TIPA has broad prospects and foreign brands dominate

TIPA is an important basic chemical raw material, mainly used as a cement additive. Compared with triethanolamine, it has the advantages of good dispersion, good early and late reinforcement properties, strong application stability and environmental protection. It can be used in cement production. It has the effect of improving ball milling efficiency, reducing energy consumption and enhancing cement strength. Therefore, as people’s awareness of environmental protection increases and the requirements for cement in the construction field continue to increase, the application of TIPA products in the cement field will continue to increase. TIPA can also be used in medicine, daily chemicals, fibers, plastics and other fields. According to the “2022-2026 TIPA Industry In-Depth Market Research and Investment Strategy Suggestions Report released by the Industrial Research Center, in 2021 China The demand for TIPA reaches about 50,000 tons.

China’s TIPA production started late, and small-scale production did not begin until the mid-1980s. Due to the short development time, and at the same time, most TIPA manufacturers in the past were unable to overcome problems such as excessive energy consumption in production and indigestible by-products and were forced to stop production. Therefore, there are few TIPA manufacturers in China. At present, the main manufacturing companies in China’s TIPA industry are Hongbaoli Group Co., Ltd., Changzhou Yuping Chemical Co., Ltd., Jiahua Chemical Co., Ltd., Zhuzhou Sanyi Chemical Building Materials Technology Development Co., Ltd. and a few other companies. Among them, Hongbaoli Group Co., Ltd. Baoli and Jiahua Chemical are in a relatively high competitive position in the industry.

Industry analysts said that the purity of TIPA products can be roughly divided into two types, one is 85% and the other is 99.9 %. Among them, products with a purity of 85% are widely used in the market and are mainly used as cement grinding aids, cement enhancers, etc., with low purity requirements; products with a purity of 99.9% are mainly used in cosmetics, medicine and other fields. . There is a big price difference between the two specifications of products. The price of 99.9% purity is twice the price of 85%. This makes the demand of the downstream industry basically concentrated in the field of products with 85% purity, hindering the high-end development of the industry.

In addition, the production technology of TIPA involves the control of by-products, energy consumption, and ammonia recovery processes. Currently, most of the more advanced TIPA production technologies are in the hands of large multinational companies. Most domestic TIPA production companies have problems with the production process technology of product purity. Problems such as high levels, difficult to control by-products, and incomplete ammonia recovery have seriously restricted the development of the TIPA industry. In the future, the production technology of the TIPA industry will develop in the direction of environmental protection and greenness. In addition, reducing energy consumption and improving product purity are also one of the important directions for the development of industry technology.