Forecast and Analysis on the Prospect of 2007-2010 China’s Lithium Carbonate In

　　Lithium Metal was used abroad in battery industry, ceramic industry, glass industry, aluminum industry, lubricant, refrigerant, nuclear industry, optoelectronic industry and other new application area. From the lithium metal application area in Year 2006, the use of battery industry, lubricant and ceramic industry accounts for 21.4%, 16.54% and 12.65% respectively. Because lithium carbonate is the basic material of producing secondary lithia and lithium metal, so lithium carbonate is the most important product in lithium industry and other industrial lithium products are the downstream products of lithium carbonate.

　　At present, the global market capacity of lithium carbonate is about 90,000 tons. Seeing from the annals statistic of inorganic salt in Asia, the demand for lithium carbonate all over the world in Year 2006 reaches 83,800 tons and the supply reaches 8,500 tons, so it is thus clear that the supply and demand of lithium carbonate in Year 2006 is quite in balance. According to the prediction of our research center, the demand for lithium carbonate all over the world in Year 2007 will exceed 90,000 tons, with the increasing rate of about 8%. In three to five years, the global demand for lithium will increase at the rate of 5% to 7%, which will exceed the growth level of the global economy, showing that the global lithium industry is a strong GDP industry. Considering the development of lithium battery in power cell area and the upsurge of consuming the electronic products, we think these basic conditions will provide the beneficial support to the annual growth rate of 8% of the global lithium carbonate demand.

　　Though having the high value resource of salt lake, till Year 2004 our country had obtained the key technical breakthrough of extracting lithium carbonate from the Laolu solution with high magnesium and low potassium, and be able to entry the global lithium carbonate market. The present produce capacity of lithium carbonate in our country is only 3,300 tons. From 2008 to 2010, there will be 4,500 tons of production capacity releasing successively. As our country’s lithium carbonate is the main region of global produce capacity release, which will have an important influence to the supply pattern of global lithium carbonate. Seeing from the present global business, the market focus on, the global main produce capacity is concentrating in the three company of SQM, FMC and Chemetall, which’s produce capacity account for 73% of the global produce capacity. Because the enterprise producing lithium carbonate in scale should have the exploitation right of salt lake that contains the abundant lithium resource, this industry has rather high resource barrier; On the other hand, because most resources of the global salt lake are high magnesium and low potassium, and the technology of extracting and separating lithium carbonate from the Laolu solution with high magnesium and low potassium is quite difficult and this technology is held by the few foreign company before, all these make the lithium carbonate industry has the technology barrier. As a result, there forms the global oligarch monopoly pattern in the lithium carbonate industry. With the big lithium carbonate items in our country putting onto production successively, the status of supply and demand in balance in the lithium carbonate industry will be deteriorated rapidly. There will be 13,200 tons of lithium carbonate surplus in Year 2007 and this will be further deteriorated in Year 2008. The supply exceeds the demand greatly will lead to the price quickly fall down.

Table : Import&Export Price List of Lithium Carbonate during January-May,2007

Table : Price Trend of Lithium Carbonate during January-May,2007

　　The research report of industry investment and market analysis of Chinese lithium carbonate industry in Year 2007 mainly analyzes the production, sale, market, price, product’s structure, degree of concentration, competition status of lithium carbonate industry and the competition information of the national enterprise’s operation and survival. And at the same time, it analyzes the main factors influencing the lithium carbonate industry, the competition pattern and development trend in domestic and foreign market. The report also collects the up to date table and research data of hundreds of industries in Year 2006 and 2007, which aims at providing the insight opportunities and adjustment of operational policy for the lithium carbonate enterprise and providing the exact information and scientific decision-making basis for the industry investor to choose the investment strategy.

Chapter 1 General Introduction of Lithium Carbonate Industry

Section 1 Definition of Lithium Carbonate Prodcts

Section 2 Analysis on Charateristics of Lithium Carbonate Industry

II. The relativity with chemical industry 20

III. The fluctuation condition of Lithium Carbonate industry in China

Section 3 Analysis on Industrial Chain of Lithium Carbonate

I. Supply of China’s Lithium Ore

II. Brine distribution and supply of salt lake of China

III. The raw materials procurement status of China’s Major property developers of lithium carbonate

Chapter 2 Study on Technical Development Trend of Lithium Carbonate Industry

Section 1 Description of Quality Standard Grade of Lithium Carbonate Industry

I. Industrial Grade

II. The fluorescent-class field

III. Batery Grade Field

IV. Medicine-grade Field

V. High-purity-grade Field

Section 2 Main Crafts and Cost Comparision of Lithium Carbonate Industry at Home and abroad

