Aniline in short supply

Aniline, as an important organic chemical raw material, is mainly used to produce polyurethane plastics, as well as for making synthetic dyes, pharmaceuticals and rubber auxiliaries.

Aniline has been in short supply for a long time in our country. In the past it was produced by the reduction of nitrobenzene by iron powder. The factories were small in capacity, and seriously polluted, and product quality was poor and could not meet the domestic demand. Therefore it restrained, to a great extent, the growth of series of products based on aniline. After entering the 1980s, C