The 13th China International Polyamide & Intermediates Forum, supported by Nylon Committee of China Chemical Fiber Association (CCFA) and China National Chemical Fiber Corp., organized by China Chemical & Fiber Economic Information Network (CCFEI) and Tecnon OrbiChem, is held at 9:00 a.m., 3rd December, 2015 in Shanghai, China, with Solvay and WITTE PUMPS & TECHNOLOGY as the main sponsors. Leading players from home and overseas, including: CCFA, CPDC, DSM, Genomatica, GPPC, GRUPA AZOTY S.A. TARNOW, Hengyi Petrochemical, Honeywell, Jinjiang Technology, KuibyshevAzot, Lipeng, Luxi Chemicals, Nurel, Shenma Group, Sinopec, Solvay, SRF, Sumitomo, Ube, Xinhui Meida, Yangquan Coal Industry, Yiwu Huading...etc., are gathering to share their ideas about widely concerned issues of the nylon chain. In the one-and-a-half-day sessions, we will have 12 speeches in the first day, with six in the morning, and six in the afternoon.

Lin Jun, Chief Editor of China Chemical & Fiber Economic Information Network (CCFEI), is the chairwoman of the morning session.
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The first speech of the day comes from Deng Jun, Secretary General of Nylon Committee, China Chemical Fibers Association. In his speech, Mr. Deng takes a review on problems existing with China’s nylon industry during the period of 12th Five Year Plan, and talks about Nylon Industry Development during the 13th Five-year Plan Period, referring the backdrop, targets and tasks for the industry in feedstock production, application, R&D key technologies and homemade equipments.
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Qi Jingmei, economic researcher from State Information Center, contributes an Overview of China’s Economy in 2015-2016 and Policy Proposals, mainly consists of overview of economic development in 2015, backdrop and perspective of China’s economy in 2016, perspective and targets for China's economic growth in 2016, Proposals for macro-economic control. She forecasts that economic growth is expected to taper in 2016, with GDP growth rate at around 6.5% and CPI increases by around 1.5%.
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Following comes Quentin de Carvalho, Market Intelligence Director & Global Polyamide Product Manager, Solvay Polyamide & Intermediates. According to Mr. Carvalho, Solvay focuses on innovation, product upgrading and high-performance products& services in order to meet the new economic challenges facing nylon 66 enterprises.
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After the coffee break, Li Xin, Vice President of China Textile Academy presents the speech titled Key Technologies for Advanced PA6 Fiber: the Progress and its Future Development, mainly including: technical essence of the advanced PA6 fiber material; Main trends of technology research and development; Development trend of key technologies; Perspective of future development; Key projects of China Textile Academy.
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Viktor Janzi, Product Management Polyamides of Uhde Inventa-Fischer introduces OMDP - their advanced polyamide 6 technology, which win them a huge group of customers all around the world.
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Zhao Weizhao, Marketing Manager of Xinhui Meida talks about Nylon Applications of State-of-the-art Nylon 6 Fiber. By utilizing the excellent physical and chemical performance of nylon 6 fibers, Xinhui Meida’s functional and differentiated fibers achieved wide application in downstream territories.
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After the lunch, the afternoon session starts with He Zhuosheng, General Manager of Guangdong Xinhui Meida Nylon as the chairman.
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Feng Qidu, Deputy General Manager of Yiwu Huading introduces advantages of Nylon Intelligent Technology for Nylon Yarn Production, including: First, worker number reduces by around half with robots replacing workers, cutting labor cost, which has a great significance when labor cost is growing in China; second, as bobbin does not contact hands, oil stain and broken yarn are reduced, while rate of AA-grade products increases by around 2 percentage points; and third, the information and position of each bobbin can be obtained at any time, meaning the on-line automatic management of variety, batch number and grade by computer, which makes Huading’s intelligentization, informatization and automation reach advanced levels at home and abroad.
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Luan Yizheng, General Manager of DSM Fibre Intermediates Trading presents a report about NewCo, the World’s Largest CPL Producer, and the Global CPL Business.
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Next follows Qu Zhenlin, Director of Sales Dept., UBE Shanghai. In the past 20 years demand of PA has been increased by 5-6% per year. In Mr. Qu’s speech titled Innovative Application Development of Polyamide Engineering Plastics, he focused on application of polyamide resin such as PA6, 66, 12 and relevant Copolymer (6/66,6/12) in automotive and packaging industries.
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After coffee break, Sun Hailong, Senior Engineer from Nanjing Institute of Organic shares recent advances of CPL, adiponitrile, as well as nylon-11 and nylon-12 raw material production in his speech titled Chemistry New Technologies for Nylon Polymers Production
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Ran Zhulin, Deputy Chief Engineer from Sinopec Shijiazhuang Refining & Chemical Branch talks about CPL industry history, Status quo, and tendency of CPL industry in China.
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James Mills, Polyamide Business Manager of Tecnon OrbiChem provides some hints about changes in polyamide market this year, in his speech titled Lower Costs, Lower Prices, Lower Margins: No Quick Recovery for Polyamide Markets. According to Mr. Mills, changes includes slower economic growth in China, negative cash margin of many CPL producers, and phenol losing its cost edge as a substitution for cyclohexane as caprolactam feedstock, etc.
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Above is the on-spot report for the first day sessions, and there will be more to come tomorrow.

China Chemical & Fiber Economic Information Network (CCFEI)