Shanghai Heben-Eastsun plans to expand its capacity of azoxystrobin technical to 500t/a from 300t/a this year.

1. Shanghai Heben-Eastsun to Expand Azoxystrobin Technical Production in 2012
Summary: Shanghai Heben-Eastsun plans to expand its capacity of azoxystrobin technical
to 500t/a from 300t/a this year.
Tags: azoxystrobin, strobilurin fungicide, Shanghai Heben-Eastsun, azoxystrobin producer,
fungicide, agrochemical, azoxystrobin technical, consumption
Shanghai Heben-Eastsun Medicaments Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Heben-Eastsun), one of the leading
azoxystrobin producers in China, plans to expand its capacity of azoxystrobin technical to 500t/a
from 300t/a this year, which will greatly enhance the company's competitiveness and bring it
handsome profit in the near future, according to CCM’s March Issue of Fungicides China News.
Azoxystrobin, the most popular strobilurin fungicide worldwide, has been drawing attention from
domestic agrochemical companies, including Shanghai Heben-Eastsun, driven by its bright
market prospect both at home and abroad in recent years. It is well known that the sales value of
azoxystrobin reached about USD1.0 billion all over the world in 2011, thanks to its high efficiency,
broad spectrum and low toxicity.
According to Shanghai Heben-Eastsun, it had started to research and develop azoxystrobin
technical as early as 2005. In 2006, the company succeeded in producing and selling this
fungicide through unremitting efforts.
Moreover, Shanghai Heben-Eastsun has smoothly obtained the formal registration of
azoxystrobin 95% TC from the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture
(ICAMA) in May 2010, which makes it become the first domestic company that has registered
azoxystrobin technical in China.
It is worth noting that, so far, Shanghai Heben-Eastsun is the only domestic company that has
registered azoxystrobin formulation—250g/L SC, which is used to prevent and control cucumber
downy mildew with the application dosage of 200~250mg/kg.
Mr. Wang, Product Manager from Shanghai Heben-Eastsun, reveals that most azoxystobin
technical produced by the company is exported to overseas countries and regions mainly via
foreign trade companies, and the rest is processed into 250g/L SC, which is also mainly for
overseas market.

2. Owing to the good product quality and vigorous promotion, Shanghai Heben-Eastsun's
azoxystrobin 95% TC and 250g/L SC have been selling well in recent years. In detail, the
company's export volume of azoxystrobin (technical and formulations) has hit about 70 tonnes in
2011, witnessing a significant increase over the previous year, according to CCM International's
investigation.
With the increasing demand for azoxystrobin from domestic and overseas market, the
consumption of this fungicide will continue to go up in the next few years. As a result, Shanghai
Heben-Eastsun hopes to expand its capacity of azoxystrobin technical in order to timely grasp the
great opportunity and thus seize more market share in the near future.
Besides azoxystrobin, Shanghai Heben-Eastsun plans to develop other strobilurin fungicides,
mainly including pyraclostrobin, picoxystrobin and trifloxystrobin, which are all relatively popular
fungicides in global agrochemical market. It is expected that Shanghai Heben-Eastsun will greatly
enhance its competitiveness in fungicide business with the capacity expansion of azoxystrobin
and variety extension of strobilurin fungicides.
Shanghai Heben-Eastsun, established in 2002, is mainly engaged in the production and sales of
chemical pesticides and intermediates. Its major fungicide products include azoxystrobin 95% TC
and 250g/L SC, epoxiconazole•thiophanate-methyl 497g/L SC, tebuconazole 96% TC and 50%
WDG, etc.
Source: Fungicides China News 1203
http://www.cnchemicals.com/Newsletter/NewsletterDetail.aspx?id=2
Main content of Fungicides China News 1203:
China's fungicide output up 1.3% year on year in 2011
Lanfeng Biochemical: both revenue and net profit increase in 2011
Changqing Agrochemical's net profit slightly grows in 2011
Shanghai Heben-Eastsun to expand azoxystrobin technical production in 2012
Baoling Chemical registers SYP-7017
Sinochem Group to launch three new fungicides into market
Key producers' output of carbendazim technical totalled over 37,000 tonnes in China in 2011
Domestic consumption of dimethomorph significantly grows
Bailly Chemical to launch fluazinam technical in H2 2012
Kuaida Agrochemical to reinforce iprodione's market position

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Rice diseases' occurrence area to up 6% year on year in China in 2012
Meeting about the prevention and control of SRBSDV in 2012 held
National Food Safety Standard of MRLs for 85 Pesticides in Food issued recently
Ex-factory price of 1,2,4-triazole increases in Q1 2012
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