Issue 27/2014 - Fluorine chemicals move away from simple processing to improve refinement

Fluorine chemicals get rid of simple processing and improve the degree of fineness

The fluorine chemical industry has the remarkable characteristics of
low-end products relying on resources and high-end products relying on technology.
In recent years, the number of patent applications in the field of fluorine chemical industry has continued to grow, and the number of applications has been at a historical high in the past three years, and it is expected to increase
in the next five years.
The eight major fluorine chemical enterprises of DuPont of the United States, Daikin of Japan, Solvay of Belgium, 3M of the United States, Asahi Glass of Japan, Arkema of France, Chemical of Mexico and Honeywell of the United States have obvious technical and financial advantages, and their products have covered the entire fluorine chemical industry chain
.
In contrast, China's fluorine chemical products are mainly concentrated in the primary and intermediate levels of the industrial chain, and fluorine chemical enterprises are facing many problems
such as technological upgrading and product upgrading.

To this end, according to the fluorine chemical industry volume of the "Industrial Patent Analysis Report" recently released by the State Intellectual Property Office, we have launched a series of reports
on the development of fluorine chemical industry from patent applications.
Through the mining of patent information, the industrial status, technical hotspots and trends of inorganic fluorine chemical, fluororubber and other sub-industries, as well as key products such as lithium hexafluorophosphate and hydrofluoric acid, are analyzed
.

At present, China's inorganic fluorine chemical industry development trend is good, the overall upward trend, but there are still problems such as low-end products in the industrial chain, too many simple resource-based enterprises, technological innovation is basically still in the tracking and imitation stage, independent research and development, the proportion of original innovative technology is low, overall in the primary and intermediate level, compared with the foreign advanced level there is still a big gap
.

(Zhang Xiaoqun)