According to the speech and report of the 2018 world conference on black carbon, the annual growth rate of world demand for black carbon will be 2.8% from 2017 to 2021.
In other countries and regions outside China, the expansion of carbon black production capacity is expected to be as follows:
By the end of 2019, the plant of bora black carbon in Egypt, India, Italy and Thailand will carry out a total of 150,000 tons of bottleneck reconstruction and capacity expansion.
Cabot plans to add 160,000 tons of capacity in Indonesia by 2021, and to transform 150,000 tons of capacity bottlenecks around the world.
India's mainland carbon plans to build a new factory.
Himadri specialty chemicals is moving ahead with phase ii expansion of its existing plant in India.
Hyundai oci-hyundai, a joint venture, invested in a new plant in South Korea in 2018 and plans to build a second phase in 2019.
Megalithic began to use natural gas raw material innovation technology in new plants in the United States in 2019, and achieved capacity growth in 2022.
Omsk carbon black will build a new factory in 2018, and plans to work on full capacity in 2020, while expanding capacity in its existing plants in omsk and volgograd
O 'leilong is building a new special carbon black production line in Italy by the end of 2019.
Philips carbon black will carry out bottleneck reconstruction and new special carbon black production line in 2018, and expand in two existing plants in 2019, and the new plant construction is located in India.
In addition, some new producers are entering the black carbon industry.
BKT plans to build a new plant in India in early 2019 and a second phase in 2021.
Epsilon Carbon plans to build a new plant in India by 2021.