Traditional urea hard to sell enterprises compete for "new urea"

In this era of fierce competition, in addition to capital, technology is often the most powerful weapon for enterprises to improve their core competitiveness Similarly, the fertilizer industry is no exception Shandong is one of the most important concentration areas of chemical fertilizer industry in China, and technological innovation often leads the whole country The reporter of Nanfang rural Daily recently went to Shandong to visit a number of large, medium and small-sized production enterprises, hoping to grasp the most advanced technical pulse in the field of chemical fertilizer Synergic urea, seaweed fertilizer, humic acid, water retaining fertilizer These new technologies continue to amaze journalists Here we will share these products and technologies with our readers Perhaps, like the tower technology of the year, these new fertilizers will soon be able to blossom all over the country Southern rural news (reporter Zhang Siping, Wang Xianyuan) in recent years, the urea industry has been suffering from overcapacity, low price for a long time, and the production enterprises and dealers are in the mire of no profit or even loss During a recent visit to Shandong Province, a reporter from Southern Rural daily found that in order to cope with the industrial difficulties, many urea production enterprises have improved their processes, adding raw materials such as metalloproteinase and aspartic acid to traditional urea to produce "new urea", which has been recognized by farmers in some areas Can the "new urea" produced by adding new raw materials really turn the tide? New type urea is widely sought after in the industry, which is generally in a downturn The first ones to bear the brunt are often small and medium-sized enterprises, whose operation is very difficult However, the operation of Shandong Yucheng Zhongnong Runtian Chemical Co., Ltd (with an annual output of 180000 tons of synthetic ammonia and 300000 tons of urea, hereinafter referred to as "Yucheng Zhongnong") is booming On April 26, a reporter from Nanfang rural daily saw in the company that the urea production line was running at full load, and a truck of goods was sent out "What we produce is not traditional urea, but new urea." Xingrenquan, general manager of Yucheng Zhongnong, said that at present, the company is producing two kinds of new urea: one is adding metalloproteinase in the traditional urea formation process, which is concentrated and granulated by evaporator to form polypeptide urea; the other is adding coenzyme while adding metalloproteinase, which is concentrated and granulated to form double enzyme urea These two kinds of urea can greatly improve the nutrient utilization rate Xing Renquan said that the company was forced to embark on the new urea production road In the downturn of the industry, small businesses will be eliminated because of their disadvantages in scale, advanced equipment or financial strength So Yucheng Zhongnong launched peptide urea in 2003, and then innovated to launch double enzyme urea in 2010 In addition to the small-scale urea enterprises forced to transform to produce new urea, some large-scale urea production enterprises also launched new peptide urea Shandong Luxi Chemical Co., Ltd has an annual output of 1 million tons of synthetic ammonia and 1.5 million tons of urea It is recognized as one of the leaders in the traditional urea industry, but it also launched the "energy accumulation urea" in 2007 Subsequently, Anhui salt hongsifang also launched "intelligent peptide urea", Jiangsu Huachang Chemical Co., Ltd launched "golden peptide urea", Henan xinlianxin launched "energy gathering network urea", and Sichuan Meifeng Chemical Co., Ltd launched "peptide enhanced urea" this year The reporter noted that polypeptides are the most common among many "new urea", but a few companies have launched other types of products The annual output of 100000 tons of "sulfur coated controlled release urea" jointly built by Rushan dongmingshui Dahua Group and Canada Hanfeng company has been put into production in 2009, and "humic acid urea" launched by Shandong Linyi Hyde green treasure fertilizer Co., Ltd It is also understood that, in addition to the above-mentioned enterprises that have been put into production, there are many enterprises that have or are adding new urea plants For example, Shandong Donghua luhengsheng, Shandong Zhonghua plain, Shandong Ruixing, Shandong mingshengda, Shanxi Jinfeng, Shandong Qilu Yihua, Hebei Zhengyuan, etc Industry insiders predict that due to the fall out of favor of traditional urea, enterprises must "innovate" to ease the pressure It can be predicted that new urea plants will continue to increase in the next few years Compared with traditional urea, what's the difference between these "new urea" with new raw materials? Liao Zongwen, Professor