The global furfural production capacity is mainly distributed in developing countries such as China and Brazil. Thanks to the wide range of sources of raw materials and high level of technology, my country has become the world's largest producer and exporter of furfural, and its furfural production capacity accounts for about 70% of the global production capacity.
China is a big corn planting country, and the annual output of corn cobs remains at about 55 million tons. my country's corncobs are cheap and come from a wide range of sources, which is conducive to the development of furfural industry. China's furfural production scale is huge, but the scale of production enterprises is generally small. In recent years, with the increasingly stringent environmental protection supervision, outdated production capacity of furfural has gradually withdrawn from the market, and the structure of the furfural industry has been continuously optimized. In the context of carbon neutrality, the combination of furfural industry and new energy industry is accelerating, and various new projects such as furfural residue + biomass combined heat and power, clean energy power generation + furfural combined heat and power have emerged as the times require.
Furfural is an important raw material for a variety of pharmaceutical and industrial products, and has a wide range of downstream applications. Due to the increase in market demand and sufficient supply of raw materials, my country has become the world's largest producer and exporter of furfural. Furfural is a renewable product. Under the background of carbon neutralization and carbon peaking strategies, the furfural industry has great potential for development.
