Feicheng Acid Chemicals Explained

Feicheng Acid Chemicals Co., Ltd. 肥城阿斯德化工有限公司
Foundation:	1994^[1]
Location:	Feicheng, Shandong, People's Republic of China
Key People:	Sun Baoyuan (President)^[2]
Industry:	Chemicals
Products:	Mainly formic acid and its derivatives
Homepage:	Feicheng Acid Chemicals

Feicheng Acid Chemicals is a chemical company based in Feicheng, Shandong, China.

The company was founded in 1994, with registered capital RMB 52.2 million. It is one of Chinese top 500 chemical industry enterprises and has established a "Postdoctoral Research Station" of national class and provincial "New Product Exploiting Center".^[1]

It is the largest producer of formic acid (100,000 metric tonnes per annum) outside Europe, owning over 10% of the world production capacity.^[3] (Formic acid is used as a preservative and antibacterial agent in livestock feed).

Products

The main products of Feicheng Acid Chemicals are:^[1]

Compound	Productions capacity (tonnes/annum)	% of worldwide capacity
Formic acid	100	14% (2009)
	50	0.006%^[4]
	15	1%^[5]
	10
	5
	5
	4
Ammonium formate	2
Carbon monoxide	200 000 m^3/annum

Notes and References

1. Web site: Company Profile. 30 July 2011. Feicheng Acid Chemicals. https://web.archive.org/web/20120328091801/http://www.chinafac.com/english/html/aboutus/company/. 28 March 2012. dead.
2. Web site: Leader of the Company. 30 July 2011. Feicheng Acid Chemicals. https://web.archive.org/web/20120328091826/http://www.chinafac.com/english/html/aboutus/leadership/. 28 March 2012. dead.
3. Web site: CEH Marketing Research Report: FORMIC ACID. S.N. Bizzari and M. Blagoev. June 2010. Chemical Economics Handbook. SRI consulting. 1 July 2011.
4. Web site: CEH Marketing Research Report: METHANOL. GA Saade. June 2010. Chemical Economics Handbook. SRI consulting. 1 July 2011.
5. Web site: CEH Marketing Research Report: ALKYLAMINES (C1-C6). S.N. Bizzari. November 2008. Chemical Economics Handbook. SRI consulting. 1 July 2011.