market and are widely used in many fields. As a segmented product of polyether defoamer, GPES defoamer has excellent performance and strong market demand, which provides favorable conditions for the development of the polyether defoamer industry. It is expected that companies with high-performance polyether defoaming agent production capabilities will occupy a larger market space in the future.