Driven by the development of the lithium battery industry, the supply and demand of the methylamine market is expected to show a double growth situation

Methylamine is an important organic chemical product. It is mainly generated by replacing the H atoms in the NH3 molecule with methyl groups. According to the number of methyl substitutions, methylamine can be divided into monomethylamine, dimethylamine and trimethylamine. Among them, methylamine generally refers to monomethylamine, which is an organic compound with the chemical formula CH3NH2. It appears as a colorless gas under normal temperature and pressure. It is a flammable and explosive gas, and its specific gravity is 1.07 times that of air. Methylamine is easily soluble in water, soluble in ethanol, ether, benzene, acetone, etc., and has a strong irritating ammonia-like odor.

Methylamine is an important fine chemical raw material and an important raw material for medicine, lithium batteries, dyes, explosives, fuels, pesticides, rubber additives, surface chemicals, etc. Specifically, methylamine can undergo acylation reactions with acid chlorides, acid anhydrides, etc., and the salts formed with carboxylic acids can be dehydrated to form N-substituted amides, which can be used in pesticide and fungicide scenarios; it can react with γ-butyrolactone and be dehydrated to form N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP) is used as a supporting solvent for lithium battery cathode binders (PVDF); it can be used with urea and cyanoacetic acid to generate caffeine through condensation, nitration, methylation, etc., and is used in the fields of medicine and food ; Can react with cyanamide and chloroacetic acid to generate creatine, which can be used in medicine, nutritional supplements and other fields.

From the perspective of the application market structure, NMP is currently the largest application market for methylamine. In 2021, the market demand for methylamine in the NMP field will account for 52% of the total domestic demand for methylamine; followed by the pharmaceutical field, accounting for 19%; demand in the pesticide field It ranks third at 13%. In recent years, against the background of the continuous expansion of lithium battery application fields, the scale of the lithium battery market has continued to expand, which in turn has driven the increasing demand for NMP. The rapid growth of the demand for NMP in the downstream lithium battery market has become one of the main driving forces for the rapid development of the methylamine market. ; In addition, the growth of the creatine and caffeine markets is another source of motivation for the development of the methylamine market. Against the background of the rapid development of its application fields, the domestic market demand for methylamine continues to increase.

According to the released “2022-2027 Methylamine Industry Market In-depth Research and Investment Prospect Forecast Analysis Report” shows that in 2021, domestic A The market demand for amines has reached 992,000 tons, and the industry has broad prospects for development. In the future, against the background of the continuous development of the lithium battery industry, it is expected that the demand for methylamine in the NMP field will increase to 61% in 2022.

Industrial analysis personnel said that at this stage, the main domestic methylamine companies include Hualu Hengsheng, Zhejiang Jiaotong Technology, Xinghua Co., Ltd. Huaibei Mining, Jufeng Chemical, Shengbao Chemical, Qianfanshun Chemical, Chengda Chemical, etc. Currently, against the background of rapid growth in downstream methylamine market demand, local companies are continuously expanding production capacity to alleviate the contradiction between market supply and demand, and the industry has good development prospects. In the future, under the background of the continuous development of domestic methylamine application fields and the continuous expansion of production by local enterprises, the supply and demand of the methylamine market will show a double growth situation, and the industry development trend is good.