The general calcium market is gradually shrinking into a predicament

Since late April, with the rising prices of raw materials, the average ex-factory price of 24% of phosphate rock has risen to 300 yuan (t price, the same below), and the average ex-factory price of sulfuric acid has also reached more than 600 yuan, but it has not driven the traditional adoption of phosphoric acid. Calcium (hereinafter referred to as "Pu-Calcium") market conditions improved, the current market price is only around 450 yuan. The company's production costs have soared and the market demand has been weak. The company has fallen into a dilemma of gradual shrinkage.

More losses in production

According to Xu Jianming, general manager of Hubei Xinhong Phosphorus Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., phosphate ore is a rare resource with a large demand, the contradiction between supply and demand is increasingly prominent, and the price of phosphate ore is continuously rising, together with the increase in sulfur price, driving the sour market to surge. The production costs of phosphate fertilizers remain high, and ordinary calcium producers are miserable. According to the current average ex-factory price of phosphate ore of 300 yuan and the average ex-factory price of sulfuric acid of more than 600 yuan, the cost of superphosphate is at least 450 yuan. This way, the cost is upside down, and the company has no profit. The more production, the more losses will be. Enterprises that have resources will produce monoammonium phosphate and diammonium phosphate, and vice versa, they will turn to production compound fertilizers. The reduction in the production of calcium superfluids has caused the Pu calcium market to stagnate.

Taking Suizhou as an example, as early as 2004, some general-purpose calcium plants had flocked to as many as 40 companies, but the quality of their products was uneven. Later, the government departments intensified their supervision and rectified the market order, so that ordinary calcium plants with no profit margins and no competitive advantage died down. Xinhong Phosphorus Chemical Co., Ltd. has survived with its own phosphate rock resources, excellent quality and good reputation, but it has not brought real benefits. It can only perform deep processing of phosphate fertilizers to produce granular phosphate fertilizers, potassium phosphate fertilizers, and humic acids. Phosphate fertilizer, organic phosphate fertilizer, biological enzyme activated phosphate fertilizer, biological fish fertilizer and other products, to make up for the shortage of the general calcium market; known as the "Central China phosphorus city," said Zhongxiang City, before and after the large and small phosphate fertilizer plant dotted, now guarding The bonanza also does not produce calcium sulphate, even if the production is also phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5) content of more than 14%; Hubei Dawu Huangmailing Phosphorus Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., which has rich phosphate rock resources and mineral processing of 300,000 tons, is also feeling the pressure of the market. Calcium and calcium with a P2O5 content below 16% are rarely produced.

Use fewer and fewer places

Since the late autumn of last year, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have continued to experience droughts and unusually low rainfall. As a result, wheat has been affected, rice fields have been reduced to water, and general calcium has lost its place.

"In the past, they have not felt any pressure to live in their own phosphorite mines. Now that there is no phosphorite, it is not realistic to rely on the weather to eat. It is purely to buy high-priced ore. Where is the competitive advantage? The sales of primary calcium are declining year by year. Suizhou's local sales have dropped from the peak of more than 60,000 tons to nearly 10,000 tons now, it is time to consider converting.” Xu Jianming worriedly said.

He Jianguo, general manager of Heze City, Shandong Province, Jianguo Agricultural Materials Co., Ltd. told reporters that with the state control of high-energy companies, small nitrogen fertilizer plants have shut down, have a direct impact on the general calcium sales. General calcium has a certain market in remote mountainous regions and underdeveloped regions, but it will definitely be eliminated with the promotion of calcium magnesium phosphate fertilizer. Due to factors such as increase in electricity price, increase in freight rates, and oversight of road transport, the operating costs rose. Sales of calcium cadmium were almost non-profitable. Sales volume was worse than a year, from 5,000 tons in 2008 to 2010. 2000 tons, not to mention this year.

Wang Sheng, general manager of Shanxi Zhangzhou Agricultural Resources Co., Ltd., said that calcium sulphate is only a meager operation and the market has gradually shrunk. The enthusiasm of farmers to buy is not high, dealers have no way, in the past can sell more than 2,000 tons, but this year, but more than 300 tons .

Improve quality or have a market

It is reported that in some remote rural areas, local farmers have also changed the traditional practice of using a packet of ammonium bicarbonate with a pack of calcium sulphate in the past one mu of land. Instead, they are replacing fertilizers such as high-concentration three-element compound fertilizer and diammonium phosphate. Save trouble, but also avoided the calcium dust of ordinary calcium dust.

"Pu-calcium must ensure quality, better packaging, and price should be integrated. Otherwise, Pu-Ca will be eliminated sooner or later. Constantly change the status of a single species, low fertilizer grade, add appropriate enzymes, peptides, etc., to enhance the quality of calcium, Really do a good job, so that farmers can be pleased to accept." Jiangsu Lianyungang Jinman Park, general manager of Agricultural Assets Co., Ltd. Ma Xizhen said.

Chenghong, an agricultural wholesaler in Anyang City, Henan Province, also believes that Pu-Cadium must establish its own brand, rely on the quality of the market, not opportunistic, shoddy, fraudulent, deceive farmers, and delay farming. Which manufacturer cut corners and which manufacturer would go faster.