I. Extracting lithium from ore

II. Extracting lithium from salt lake brine

Section 3 Comparision of Production Cost of Lithium Carbonate

I. Production channel and comments

II. Major Representative Manufacturers and Costing

III. The analysis of other primary factors which affect the cost of lithium carbonate

Chapter 3 Analysis on Supply & Demand and Market Forecast of 2007-2010 Lithium Carbonate Industry

Section 1 Market Component and Development Trend of Lithium Carbonate Industry

I. Scale of Global Lithium Carbonate Market

II. The Lithium Carbonate Industry Market Growth Prospects in 2007-2010

III. 2007-2010 Lithium Carbonate global industry demand prediction analysis

Section 2 Lithium Carbonate Industry Centralization & Analysis on Effect of Productivity Release

I. Key Manufacturers’ Lithium Carbonate Productivity World Wide & Productivity of Newly Built Project.

II. Key Lithium Carbonate Manufacturers Productivity in China & Productivity of Newly Built Project.

III. The Prediction Analysis of Lithium Carbonate Global Demand in 2007-2010

IV. The Prediction of Lithium Carbonate Global Production by Key Manufacturers in 2007-2010

V. Prediction Analysis of Global Supply and Demand Pattern of Lithium Carbonate between 2007 and 2010

Chapter 4 2007-2010 Lithium Carbonate Price Trend

Section 1 Fluctuation of Lithium Carbonate Price during 1999-2007

Section 2 The predictive analysis of the price for lithium carbonate products in 2007-2010 75

Section 3 Analysis on Price in Main Lithium Carbonate Enterpries in 2007

Chapter 5 Analysis on Import & Export and Trade Trend of Lithium Carbonate Industry in 2007

Section 1 Analysis on Import & Export of Lithium Carbonate Industry in 2007

Section 2 Export of 2007 Lithium Carbonate Industry

Section 3 Structure of Import and Export Trade of Lithium Carbonate Industry in 2007

Chapter 6 Analysis on Operation Status of Main Lithium Carbonate Companies at home and abroad

First Part Main Foreign Lithium Carbonate Companies

Section 1 SQM Corporation

I.Income Structure in 2007

II.Review on profitability in 2007

III.Forecast and Propect during 2007-2010

Section 2 FMC Corporation

I. General Situation

II.Ananlysis on present capacity, newly-added capacity and output

III. Income Structure of FMC Corporation

IV.Review on profitability in 2007

V.Forecast and Propect during 2007-2010

Section 3 Chemetall Comapany

I.General Situation

II.Ananlysis on present capacity, newly-added capacity and output

III.Income Structure in 2007

IV.Review on profitability in 2007

Second Part Domestic Lithium Carbonate Companies

Section 1 CITIC GUOAN

I.General Situation

II.Ananlysis on present capacity, newly-added capacity and output

III.Income Structure in 2007

IV.Review on profitability in 2007

V.Forecast and Propect during 2007-2010

Section 2 Tibet Mineral Development Co., Ltd.

I. General Situation

II.Ananlysis on present capacity, newly-added capacity and output

III.Income Structure in 2007

IV.Review on profitability in 2007

V.Forecast and Propect during 2007-2010

Section 3 Qinghai Lithium Industrial Corporation

I.General Situation

II. Ananlysis on present capacity, newly-added capacity and output

III.Forecast and Propect during 2007-2010

Section 4 Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Group Co.,Ltd

I.General Situation

II. Ananlysis on present capacity, newly-added capacity and output

Section 5 Others

Chapter 7 Planning and Under-construction Projects of Domestic Lithium Carbonate

Section 1 Planning Domestic Lithium Carbonate Project

Section 2 Domestic Lithium Carbonate Project under Construction

Chapter 8 Investigation on Lithium Carbonate Dealers

Chapter 9 Analysis on Foreign Lithium Carbonate Market

Section 1 Basic Condition

Section 2 Asian market

Section 3 European Market

Section 4 NAFTA

Chapter 10 Five Competitive Theroies of China’s Lithium Carbonate Enterprises

Section 1 Strengthen of New-comer

Section 2 Buyer analyses

Section 3 Analyses of suppliers

Section 4 Threat from new products (substitutes)

