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Taijia Dongheng’s Functional Sugar Project

Taijia Dongheng’s Functional Sugar Project

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On 11 October, the Pingyi County Branch of Linyi Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau released the acceptance notice for the environmental impact report of Shandong Taijia Dongheng Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Taijia Dongheng)’s 100,000 t/a of functional sugar project.

 

Project overview

  • Nature: New construction
  • Location: Kangtaizhuang Village, Difang Town, Pingyi County, Linyi, Shandong Province
  • Total investment: USD84.4 million (RMB600 million), of which USD0.28 million (RMB2 million) is for environmental protection
  • Construction content: To construct four functional sugar production lines with a total capacity of 100,000 t/a, plus utilities and auxiliaries.
  • Key raw materials: 80,000 t/a of 32 % food-grade starch slurry, 40,000 t/a of 67 % sucrose syrup, 63,000 t/a of 71 % glucose solution, etc.
  • Labor quota: 30 employees
  • Working system: Three 8hr shifts per day, 300 working days per year
  • Construction period: 24 months; scheduled to start production in August 2027.
  • Product plan of this project
Product Capacity, t/a Remark
Powder Pulp
Functional sugar products Isomalto-oligosaccharide 10,000 10,000 Powder moisture 5%，IMO-90 type
FOS 10,000 10,000 Powder moisture 2%
HFCS / 50,000 F42 type
Crystalline fructose 10,000 / Powder moisture 0.2%
By-product Glucose syrup / 10,000 60 % DS

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Corn Deep-processing China News in October 2025

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COMPANY AND MARKET DYNAMICS

TAIJIA DONGHENG’S FUNCTIONAL SUGAR PROJECT

BBCA’S LA PROJECT AND PLA PROJECT IN LINYI CITY

MICROCYTO QINHUANGDAO COMPLETED HEALTHY SUGAR PROJECT

HUAKANG’S FLEXIBLE SUGAR-ALCOHOL TECHNICAL UPGRADE PROJECT

SHANDONG YUMI’S 1.2 MILLION T/A OF FUNCTIONAL SUGARS PROJECT

PUYANG HAOTIAN COMPLETED NUCLEOSIDE & NUCLEOTIDE PROJECT

NANLE SHENGJIU’S XYLOSE EXPANSION PROJECT

XINJIANG YILIHONG’S RIBOFLAVIN PRODUCTION QUALITY UPGRADE & RETROFIT PROJECT

ZHOUSHAN HUAKANG’S MALTODEXTRIN, NON-DAIRY CREAMER AND CORN GERM PROJECT

DONGXIAO BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPLETED THREE PROJECTS

BRIEF NEWS  

XINJIANG MEIHUA’S VALINE PROJECT

ANHUI OMIRE COMPLETED AMINO-ACID SERIES AND FOOD-ADDITIVE PROJECT

DASHIQIAO DEXIANG PREGELATINIZED STARCH PROJECT

EVER BRILLIANCE’S MANNOSE WORKSHOP TECHNICAL TRANSFORMATION PROJECT

HUASHOU BIOLOGICAL’S RAW-MATERIAL WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT TECHNICAL UPGRADE PROJECT

HENAN XINGHAN COMPLETED FOOD-GRADE LACTIC ACID PROJECT

PRICE DATA  

EX-WORK PRICES OF KEY CORN PRODUCTS

IMPORT AND EXPORT    

EXPORT OF KEY CORN PRODUCTS

CORN IMPORT

 

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Baoshen Longcheng’s Amino Acid Project

Baoshen Longcheng’s Amino Acid Project

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Jiangsu Baoshen Longcheng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Baoshen Longcheng) plans to invest USD8.4 million (RMB60 million) in a 1,920 t/a of food-grade amino acid project comprising 12 products: 100 t/a of DL-homocysteine thiolactone hydrochloride, 1,020 t/a of N-acetyl-L-cysteine, 100 t/a of N-acetyl-L-thioproline, 100 t/a of N-acetyl-L-tyrosine, 50 t/a of N-acetyl-(D)L-leucine, 100 t/a of L-ornithine hydrochloride. 50 t/a of S-hydroxymethyl-L-cysteine, 100 t/a of L-cysteine (base), 100 t/a of L-pyroglutamic acid, 50 t/a of L-cysteine hydrochloride anhydrous, 100 t/a of L-lysine hydrochloride and 50 t/a of L-ornithine aspartate.

Due to market conditions, the project will be built in two phases. On 10 Sept., the local Ecology & Environment Bureau approved the EI report for Phase I and released the decision for public inspection.

