Article: Present status and development trend of the vitamin industry in China.(Fine Chemicals)

The vitamin industry in China started towards the end of the 1950s. Vitamin production at that time was mainly intended to provide raw materials for pharmaceutical production. In the 1970s several varieties of vitamin B could be produced in China and the development of the two-step process in the vitamin C production shocked the world. In the 1980s a production system of various vitamins excluding biotin (vitamin H) was formed in China, but intermediates could not meet the market demand in both capacity and output and still had to depend on import. Since the 1990s breakthrough advances have been made in production technologies of vitamins and intermediates and the ...

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