Organized by CCFEI and CRU, China International Sulphur & Sulphuric Acid 2014 is held during 18-20 June 2014, in Longemont Hotel, Shanghai, China. The conference is attended by nearly 200 representatives of over 40 major sulphur producers from Europe, the US, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, as well as domestic traders, phosphate fertilizer and sulphuric acid producers.

09:00Welcome remarks,Session Chair: Weng Yijie, Deputy General Manager, CCFEI
Date 19 Jun 20 Jun





Aochao Wang, Director of Rabobank provides a speech in allusion to the influence of global staple commodities on fertilizer prices while comprehensively comparing fertilizer demand in Europe, Americas and China, citing the different agricultural modes. Moreover, he also shares his outlook of specialty fertilizers’ application in agriculture and the development of agriculture in the future.
Date 19 Jun 20 Jun


Relying on years of research and working experience in sulphur market, Dr Peter Harrisson, the Senior Consultant of CRU， highly mines the change of data and analyze the main causes of sulphur price fluctuations, contraposing the volatility of sulphur market in recent years. He gives us a full view of sulphur market from the aspects of sulphur inventory and prices in the Middle East, China and Americas, on the basis of data analysis.
Date 19 Jun 20 Jun


As a domestic expert in economic research, Li Shigang, the Associated Researcher of NDRC Academy of Macroeconomic Research, delivers his own research viewpoints specific to the recent changes and future movement of RMB exchange rate, a global concern. In the meantime, his speech also tells the influence of RMB exchange rate on China’s import, while providing his point of view and understanding related to the phenomenon of higher overseas prices than domestic ones for many staple commodities.
Date 19 Jun 20 Jun


Wang Min, Senior Researcher of China Petroleum and Chemical Planning Institute analyzes and states the major sources in China’s sulphur market, as well as the future growths. He says that the major source for China’s increasing sulphur output in future lies in the sulphur recovery and natural gas purification by China’s petrochemical industry, coal chemical industry and environmental protection industries, and predicts that China’s sulphur output will reach 9.8 million tons in 2020, with self-sufficient ratio at around 50%.
Date 19 Jun 20 Jun


Wan Jianli, the Chief Consultant of CCFEI, has spent many years taking part in the market research work of sulphur, sulphur acid and some other chemical products. In the presentation, he makes a selective analysis on the change of the importing channel of sulphur in China, and concludes that the origins of China’s sulphur imports shift from the US and Canada to the Middle East and then shunts to the central Asian markets, while Russia will also march into the Chinese market in future. And after illustrating and exploring the factors including prices, transportation and energy, he thinks that the change of origins of China’s sulphur imports is in accordance with the change of China’s energy channel.
Date 19 Jun 20 Jun


Session Chair: Isaac Zhao, Senior Consultant, CRU
Date 19 Jun 20 Jun


Xu Dingguo, the Marketing Director of Yunnan Yuntianhua International Chemical Co. Ltd, a major sulphur consumer in China, studies and explains the relationship between phosphate fertilizer and sulphur prices, as well as the influence of China’s purchase on world sulphur pricing, via his own price analysis model. He also puts forward his original ideas and provides referential methods for sulphur and fertilizer producers.
Date 19 Jun 20 Jun


Uday N. Parekh, Vice President of Devco’s International Business Development, shares Devco’s experience in applying modular technologies for a variety of sulphur related projects. He tells us how to save time, money, materials, reduce waste, and achieve accelerated schedules and increase overall plant reliability.
Date 19 Jun 20 Jun


Yao Dawei, the Director of CIFA, introduces and expounds the international shipping and the status and change of China’s ship transportation, on the back of the reality of huge sulphur imports in China. He deems that the status of China’s shipping in the world will continue climbing, and following the continuous deepening of China’s economic reform, more and more Chinese ports will ascend to be the world major ones.
Date 19 Jun 20 Jun


Hu Changping, the Director of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, carries out an analysis approach on the influence of domestic metallurgical industry on China’s sulphuric acid market. He analyzes the reclamation of sulphuric acid in allusion to the development of domestic metal industry, referring to output of ten non-ferrous metals at 40.29 million tons in 2013, doubling that in 2000, which makes it an independent industry that is unique in the world and takes up nearly 40% of the world share, with the economic income of non-public economy accounting for around 70% of the total in the industry.

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Date 19 Jun 20 Jun


Isaac Zhao, the Senior Consultant of CRU, makes feasibility analysis on China’s sulphuric acid export. His analysis and research provides a new thought for China’s sulphuric acid sales, and brings forward a new direction for China’s sulphuric acid market to connect with the global one.
Date 19 Jun 20 Jun


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