China quartz sand resources, production, price, application market and policy situation multidimensional analysis!

Quartz sand is mainly composed of silica, which is an important raw material for nearly 100 kinds of industrial products, such as glass, electronics and electrical appliances, optical fiber semiconductor, water treatment, mechanical casting, artificial quartz stone, daily ceramics, metallurgy, superhard materials, chemical industry, cement, functional filler, petroleum drilling, etc.

Distribution of quartz resources


China's quartzite deposits are mainly distributed in Qinghai, Liaoning, Shanxi and other places: quartz sandstone deposits are mainly distributed in Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong and other places; quartz sands are mainly distributed in Fujian, Guangdong, the south of Guangxi, the northwest of Hainan and the north of Shandong, and there are also the eastern part of the West Liaohe River, the middle reaches of the Yellow River and the banks of Panyang lake and Luoma Lake.

Quartz sand production


In terms of quartz production, China's quartz raw material supply is relatively concentrated. Heyuan in Guangdong, Xinyi in Jiangsu, Donghai in Jiangsu, Fengyang in Anhui, Luoyang in Henan and Lingshou in Hebei are the main producing areas of quartz raw materials, accounting for 80% of China's Quartz market. Among them, the quartz sand in South China is mainly supplied by Heyuan, Guangdong Province, 70% of the glass raw materials in East China are supplied by Fengyang, Anhui Province, and 80% of the high-grade quartz raw materials in China are supplied by Donghai, Jiangsu Province. Quartz is the main supplier of high-purity quartz sand and electronic quartz products in China.

In 2018, the total output of quartz sand in China is about 82.55 million tons, including 41.01 million tons of ordinary quartz sand, 35.18 million tons of refined quartz sand and 6.36 million tons of high-purity and ultra-high-purity quartz sand.

Generally speaking, China's quartz sand industry is in full supply at present. The supply of ordinary quartz sand and refined quartz sand in the middle and low end is relatively surplus. High purity and ultra-high purity quartz sand still have certain dependence on imports, especially ultra-high purity quartz sand products.

Quartz sand import and export


Increase in imports and decrease in prices


In recent years, China's quartz sand imports have been growing, and the price has been falling. On the one hand, the overall production capacity and supply of China's high-purity quartz sand are relatively limited, but the demand is growing rapidly. At the same time, the limited production of China's domestic environmental protection leads to the relatively insufficient supply of raw materials for refined quartz sand, the rising price, and the increase in the import volume of refined quartz sand.

On the other hand, a few domestic enterprises have achieved a breakthrough in the production technology of ultra-high purity quartz sand, and formed a production capacity of about 20000 tons, resulting in a decline in the price of ultra-high purity quartz sand. The two factors together led to the rapid decline of quartz sand import price in 2014-2016.

Limited exports, low prices


In terms of export, China's export of quartz sand is relatively limited, mainly concentrated in the export of refined quartz sand, mostly in Southeast Asia, Taiwan and other places, and the export price is relatively low.

Market price of quartz sand


From the current market price, due to the pressure of environmental protection in China in recent years, as well as the rapid development of photovoltaic, semiconductor and other industries, the price of China's quartz sand products rose in 2018. The overall price is as follows:

Ordinary quartz sand is about 100-120 yuan / ton;

The price of refined quartz sand is about 230-250 yuan / ton;

Ordinary high-purity quartz sand is about 600-800 yuan / ton;

The price of ultra-high purity quartz sand above 4N level has dropped from 45000 yuan per ton to about 30000 yuan per ton. The supply price of domestic enterprises in China is about 16000 yuan-21000 yuan per ton. Under the condition of similar performance, it has the advantages of price and flexible supply.

Quartz sand consumer market


In 2018, the demand for industrial quartz sand in China accounted for about one third of the total global demand, and it is still the leading consumer of quartz sand in the world.

China's glass industry is also the largest in the world. The consumption of quartz sand for glass will continue to increase for doors and windows, electronic display screens, photovoltaic panels and other flat glass products. The rising production of China's daily glass industry (especially glass bottles such as liquor and beverage) will further promote the sales of refined sand. The increase of oil and gas resource exploitation investment will also promote the demand of frac sand. At the same time, the technological progress of China's electronic equipment manufacturing industry, the demand for optoelectronic devices and optical fiber driven by 5g technology will significantly promote the demand for high-purity quartz sand.

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At present, the demand for quartz sand products of all categories in China still has some room to rise, and the apparent consumption of quartz sand in China has maintained a relatively stable growth trend since 2015. In 2018, the apparent consumption of quartz sand in China is about 84056400 tons.


Market scale of quartz sand


In recent years, China's quartz sand supply and demand are relatively stable. From the downstream of the industry, at present, flat glass and daily glass industry are the main demand in the downstream of the industry. High purity quartz sand is mainly used in photovoltaic monocrystalline silicon, optical fiber, semiconductor, high-end optical devices and light sources and other industries.

In 2014-2016, due to the slow development of China's real estate market, the main demand for quartz sand such as flat glass declined, while the GDP growth slowed down, the consumer boost was slow, and the demand for daily glass industry fell simultaneously. However, the production capacity of the middle and low-end products in China's quartz sand industry is surplus, the supply of the main varieties in the market exceeds the demand, and the product price continues to fall. In terms of high-end products, Chinese enterprises have gradually broken the market monopoly of foreign enterprises, the output of products has gradually declined in large quantities, and the price of products has declined substantially. During this period, the market scale of China's quartz sand industry has been declining. In 2016, the market scale of the industry was about 10.783 billion yuan.

After 2017, with the recovery of the real estate market, the recovery of GDP growth, environmental protection and production restriction and other factors, the market price of the industry rebounded sharply, and the growth rate of the demand of the industry also increased to a certain extent. The market scale of the industry increased to 15.104 billion yuan in 2018.

Quartz sand industry policy


Due to the status of silicon material in modern electronic information industry and energy industry, quartz has also become an irreplaceable basic material in the development and progress of national strategic industry and pillar industry. The products with high added value and high gross profit rate are mainly high-purity quartz sand supported by relevant national policies.

The development plan of building materials industry (2016-2020) points out that quartz is mainly used for high-purity quartz, fused quartz and products, silicon powder functional filler, etc. in the fields of electronics, photovoltaic / photothermal, aerospace, national defense and military industry.

The guide for the development of key common technologies in the industry (2017) points out that: the development technology of high-quality quartz mineral; the purification technology of high-purity quartz raw materials; the adaptability technology of particle size distribution and morphology of high-purity quartz raw materials and melting process (such as electrofusion and gas refining); the comprehensive utilization technology of non chlorine chemical raw materials for high-performance quartz glass; the rapid deposition equipment and deposition technology of high-performance quartz glass; Stabilization technology of high performance quartz glass and preparation technology of high performance doped quartz glass.

The guide catalogue for industrial restructuring (2019 version) encourages the development and production of manufacturing technologies such as high-purity quartz raw materials (purity ≥ 99.999%), quartz glass materials for semiconductors, high-end quartz crucibles for semiconductors, chemical vapor phase synthetic quartz glass, etc.


High purity quartz material is an indispensable basic material for electric light source, laser optoelectronics, photovoltaic, optical communication, semiconductor, optical coating and other industries. With the rapid growth of the market in the above fields, China is becoming the main production base and important application market of quartz materials, and the application technology and market prospect of high-purity quartz materials are very broad.

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