Fujian imports of methanol increased significantly

According to the latest statistics from the Fuzhou Customs of Sinochem Xinhua News, from January to November 2011, Fujian Province imported a total of 388,000 tons of methanol, an increase of 50.4% year-on-year; USD 150 million, an increase of 94.1%; the average import price was US$374.6 (t price, the same below), up 29.1%. All are imported from Iran, Saudi Arabia and Qatar by general trade.

At present, the methanol industry in China needs to pay attention to the following issues: First, domestic methanol production capacity is surplus in recent years, but there is little room for downstream demand growth; second, the methanol market is launched; the price mechanism is further improved; and third, the impact of imported methanol on the domestic market and anti-dumping policies. It is not obvious that the methanol products in the Middle East are mainly made of natural gas. The manufacturing cost per ton of methanol is equivalent to only about 1,200 yuan, while that of domestic coal-to-methanol production technology is about 2,800 yuan.

To this end, experts suggest that the methanol industry's development scale should be strictly controlled to prevent blind investment and expansion, accelerate the elimination of backward production capacity, implement total control, rationally allocate resources, and further improve the methanol price mechanism to guide the upstream and downstream industries of methanol. Order development, through the ** market to enhance China's pricing power in the international methanol market, in addition, we must learn from and learn from international advanced technology, change the backward production process and development model, earnestly implement the anti-dumping policy, encourage the healthy and orderly development of enterprises.