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Article: Worsening shortage and climbing price of potassium chloride in 2008.(Inorganics)
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- China Chemical Reporter
- Article date:
- March 16, 2008
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1 Stable output growth
China is very short of potash resources in general, and not all of these resources can be used in industrial production. Potassium chloride producers with considerable scale are concentrated mainly in the Charhan region of Qinghai province in western China. Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Group Co., Ltd. is the biggest potash fertilizer producer in China. In recent years the growth of China potassium chloride capacity has mainly been in the expansion of Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Group Co., Ltd. The company's potassium chloride capacity reached 1.8 million t/a in 2006. A 200 000 t/a potassium chloride production unit of its subsidiary Yuantong ...