Vertical: CNMBase Year: 2025
Market Size (2025)
$14.18M
Projected (2032)
$21.74M
CAGR (2022–2032)
6.3%
Key Players
8+
Market Overview
The global tetrachloropyridine market was valued at USD 14.178 Million in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 21.744 Million by 2032, registering a CAGR of 6.29% over the forecast period 2026–2032. The market adds USD 7.566 Million in absolute value between 2025 and 2032. Historic values rose from USD 11.760 Million in 2022 to USD 12.519 Million in 2023 and USD 13.324 Million in 2024, reflecting steady consumption of chlorinated pyridine intermediates by agrochemical manufacturers.
Tetrachloropyridine is a highly chlorinated pyridine intermediate. Its principal commercial isomer, 2,3,5,6-tetrachloropyridine (CAS 2402-79-1), is converted into 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol and its sodium salt, which are the key building blocks for the organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos. Chlorinated pyridine chains of the same family also feed the pyridine carboxylic acid herbicides picloram and clopyralid, together with triclopyr and a range of specialty and fine-chemical derivatives. Demand is therefore tied closely to global crop protection production, which is concentrated in China and India.
Key Findings
By downstream product: Chlorpyrifos is the largest segment with a 2025 share of 55.00% (USD 7.798 Million), while Others is the fastest-growing segment at a CAGR of 7.64%, closely followed by Picloram & Clopyralid at 7.58%.
By purity: 98% & Above is the largest segment with a 2025 share of 80.00% (USD 11.342 Million) and is also the fastest-growing segment at a CAGR of 6.66%.
By region: Asia Pacific leads the market with a 2025 share of 78.00% (USD 11.059 Million); Latin America is the fastest-growing region at a CAGR of 7.45%.
By country: China is the leading country with USD 5.087 Million in 2025 (35.88% of the global market), and Saudi Arabia is the fastest-growing country at a CAGR of 8.12%.
Growth outlook: The market is projected to expand from USD 14.178 Million in 2025 to USD 21.744 Million in 2032, with herbicide-linked and high-purity demand outpacing the chlorpyrifos chain.
Segmentation Summary
The market is segmented by downstream product (Chlorpyrifos; Picloram & Clopyralid; Others) and by purity (98% & Above; Below 98%), and is analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East & Africa. Chlorpyrifos accounted for USD 7.798 Million in 2025 and is forecast to reach USD 11.092 Million by 2032 at a CAGR of 5.12%, the slowest rate among the three product segments, as regulatory restrictions in developed markets limit its growth. Picloram & Clopyralid (USD 4.253 Million in 2025; CAGR 7.58%) and Others (USD 2.127 Million in 2025; CAGR 7.64%) are expected to gain share as pyridine herbicides and specialty derivatives grow faster than the organophosphate chain.
By purity, the 98% & Above grade was valued at USD 11.342 Million in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 17.839 Million by 2032 (CAGR 6.66%), compared with USD 2.836 Million and USD 3.905 Million respectively for the Below 98% grade (CAGR 4.68%). Tighter impurity specifications for technical-grade active ingredients support the shift toward high-purity material.
Competitive Landscape Summary
The market is moderately consolidated and dominated by integrated Chinese producers that operate pyridine chlorination chains, supported by a smaller group of Indian and multinational agrochemical companies that consume tetrachloropyridine derivatives captively or through long-term supply arrangements. Lier Chemical and Nanjing Red Sun are the most vertically integrated participants, spanning chlorinated pyridine intermediates through to herbicide and insecticide active ingredients. Shandong Kunda Biotechnology (Hongda Group) is a notable merchant supplier of chloropyridine intermediates, while Corteva Agriscience anchors downstream demand for pyridine herbicides and holds an equity interest in a chloropyridine joint venture with Lier Chemical. Gharda Chemicals, Sumitomo Chemical India, Zhejiang Xinnong Chemical and Lianyungang Liben Crop Science are significant consumers in the chlorpyrifos chain, and Jubilant Ingrevia participates upstream as a pyridine and picoline supplier.
Challenges and Opportunities
The principal challenge is regulatory pressure on chlorpyrifos. The European Union did not renew the approvals of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl in 2020, Canada ended all uses by December 2023, and the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention listed chlorpyrifos in Annex A in May 2025, with specific exemptions for production and selected agricultural uses. Environmental compliance requirements in China, which can interrupt chlorination capacity, and volatility in pyridine and chlorine costs add to supply-side risk.
Opportunities lie in the expanding use of pyridine herbicides such as picloram, clopyralid and triclopyr for pasture, rangeland, cereal and non-crop weed control; in rising agrochemical production and consumption in Latin America, India and Africa; and in the supply of high-purity grades for specialty, pharmaceutical and contract manufacturing applications.
