Anhydrous calcium chloride has a wide range of applications and my country’s market competition is relatively fragmented.

Calcium chloride can be divided into two categories: calcium chloride dihydrate and calcium chloride anhydrous based on different contents. Anhydrous calcium chloride is a chemical with the chemical formula CaCl2. It is a typical ionic halide. It looks like white hard fragments or granules. It tastes slightly bitter, odorless, easily soluble in water, and dissolves in the air. Medium and easy to deliquesce.

There are various production methods for anhydrous calcium chloride, mainly including dehydration method, which refers to the method of using calcium chloride dihydrate as raw material and drying and dehydrating it under high temperature conditions to generate anhydrous calcium chloride; spray drying and dehydration method, which refers to using Refined neutral calcium chloride is used as the raw material, and is subjected to countercurrent contact under high-temperature hot air flow to generate anhydrous calcium chloride; the metathesis method refers to the method of using calcium carbonate and hydrochloric acid as raw materials to generate anhydrous calcium chloride through a chemical reaction.

According to the current national standard for industrial calcium chloride GB/T 26520-2011, anhydrous calcium chloride can be divided into type I with a calcium chloride content of 94% and type II anhydrous calcium chloride with a content of 90%. Anhydrous calcium chloride has the advantages of strong hygroscopicity, outstanding ammonia adsorption, low desorption temperature, and good chemical stability. It is widely used in petroleum, chemical industry, construction, microbial industry, textile, food and other fields.

Specifically, in the chemical industry, anhydrous calcium chloride is a key raw material for manufacturing calcium salts such as metallic calcium, barium chloride, and calcium carbonate, and is also a desiccant for nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, sulfur dioxide and other gases; in the textile field, it is Hydrocalcium chloride can be used as a fire retardant in fabric manufacturing scenarios; in the construction field, anhydrous calcium chloride can be used as a building antifreeze to enhance the cold resistance of building mortars and speed up the hardening of concrete; in the food field, anhydrous chlorine Calcium oxide can be used in food processing scenarios as calcium fortifier, preservative, chelating agent, desiccant, curing agent, etc.

According to the “China Anhydrous Calcium Chloride Industry Market Monitoring and Future Development Prospects Research Report 2023-2027” released by the Industrial Research CenterIt shows that anhydrous calcium chloride has a wide range of application fields. In recent years, with the rapid development of the downstream market, its market size has continued to grow. In 2022, my country’s anhydrous calcium chloride market size will reach 930 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.7%.

As a commonly used chemical product, anhydrous calcium chloride currently has a large number of domestic production companies and the market competition pattern is relatively fragmented. The main domestic anhydrous calcium chloride companies include Qinghai Wucai Alkali Industry, Tangshan Sanyou Chemical, Guangxi Tiandong Shengtai Industry and Trade, Kemila Tiancheng Wanfeng Chemical, Shenyang Liansheng Chemical, Changshu Huayu Environmental Technology, Henan Zheyu Chemical, Guangxi Tiandong Jinsheng Chemical, etc., their production capacity is mainly concentrated in Shandong and Jiangsu.

Industry analysts said that anhydrous calcium chloride is a widely used chemical raw material. In recent years, , with the rapid development of the domestic economy and the continuous expansion of the chemical industry, construction, textile, food and other fields, the demand for anhydrous calcium chloride is increasingly strong. At present, many companies in my country have deployed in the anhydrous calcium chloride production field, and the industry concentration is low. In the future, driven by domestic environmental protection policies, the concentration of the anhydrous calcium chloride industry will continue to increase, and the industry has huge room for growth.