At present, the major domestic citral production enterprises are mainly Shandong NHU Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., with a production of about 10,000t/a, accounting for 80% of the entire market. In 2017, China's citral production was over 12 thousand tonnes, an increase of around 5%. The downstream industry of citral is mainly used in pharmaceutical intermediates, flavors and fragrances, vitamin manufacturing and other industries. In 2017, the demand for citral in China was about 18,000 tonnes, an increase of 3.90%. Due to the explosion of BASF, the domestic market for citral products is in short supply, which in turn affects the price of citral. At present, the price of natural citral is between RMB300-400/kg; the price of synthetic citral is between RMB200-220/kg.

The sustained and rapid development of China's economy, especially the rapid development of pharmaceutical, food, health care products and other industries, provides a broad market space for citral products. With the strengthening of economic strength and the improvement of people's living standards, China's demand for citral products will grow much faster than the global average. In the next few years, China's citral products will have broad prospects for development.

In the next few years, with the continuous investment and technical improvement of China's citral project, China's citral production will increase at a rate of 7% per year. It is estimated that by 2022, China's citral production will exceed 17,600 tonnes. As the downstream industry of citral continues to expand, the demand for citral in the downstream industry continues to increase. It is estimated that by 2022, the demand for citral in China is about 23,200 tonnes.

Figure No.	Figure Title
Figure 1	The variation trend of citral output in China, 2011-2017
Figure 2	The variation trend of citral output in China, 2018-2022
Figure 3	Citral industry Chain

Table No.	Table Title
Table 1	Main laws and regulations of citral industry in China
Table 2	Relevant policies in citral industry
Table 3	Technical index for citral product
Table 8	Litsea cubeba oil output statistics in China, 2013-2017
Table 9	Wholesale price for litsea cubeba oil in 2017
Table 11	Methyl heptenone output statistics in China, 2013-2017
Table 12	Wholesale price for methyl heptenone in 2017
Table 13	Sales revenues and profits of flavor & fragrance industry in China, 2011-2017
Table 14	APIs intermediate output statistics in China, 2011-2016
Table 15	Vitamins output statistics in China, 2011-2017
Table 23	Import quantities of other acyclic aldehydes in China, 2011-2017
Table 24	Import value of other acyclic aldehydes in China, 2011-2017
Table 25	Sources of imported other acyclic aldehydes in China in 2017
Table 26	Average price of imported other acyclic aldehydes in China, 2011-2017
Table 27	Export quantities of other acyclic aldehydes in China, 2011-2017
Table 28	Export value statistics of other acyclic aldehydes in China, 2011-2017
Table 29	Export market for other acyclic aldehydes in China in 2017
Table 30	Price of exported other acyclic aldehydes in China, 2011-2017
Table 31	Basic information of Shandong NHU
Table 32	Introduction of citral products in Shandong NHU
Table 33	Sales revenue and total profit in Shandong NHU, 2012-2016
Table 34	Sales margin and gross margin in Shandong NHU, 2012-2016
Table 35	Basic information of Yongzhou Samshiang
Table 36	Sales revenue and total profit in Yongzhou Samshiang, 2012-2016
Table 37	Sales margin and gross margin in CP Kelco Biologicals (Shandong), 2012-2016
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