Bentonite has water absorption and swelling, cation exchange, thixotropy, adhesion, adsorption, resistance, lubricity, decoloring and other properties, is the earliest development at home and abroad, one of the most widely reference non-metallic mineral, China bentonite varieties, large reserves, wide distribution. The application of bentonite production over the past 70 years, the growing application in the traditional field of metallurgy, casting, drilling, construction and other industries.

At present, the domestic bentonite processing enterprises more than and 200, the majority of middle and small scale production enterprises, bentonite production exceeded 3 million tons; from the production layout, our main bentonite enterprises mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Xinjiang, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Anhui and other provinces. At present, China's Bentonite industry competition is not high, low technical level, many SMEs in the industry, less large-scale enterprises. With the expansion of bentonite in the field of new applications, high value-added deep processing bentonite research and development to strengthen the market scale, more and more foreign enterprises to enter the Chinese bentonite market. The United States ricoo international group company, and the South German British chemical group Hemmings and other multinational companies have invested in Chinese, the development of domestic bentonite resources. The future of capital investment, technical reserves, development of new products will become the focus of competition in the company of bentonite in the field of enterprise competition ability is mainly embodied in the deep processing of products, which will lead to bentonite production enterprises to the ends of the industry chain gradually extended

With the progress of science and technology of bentonite in-depth research, bentonite resources has been most of the world's attention, new technology and new products and processing of bentonite produced continuously, bentonite consumption market developed by conventional drilling mud, iron ore pellets and casting three industries to the emerging field of petroleum, papermaking, textile, ceramics, medicine, environmental protection, daily chemical industry, rubber, plastics, paint and chemical fertilizer is extremely rapidly, demand potential huge market of bentonite. Because the global demand for bentonite downstream industry continued to maintain strong, and with the bentonite products to high value-added products direction, cbiw analysts expect the average level of profitability in the future industry will remain high.