Affected by increasingly strict environmental protection policies, China’s tert-butylamine industry is growing slowly

Tert-butylamine is an important organic synthesis intermediate. It has the two advantages of scorch resistance and fast vulcanization speed, and has slight discoloration and pollution. It is called a “standard accelerator”. Tert-butylamine is often used in synthetic rubber vulcanization accelerators N-tert-butylamine-2-benzothiazole sulfenamide (NS) and N-tert-J-2-bisbenzothiazole sulfenamide (TBSI), and is further used in natural rubber, Styrene-butadiene rubber, butadiene rubber, isoprene rubber and other fields.

The tert-butylamine industry in Europe and the United States started early and has carried out long-term research and innovation in the field of tert-butylamine synthesis. Its production technology is advanced and it is the main production and consumption area of ​​tert-butylamine in the world. In the global market, representative companies of tert-butylamine include BASF, Bayer, Rohm and Haas, Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical, etc. Among them, BASF occupies an advantageous position in the global market competition by virtue of its technical level, production process and product scale. As the globalization trend of the international chemical industry becomes increasingly apparent, international chemical additives companies have gradually transferred their production bases to developing countries. BASF established a tert-butylamine production base in Nanjing, China, in 2019.

According to the “2023-2028 China tert-butylamine industry market in-depth research and development prospect forecast report released by the Industrial Research Center, in recent years In 2017, with the increasingly stringent domestic environmental protection policies, coupled with the slowdown in economic growth, overcapacity and other factors, the growth rate of China’s tert-butylamine production began to decline. In 2022, the total output of China’s tert-butylamine industry will be 37,100 tons, and most devices are idle.

At this stage, China’s tert-butylamine production companies mainly include BASF Performance Chemicals (Nanjing) Co., Ltd., Shandong Yabang Chemical Technology Co., Ltd., Zibo Luhuahongjin New Materials Co., Ltd., etc. Other companies have limited supply due to market competition, environmental protection policies, and technology. Levels and other factors have begun to stop production one after another, and the industry market concentration is becoming more and more concentrated. Moreover, BASF relies on the strong technical research and development capabilities and technical experience accumulation of BASF headquarters to maintain leading technological advantages in the fields of tert-butylamine and other products. The content of tert-butylamine products it produces can reach more than 99%, while the tert-butylamine content of other domestic companies is only 95%. %above.

Industrial analysts said that as an environmentally friendly fine chemical, tert-butylamine has a high demand for application as an accelerator and will be used in medicine, There is a lot of room for expansion in the application of pesticides and other fields. With the continuous improvement of domestic tert-butylamine product technology and the continuous maturation of downstream applications, the demand for other application fields other than rubber accelerators will account for a larger share, the demand will grow rapidly, and there will be certain investment opportunities. However, in the next few years, rubber accelerators will still be the main application field of tert-butylamine, and there is still room for growth in demand, which will also provide market opportunities for tert-butylamine manufacturers.