Core tip: antimony in abundance in the earth's crust is very low (one over ten thousand), with the application of antimony in the printing industry and arms industry, people regarded the antimony as strategic materials, especially the development and application of antimony flame retardants, greatly promoted the development of the antimony industry.
Currently, global antimony consumption is mainly in the flame retardant field of antimony, accounting for 70% of global antimony consumption and 90% of the consumption of SbO.
The world each year
Antimony in abundance in the earth's crust is very low (one over ten thousand), with the application of antimony in the printing industry and arms industry, people regarded the antimony as strategic materials, especially the development and application of antimony flame retardants, greatly promoted the development of the antimony industry.
Currently, global antimony consumption is mainly in the flame retardant field of antimony, accounting for 70% of global antimony consumption and 90% of the consumption of SbO.
The world consumes about 100,000 tons of SbO a year, with about 90,000 tons of flame retardants.
The United States, Japan, South Korea and Western Europe is a large dosage of antimony, consumption accounts for over 50% of the world total, at the same time the United States, Japan and main producer of antimony oxide, but mainly rely on imports of refined antimony raw materials to maintain production.
China only has about 5%.
The development of Chinese antimony products has lagged behind foreign countries, but it is now beginning to step into the ranks of the big consumers of antimony.
Since 2003, the consumption of antimony products in China has risen sharply, increasing market share mainly from two aspects: flame retardant application and automobile industry.
At present, the proportion of automobile plastic parts in the total weight of the car has reached about 10%, especially the automobile plastic interior trim parts, which generally require flame retardant.
With the rapid development of the world economy and modern science and technology, the application of antimony has become more and more extensive and has broad prospects.
But in recent years by the world economic recovery is slow, the influence of domestic economic slowdown, the decline in commodity prices generally, antimony industry as an important part of the non-ferrous metal industry, also is not immune, downward pressure on industry keeps increasing.
But as China's economy stabilizes, demand and production will rise again.
Chinese antimony yield (kiloton)
东莞杰夫 三氧化二锑