Nitenpyram Will Have A Bright Market Prospect    

Nitenpyram has excellent performances, reliable production technology, adequate raw materials supply and a huge market space in China. These factors ensure it to have a good market prospect. But until the end of 2009, China's capacity of nitenpyram was only 1 000 t/a, far from meeting the domestic demand. This situation has deserved the attention of Chinese pesticide producers.
   Nitenpyram is another nicotimine insecticide after imidacloprid. It has ultra high efficiency, broad spectrum, low dosage, low toxicity, lasting efficacy, no phytotoxicity to crops and good use safety. It is a new variety of insecticide that China has promoted as an alternative to highly toxic organophosphorus pesticides in recent years. With the decline of its price and the intensified promotion of its applications, nitenpyram will have good market prospects.
   Nitenpyram has good control effects on planthoppers and aphids. Rice is a major crop for China. Rice pest control needs a large amount of pesticides every year. Especially last year, fipronil, a major rice pesticide, was banned in China. This has left a huge market vacancy. According to relevant statistics, the annual demand for nitenpyram will reach about RMB2 billion in China.
   The major raw material of nitenpyram is 2-chloro-5-chloro-methylpyridine (CCMP). In recent years, with the development and production wave of neonicotinoid pesticides, China has made a lot of research on the synthesis and properties of CCMP. Now, China's CCMP production technology has reached the international advanced level, and the China-made CCMP can meet the domestic market demand and also have been exported in a considerable amount. Especially, the cyclopentadiene route can effectively reduce the production cost of CCMP. With the accelerating construction of ethylene plants in China, several million tons of cyclopentadiene as a byproduct can be produced here each year. Abundant raw materials and advanced technology ensure the competitiveness of China-made nitenpyram in the international market.
   Although raw material prices have risen over the same period last year, as its production technology has advanced and the number of producers increased, nitenpyram in Chinese market is even cheaper in 2010 than in 2009.
   As a new generation of neonicotinoid pesticide, due to its excellent performances, reliable production technology, adequate raw materials and a huge market space, nitenpyram will have good market prospects.