Under the background of carbon neutrality and carbon peak strategies, the overall development trend of the wood activated carbon industry is improving.

Wooden activated carbon refers to a carbon material prepared from high-quality fuelwood, sawdust, wood blocks, coconut shells, fruit shells, etc. through pyrolysis, activation processing and other processes. It belongs to a category of activated carbon. There are various types of wood activated carbon. According to different shapes, it can be divided into columnar, granular, honeycomb, powdered activated carbon, etc.; according to different raw materials, it can be divided into coconut shell activated carbon, fruit shell (walnut shell, apricot shell, etc.) activated carbon, Sawdust activated carbon, etc.

Wooden activated carbon appears as black powder and has dual characteristics of physical adsorption and chemical adsorption. It can selectively adsorb large and small molecules in liquid and gas phases. It has the advantages of strong adsorption capacity, high mechanical strength, long service life, high cost performance, and low pollution. . Due to its good characteristics, wooden activated carbon has many uses such as gas phase adsorption, liquid phase adsorption, organic solvent recovery, and catalyst carrier. Its terminal application fields include food, medicine, chemical industry, metallurgy, water treatment, waste incineration, waste gas treatment, etc.

According to the “China Wooden Activated Carbon Industry Market Monitoring and Future Development Prospects Research Report 2023-2027” released by the Industrial Research Center, In the current context of the continuous advancement of domestic dual-carbon goals, wood-based activated carbon has become a key material to replace non-renewable coal-based activated carbon with large carbon emissions, and the industry shows good development prospects. Domestic production of wood-based activated carbon will reach 415,000 tons in 2022. It has become the fastest growing category in the activated carbon market and is expected to accelerate the replacement of coal-based activated carbon in the future.

Wooden activated carbon is a resource-constrained industry, and the development of the industry is greatly affected by raw materials. Therefore, currently, most domestic wood activated carbon companies are concentrated in areas rich in raw material resources, such as Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other provinces. Domestic wood-based activated carbon companies mainly include Fujian Yuanli Activated Carbon, Fujian Xinsen Carbon Industry, Fujian Zhixing Carbon Industry, Jiangxi Yuanyi Biotechnology, Zhejiang Hangmu Activated Carbon, Chengde Huajing Activated Carbon, Suzhou Clarkson Activated Carbon, Guangxi Guanyu Activated Carbon, etc. .

Among them, Yuanli, Xinsen, Zhixing, etc. are the leading companies in the domestic wooden activated carbon market, occupying a large market share and high industry concentration. Taking Yuanli as an example, its market share has exceeded 30% in 2022. In the future, as the advantages of leading domestic wooden activated carbon companies continue to highlight and production capacity continues to expand, the market share of leading companies will continue to rise, and industry concentration is expected to further increase.

Industry analysts said that wood-based activated carbon is a kind of low-carbon, green, and circular economy development concept whose entire process from production to application is The development of activated carbon materials is strongly supported by policies; at the same time, under the background of carbon neutrality and carbon peak strategies, it has become a key material to replace the mainstream product coal-based activated carbon, and the overall development trend of the industry is good. However, the domestic application field of wood activated carbon is still relatively narrow, and some high-end products still rely on imports. In the future, leading domestic companies will need to continue to expand market space and increase product innovation to promote the rapid development of the industry.