Future Outlook
Over 2026–2032 the market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.29%, with Asia Pacific remaining the production and consumption centre (USD 17.130 Million by 2032) and Latin America and Middle East & Africa recording the fastest regional growth at 7.45% and 7.31% respectively. India, at a CAGR of 7.78%, is expected to outpace China (5.38%) as domestic agrochemical manufacturing and exports expand. Product mix is likely to shift gradually from chlorpyrifos toward pyridine herbicides and specialty derivatives, and producers that combine integrated chlorination capacity, high-purity output and regulatory compliance are expected to be best positioned.
The Tetrachloropyridine Market market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 6.3% from 2022 to 2032.
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Tetrachloropyridine refers to pyridine molecules in which four ring hydrogen atoms are replaced by chlorine. The commercially dominant isomer is 2,3,5,6-tetrachloropyridine (C5HCl4N; CAS 2402-79-1), a crystalline solid produced by the exhaustive chlorination of pyridine or its derivatives, by the selective dechlorination of pentachloropyridine, or through integrated chloropyridine processes. In China, industrial-grade 2,3,5,6-tetrachloropyridine is covered by the chemical industry standard HG/T 6016-2022.
For the purpose of this study, the market includes tetrachloropyridine produced and sold on a merchant basis or transferred captively for the manufacture of downstream products, valued at the intermediate level. It covers material used in the chlorpyrifos chain (via 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol and its sodium salt), material used in the picloram and clopyralid herbicide chain, and material used for other derivatives such as triclopyr and specialty, pharmaceutical and fine-chemical intermediates. The study excludes the value of the downstream active ingredients and formulated products themselves, pyridine and picoline bases, and other chlorinated pyridines (mono-, di-, tri- and pentachloropyridines) except where they are counted as tetrachloropyridine consumption.
Scope of the Study
Segmentation by Downstream Product: Chlorpyrifos; Picloram & Clopyralid; Others.
Segmentation by Purity: 98% & Above; Below 98%.
Regions and countries: North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico); Europe (Germany, U.K., France, Italy, Spain, Rest of Europe); Asia Pacific (China, India, Japan, Rest of Asia Pacific); Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Rest of Latin America); Middle East & Africa (UAE, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Rest of MEA).
Timeline: Historic years 2022–2024; base year 2025; forecast period 2026–2032.
Unit: Market value in USD Million; growth rates expressed as CAGR for 2026–2032.
Research Objectives
To estimate the size of the global tetrachloropyridine market for 2022–2025 and forecast it for 2026–2032 in USD Million.
To quantify demand by downstream product (Chlorpyrifos; Picloram & Clopyralid; Others) and by purity grade.
To analyze regional and country-level demand across five regions and nineteen country groupings.
To assess the impact of chlorpyrifos regulation, including the Stockholm Convention listing and national restrictions, on intermediate demand.
To evaluate the growth of pyridine herbicides and their influence on chlorinated pyridine consumption.
To examine supply-side factors, including pyridine availability, chlorination capacity and environmental compliance in China and India.
To profile leading producers and consumers and track developments such as capacity additions, joint ventures and restructurings since 2022.
To identify opportunities for high-purity grades and emerging-market demand.
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View Subscription PlansOverview of the Research Process
The study followed a structured process combining secondary research, primary validation, market size estimation and forecasting. Research began with mapping the tetrachloropyridine value chain, from pyridine bases and chlorine through chlorination and purification to downstream insecticide and herbicide manufacturing. Production capacity, trade flows, downstream active ingredient output and regulatory status were then compiled for each region. These inputs were combined to build top-down and bottom-up estimates, which were reconciled through data triangulation and validated with industry participants before the forecast model was finalized.
Secondary Research
Secondary research drew on sources specific to the agrochemical intermediates industry:
Industry associations: pesticide and crop protection industry associations in China, India, Europe and the Americas, which publish production, export and regulatory updates.
Government and regulatory bodies: pesticide registration authorities and environmental agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the European Commission and EFSA, Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency, Brazil's ANVISA, India's Central Insecticides Board & Registration Committee, and China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Ministry of Ecology and Environment; and the Stockholm Convention Secretariat.
Company filings: annual reports, exchange announcements, environmental impact assessment notices and investor presentations of listed producers in China, India, the United States and Europe.
Trade journals and industry media: agrochemical and fine-chemical trade publications covering pricing, capacity and plant operating status.
Paid databases and trade statistics: customs and trade databases for chlorinated pyridine and pesticide trade, chemical pricing services and company databases.
Primary Research
Primary research was conducted to validate secondary findings and refine assumptions. Interviews were held on the supply side with production, technical and commercial managers at chloropyridine and pyridine producers, traders and distributors of agrochemical intermediates; and on the demand side with procurement and technical staff at manufacturers of chlorpyrifos, picloram, clopyralid, triclopyr and other derivatives, along with formulators and industry consultants. The objectives were to validate production volumes and capacity utilization, understand pricing and purity requirements, test regional demand splits, and assess the expected impact of regulatory changes on future consumption.
