A basic overview of the pine chemical industry. Includes applications, drivers and challenges as well as import and export data.

1. PINE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

2. Introduction
➤ Pine cellulose: Paper Pulping
➤ Tree saps, stumps, logs: Pine
chemicals

3. MANUFACTURING
PROCESS
Pine Chemicals

4. MANUFACTURING PROCESS
➤ Sources of pine chemicals: living pine trees, dead stumps or
logs, co-products of sulfate pulping (paper-making)
➤ Pine chemicals such as wood rosin and gum turpentine are
obtained either by oleoresin distillation or wood
carbonisation.

5. Gum is obtained via scoring living pine trees for oleoresins and further separated via distillation
to gum rosin and gum turpentine. Wood rosin is extracted from stumps and pine logs. Tall oil is
obtained via treatment of black liquor skimming, a by-product of sulfate pulping, with acid.

7. PINE
CHEMICALS

8. CATEGORIES
1. Tall Oil Distillation (eg. Tall Oil Rosin, Tall Oil Pitch)
2. Other crude pine chemicals (eg. Sterols, Pine Tar)
3. Rosin/resin derivatives (eg. Maleic Resin, Longifolene)
4. Turpentine derivatives (eg. Alpha Pinene, Camphor
Powder)

9. MARKET
OUTLOOK
Pine Chemicals

10. A study by MarketsandMarkets projected the pine chemical
industry to reach $4.8 Billion by 2020.

11. DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES
Patented Pine
Chemicals
Patent serve as a barrier of entry for pine industry.
Environmentally
friendly
Movement towards renewable raw materials and
reduced carbon emissions
Biomass Energy
In the US, there are certain governments promoting
burning of co-products from paper making as energy
instead of harvesting them for pine chemicals.
Diversion for
Crude Tall Oil
(CTO) as Biofuels
Subsidies and incentives from European Commission
for the development of CTO-based biofuels

12. IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS

13. Palm trees, the direct source of pine chemicals, are mostly
concentrated in North America and East Asia

14. With key industrial players concentrated among these countries,
it is likely that they are either the top importers or exporters.

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