Glycine is also called aminoacetic acid ( NH2CH2COOH). It is the smallest relative molecular mass and the simplest structure for amino acid. According to the different synthesis process and product quality of glycine, it can be divided into four Grades: Glycine industrial grade, Glycine feed grade,Glycine pharmaceutical grade and Glycine food grade.
Glycine is an important chemical intermediate. According to the proportion of consumption in various fields, it is pesticide, food, feed, medicine. In China, about 80% of glycine is used to produce the herbicide glyphosate, and domestic glyphosate production has increased from 400,000 tons in 2015 to 550,000 tons in 2019, an annual growth rate of 9.3%. In the food industry, glycine can be used as a nutritional supplement, flavoring agent, and preservative; in the feed and pharmaceutical industries, glycine can be used as a feed additive and pharmaceutical intermediate.
The annual production of glycine in China is approx 400,000 tons (The year 2019). About 300,000 tons are mainly used to produce the herbicide glyphosate, and the remaining 100,000 tons are used in other industries.
Since 2012, China's glycine production has shown an upward trend, rising from 290,200 tons in 2012 to 355,800 tons in 2017, but the increase has begun to slow down. With the tightening of environmental protection policies in the future, glycine companies will reduce production due to wastewater pollution, and China's glycine production will decline.
The main downstream product of industrial grade glycine is glyphosate. Glyphosate has gained market approval as a non-selective, non-residual herbicide. From a demand point of view, the planting area of genetically modified crops has been increasing steadily, especially Brazil’s arable land area and the increase in penetration rate of glyphosate-resistant genetically modified crops will also drive the demand for glyphosate. Global glyphosate is expected Demand will maintain an increase of about 5%. Many domestic glyphosate companies have supporting glycine production lines. The glyphosate production capacity is 1.2 million tons/year, while the actual production is 800,000 tons/year. Nearly 400,000 tons/year has not been released. The main reason is that the price of glycine is affected. contain. The demand and price of glyphosate show an upward trend, which will drive the rapid development of the glycine industry. Now China has become the world's largest producer of glycine. In the next few years, the demand for glycine will continue to grow, and the development prospects for the glycine industry are very broad.
Orison Chemicals Limited is one of the major supplier Glycine based in China.
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