Market Size Estimation
Top-down approach: The market was estimated from the output of downstream active ingredients. Production of chlorpyrifos, picloram, clopyralid and other derivatives was converted into tetrachloropyridine demand using stoichiometric and process-yield factors, and the resulting volumes were valued at prevailing intermediate prices by purity grade.
Bottom-up approach: Installed chloropyridine capacity, utilization rates and merchant sales of individual producers were aggregated by region and country, adjusted for captive consumption and trade flows.
Data triangulation: Estimates from both approaches were reconciled against trade data and primary interview inputs. Differences were resolved by weighting the most reliable data points, producing a single consistent dataset by downstream product, purity, region and country.
Forecasting Methodology
Forecasts were developed using a factor-based model applied to the 2025 base year. Factors considered include crop area and crop protection spending, regulatory status of chlorpyrifos and pyridine herbicides by country, adoption of herbicides for resistant-weed management, capacity additions and closures, raw material availability and pricing, and macroeconomic indicators. Each segment, region and country was projected individually and then reconciled to the global total. Growth rates are expressed as compound annual growth rates for 2026–2032.
Base Year, Forecast Period and Currency
Base year: 2025
Historic period: 2022–2024
Forecast period: 2026–2032
Currency: USD Million (values at constant exchange rates)
Assumptions and Limitations
Regulatory frameworks in force or formally adopted as of the base year are assumed to remain in place; no further unannounced global bans are assumed within the forecast period.
Exemptions under the Stockholm Convention listing of chlorpyrifos are assumed to support continued production for permitted uses.
Pyridine and chlorine supply is assumed to remain adequate, although temporary disruptions from environmental inspections are reflected in historic data.
Captive consumption by integrated producers is not separately reported by companies and has been estimated from capacity and downstream output.
Price assumptions are based on average intermediate prices and may differ from contract prices for individual buyers.
Country groupings labeled "Rest of" aggregate smaller markets for which individual data are limited.
Base Year
2025
Historical Period
2022 – 2024
Forecast Period
2026 – 2032
Primary Interviews
150+
Historical data (2022–2025) and forecast period (2025–2032)
Our research process spans primary interviews with industry stakeholders combined with comprehensive secondary data analysis, validated through triangulation across multiple independent sources.
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The global tetrachloropyridine market is moderately consolidated. A small number of integrated Chinese producers control most chlorinated pyridine capacity, and much of their tetrachloropyridine output is consumed captively in the production of trichloropyridinol, chlorpyrifos and pyridine herbicides. Merchant supply is provided by specialized chloropyridine producers, while demand is anchored by multinational herbicide owners and by Chinese and Indian chlorpyrifos manufacturers. Competition is based on integration with pyridine bases, cost, purity and consistency, environmental compliance and the ability to support customers' registrations. Price competition is intense for lower-purity grades, whereas long-term partnerships and joint ventures characterize supply to multinational customers.
Key Player Positioning
Leaders: Lier Chemical and Nanjing Red Sun are the market leaders, based on integrated capacity from chlorinated pyridine intermediates to active ingredients and their breadth of downstream products. Corteva Agriscience is a leading downstream participant, owning the principal pyridine herbicide franchises and holding an equity stake in Lier's chloropyridine joint venture.
Challengers: Gharda Chemicals, Sumitomo Chemical India and Jubilant Ingrevia are challengers that benefit from India's expanding agrochemical manufacturing base, either as chlorpyrifos producers or as upstream pyridine suppliers moving into contract manufacturing.
Niche players: Shandong Kunda Biotechnology, Zhejiang Xinnong Chemical and Lianyungang Liben Crop Science are niche participants focused on merchant chloropyridine intermediates or on chlorpyrifos technical production.
Lier Chemical Co., Ltd.
Overview: Lier Chemical, headquartered in Mianyang, Sichuan, China, and founded in 1993, is listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The company describes itself as China's largest research and production base for chlorinated pyridine herbicides and is also a major producer of glufosinate.
Latest reported revenue: Approximately RMB 9.01 billion in FY2025 (preliminary results), up about 23% from RMB 7.311 billion in FY2024.
Relevant products: Picloram, clopyralid, triclopyr and fluroxypyr; chlorinated pyridine intermediates including tetrachloropyridine and pentachloropyridine produced at its Guang'an facilities.
Key developments (2022 onward): Its Guang'an Lihua chloropyridine project, a joint venture with Corteva (China) in which Lier holds 80%, is reported as completed and in full production in the FY2024 annual report. In June 2025, an environmental impact assessment was published for a 43,000 tonne-per-year project at Guang'an that includes clopyralid and triclopyr ester capacity. Preliminary 2025 results cited higher prices and volumes for chloropyridine herbicides on overseas demand.
Strategy: Vertical integration from chlorinated pyridine intermediates to herbicide active ingredients, long-term supply relationships with multinational crop protection companies, and diversification into L-glufosinate.
Nanjing Red Sun Co., Ltd.
Overview: Nanjing Red Sun, headquartered in Nanjing, China, and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, is an integrated producer of pyridine bases and pyridine-derived pesticides with production bases in Anhui, Chongqing and Yunnan.
