The United States, South Korea, Japan, Germany, and China are the main producing countries of HPMC, among which China is the only developing country producing highly cost-effective HPMC.

The main HPMC market is China, which accounts for about half of the entire market.  

Indonesia and Vietnam occupy a large sales proportion in Southeast Asia.

Among the five countries in Central Asia, Uzbekistan has the largest consumption of HPMC.

In the middle east area, Turkey is an important market.

And Egypt mainly uses HPMC that can be dissolved in cold water for the daily chemical industry.

Economical HPMC, which is extremely cost-effective, is very popular in South Asia and India.

For the European market, it requires premium HPMC (good quality and good price) and it demands certificates verified by European Union.

South America is a very important HPMC market, of which Brazil has the largest demand； Chile mainly does transit trade.

The reactors for chemical production are generally closed containers. They can bear high temperatures and high pressure and perform chemical reactions.

The vertical reactor, as the name suggests, is vertical. It uses the solvent method, whose finished products have low viscosity, good transparency, and high degree of substitution.

Horizontal reactors are placed horizontally just as their name, which uses the gas phase method. And the HPMC produced here is of high viscosity, relatively low transparency and slightly low degree of substitution.

To help you understand better, the structural drawings and actual photos of the two reactors are shown below:

Vertical Reactor's Structure Drawing

Horizontal Reactor's Structure Drawing

Vertical Reactors' Actual Photo

Vertical Reactors' Actual Photo