2012 China’s Major Pesticides Varieties Tracking - atrazine

Agropages has been tracking the Chinese market situation of the major pesticides varieties and would like to shape a picture of these products here in our annual review, to help industry people have better understanding the supplying and demanding status for right sourcing decision.

 

Atrazine

- Registered Formulations
TC, SC, WP, WG

- Market Status
The annual sales of atrazine is around $ 370 million and volume to be 80,000～100,000 tonnes. China’s capacity reaches 110,000 tonnes/year, the supply is over to the demand.

-Main Chinese producers
Weifang Rainbow
Zhongshan Chemical
Shandong Binnong

The total capacity of these 3 companies reaches 90,000 tonnes, accounting for over 80% of total national level. In 2011, the output and export volume of 3 compainesreached 55,000 tonnes and 33,000 tonnes (including technical and formulation), respectively.

- Price Trend
Price of technical atrazine remained stable at about Yuan 22,000 /ton in the first ten months of 2012.

- Events
• Syngenta Pays $105mn to settle herbicide claims
• U.S. Scientific Advisory Panel to further assess atrazine
• Atrazine benefits U.S. consumers by up to $4.8 billion annually
• Wastewater treatment  is the bottleneck to develop atrazine and Triazine herbicides