Latest reported revenue: RMB 3.007 billion in FY2024.
Relevant products: Pyridine and 3-picoline, sodium 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol, chlorpyrifos, paraquat, diquat, 2,3-dichloropyridine and chlorantraniliprole. Its subsidiary Chongqing Huage Biochemical was a lead drafter of the industry standard HG/T 6016-2022 for industrial 2,3,5,6-tetrachloropyridine.
Key developments (2022 onward): A court-supervised pre-restructuring began in November 2022; the restructuring plan was declared fully executed in December 2024, with Qujing state-owned capital becoming the actual controller. Phase one of a 2,000 tonne-per-year chlorantraniliprole project started at Wanzhou in August 2023, and the company plans further pyridine base capacity in Yunnan.
Strategy: Rebuilding after restructuring by leveraging cost advantages in pyridine bases and full-chain integration into pyridine-derived insecticides and herbicides.
Shandong Kunda Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Hongda Group)
Overview: Shandong Kunda Biotechnology is part of Hongda Group, based in Yishui, Shandong, China. The group was founded in 2004 and manufactures fine chemicals and pharmaceutical and pesticide intermediates.
Latest reported revenue: Not publicly disclosed.
Relevant products: 2-chloropyridine, 2,6-dichloropyridine, 2,3,6-trichloropyridine, 2,3,5,6-tetrachloropyridine and pentachloropyridine. The company was a drafter of HG/T 6016-2022.
Key developments (2022 onward): In May 2023, the company published an environmental impact assessment for a phase II chloropyridine expansion including 2,075 tonnes per year of 2,3,5,6-tetrachloropyridine and 2,230 tonnes per year of pentachloropyridine.
Strategy: Merchant supply of chlorinated pyridine intermediates, with expansion and automation of its chlorination chain.
Corteva Agriscience
Overview: Corteva Agriscience, headquartered in Indianapolis, United States, was spun off from DowDuPont in 2019 and inherited the pyridine herbicide portfolio of Dow AgroSciences.
Latest reported revenue: USD 17.40 billion in FY2025, of which crop protection accounted for about USD 7.50 billion.
Relevant products: Pyridine herbicides including clopyralid, picloram, triclopyr and aminopyralid. The company stopped manufacturing chlorpyrifos at the end of 2020.
Key developments (2022 onward): Corteva holds a 20% interest in Lier Chemical's Guang'an Lihua chloropyridine joint venture. In October 2025, it announced a plan to separate into a seed company and a crop protection company, targeted for the second half of 2026, and in April 2026 named the chief executive of the future crop protection business.
Strategy: Focus on proprietary herbicide franchises while sourcing chlorinated pyridine intermediates through partners.
Gharda Chemicals Ltd.
Overview: Gharda Chemicals, a privately held company headquartered in Mumbai, India, and incorporated in 1967, is a research-based agrochemical company producing technicals, intermediates and formulations, with export markets accounting for a majority of sales.
Latest reported revenue: Rs 3,619 crore operating income in FY2025.
Relevant products: Chlorpyrifos technical and other agrochemical active ingredients and intermediates.
Key developments (2022 onward): Gharda Chemicals International was among the petitioners in the case in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated the EPA's 2021 revocation of chlorpyrifos tolerances in November 2023.
Strategy: Export-led growth with a focus on defending chlorpyrifos registrations in key markets, particularly the United States.
Zhejiang Xinnong Chemical Co., Ltd.
Overview: Zhejiang Xinnong Chemical, headquartered in Hangzhou, China, and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, produces insecticides and fungicides.
Latest reported revenue: RMB 1.108 billion in FY2025.
Relevant products: Chlorpyrifos technical and formulations, triazophos and zinc thiazole.
Key developments (2022 onward): In March 2025, the company reported 6,500 tonnes of chlorpyrifos capacity operating at high utilization and attributed price increases to tight supply from upstream intermediate producers.
Strategy: Stable supply of established insecticides combined with growth in differentiated fungicides and formulations.
Lianyungang Liben Crop Science Co., Ltd.
Overview: Lianyungang Liben Crop Science, a private company based in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China, with origins dating to 1965, manufactures more than 20 technical-grade active ingredients.
Latest reported revenue: Not publicly disclosed.
Relevant products: Chlorpyrifos technical, with reported capacity of 20,000 tonnes per year, and other technical-grade pesticides.
Key developments (2022 onward): No company-specific developments from 2022 onward have been publicly reported.
Strategy: Large-volume, low-cost production of generic technical-grade active ingredients for domestic and export markets.
Sumitomo Chemical India Ltd.
Overview: Sumitomo Chemical India, headquartered in Mumbai and listed on the National Stock Exchange of India, is the Indian subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical, Japan. It absorbed Excel Crop Care, historically a chlorpyrifos producer, in 2020.
Latest reported revenue: Rs 3,186 crore in FY2025-26.
