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Front-line employees of fertilizer production companies predict their company's prospects

2008-01-05View Original

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Hello everyone, frontline employees of fertilizer production companies! Everyone is welcome to make predictions about the prospects of their own companies, judging from the company's system, raw materials, market, technology, management, innovation capabilities, restructuring and other aspects.
Reply #22008-01-05
Our company is the best among fertilizer companies and has strong profitability. But we use natural gas as raw material. Gas prices have risen rapidly in recent years, posing a great threat. But we have now entered the coal chemical industry through acquisitions, holdings, etc. It should be said that there is still a future. But to be honest, I am not optimistic about the fertilizer industry: 1. Too much resource consumption. 2. International and domestic energy shortage. 3. Chemical fertilizers flow into water bodies and pollute the environment.
Reply #32008-01-05
Our company is a lower-middle-class chemical fertilizer company and uses coal as raw material. In recent years, coal prices and freight have increased, and profits are not high. It is in urgent need of capacity expansion and transformation, otherwise it will be eliminated. I am not optimistic about the company: 1. Too much resource consumption. 2. International and domestic energy shortage. 3. The technology is backward and the profit is low. 4. Pollute the environment.
Reply #42008-01-05
Our unit was transformed from a state-owned enterprise into a joint-stock enterprise in 1998. Since the restructuring, the company has strengthened its management in terms of product structure adjustment, technological transformation, technological innovation, etc., and has achieved good economic benefits. I am full of confidence in the development of the company. However, the following points still cause concern:: 1. The inherent burden of an enterprise is heavier, which is incomparable with that of a newly built enterprise. ; 2. The financial burden of enterprises is very heavy. 70% of fixed assets are bank loans. ; 3. Not enough attention is paid to technical reserves and R&D. Without its own proprietary or patented technology, reducing product costs by simply strengthening management will be limited. ; 4. There is a serious loss of technical talent, and newly graduated college students or graduate students have no production experience, and technical personnel are in short supply. ; 5. There is a lack of development funds and the financing capabilities of enterprises are limited, making it difficult to achieve major development. Fundamentally speaking, the first is a human problem, and the second is a financial problem.
Reply #52008-01-06
I think the future of our company is not too bright. Our company is a compound fertilizer company and has the following main problems, which have troubled the development of the company. 1. Currently, domestic compound fertilizer production capacity is seriously overcapacity, and duplication of construction is serious. ; 2. Our company is a newly built factory, and all aspects of system support have not been completed. All kinds of raw materials need to be purchased, and the market risks are relatively high. Especially in the past three years or so, the raw material market has fluctuated greatly, and our company's ability to resist market risks is small. ; 3. As the poster said, there is insufficient emphasis on technical reserves and R&D, and there is no proprietary or patented technology of its own. ; 4. Not enough attention is paid to technical talents, the loss of technical talents is serious, and the development potential of enterprises is insufficient. ; 5. Because the market is not good and shareholders are afraid to invest, I think there will be no big development in 3-5 years.
Reply #62008-01-06
As a private enterprise, our company's current performance is pretty good. 1. The current market conditions are good, and it is estimated that in the long run, the good times will not exceed three years; 2. The management and operation are very poor, and there are great disadvantages in waste and employment; 3. Natural gas is used as raw material, and as the price of natural gas rises, competition is lost ; 4. There is a group of old professional and technical talents who are very helpful to the enterprise by saving energy, reducing consumption, optimizing and transforming to reduce costs.
Reply #72008-01-06
Our company must have broad prospects and will also contribute to China's chemical fertilizer industry. Our company is Inner Mongolia Ordos United Chemical Co., Ltd. It is currently under construction and will be commissioned in 2008. It will be put into operation in August 2008. The production capacity of the device is 600,000 tons of synthetic ammonia and 1.16 million tons of urea. The reason why I think our company has good development prospects is:  1. Rich in resources. Ordos, Inner Mongolia, is not only rich in coal resources, but also rich in natural gas resources. There is also a facility where the raw gas supply can be changed to coal-to-gas (already considered for the future), and Ordos has its own coal mine. 2. Place * * Strong support is the foundation for enterprise development. 3. Ordos has five major industrial groups: coal, electric power, metallurgy, chemical industry, and cashmere, forming a circular economy. * * Improve the viability of enterprises and reduce their production costs. At the same time, the group's real estate group provides reliable logistical support for the development of enterprises. 4. There is also a device to synthesize ammonia using the mature industry of American Lelog, and the urea adopts the new technology and large particle technology of Stymicabon Urea 2000+ from the Netherlands. It greatly improves the production capacity of the device and reduces energy consumption. The urea plant is the largest in Asia. The company is building a model project in the chemical industry. 5. There is a broad market for product sales. Inner Mongolia has a vast territory and few people. After the device is put into production, it will meet the needs of the Inner Mongolia market and can be exported abroad. 6. Managers and operators are fertilizer elites recruited from across the country. We have learned from the experience of major fertilizer companies across the country. Guaranteed the follow-up strength of the enterprise.
