The scale of my country’s special gas market is gradually expanding, and leading companies have emerged.

Special gases are one of the subordinate categories of industrial gases and refer to gas products used in some specific fields. After years of development, the types of special gases have become increasingly rich, and they can be roughly divided into medical gases, standard gases, food gases, electronic special gases, electric light source gases, etc. Special gases are widely used in food preservation, medical care, petrochemical industry, non-ferrous metal smelting, semiconductors, environmental monitoring and other fields.

At present, my country’s special gases have formed a complete industrial chain. The upstream of the industrial chain is mainly the raw material industry and the production equipment industry, providing boron, aluminum, gallium, nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic and other raw materials as well as pressure vessels, separators and other related production equipment; The midstream is mainly in the special gas production industry and is responsible for the production and manufacturing of various types of special gases; the downstream is mainly oriented to application fields, mostly used in semiconductors, medical care, petrochemicals, metal smelting and other fields.

According to the “Special Gas Industry In-depth Market Research and Investment Strategy Suggestions Report 2023-2027” released by the Industrial Research Center, in recent years In 2017, the application fields of special gases in my country gradually expanded, and the demand for special gases in new energy vehicles, photovoltaic power generation and other fields continued to grow. Against this background, the scale of my country’s special gas market is gradually expanding. From 2017 to 2022, the size of my country’s special gas market will grow from 17.64 billion yuan to 41.02 billion yuan, with an average annual compound growth rate of 18.39%. From the perspective of the downstream market structure of my country’s special gases, the semiconductor market accounts for the largest share, accounting for 40.92%; followed by petrochemical industry, accounting for 38.47%; ranking third is medical care, accounting for 11.71%. At present, the semiconductor field has become the main application field of special gases in my country.

At this stage, there are many companies in my country’s special gas market. Foreign companies mainly include Praxair, Air Liquide, Sun Nippon Sanso, Air Chemicals, Linde, etc. Large-scale domestic companies mainly include Walter Gas, Jacques Technology, and Nanda. Optoelectronics, Jinhong Gas, Heyuan Gas, Luling Gas, Juhua Co., Ltd., etc. Among them, five foreign companies, Linde, Air Liquide, Air Chemicals, Praxair, and Taiyo Nippon Sanso, account for 74.2% of my country’s market share. Domestic companies have a smaller market share, accounting for 10.4% of the overall market.

Industry analysts said that because foreign special gas companies started earlier, they have strong technical strength, high gas purity and rich product varieties. , occupying the leading position in the industry. In the early days, due to the late start of my country’s special gas companies, their technical strength was relatively insufficient, their product types were relatively single, gas purity was low, and their market competitiveness was weak. However, with the gradual rise of my country’s special gas companies, increasing investment in product research and development, and gradually improving technological levels, breakthroughs have been achieved in some fields, and market competitiveness has gradually increased. In the future, my country’s domestic substitution of special gases is expected to accelerate.