Relevant products: Chlorpyrifos technical among a broad portfolio of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and plant growth regulators.
Key developments (2022 onward): The company continues to list chlorpyrifos technical in its product portfolio.
Strategy: A broad domestic portfolio supported by its parent company's technology and global registrations.
Jubilant Ingrevia Ltd.
Overview: Jubilant Ingrevia, headquartered in Noida, India, and listed on the National Stock Exchange of India, is a producer of pyridine and picolines, fine chemicals, nutrition ingredients and acetyls, and a contract development and manufacturing partner.
Latest reported revenue: Rs 4,178 crore in FY2025.
Relevant products: Pyridine, picolines and pyridine derivatives used as agrochemical and pharmaceutical intermediates.
Key developments (2022 onward): In March 2026, the company began deliveries under an agrochemical contract development and manufacturing agreement worth about USD 300 million.
Strategy: Moving from commodity pyridine chemistry toward higher-value agrochemical and pharmaceutical contract manufacturing.
Competitor Dashboard
The dashboard below rates each profiled company on four parameters. Ratings are analyst assessments based on publicly available information.
Threat of New Entrants: Low
Chlorination of pyridine requires specialized process know-how, corrosion-resistant equipment and significant capital investment.
Environmental impact approvals, safety permits and chemical park allocation in China and India are lengthy and restrictive.
Established producers benefit from integration with pyridine bases and long-standing customer relationships.
Bargaining Power of Suppliers: Medium
Pyridine base production is concentrated among a limited number of producers in China and India.
Chlorine is widely available but is a regulated hazardous material, which ties producers to local chlor-alkali supply.
Integrated producers that make their own pyridine bases reduce supplier leverage.
Bargaining Power of Buyers: High
Buyers are mainly large agrochemical manufacturers that purchase in bulk under contracts and can switch among Chinese suppliers.
Multinational herbicide owners secure supply through joint ventures and long-term agreements, strengthening their negotiating position.
Strict quality and impurity specifications give buyers leverage over producers of lower-purity material.
Threat of Substitutes: Medium
Alternative synthesis routes to trichloropyridinol, such as the trichloroacetyl chloride and acrylonitrile route, can bypass tetrachloropyridine.
Insecticides from other chemical classes are replacing chlorpyrifos where it is restricted.
There are few practical substitutes for chlorinated pyridine intermediates in the manufacture of picloram and clopyralid.
Intensity of Competitive Rivalry: High
Competition among Chinese producers is intense and price-driven, particularly for lower-purity grades.
Capacity additions and environment-related shutdowns cause swings in utilization and pricing.
Leading producers compete on integration, product quality, regulatory support and customer relationships.
Threat of New Entrants: Low; High capital, technology and environmental permitting barriers.
Bargaining Power of Suppliers: Medium; Concentrated pyridine base supply, offset by integration.
Bargaining Power of Buyers: High; Large, concentrated agrochemical buyers with sourcing alternatives.
Threat of Substitutes: Medium; Alternative routes and substitute insecticides; limited herbicide substitutes.
Competitive Rivalry: High; Price competition among Chinese producers and capacity cycles.
Market estimates by geography (2032)
InsightAsia Pacific leads with $17.13M by 2032, while Latin America is projected to grow fastest at a 7.5% CAGR.
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View Subscription Plans| REGION | 2022 | 2025 | 2032 | CAGR | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North America | $0.73M | $0.94M | $1.18M | 4.9% | 5% |
| Europe | $0.97M | $1.25M | $1.57M | 4.9% | 7% |
| Asia Pacific | $9.14M | $12.54M | $17.13M | 6.5% | 79% |
| Latin America | $0.69M | $0.98M | $1.41M | 7.5% | 6% |
| Middle East & Africa | $0.23M | $0.33M | $0.47M | 7.4% | 2% |
| Total | $11.76M | $16.04M | $21.74M | 6.3% | 100% |
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View Subscription PlansTotal Market Size
$21.74M
| APPLICATION | REVENUE ($B) | GROWTH RATE | MARKET PENETRATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorpyrifos | $11.09M | 5.3% | 51% |
| Picloram & Clopyralid | $7.09M | 7.6% | 33% |
| Others | $3.56M | 7.6% | 16% |
* Revenue projections based on 2025 estimates. Growth rates represent CAGR 2024–2030. Market penetration indicates current adoption rate within addressable market segments.
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Analytical insights on Tetrachloropyridine Market covering market dynamics, competitive landscape, and strategic outlook.
The Tetrachloropyridine Market market is projected to reach $21.74M by 2032, growing at 6.3% CAGR. The Chlorpyrifos segment holds the largest share.
The tetrachloropyridine market is shaped by the balance between regulatory pressure on chlorpyrifos in developed markets and continued crop protection demand in Asia Pacific, Latin America and Africa, alongside the faster growth of pyridine herbicides. Supply-side conditions, particularly pyridine availability and environmental enforcement at Chinese chemical parks, also influence pricing and volumes. This chapter evaluates these factors through a growth factor analysis and a review of drivers, restraints, opportunities, trends and challenges. The impact scores presented in the growth factor analysis are analyst assessments based on secondary research and industry interviews, rated on a scale of 1 (low impact) to 10 (high impact) for each forecast sub-period.
