(April 30, 2026) Entering the second quarter of 2026, China's silica foreign trade exports ushered in explosive growth, changing the past pattern of exporting low-end general products, and export orders for modified silica, fumed high-purity silica, and functional nano silica have risen sharply, and the voice in the global new materials market has continued to increase, officially opening a new stage of development of import subsistence and reverse export.

For a long time in the past, the international high-end silica market has been monopolized by European, American, Japanese and South Korean enterprises for a long time, and domestic high-end downstream enterprises can only rely on import procurement, with high procurement costs and long supply cycles. In recent years, domestic chemical enterprises have continued to increase R&D investment, making continuous breakthroughs in production technology, purification technology, surface modification and other fields, and key indicators such as product purity, dispersion, and weather resistance have caught up with international standards.

Since April this year, overseas market demand has continued to pick up, and the European new energy rubber, Southeast Asian daily cosmetics, and North American high-end coating industries have increased their purchases of silica to China. Compared with similar international products, domestic silica has three major advantages: cost-effective, flexible customization and short delivery cycle, and quickly won a large number of overseas long-term orders.

From the perspective of export structure, the biggest change is the comprehensive upgrade of the product level. In the past, most of the exports were ordinary tire-grade precipitation silica, but now the proportion of high-end silica > exports for lithium batteries, silicone rubber and pharmaceutical and food grades has increased significantly, completely changing the old model of low-end OEM exports.

At the same time, relying on the domestic complete chemical industry chain support, mature production capacity scale and green production process upgrade under the background of dual carbon, the position of domestic silica in the global supply chain is becoming more and more stable. Many foreign trade enterprises said that at present, the number of overseas inquiries continues to rise, orders have been scheduled to the second half of the year, and the industry's export boom continues to rise.

Industry analysis believes that with the continuous iteration of domestic silica technology and the steady upgrading of quality, it will continue to encroach on the market share of international brands in the future, which will not only fully realize the self-sufficiency of the domestic high-end market, but also deeply participate in global competition as a high-end new material, becoming one of the core growth points of China's foreign trade exports of new chemical materials.