Sweeteners China News 1305

Welcome to the May issue of Sweeteners China News published by CCM, a professional consulting company which has been extensively and intently focusing on the dynamics of China's sweetener industry.

In April. 2013, CCM made summaries for some sweeteners, including crystalline glucose, saccharin, stevia sweetener, composite sweeteners and sucralose. As revealed in these summaries, it is believed that 2012 was a difficult year for domestic sweetener industry. For example, the sales performance of China's crystalline glucose was poor in 2012. But the domestic sucralose industry was an exception, which showed a good performance in 2012 and will have a good prospect in 2013.

2012 also was a painful year for some sweetener producers in China. Though the new production line of acesulfame-K of Anhui Jinhe was launched in 2012, the revenue from acesulfame-K business of the company still showed a dramatic decrease in 2012.

Nevertheless, some domestic sweetener producers also have a good development prospect in 2013. For example, two leading functional sugar producers in China, namely Baolingbao and QHT, faces positive catalysts respectively to support their development in 2013.

In fact, April means that a new year has passed a quarter, and we can partly predict the development trend of one industry through its performance in the first quarter. In Q1 2013, the export situation of different sweeteners showed different performances. For instance, the export volume of China's xylitol products increased but its export price decreased in Q1 2013 while the situation of cyclamate was reverse.