Supported by China Chemical Fiber Association (CCFA) and China National Chemical Fibre Corp., organized by China Chemical & Fiber Economic Information Network (CCFEI) and Tecnon OrbiChem, 8th China International Polyamide & Intermediates Forum is held at 9:00 a.m., 2 Dec, 2010 in Shanghai, China. Leading players from home and overseas, including BASF, Capro, CPDC, DSM, Honeywell, Jinjiang Technology, Sinopec, Kordsa Global, KuibyshevAzot, Lanxess, Li Peng Enterprise, Shenma Group, Sinopec Baling Petrochemical, Xinhui Meida...etc., are gathering to exchange ideas about the nylon chain.


Wallace Weng, Deputy GM of CCFEI is the conference chairman of the morning session, and Dawei, Deputy GM of China National Chemical Fiber Corp presented the opening speech, referring to focuses of the conference, including status quo of the nylon chain and market rules, as well as macro economic factors including the twelfth five-year plan and RMB exchange rate.
Date 2 Dec 3 Dec


Deng Jun, Secretary General of Nylon of CCFA gave the first speech, which gave an overview of the ongoing energy save and emission reduction within the industry against the backdrop of calls for environment production from state government, and also perspective for the industry during the Twelfth-five-year Plan, as well as CCFA¡¯s tasks and policies.
Date 2 Dec 3 Dec


Charles Fryer, Board Chairman of Tecnon Orbichem gave analysis on the pressure on caprolactam and adiponitrile supply from fast growing nylon capacity, and warned that the two feedstock will become the bottleneck for the industry.
Date 2 Dec 3 Dec


After the coffee break, Gerry Song from BASF Greater China gave review on 2011 and looked into the market future in 2011, referring to China¡¯s anti-dumping actions against nylon chips and caprolactam from the US and EU countries.
Date 2 Dec 3 Dec


He Zhuosheng, Deputy GM of Guangdong Xinhui Meida talked about Opportunities and Challenges for Polyamide Industry, pointing out that caprolactam industry needs a reshuffle with upstream monopolized and caprolactam oversupplied, and downstream suffering poor margin.
Date 2 Dec 3 Dec


Massimo De Petro from Radici ended the morning session with analysis on performance and sustainability of nylon 66, against the backdrop of improving nylon demand from end users, especially demand for nylon 66 from engineering plastics and fiber section, with 66 demand in China growing by more than 30% and consumption increasing by more than 50%.
Date 2 Dec 3 Dec


In the afternoon session, with Deng Jun as the chairman, firstly Luan Yizheng, General Manager of DSM Fibre Intermediates Trading (Shanghai) shared his opinion on caprolactam market future, citing increasing capacities and demand in 2010, with still more domestic capacities, including those of DSM Nanjing and Baling Petrochemcial to join the future.
Date 2 Dec 3 Dec


Tan Hong from Oerlikon Barmag introduced the global development of nylon fibers, pointing out that in global scope polyester fibers are taking place of nylon due to relatively competitive prices. Meanwhile he talked about Oerlikon Barmag¡¯s advanced eFK-PA texturing machine. Then Han Jianming from Oerlikon Neumag introduced nylon 6 and 66 yarn fabric market, as well as Neumag¡¯s progress in BCF technologies.
Date 2 Dec 3 Dec


Pirulh Laothanasin, Marketing Manager of Ube Chemicals (Asia) presented the last speech of the day. According to him, currently there are three major challenges facing caprolactam producers, namely reliability of processes and technologies, capital costs, feedstock supply and costs. He pointed out that though new capacities may not all be committed, capacity expansion will be inevitable, and the timing for new capacities to come on stream will be critical for sustainability of caprolactam and nylon 6 industry.
Date 2 Dec 3 Dec


Tricon Energy, Ltd. Hosted the Tricon Energy Cocktail Party. Mr. Shi, General Manager of Tricon Energy gave an address to all the participants.
Date 2 Dec 3 Dec

Above is the on-spot report for the first day sessions, and there will be more to come tomorrow.

China Chemical & Fiber Economic Information Network (CCFEI)