Sustained Insecticide Demand in Asia Pacific and Latin America
Although chlorpyrifos has been withdrawn or restricted in several developed markets, it remains a widely used broad-spectrum insecticide in Asia Pacific, Latin America and Africa, where it is applied on cereals, cotton, sugarcane, soybean, fruit and vegetables and for soil pest control. India's Insecticides (Prohibition) Order of October 2023 restricted certain label claims for chlorpyrifos but did not ban the molecule, which had been among 27 pesticides proposed for prohibition in a 2020 draft order. The Stockholm Convention listing adopted in May 2025 includes specific exemptions for production and for uses on listed crop-pest complexes, leaf-cutting ants, locusts and cattle ticks, allowing registered Parties to continue manufacturing during the exemption period. Chinese producers such as Zhejiang Xinnong Chemical reported high utilization of chlorpyrifos capacity in 2025 and attributed rising chlorpyrifos prices to tight supply from upstream intermediate makers. As a result, the chlorpyrifos segment, valued at USD 7.798 Million in 2025, continues to provide the volume base of the tetrachloropyridine market.
Growth of Pyridine Herbicides
Pyridine carboxylic acid herbicides, including picloram, clopyralid, triclopyr and fluroxypyr, are used to control broadleaf and woody weeds in pastures, rangeland, cereals, oilseed rape, sugar beet, forestry and industrial vegetation management. Their distinct auxin-mimic mode of action makes them useful in resistance management programs as weed populations resistant to other herbicide groups spread. Demand has encouraged capacity investment: Lier Chemical describes itself as China's largest research and production base for chlorinated pyridine herbicides, its Guang'an Lihua chloropyridine project is in full production, and in June 2025 it published an environmental impact assessment for a further project that includes clopyralid and triclopyr ester capacity. Lier reported preliminary 2025 revenue growth of about 23%, citing higher prices and volumes for chloropyridine herbicides driven by overseas demand. These developments support the Picloram & Clopyralid segment, which is forecast to grow from USD 4.253 Million in 2025 to USD 7.093 Million by 2032.
Shift Toward Cleaner and Integrated Production Routes
Environmental regulation in China is encouraging producers to adopt cleaner chlorination processes and to integrate intermediate production with active ingredient manufacturing. An explanatory note to a draft pesticide-industry wastewater standard issued by China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment in 2022 identified the tetrachloropyridine route as a cleaner process for producing chlorpyrifos, and listed sodium 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol as an intermediate for chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl. The release of the industry standard HG/T 6016-2022 for industrial 2,3,5,6-tetrachloropyridine, which took effect in April 2023, provides a common quality specification for producers and buyers. Investments such as Shandong Kunda Biotechnology's 2023 expansion of its chloropyridine plant, which includes dedicated 2,3,5,6-tetrachloropyridine capacity, show producers expanding output of the intermediate itself, supporting the market's growth to USD 21.744 Million by 2032.
Expansion of Agrochemical Manufacturing and Exports in India
India has become one of the largest exporters of agrochemicals, with exports of about USD 5.5 billion in FY2022-23. Indian companies such as Gharda Chemicals and Sumitomo Chemical India produce chlorpyrifos technical, and multinational crop protection companies increasingly source active ingredients and intermediates from Indian contract manufacturers to diversify supply away from a single country. Jubilant Ingrevia, a major pyridine and picoline producer, began supplying under an agrochemical contract development and manufacturing agreement worth about USD 300 million in March 2026. This growing manufacturing base increases local demand for chlorinated pyridine intermediates and underpins India's position as the fastest-growing major country market in Asia Pacific, with a CAGR of 7.78% over 2026–2032.
High-Purity Grades for Specialty Applications
Demand for tetrachloropyridine of 98% purity and above is growing faster than for lower grades, as active ingredient producers work to meet technical-grade specifications and impurity limits set by registration authorities. High-purity material is also needed for pharmaceutical and fine-chemical intermediates. Producers that invest in advanced distillation, crystallization and analytical quality control can earn premium pricing in a segment forecast to reach USD 17.839 Million by 2032.
Emerging Agricultural Markets
Latin America and Middle East & Africa are the fastest-growing regions, supported by expansion of soybean, maize, cotton and sugarcane cultivation in Brazil and Argentina, irrigated agriculture in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and commercial farming in South Africa. Locust and pest outbreaks in Africa and the Middle East also sustain insecticide demand, and the Stockholm Convention exemptions cover several of these uses. Suppliers with registration dossiers and distribution partnerships in these regions are well placed to capture incremental demand.