 

Overview of Phase I

  • Nature: Retrofitting
  • Location: Guannan County, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province
  • Total investment: USD5.6 million (RMB40 million), of which USD0.14 million (RMB 1 million) is for environmental protection
  • Product plan:
    • 1,020 t/a of N-acetyl-L-cysteine
    • 100 t/a of N-acetyl-L-tyrosine
    • 100 t/a of L-ornithine hydrochloride
    • 50 t/a of S-hydroxymethyl-L-cysteine
    • 100 t/a of L-cysteine (base)
    • 50 t/a of L-cysteine hydrochloride anhydrous
    • 100 t/a of L-lysine hydrochloride
  • Key raw materials: L-cystine, L-tyrosine, L-arginine, L-lysine HCl, acetic anhydride, etc.
  • Labor quota: No additional staff (Relying on existing workforce)
  • Working system: three 8hr shifts per day, 300 working days per year
  • Construction period: 3 months

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Corn Deep-processing China News in August 2025

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COMPANY AND MARKET DYNAMICS   

HEILONGJIANG EPPEN’S 450 KT AMINO ACIDS PROJECT

SHOUGUANG GOLDEN CORN’S LYSINE PROJECT

ANHUI BBCA’S TWO PROJECTS

ANHUI ENLOGICS’ BIG-HEALTH NATURAL PRODUCT CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

ZHUCHENG YUANFA’S SODIUM GLUCONATE EXPANSION PROJECT

INNER MONGOLIA HENGTONG’S SPECIALTY AMINO ACIDS PROJECT

XINJIANG MEIHUA COMPLETED XANTHAN GUM EXPANSION PROJECT

PHANGEL BIOTECH COMPLETED PHA PROJECT

XINXIANG AIDI COMPLETED NUCLEOSIDE & DERIVATIVES PROJECT

HENAN RUIMEI AMINO ACIDS AND OTHER PRODUCTS PROJECT

BRIEF NEWS  

SHANDONG FUKUAN’S ALLULOSE EXPANSION PROJECT

NINGXIA EPPEN’S L-ARGININE EXPANSION PROJECT

DONGGUAN DONGMEI COMPLETED MODIFIED STARCH PROJECT

HUIYUAN STARCH’S TECHNICAL UPGRADE PROJECT

BESTZYME’S SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY PRODUCTION LINE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

MIANYANG HABIO’S MICROECOLOGICAL AND ENZYME PREPARATION EXPANSION PROJECT

PRICE DATA  

EX-WORK PRICES OF KEY CORN PRODUCTS

IMPORT AND EXPORT    

EXPORT OF KEY CORN PRODUCTS

CORN IMPORT

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Zhucheng Yuanfa’s Sodium Gluconate Expansion Project

Zhucheng Yuanfa’s Sodium Gluconate Expansion Project

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On 14 August, the environmental impact assessment information for 150,000 t/a of high-quality sodium gluconate (SG) project by Zhucheng Yuanfa Bio-technology Co., Ltd. (Zhucheng Yuanfa) was made public before approval.

 

Project overview

  • Nature: Expansion & renovation
  • Location: Xinxing Town, Zhucheng City, Shandong Province
  • Total investment: RMB30 million
  • Construction content: The project will upgrade the existing “100 000 t/a of SG project” by using existing land, buildings and equipment. A new on-site glucose-from-corn-starch section will replace purchased glucose. Sixty new units of equipment, including saccharification equipment, centrifuges, dissolution tanks, fluid-bed dryers, double-effect and quadruple-effect evaporators, will be installed. Shortened fermentation cycles will boost fermenter utilization.
  • Product plan: SG capacity will be expanded from 100,000 t/a to 150,000 t/a.
  • Key raw material: 429,500 t/a of starch slurry (self-produced).
  • Labor quota: 140 employees (no new hires; existing workforce).
  • Working system: Three 8hr shifts per day, 365 working days totaling 8,760 hours per year.
  • Construction period: Scheduled for completion by the end of Dec. 2025.

 

Zhucheng Yuanfa, established in 2014 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dongxiao Bio-tech Co., Ltd., operates two plants:

  • South Plant has a 300,000 t/a of corn starch production line, and a 500,000 t/a of corn starch expansion project is under construction, and the capacity of corn starch (moisture content 13.5 %) in South Plant will be expanded from 300,000 t/a to 500,000 t/a.
  • North Plant has a 600,000 t/a corn starch production line, a 100 000 t/a of SG production line, a 100,000 t/a of high-maltose syrup or 10,000 t/a of maltodextrin production line.

