RnRMarketResearch.com adds “Research and Investment Value of China’s Lithium Carbonate Industry,
2013-2017” new report on its database.
Lithium is widely used in
the battery industry, ceramic industry, glass industry, aluminum industry,
lubricants, refrigerants, nuclear industry and the photovoltaic industry, as
well as some other emerging industries. Lithium carbonate is a basic material
for the production of secondary lithium salt and lithium metal, therefore,
lithium carbonate is the most important lithium product, and other lithium
products are the downstream products of lithium carbonate basically.
According to the report
of USGS (United States Geological Survey) in 2012, the global proven lithium
resources volume was 33.36 million tons, and the lithium reserves reached 13
million tons (calculate by lithium metal volume).
Currently, the
concentration ratio of global lithium industry is very high, and the production
capacity is mainly concentrated in SQM (Chile), FMC (the United States) and
Chemetall (Germany). In 2011, the market share of these three corporations was
about 75% in global lithium product market, and this market share of China was
about 24%. In 2011, the global output was 125,000 tons.
As for the situation in
recent years, the production capacity expansion of global lithium carbonate
industry was slowed down, and the progress of salt lake expansion and lithium
extraction from Australian ores of the industrial giants was slower than the
expectation.
Complete report available @ http://www.rnrmarketresearch.com/research-and-investment-value-of-chinas-lithium-carbonate-industry-2013-2017-market-report.html
Among
the world’s top three lithium carbonate suppliers, only Chemetall, which is
owned by Rockwood, plans to expand the production capacity from 22,000 tons to
50,000 tons by 2014. And China’s salt lake lithium extraction technology is not
mature enough, so the production capacity expansion is not optimistic. The
floods in South America will affect the production of the enterprises which are
engaged in the salt lake lithium extraction, which may result in output
decline; and the output decline of lithium which was extracted from salt lake
will intensify the tension pattern of supply and demand in the global lithium carbonate
industry; such situation will promote the further price rising of lithium
carbonate.
China’s
lithium carbonate production is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi, Xinjiang,
Tibet, Qinghai, and Sichuan. Sichuan is rich in lithium ore resources, and
mainly concentrated in Ganzi and Aba, accounting for more than 52% of the total
national lithium ore resources.
In
2011, China’s total lithium carbonate output was about 30,000 tons, which was
essentially flat compared with 2010. In the same year, some enterprises
conducted technological reformation to the brine lithium extraction production
lines, so the output declined largely compared with last year, but the output
of lithium which was extracted from ores increased by over 20%. In 2012,
China’s total lithium carbonate output was about 35,000 tons, increased by
about 16.6% over 2011
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