Joint Ventures and Contract Manufacturing
Multinational crop protection companies are securing chlorinated pyridine supply through partnerships rather than in-house production. The Guang'an Lihua joint venture between Lier Chemical (80%) and Corteva (20%) shows how intermediate producers can lock in long-term demand from proprietary herbicide owners. Similar arrangements, including contract manufacturing in India, offer intermediate producers stable volumes, technology transfer and access to regulated markets.
Regulatory Restrictions on Chlorpyrifos
Chlorpyrifos has faced sustained regulatory action because of concerns over developmental neurotoxicity, environmental persistence and long-range transport. The European Union did not renew the approvals of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl in January 2020, and in June 2026 the European Commission adopted a delegated regulation listing chlorpyrifos in Annex I of the EU POPs Regulation. Health Canada prohibited all uses of chlorpyrifos products from December 2023, and New Zealand decided in 2025 to phase out its use. In the United States, the EPA's 2021 revocation of all tolerances was vacated by the Eighth Circuit in November 2023, and in December 2024 the EPA proposed to revoke tolerances for all but 11 crops. The Stockholm Convention listing, which took effect in October 2026 for most Parties, places chlorpyrifos on a path toward global elimination outside specific exemptions. These measures limit growth in the chlorpyrifos segment, which has the lowest CAGR among downstream products at 5.12%.
Environmental Compliance Costs and Supply Disruptions
Chlorination of pyridine generates chlorinated by-products, hydrogen chloride and wastewater that require treatment, and production is concentrated in chemical parks subject to periodic environmental inspections. Temporary shutdowns, such as the reported two-month halt of a pyridine plant operated by Hongda Group in Shandong in 2025, constrain intermediate availability and raise costs. Compliance investments in effluent treatment, emissions control and process safety increase capital requirements and can make smaller producers uncompetitive, limiting supply growth.
Concentration of Pyridine Raw Material Supply
Tetrachloropyridine depends on pyridine and picoline bases, whose global production is concentrated in China and India. The closure of Aurorium's (formerly Vertellus) 40,000 tonne-per-year pyridine and picoline plant in Indianapolis in October 2023, then the only such facility in the Western Hemisphere, increased reliance on Asian suppliers. Price movements in pyridine bases pass directly into chlorinated pyridine costs, and supply concentration exposes downstream buyers to trade and logistics risks.
Portfolio Shift from Chlorpyrifos to Pyridine Herbicides
Producers are rebalancing chlorinated pyridine output from the chlorpyrifos chain toward herbicides such as picloram, clopyralid, triclopyr and fluroxypyr. Corteva stopped manufacturing chlorpyrifos at the end of 2020 while keeping its proprietary pyridine herbicide franchise, and Chinese producers are adding herbicide capacity. As a result, the share of the Picloram & Clopyralid and Others segments in the market is expected to rise through 2032.
Vertical Integration Across the Pyridine Chain
Leading producers are integrating from pyridine bases through chlorinated intermediates to active ingredients to secure raw materials and capture margin. Nanjing Red Sun produces pyridine bases alongside sodium trichloropyridinol and chlorpyrifos, and completed a court-supervised restructuring in December 2024 under state-owned ownership. Integration lowers costs but also concentrates capacity among a small number of players.
Regulatory Divergence Across Regions
Differences in regulatory status between regions are a key challenge. Chlorpyrifos is prohibited in the European Union and Canada, under review in the United States and Brazil, and permitted with restrictions in India and many other countries. Producers must manage multiple registration regimes, maximum residue limits on traded produce, and the implications of the Stockholm Convention for exports, which complicates long-term capacity planning.
Price Volatility and Capacity Cycles in China
Chinese capacity additions and environment-related shutdowns create cycles of oversupply and tightness in chlorinated pyridine intermediates. Changes to China's export tax rebate policy for selected pesticide technicals, effective April 2026, show how policy shifts can alter export competitiveness. Buyers increasingly use multi-sourcing and longer-term contracts to manage this volatility.
The tetrachloropyridine value chain consists of four principal stages:
Raw materials and inputs: Pyridine and picoline bases (produced from acetaldehyde, formaldehyde and ammonia), chlorine, catalysts and solvents. Alternative routes to downstream pyridinols use trichloroacetyl chloride and acrylonitrile. Pyridine supply is concentrated in China and India, and chlorine is sourced from chlor-alkali producers, often within the same chemical park.
Manufacturing: Liquid- or vapor-phase chlorination of pyridine or its derivatives produces a mixture of chlorinated pyridines, from which tetrachloropyridine is separated, or is obtained by selective dechlorination of pentachloropyridine. Purification by distillation and crystallization determines the purity grade. Tetrachloropyridine is then hydrolyzed to 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol and its sodium salt or processed further for herbicide synthesis.
Distribution and channels: Most volume is transferred captively within integrated producers. Merchant sales are made directly to active ingredient manufacturers under annual or multi-year contracts, with chemical traders and exporters supplying smaller buyers and international markets.