Reply #82008-01-08
Our company merged its main and side businesses into one in 2005. Since the merger, the company has strengthened its management granularity in terms of product structure adjustment, manufacturing of production equipment, and technological innovation. It has achieved very good benefits, and employee bonuses have also increased accordingly.* * I have full confidence in the company's development, and I firmly believe that our company will get better and better as it develops. But there are also several aspects that are worrying: 1. The products produced by the company are single and unable to compete with other similar companies. 2. The production equipment is getting older and the company has made less efforts to rectify the equipment. 3. The loss of operators and technical personnel is serious, and the new employees' skills and production experience are seriously lacking. 4. The relationship is very serious, causing a lot of complaints among the people below. 5. Recently, other funds have been particularly abundant, but the funds for production equipment are very poor. In short: the development of state-owned enterprises mainly depends on the leadership's decision-making, followed by personnel and funds.
Reply #92008-01-09
Our unit (Fengxi Fertilizer Industry) is not bad. We attach great importance to the research and development of independent intellectual property rights. We have cooperated with Tsinghua University and other research institutions to develop a slag-non-slag two-stage gasifier and ash smelting torch fluidized bed equipment. It can use inferior coal and can save about 400 yuan per ton of weight. The benefits are considerable, haha. I am more optimistic about the company: 1. Pay attention to the development of independent intellectual property rights. 2. Pay attention to talents. The monthly salary of graduate students is 3,000+, a single apartment, and you can work in important positions (assistant to the chief engineer, assistant to the general manager, etc.) as soon as you arrive... 3. Give back to the society, boost the local economy, and do a very good job in urban construction. However, the treatment for undergraduates is average.
Reply #102008-01-09
I think the current development of chemical fertilizer companies is unbalanced. Companies with large production capacity have greater advantages, while small and medium-sized enterprises with small scale, backward equipment and high production costs are in great existential crisis. Now the growth in the amount of chemical fertilizers has reached a certain level, and it has begun to show a significant decreasing trend, and has entered a period of slight excess in the basic balance between supply and demand. 1. In particular, the price increase of electricity energy and natural gas, petroleum, coal and other production raw materials is particularly prominent. In the past, fertilizer companies enjoyed more * * preferential policies, but now some of these preferential policies have been canceled or reduced, which has put forward higher requirements for the survival and development of these fertilizer companies, especially those with high energy consumption. 2. my country's nitrogen fertilizer market has generally formed a pattern of basic self-sufficiency and slight surplus. The market competition will become increasingly fierce, but the structural contradictions in the nitrogen fertilizer industry are still very prominent. 1. The proportion of enterprises with small scale, low technical level and high energy consumption is relatively large. 2. The production layout is unreasonable. 3. The adjustment of agricultural structure has put forward new requirements for the chemical fertilizer industry. 3. Clean production and environmental protection issues. * * Higher requirements have been put forward for enterprises' clean production, energy conservation and consumption reduction, especially environmental protection work. Many fertilizer companies have environmental protection problems to varying degrees. Solving and controlling environmental protection problems has become a bottleneck for the survival of chemical fertilizer companies, especially small and high-pollution companies with high environmental pollution.
Reply #112008-01-09
The company was converted from a state-owned enterprise into a joint-stock enterprise in 2000. The company was originally a small nitrogen fertilizer factory, and it only avoided bankruptcy by catching the last train of urine reform. The company has been committed to product structure adjustment, technological transformation, technological innovation, etc. for a long time. A urea plant designed to produce 60,000 tons is now in operation with a capacity of 200,000 tons! At the same time, compound fertilizer was added, * * The economic benefits of other projects are not bad, but I am not optimistic about the company's prospects. The following points are worrying: 1. Because it is located in a mountainous area, there is a serious shortage of talents. It was difficult to recruit a few college students, but they all left in a short time. ; 2. The financial burden of enterprises is very heavy. About 60% of fixed assets are bank loans. ; 3. There is an extreme lack of funds, but the company is currently planning to go public, hoping that listing will solve the funding problem. 4. The main product is small in scale, and the production and efficiency of by-products are poor. 5. Environmental protection issues, currently * * Environmental protection requirements are becoming more and more stringent. On the surface, companies appear to be meeting environmental protection standards, but in fact the gap is not small.
Reply #122008-01-10
Our company is the best among fertilizer companies and has strong profitability. We are raw materials for coal, phosphate rock and sulfur. In recent years, the price of raw materials has increased significantly. The enterprise has relatively complete supporting facilities and relatively good benefits. But to be honest, I am not optimistic about the fertilizer industry: 1. Too much resource consumption. 2. International and domestic energy shortage. 3. Chemical fertilizers flow into water bodies and pollute the environment.
