Sep 5, 2018   SOURCE: BusinessWire

Insecticides News - China, 2018 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

The "Insecticides China News" newsletter has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Coverage includes breaking news from China and abroad, the latest market data (price, import & export, production, consumption, operating rates, etc.), in-depth analysis of market trends, and expert commentary from industry insiders.

In April, China's ex-works prices of technical insecticides remained stable but still high, due to the high prices of raw materials and intermediates. That of many insecticides showed a downtrend.

Hebang Bio-technology has started the development of the huanyangchonglin project, but it is progressing slowly. Qingdao Hailir realised YoY increases in financial results in 2017, thanks to the great improvement in the insecticide business. Zhejiang Xinnong's financial performance also improved due to increases in sales of chlorpyrifos TC and formulations.

The Americas saw growing demand for imidacloprid from China in 2017. Arysta and Meiji has signed a licensing agreement for a new insecticide, "flupyrimin" (development code: ME5382) for use in rice protection in India. Ukraine requires ecological assessment for insecticides and agrochemical pesticides registration.

Key Topics Covered

Column 1 Company Dynamics

  • Bayer sees reduced insecticide sales in Brazil
  • Jiangsu Changqing benefits from increases in imidacloprid price in 2017
  • ADAMA obtains regulatory approval for flagship NIMITZ in Brazil
  • Yingde Greatchem sees YoY increase in cypermethrin export volume in 2017
  • Jiangsu Flag to increase pesticide TC capacity
  • BSM Chemical accelerates steps in methoxyfenozide
  • Chunjiang Runtian to increase beta-cyfluthrin TC and bifenthrin TC capacity

Column 2 Market Dynamics

  • State Council conducts work safety inspections in March
  • Hebei Province discloses pollution treatment results in 2017
  • Neonicotinoid pesticides' risks to bees confirmed by EFSA
  • China's chlorfenapyr export volume up nearly 4 folds MoM in last December
  • Pest prevention and control critical to reduction in pesticide usage
  • China's insecticide export volume probable to have increased in 2017
  • China's pesticide output decreases in 2017
  • Prices of insecticides in China in March

Column 3 Registration

  • Twenty insecticides technical registered in China in Feb. 2018
  • Two pesticides LDL officially registered in China
  • 2018 sees craze for dinotefuran registration

Column 4 Policy Dynamics

  • Pesticide retailers with poor technical guidance abilities to be eliminated in Hainan Province
  • China carries out multiple anti-dumping investigations against pesticide raw materials

Column 5 Pest

  • Major pests predicted to moderately-heavily occur in Jiangsu Province in 2018
  • Rape aphids occur less seriously in China as of 9 March
  • Occurrence area of wheat aphids, red spider mites decrease YoY as of mid-March

Column 6 Price Update

  • Ex-works prices of major insecticides in China, 8 March, 2018
  • Shanghai Port prices of major insecticides in China, 8 March, 2018
  • FOB Shanghai prices of major insecticides in China, 8 March, 2018

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