Owing to the financial crisis and a shrinkingdomestic market, China did not add newaniline capacity in 2009.In the first half of2010 only Sinopec Nanjing Chemical IndustryCompany Limited added capacity -doingso by putting on stream a new 90 000t/a production unit at the end of May.Someexisting aniline makers conducted a littlerenovation to their facilities.At the sametime some small factories shut down.China’s aniline capacity was 1.735 milliont/a as of the end of June 2010, an increaseof 75 000 t/a over 2009’s 1.66 million t/acapacity.Now the capacity of commodityaniline is around 1.275 million t/a, slightlyhigher than 2009.Both the production and supply of aniline Owing to the financial crisis and a shrinking domestic market, China did not add newaniline capacity in 2009. The first half of 2010 only Sinopec Nanjing Chemical Industry Company Limited added capacity -doingso by putting on stream a new 90 000t / a production unit at the end of May.Someexisting aniline makers conducted a littlerenovation to their facilities. At the same time some small factories shut down. China’s aniline capacity was 1.735 milliont / a as of the end of June 2010, an increaseof 75,000 t / a over 2009’s 1.66 million t / acapacity.Now the capacity of commodityaniline is around 1.275 million t / a, slightlyhigher than 2009.Both the production and supply of aniline