In recent years, because of market saturation, global competition and rising raw material costs, Japanese fine chemical industry is not so optimistic. To get rid of this situation, Japanese fine chemical industry develops high value-added functional product, expands overseas markets and develops new applications to start a portfolio breakthrough. In 2006, it maintained the overall upward developing trend. Analysts believe that although the Japanese economy may continue to grow, steady growth of fine chemicals triphenyl bismuth market is over. Japanese fine chemical industry's future will be a new change.

Synthetic dyes are market forces play a role in an integrated area of the typical one. In 2006, sales of synthetic dyes in Japan about 1991, when a record 115.4 billion yen, 1 / 3. Japan showed the development of synthetic dye industry structural decline, used in electronic information field of specialty colorants has become the focus of development. Flat panel displays and optical recording media is the field of electronics and information technology an important part of innovation, and special coloring agent for the flat panel display manufacturers and optical recording media are extremely important.

Compared with 2005, 2006, sales of Japanese printing ink basically the same. However, special ink markets, such as semiconductor and liquid crystal display color filter ink image, but is growing rapidly. Meanwhile, the demand for ink jet printers is also substantially increased; photocomposer inks, coatings and adhesives market growth is also good.

New high performance varnish and paint by consumers concerned about the development, market demand is increasing. Over the past few years, Japan's domestic demand for varnish and paint has been weak, but in 2006 the Japanese varnish and paint sales have exceeded 200 million tons, mainly due to the rapid development of automobile industry in Japan.

Coatings market demand to stimulate another factor is versatile new products come out. To building materials, for example, help to save energy and mitigate the urban heat island phenomenon of insulation coating, has a firm foothold in the market. Tokyo in April 2006 exhibition held in the fourth coating, insulation coating shine.

In addition to developing high-performance paints and varnishes, the Japan Paint Manufacturers Association is actively training specializes in color design color designer. As the shape and color is to determine the characteristics of most industrial products outside the two main factors, so various industrial fields with the designer's demand for color are growing rapidly. In particular, consumer-oriented color scheme can have a major impact on product sales point of view, the paint industry is increasingly being accepted.

To expand the domestic market, Japanese agrochemical manufacturers are developing new reactive copper chromite (CC) intermediates. As the Japanese domestic market is unlikely to continue to grow, so they focus aimed at the development of foreign markets. In February 2007, developed by the Japanese pesticide pesticides Phoenix is ??a typical example, the product had a sensational effect. Other insecticides are still research and development stage. Overall, the Japanese agrochemical manufacturers still have to expand in the global agrochemical market share potential. Currently, the global agrochemical market capacity of 3 trillion yen. As the result of biological growth in demand for corn ethanol and canola acreage increased, the global agrochemical market is expected to continue to grow.

Before 2005 years , Japan has been the catalyst demand growth for seven consecutive years, demand for oil refining catalysts dominates the Japanese domestic market, but in 2006 began to turn down. In 2006, Japanese oil refining catalyst market demand is relatively weak, but the market has been driving the growth of the Japanese automobile exhaust catalyst process catalysts demand began to stagnation. At the same time, catalyst manufacturers are developing fuel cell catalysts, some of which product will achieve commercial production.

Rising raw material costs compressed margins industry catalyst. In 2006, Japanese sales of environmentally friendly catalysts increase of more than 40%, but oil refining catalyst production was reduced, but for petrochemical production and polymerization catalysts still maintained strong growth momentum.

Japan's domestic oil refining catalyst market is becoming saturated. Catalyst manufacturers focus their attentions on chemical refining process of the catalytic cracking, crude oil processing and China, Southeast Asia's nearing completing petrochemical plants. Meanwhile, Japan's new vehicle emissions regulations came into effect in 2009, which stimulates the Japanese market of exhaust treatment catalyst and provides new opportunities for catalyst manufacturers. Source: http://www.mhcfm.com