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Corn Deep-processing China News in July 2025

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COMPANY AND MARKET DYNAMICS 

YIHAI KERRY FUYU’S TWO PROJECTS

XINYE BIO’S AMINO ACID PROJECT

MEIHUA BIO’S ACQUISITION OF KYOWA HAKKO’S BUSINESS

ANTI-DUMPING CASES INVOLVING SOME CORN-RELATED PRODUCTS

XINJIANG RUINO’S NUCLEOSIDE PROJECT

CHINA APPROVES ALLULOSE: A GAME-CHANGER FOR THE SWEETENER INDUSTRY

HISUN PHARMA’S FLEXIBLE PRODUCTION LINE TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION PROJECT

NANTONG 4-LIFE’S BIO-BASED PRODUCT PROJECT

ANHUI ENZYMETREE COMPLETED TWO PROJECTS

BRIEF NEWS  

YUWANG BIOTECHNOLOGY’S LYSINE PROJECT

LIAONING GANYUAN’S ALLULOSE PROJECT

INNER MONGOLIA YUANFENG COMPLETED FURFURAL PROJECT

YISHUI DADI’S SMART FACTORY PROJECT FOR FUNCTIONAL SUGARS

HUASEN SHENGBANG’S BIO-PHARMACEUTICAL RAW MATERIAL AND BIO-BASED MATERIAL PROJECT

INNER MONGOLIA HAILIN’S CANDIDA UTILIS PROTEIN PROJECT

PRICE DATA  

EX-WORK PRICES OF KEY CORN PRODUCTS

IMPORT AND EXPORT  

EXPORT OF KEY CORN PRODUCTS

CORN IMPORT

 

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Updates on Guangzhou Shuangqiao’s Starch Sugar Projects

Updates on Guangzhou Shuangqiao’s Starch Sugar Projects

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According to the environmental acceptance report publicized on 20 Jun., Phase II of 1 million t/a of starch sugars project by Guangzhou Shuangqiao Co., Ltd. (Guangzhou Shuangqiao) has been completed.

 

Project overview

  • Nature: New construction.
  • Location: No. 1, Taiyangsheng Road, Hengli Town, Nansha District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
  • Investment: USD0.2 billion (RMB1.48 billion), of which USD17.5 million (RMB125.5 million) is for environmental protection.
  • Product plan: 100,000 t/a of beer syrup, 200,000 t/a of glucose syrup, 600,000 t/a of HFCS
  • Key raw material: 1,003,500 t/a of 86% food-grade starch.
  • Progress:
    • Started construction: Apr. 2020
    • Completion: 25 Jul., 2024.
    • Commissioning: 26 Jul., 2024 -25 Jul., 2025.
    • On-site acceptance monitoring: 13-14 May, 2025.

 

At present, the 1 million t/a of starch sugars project of Guangzhou Shuangqiao has been completed and put into production with a capacity of 200,000 t/a of beer syrup, 400,000 t/a of glucose syrup and 900,000 t/a of HFCS.

 

On 4 Jun., the environmental impact report for the technical transformation project of the starch sugar products production line by Shuangqiao (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. (Shuangqiao Guangzhou), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Guangzhou Shuangqiao, was publicized on an environmental protection platform.

 

Project overview

  • Nature: Reconstruction, expansion & technical upgrading
  • Address: No. 1, Taiyangsheng Road, Hengli Town, Nansha District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
  • Total investment: USD18 million (RMB 130 million), of which USD1.4 million (RMB10 million) is for environmental protection
  • Product plan: 300,000 t/a of starch sugar 16,500 t/a of corn sugar dregs
  • Key raw materials:
    • To utilize various enzymes to convert 335,000 t/a of corn starch into different forms of starch sugars.
    • To use the by-product of starch sugar production, known as protein residue, to produce corn sugar residue.
  • Labor quota: 40 new employees.
  • Working system: Three 8hr shifts per day, 350 working days per year.
  • Construction period: 2.5 years

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COMPANY AND MARKET DYNAMICS 

TWO STARCH SUGAR PROJECTS IN FUJIN CITY

SHANDONG JINGHONG COMPLETED FLEXIBLE PRODUCTION PROJECT (PHASE I)

JINAN BESTZYME’S TWO ENZYME PREPARATION PROJECTS

BBCA BIOCHEMICAL COMPLETED D-LACTIC ACID PROJECT

MUSASHINO’S EXPANSION PROJECT (PHASE II)