Section 5 Analyses of current opponents in the industry

Chapter 11 Review on the Risk of 2007-2010 China’s Lithium Carbonate Industry

Section 1 Marco-economic Fluctuation

Section 2 Evaluation of the Policy Risks

Section 3 The Risks Evaluation of Above- below Industry Change

Section 4 Risks Evaluation of Market Supply & Demand Conflict

Section 5 Risks Evaluation of Industrial Competition

Section 6 Integrated Evaluations of Industrial Risks

Chapter 12 2007-2010 Prospect and Forecast of China’s Lithium Carbonate

Section 1 Development of China’s Lithium Carbonate Industry

Section 2 Forecast of the Development Foreground of China Lithium Carbonate Industry

Section 3 Problems Existing in the Development of China's Lithium Carbonate Industry

Chapter 13 Sugestion on Recycling Economy of China’s Lithium Carbonate Industry

Section 1 Reinforcing prospecting and protection of resource

Section 2 Accelerated stepping into dimension

Section 3 Quicken the development of new-born enterprises

Section 4 Reinforce the research of lithium salt fining

Table List

Table 1 Lithium Ore in Australia, Canada and China

Table 2 Domestic Output of Lithium Ore

Table 3 Main Brine of salt lake in china

Table 4 Industrial Grade of Normal Lithium Carbonate

Table 5 Components of different brands

Table 6 Comparision with the same standard abroad

Table 7 Quality Standard of Normal Battery Grade of Lithium Carbonate(99.5%)

Table 8 Quality Standard of Lithium Carbonate (GB10576—89)

Table 9 Quality Standard of High Purify in China

Table 10 Lithium Consumption for Different Uses

Table 11 Global Demand Statistics of Lithium Carbonate in 2004-2007

Table 12 Production Capacity Distribution before Several Super Projects in China

Table 13 Lithium Consumption for Different Uses

Table 14 2004Import of China’s Lithium Carbonate Unit:kg

Table 15 Export of China’s Lithium Carbonateduring January-June, 2005 Unit: Kg

Table 16 Import of Lithium Carbonate in China during January-May,2007

Table 17 Import Trend of China’s Lithium Carbonateduring January-May,2007

Table 18 Export of Lithium Carbonate in China in 2004 Unit:kg

Table 19 Export of Lithium Carbonate in China during January-June, 2005 Unit:kg

Table 20 Export of Lithium Carbonate in China During January-May, 2007

Table 21 Export Trend of Lithium Carbonate in China during January-May, 2007

Table 22 January-May,2007 Lithium CarbonateImport&Export Price List

Table 23 Price Trend of Lithium Carbonate before May, 2007

Table 24 Output Proportion of Lithium Carbonate of Chemetall in the World

Table 25 Resources of Guoan West Taijinar Salt Lake in Qinghai Unit:Ten thousand tons

Table 26 Profit in 2006 Unit: Ten thousand Yuan

Table 27 Annual revenue of main businesses in different industries in 2006 unit: ten thousand

Table 28 Analysis on the Income Proportion of Different Businesses in 2006

Table 29 Annual revenue and benefit of main businesses in different districts Unit:Yuan

Table 30 Distribution Proportion of Main Businesses Income among Different Districts

Table 31 Income Structure

Table 32 Income and Cost in the First Quarter from the End of 2002 to 2007

Table 33 Prediction on the Production Capacity and Sales Profit of Lithium Carbonate of Tibetan Mining during 2007- 2010

Table 34 Prediction on the company’s production capacity and sales income of Lithium Carbonate in the future four years

Table 35 construction scale of the second stage project Unit:Ten thousand ton/year

Table 36 Production Capacity Proportion of Products of the Second Stage Project

Table 37 Distirbution of Main Uses of Lithium Carbonate in the World (2005)

Table 38 Global Production Capacity and Average Price Trend of Lithium Carbonate during 2000~2005

Table 39 Proportion of Lithium Reserves in China to the Global Reserves

Table 40 New Production Capacity of Lithium Carbonatein in China

Table 41 Lithium Reserves and Reserves Basis of NAFTA Countries

Table 42 Market Capacity of Lithium Cobalt Oxide

Table 43 Development of Global Market Capacityof Lithium Cobalt Oxide

Table 44 Trend of Domestic Market Capacity of Lithium Cobalt Oxide Unit:ton

Table 45 Economic Development in China during 2003-2007

Table 46 Global Supply Distribution of Lithium Carbonate

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