of Zihuan college, South China Agricultural University, introduced that theoretically, due to the addition of metalloproteinase in polypeptide urea, it can be directly absorbed by plants, so it can save the physical energy needed by plants in the transformation of trace elements, and greatly promote the growth and development of plants The effect of new urea products in demonstration and promotion is the same Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the competent agricultural department of Yucheng municipal government have carried out a large number of field experiments on wheat, corn, cotton and other crops with peptide urea produced in Yucheng The results show that peptide urea can improve the utilization rate of nitrogen fertilizer by as much as 30%, and at the same time, it can also improve the absorption efficiency of crops for phosphorus, potassium and medium and micro nutrients Compared with ordinary urea, peptide urea can be used in the same amount Urea can increase crop yield by more than 20%, and polypeptide urea can reduce crop yield by 20% At the same time, the application of polypeptide urea can significantly improve the disease resistance and stress resistance of crops Jiang Jitao, general manager of Luxi Chemical phosphate compound fertilizer Group Co., Ltd., introduced that compared with ordinary urea, the "energy accumulating urea" produced by them not only has the characteristics of slow-release and controlled-release fertilizer effect, which makes the effective utilization rate of urea increase from about 30% to 42%, but also successfully solves the problem of soil hardening caused by long-term use of urea, which makes the organic matter activity and productivity of soil significantly improved It can effectively activate the absorption of nitrogen elements in crops, improve the fertilizer efficiency by about 20%, increase the yield of vegetables by about 30%, and improve the quality of vegetables and fruits With significant results, the new urea has been recognized by many farmers in the market Xingrenquan said that after just a few years of promotion, the annual sales of peptide urea in Yucheng Zhongnong had exceeded 100000 tons In April 2010, double enzyme urea began to be popularized to the outside world, with 30000 tons sold in that year The cumulative energy urea of Luxi Chemical has achieved a sales volume of million tons in three years A number of experts in the industry also said that the new peptide urea is a non-toxic, pollution-free, degradable, hormone free, heavy metal free and environmentally friendly product without any side effects, which is undoubtedly an important direction for the future development of nitrogen fertilizer, and the prospect is worth looking forward to Although the new type of urea develops rapidly, there are also concerns in the industry Many enterprises of different sizes and good and bad participate in the promotion of the new type of urea At the same time, it is easy to bring confusion to this emerging industry At present, the peptide urea industry lacks an industry standard, and the products are still registered according to the traditional urea The specific standards are set by the enterprises themselves, and some even have no enterprise standards, said Liao Zongwen At present, there is no simple method to detect the peptide content in the product when the government enforces the law, which gives some lawbreakers the opportunity to drill the hole: no matter whether or not the product contains polypeptide and how many polypeptides, they dare to explicitly regard "polypeptide urea" as a concept to hype The direct driving force of speculation is profit According to an insider, the current new urea is generally 80 Jin / bag, but the price is equivalent to the traditional urea price of 100 Jin / bag, even higher than 10-20 yuan / bag, which is equivalent to a price increase of at least 20% Therefore, some illegal enterprises add a very small amount of metalloproteinase to their products, and even dye urea yellow with only dyes, which is called "peptide urea", so the price can be increased by 300-400 yuan / ton Because of this, in the past two or three years, the market claims that "new urea" products are blooming everywhere, but there are not many effective products A dealer in Panyu District, Guangzhou, told reporters that in the past two years, at least 20 enterprises have asked him to act as the agent of polypeptide urea, and claimed that the fertilizer effect of polypeptide urea can be increased by more than 60% compared with that of traditional urea, but after the test, it was found that the effect is not much different at all Xing Renquan also said that at present, there are far more fake polypeptide urea products in the market than the real ones, because "both the production process and the raw material of metalloproteinase are only in the hands of a few enterprises".