Reply #132008-01-10
We are a synthetic ammonia company that produces urea and methanol. We were restructured from a state-owned enterprise. I think the company's future will be very difficult. The reasons are as follows: 1. Although the company is constantly launching projects, most of the funds are loans. 2. Due to the rapid expansion of the entire fertilizer industry in recent years, our company has not grown compared to other fertilizer companies. 3. In terms of the development ideas of our enterprise, the scale has neither reached the industry-leading plan nor has innovative thinking to find new ways. 4. The top leaders of the enterprise were transferred from the administrative department and have not been completely eliminated. * * work style. 5. The company leaders are not determined to burn the boat. Even though the company borrows a lot of money, they also pay a large dividend of about 30% every year. Although the prospects are difficult, it is not likely to go bankrupt in the short term because the company has a good foundation. On the one hand, the rules and regulations are relatively complete, although the implementation is not very good. On the other hand, most employees have stable minds and are willing to endure hardships at work. If management can improve, it will still be able to survive in future competition.
Reply #142008-01-10
Forecast on the prospects of the company where we work 1. Our company was restructured into a Hong Kong-funded enterprise in 1997, and the efficiency after the reorganization is pretty good. 2. Now a new 400,000-ton synthetic ammonia and supporting urea project is under construction. I believe there will be better development after it is put into production. 3. Our company has strong prospects for producing urea, compound fertilizer and industrial soda ash, and its comprehensive strength is still strong. In addition, our country is an agricultural country, and the fertilizer market prospects will not change. As long as it is managed well, profits are certain. 4. The price increase of raw materials, especially energy, is an inevitable trend of social development and cannot be controlled by anyone. Then the price of fertilizers will also increase accordingly. Even when the fertilizer industry is reshuffled, as long as companies can have real performance in energy conservation, consumption reduction, and cost reduction, no matter how cruel the market is, our company will have a path for development.
Reply #152008-01-12
Our company is above average among fertilizer companies and uses coal as raw material. The shareholder is Jincheng Anthracite Coal Group, which has relatively high profits, but workers’ wages are the lowest in the surrounding areas, and the equipment has been overloaded. I'm not very optimistic about the company: 1. Resource consumption is relatively high * * 2. The staff is too complex, which causes lower-level workers to complain about the leaders above. 3. The treatment of front-line workers is too low. Because of this, a lot of talents are lost.
Reply #162008-01-12
Our company was restructured from a state-owned company in 2004. We have good leadership and the company has a number of patents, so after the reorganization it still ranks very high in the industry. 1. The company uses coal as raw material. Now the price of coal has increased by 30-40 yuan per ton, and the quality of coal has declined, which will affect the cost. 2. The company has been investing a lot of money in recent years to transform and eliminate the original equipment and processes, and the company's competitiveness has increased. However, based on the transformation of old factories, the potential is limited and is not a long-term solution. 3. Invest heavily in industrial parks, build new large-scale projects, and develop downstream products, such as triamine, etc., to lengthen the product chain. The future of the fertilizer industry will depend on being big and strong, while small businesses are struggling. Our factory product list: Urea, cyanuric acid, triamine, compound fertilizer ammonia, methanol, dimethyl ether, * *
Reply #172008-01-14
Our company is above average among fertilizer companies and uses coal as raw material. Coal prices and freight have increased in recent years, and profits are still good. I am optimistic about the company: 1. Resource consumption is not too large. 2. International and domestic energy supply is sufficient. 3. Advanced technology and high profits. 4. Little environmental pollution.
Reply #182008-01-16
I think the future of our company is not very bright. Our company is a compound fertilizer company and has the following main problems, which have troubled the development of the company. 1. Currently, domestic compound fertilizer production capacity is seriously overcapacity, and duplication of construction is serious. ; 2. Material prices rise too fast 3. Enterprises do not pay enough attention to the improvement of process technology 4. Not enough attention is paid to technical talents, the loss of technical talents is serious, and the development potential of enterprises is insufficient ; Personally, I believe that domestic fertilizers have entered a period of malicious competition, and there will be a major consolidation within 3 to 5 years to get rid of the current predicament.
Reply #192008-01-16
we are* * The first batch of enterprises that advocated enterprise restructuring were joint-alkali production. The ammonia system is the basis. I have full confidence in our company. 1. We have a leadership team that is never satisfied. In the past three years, through mergers, new construction, and reorganization, we have developed from a county-level small joint alkali to the leading leader in a region today. Thanks to our boss, following him is tiring, but very fulfilling. You can also learn a lot. It can also reflect your own value. 2. Although there are fluctuations in the soda ash market, overall it seems to be stable and rising. In particular, the results this year have been extremely good. 3. The company introduces internal market management, forcing everyone to participate in management, and everything is managed by someone. 4. Our wages are increasing every year.
Reply #202008-01-16
I am optimistic about coal chemical industry. 1. Our country is a big agricultural country. To ensure food security, the fertilizer industry is the first priority. 2. International oil prices are running at high levels, giving coal chemical industry an opportunity. 3. my country's abundant coal and low oil conditions make coal chemical fertilizer enterprises more promising in the future.
Reply #212008-01-16
Company: 1. Institutional state-owned enterprises + overseas listing 2. Raw material lump coal + pulverized coal 3. Market in the province and North China 4. Old technology enterprise with medium and high technology, but serious losses in recent years 5. Management improvement 6. Innovation ability is not high 7. Reorganization is likely to be restructured 8. Not rich in funds (too many new projects) Overall a score of 70

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