Global zeolite market size is expected to reach USD 6.06 billion by 2026(2)

At present, the world's leading fertilizer companies such as Yara, Kamp, Echem Group and other functional fertilizer companies from Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, South Africa, etc., have invested more efforts in the research and development and production of adsorption and soil improvement products, and believe that zeolite will become a major highlight of the global agricultural market.

On the other hand, in the field of livestock and poultry breeding, zeolite can be used by animals to prevent certain diseases and promote healthy growth. By adding natural zeolite in animal feed, it has certain benefits for animal feed intake, weight growth and growth rate, bone growth, feed conversion rate, nutrient utilization, egg yield, weight, eggshell thickness, water consumption, and manure fertilization, etc. In 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) statistics in North America zeolite animal additives market size was $724.7 million, and With stringent regulations for animal health, it is expected to further drive the zeolite feed additives market in the region.

FMCG market

With the strong growth of demand in the FMCG industry and the increasing demand for quality and functionality of FMCG products, zeolite FMCG products are gaining popularity among global consumers and are becoming a huge market with the advantages of natural, green, environmental friendly, non-drug resistant and excellent functionality.

Currently in Japan and Korea, zeolite has been widely used in lifestyle products, beauty and make-up applications. The Honeywell Group, a world-renowned company, has also noticed the excellent function of zeolite as a filtration material and has gradually shifted its attention to the development of zeolite materials. It is worth mentioning that when the new crown pneumonia epidemic swept the world in 2020, zeolite KN95 masks made of high-quality natural zeolite materials through a special process, also played a great role in the global fight against the disease.

Molecular sieve market

Zeolite is the main material for the preparation of molecular sieve, which plays an extremely important role in petrochemical industry. Zeolite catalysts are the most preferred method for conversion in many refineries due to their extremely cost effective, efficient nature. The demand for zeolites in the refining industry is expected to continue to increase in the near future due to the increasing production from refineries in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific.

Zeolite market outlook

The rapid economic growth in recent years has accelerated the global energy and material consumption geometrically and the environmental degradation is becoming more and more serious, limiting the waste generation and CO2 emission has become a trend. The most important issues facing the general public today are the reduction of energy consumption, CO2 and waste emissions, and the production of cleaner and renewable energy sources, and zeolites can play an important role in supporting these technological innovations, with significant economic and environmental benefits.

Since foreign research on zeolites and related technologies started earlier, zeolite technology in Europe, the US, Japan and Korea is relatively advanced. For example, zeolite refrigerators have been designed by American research institutions; BASF has commercially released catalytic cracking products with zeolite, which can efficiently process gasoline and residual oil raw materials; Zeochem has opened a new plant in Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is dedicated to chromatography gel and zeolite processing, etc.

As China has the largest zeolite reserves in the world, the zeolite industry has also been rising rapidly in recent years. Chinese zeolite companies, led by Guotou Shengshi, have gradually developed new zeolite products and expanded new fields and markets for zeolite supplies, and have now made many breakthroughs, enabling the national zeolite industry to grab a huge share of the global zeolite market. We believe that China's zeolite industry will be a bigger part of the global market and dominate the world zeolite market.