In 2019, there will be 129,000 tons of newly added capacity of electrolytic copper foil in China, so that the total production capacity of electrolytic copper foil in China will reach 582,400 tons. PCB copper foil production capacity increased by 31,000 tons, lithium battery copper foil production capacity increased by 98,000 tons.

In 2018, China has completed the construction and expansion of copper foil project new capacity statistics

According to investigation statistics, in 2018, built new enterprises have six copper foil (Jiang Xitong bo, guizhou ding, xinjiang in one hundred million, jiangdong electronic, chiping letter force, TongGuan tongling factory), and implements the production, there are five of the original enterprise (qinghai noble spirit, the baby xin, jiujiang in telford, guangdong China, hubei) copper foil increases production of the implementation of new electrolytic copper foil production line.

By the end of 2018, China will have an additional capacity of 70,000 tons of electrolytic copper foil, totaling 453,400 tons of total production capacity. In 2018, PCB copper foil production capacity increased by 10,000 tons (less), and lithium electric copper foil production capacity increased by about 60,000 tons. In addition to about 10,000 tons of PCB copper foil production capacity of jiangxi tongbo company can be released, the capacity of the increased lithium electric copper foil production line of other 11 old and new manufacturers that can be converted into PCB copper foil at any time is very limited.

In 2018, domestic copper foil projects that have started construction and expansion are expected to release new production capacity in 2019.

According to the statistics of the new production capacity of copper foil projects that have started construction and expansion in 2018, 129,000 tons of new production capacity of electrolytic copper foil will be added in 2019, so that the total production capacity of electrolytic copper foil in China will reach 582,400 tons. PCB copper foil production capacity increased by 31,000 tons, lithium battery copper foil production capacity increased by 98,000 tons.

It is predicted that by the end of 2018, there will be an additional capacity of 70,000 tons of electrolytic copper foil in China, and the total production capacity will reach 453,400 tons, an increase of 18.3% over 2017. Among them, PCB copper foil production capacity increased less (about 10,000 tons), about 14,000 tons less than the original estimate. Lithium electric copper foil will add about 60,000 tons of production capacity in 2018, about 30,000 tons less than originally estimated. By the end of 2018, the production ratio of PCB copper foil and lithium electric copper foil in China will be 59.4:40.6.

 

By the end of 2019, it is estimated that there will be 129,000 tons of newly added capacity of electrolytic copper foil in China, so that the total production capacity of electrolytic copper foil in China will reach 582,400 tons. Among them, 31,000 tons of PCB copper foil will be added, and the total production capacity of PCB copper foil will be 300,100 tons (it is estimated that another 30,000 tons of lithium battery copper foil can be converted into PCB copper foil, which is not included in the new production capacity of PCB copper foil until 2019). Lithium battery copper foil increased by 98,000 tons, the total production capacity of lithium battery copper foil will increase to 282,300 tons. By 2019, copper foil for lithium battery will account for 48.5% of the total electrolytic copper foil production capacity in China.

In terms of rolled copper foil: in 2019, chinalco central China copper industry co., ltd. will build (start construction in early 2018) and complete the capacity of 3,000 tons. The zhongtiaoshan nonferrous metal group’s plant in yuanqu county, henan province, will start construction in early April 2018 and plans to release 5,000 tons of rolled copper foil capacity by 2020. Lingbao jinyuan chaohui copper industry co., ltd. started construction at the end of June 2018 and plans to complete the construction and production of an additional 8,000 tons of rolled copper foil project in 2020.

The above statistics and forecast data show that in the next two or three years, the market of electronic copper foil is not very optimistic, especially the lithium electric copper foil market situation, the domestic lithium electric copper foil industry business prospects, is very bleak. In the context of unpredictable changes in lithium battery and PCB copper foil market in the next two years, the problem of excess capacity of electrolytic copper foil and rolled copper foil in China will become more serious. In the next few years, in the domestic copper foil industry, low-level, homogeneous product market competition, will be more intense.