UPDATES ON GUANGZHOU SHUANGQIAO’S STARCH SUGAR PROJECTS

STAR LAKE SCIENCE’S AMINO ACID PROJECT

HUANGSHAN TONGXI’S HMOS EXPANSION PROJECT

NANJING INNOVASYN’S TWO NUCLEOTIDE PROJECTS

NINGXIA ZHONGKE’S BIO-FERMENTATION PRODUCTS PROJECT

BRIEF NEWS  

SICHUAN MINSHENG’S CORN PROCESSING PROJECT

JIANGXI HENGDING’S PLANT-BASED CREAM POWDER PROJECT

BLB’S FUNCTIONAL NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS PROJECT

ANHUI NEWGEN’S AMINO ACIDS AND DERIVATIVES PROJECT

JIANGXI FUSHINE’S BIOSYNTHETIC SERIES PRODUCTS PROJECT

HEILONGJIANG NHU COMPLETED DHA REFINED OIL PROJECT

US INITIATES DOUBLE ANTI-INVESTIGATIONS ON CHINA’S L- LYSINE

PRICE DATA  

EX-WORK PRICES OF KEY CORN PRODUCTS

IMPORT AND EXPORT  

EXPORT OF KEY CORN PRODUCTS

CORN IMPORT

 

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Candida Utilis Protein

Fuyang Starch’s Candida Utilis Protein Project

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Shandong Fuyang Biological Starch Co., Ltd. (Fuyang Starch) currently uses most of its evaporated and concentrated corn steep liquor for corn fiber spraying and external sales.

This limits the added value of corn steep liquor and increases the burden on the company’s wastewater treatment system. Consequently, Fuyang Starch has decided to develop downstream products by constructing a Candida utilis protein production project, based on its existing production capacity.

On 13 May, the public notice of the environmental impact assessment documents for its Candida utilis protein project was publicized again prior to the approval.

 

Project overview

  • Nature: Reconstruction
  • Location: Pingyuan Economic Development Zone, Shandong Province
  • Total investment: USD2.8 million (RMB 20 million)
  • Construction content:
    • The project will rely on the existing corn steeping and pulp system, warehouse, and public auxiliary works of Fuyang Starch.
    • It will also utilize the fermentation system of the existing erythritol production workshop of Shandong Fuyang Biological Technology Co., Ltd. (the parent company of Fuyang Starch, located within the same factory complex).
    • The corn steeping system and the erythritol workshop’s fermentation system will be upgraded.
    • Over ten sets of new equipment will be added, including a forced circulation evaporator, a thick pulp tank, a pelletizing bed, a cooling bed, and a packaging system.
    • Once completed, the existing erythritol product line of Shandong Fuyang Biological Technology Co., Ltd. will be discontinued.
  • Product plan: 30,000 t/a of Candida utilis protein.
  • Key raw materials: 8,820 t/a of 10% corn steep liquor.
  • Labor quota: No new employees
  • Working system: Three 8hr shifts per day, 330 working days per year.
  • Construction period: The project is expected to be completed by June 2025.

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Market Research Report: Citric Acid & Sodium Citrate Industry in China 2024

Citric Acid & Sodium Citrate Industry in China 2024

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Main Content of Citric Acid & Sodium Citrate Industry in China 2024

Executive Summary

  1. Citric Acid and Sodium Citrate Industry Overview
  2. Citric Acid in China

2.1 Supply and Demand, 2022-2024

2.1.1 Market size (volume & value)

2.1.2 Export

2.2 Production Landscape

2.2.1 Major Producers with Own Fermentation

2.2.2 Capacity Development (2022-2024)

2.2.3 Planned Expansions (2025-2027)

2.3 Price in 2022-2024

2.4 Profitability

  1. sodium Citrate in China

3.1 Supply and Demand

3.2 Major Producers with Own Fermentation

3.3 Capacity Development (2022-2024)

3.4 Planned Expansions (2025-2027)

List of tables

Table 2.1-1 China’s annual export and import of citric acid, 2020-2024

Table 2.1-2 Top 10 export destinations of China’s citric acid in 2024

Table 2.2-1 Capacity and output of citric acid by producer in China, 2022-2024

Table 2.2-2 Citric acid capacity forecast to 2027 (from 2022 onwards)

Table 2.4-1 Raw materials cost of citric acid in China, 2024

Table 2.4-2 Manufacturing cost of citric acid in China, 2024

Table 2.4-3 Total cost of citric acid in China, 2024

Table 3-1 Capacity and output of sodium citrate by producer in China, 2022-2024

Table 3-2 Sodium citrate capacity forecast to 2027 (from 2022 onwards)

 

List of figures

 

Figure 2.1-1 China’s monthly export volume of citric acid, Jan. 2022-Dec. 2024

Figure 2.2-1 China’s capacity and output of citric acid, 2020-2024

Figure 2.3-1 Monthly average ex-work price of citric acid in China, Jan. 2022-Dec. 2024

 

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