On July 10, 2025, Shanghai - Faced with challenges such as EU carbon tariffs and rising energy costs, China's precipitated white carbon black industry has built differentiated competitiveness in the global market through technological innovation and green transformation. According to data from the report hall, the global market size of precipitated white carbon black is expected to reach 6.188 billion US dollars by 2025, with China's production capacity accounting for over 40%, and technology output becoming a new growth point.


Green technology reduces costs and increases efficiency
The traditional sulfuric acid process is facing elimination pressure due to high pollution and energy consumption, while new precipitation technologies are emerging. The case of Qemetica Group closing its Polish soda ash plant and transitioning to precipitated white carbon black has attracted industry attention: by adopting a circular economy model, its US factory uses rice husk ash instead of quartz sand, reducing raw material costs by 25% and carbon emissions by 40%. Domestic enterprises followed closely behind, and the Thai base of Quecheng Group achieved zero wastewater discharge, with energy consumption per unit product 18% lower than the domestic average level.


Digitalization empowers quality upgrade
Intelligent manufacturing is reshaping the industry ecosystem. The penetration rate of intelligent manufacturing in the industry is expected to reach 28% in 2023 and exceed 60% by 2030. The intelligent factory built by Lianke Technology with an investment of 120 million yuan uses AI algorithms to control the reaction temperature and flow rate in real time, improving the uniformity of product particle size to 99.5% and increasing the yield rate by 12 percentage points.


Cross border integration expands application boundaries
The combination of precipitated white carbon black with nanotechnology and biomaterials has given rise to a new track. ML-180 porous nano white carbon black, with its high specific surface area characteristics, has achieved import substitution in the field of fuel cell catalyst carriers, saving over 5 million yuan in annual costs per device. In the field of life sciences, the medical grade white carbon black developed by Yuanxiang New Materials can improve targeted release efficiency by 40% as a drug delivery carrier, and has entered phase III clinical trials.


Regional collaborative construction of industrial clusters
The deepening of the "East Strong West Gradually" pattern and the increasingly clear regional division of labor. Relying on port advantages, the East China region focuses on high-end electronic products, with a year-on-year market growth of 18% in 2023; The Southwest region, relying on low-cost quartz sand resources, undertakes the transfer of mid to low end production capacity, and the average investment return cycle of new projects in Hubei, Yunnan and other places has been shortened to 3 years. The Chengdu Chongqing dual city economic circle attracts enterprises such as Quecheng Group and Black Cat Group to layout through tax incentives, and plans to form a billion dollar industrial cluster by 2027.


The fierce competition for the power to formulate international standards
Chinese companies have made breakthroughs in the global competition for technological discourse power. The "Application Specification for Precipitation Method White Carbon Black in Lithium ion Battery Separators" led by Jin Sanjiang has become a draft ISO international standard, ending the history of European and American companies monopolizing the development of standards for a long time. At the same time, Huifu Nano has acquired a German gas-phase white carbon black enterprise, obtained key equipment patents, and promoted the purity of domestic products to 99.99%.


Enterprise dynamics


Quecheng Corporation: The second phase project in Thailand will be put into operation in 2025, with an additional production capacity of 80000 tons of dispersed white carbon black, and the global market share will rise to 12%.
Black Cat Co., Ltd.: The "silicon carbon composite negative electrode material" jointly developed with BYD has entered the pilot stage, reducing the amount of white carbon black by 60% compared to the traditional solution.
Lingwei Technology: Nano scale precipitation method white carbon black achieves domestic substitution in the semiconductor packaging field, with a unit price 35% lower than imported products.
industry outlook
With the deepening of the "dual carbon" policy and the commercialization of new technologies, precipitated white carbon black will be deeply integrated into strategic emerging industries such as new energy, semiconductors, and biomedicine. It is expected that by 2030, the proportion of high-end products will increase from the current 30% to 55%, and the industry profit margin is expected to exceed 20%, becoming one of the most investment worthy tracks in the field of inorganic silicon materials.