What Are Fine Chemical Intermediates?

1. What are fine chemical intermediates?

To explain fine chemical intermediates, first of all, let's talk about what is fine chemical. The fine chemical industry includes many industries, such as our common medicines, pesticides, synthetic dyes, and organic pigments, various coatings, cosmetics, and daily shower gels, shampoos, soaps, etc., all belong to the fine chemical industry. In addition, there are some industries that we are not familiar with, such as photosensitive materials, magnetic materials, catalysts, various reagents, and water treatment agents, etc., which also belong to the fine chemical industry. Even some antibacterial and antifungal agents belong to the fine chemical industry. The scope of fine chemicals is very wide, including more than 40 industries.

2. The role of fine chemical intermediates

Then the fine chemical intermediate refers to a relatively front-end position in the fine chemical industry and a relatively basic discipline. Generally speaking, fine chemicals are used to continue the production of fine chemical products. In the downstream of fine chemical intermediates, common products include heat-sensitive materials, special engineering plastics industries, as well as some printing and dyeing auxiliaries, leather chemical industries, various functional dye industries.

The role of fine chemical intermediates: Generally speaking, the research and development of fine chemical intermediates are fast, the production scale of single products is not large, and the related products have strong process relevance. Therefore, once the downstream applications of fine chemical intermediates are confirmed, the promotion of fine chemical intermediates is not a problem. Due to a large international division of labor, in many fine chemical products with complex processes and many production process environments, many companies cannot finish the complete process by themselves, so there will be a demand for fine chemical intermediates.