End users: Manufacturers of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl technical, picloram, clopyralid, triclopyr and other derivatives; formulators who convert technical material into end-use products; and ultimately farmers, plantation operators, forestry and vegetation management companies, and public health and animal health users.
North America
United States: Pesticides are regulated by the EPA under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), and industrial chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The EPA revoked all chlorpyrifos tolerances in August 2021; the Eighth Circuit vacated that rule in November 2023, tolerances were reinstated in February 2024, and in December 2024 the EPA proposed revoking tolerances for all crops except 11 (including alfalfa, apple, citrus, cotton, soybean, sugar beet and wheat).
Canada: Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency ended the registration of chlorpyrifos products, prohibiting sale from December 2022 and all use from December 2023.
Mexico: Pesticide registration is administered by COFEPRIS, with agricultural oversight by SENASICA.
Europe
Plant protection products: Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 governs the approval of active substances. Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) 2020/18 and 2020/17 did not renew the approvals of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl, and maximum residue levels were subsequently lowered to the limit of quantification.
Persistent organic pollutants: In June 2026 the European Commission adopted a delegated regulation adding chlorpyrifos to Annex I of the POPs Regulation (EU) 2019/1021, implementing the Stockholm Convention listing.
Herbicides: Clopyralid was renewed by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1191 until September 2036, with conditions addressing transfer through compost and manure, rotational crops and groundwater.
Chemicals: Manufacture and import of chemical intermediates are subject to REACH (Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006) and CLP (Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008).
Asia Pacific
China: Pesticides are regulated under the Regulations on Pesticide Administration, with registration through the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (ICAMA). MoA Announcement No. 2032 (2013) prohibited chlorpyrifos use on vegetables from December 2016. Production is subject to discharge standards issued by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and industrial 2,3,5,6-tetrachloropyridine is covered by standard HG/T 6016-2022.
India: Pesticides are regulated under the Insecticides Act, 1968 through the Central Insecticides Board & Registration Committee. The Insecticides (Prohibition) Order, 2023 banned dicofol, dinocap and methomyl and restricted certain chlorpyrifos label claims without prohibiting the molecule.
Japan: Pesticides are registered under the Agricultural Chemicals Regulation Act, and industrial chemicals are managed under the Chemical Substances Control Law.
Latin America
Brazil: Pesticide registration involves the Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA), ANVISA and IBAMA under Law No. 14,785/2023. ANVISA opened a toxicological re-evaluation of chlorpyrifos in December 2021.
Argentina: Plant protection products are registered by SENASA.
Middle East & Africa and International
Stockholm Convention: Decision SC-12/9, adopted in May 2025, listed chlorpyrifos in Annex A with specific exemptions, effective from October 2026 for Parties that did not opt out.
South Africa: Agricultural remedies are registered under the Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act (Act 36 of 1947).
Saudi Arabia and the UAE: Pesticide registration is managed by the national environment, water and agriculture ministries (the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture in Saudi Arabia and the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment in the UAE).
Sep 2022: Nanjing Red Sun (Chongqing Huage) / Shandong Kunda; Industry Standard; Industry standard HG/T 6016-2022 for industrial 2,3,5,6-tetrachloropyridine released, effective April 2023.
Nov 2022: Nanjing Red Sun; Restructuring; Court-supervised pre-restructuring initiated.
Mar 2023: Aurorium (formerly Vertellus); Rebranding & Acquisition; Vertellus renamed Aurorium and acquired CENTAURI Technologies.
May 2023: Shandong Kunda Biotechnology; Capacity Expansion; Environmental impact assessment for phase II chloropyridine expansion, including 2,075 t/yr of 2,3,5,6-tetrachloropyridine.
Aug 2023: Nanjing Red Sun; Product Launch; Phase one of 2,000 t/yr chlorantraniliprole project started at Wanzhou, Chongqing.
Oct 2023: Aurorium; Plant Closure; Closure of 40,000 t/yr pyridine and picoline plant in Indianapolis, the only such plant in the Western Hemisphere.
Nov 2023: Gharda Chemicals; Regulatory / Legal; Eighth Circuit vacated EPA's 2021 chlorpyrifos tolerance revocation in a case including Gharda Chemicals International as petitioner.
Dec 2024: Nanjing Red Sun; Restructuring; Restructuring plan fully executed; Qujing state-owned capital became actual controller.
Mar 2025: Lier Chemical / Corteva; Capacity Expansion; FY2024 annual report confirmed Guang'an Lihua chloropyridine joint venture project completed and in full production.
Mar 2025: Zhejiang Xinnong Chemical; Operations; 6,500 t chlorpyrifos capacity reported at high utilization amid tight intermediate supply.
Jun 2025: Lier Chemical; Capacity Expansion; Environmental impact assessment for 43,000 t/yr Guang'an project including clopyralid and triclopyr ester.
Oct 2025: Corteva Agriscience; Corporate Restructuring; Announced plan to separate seed and crop protection businesses, targeted for second half of 2026.
Jan 2026: Lier Chemical; Financial Results; Preliminary 2025 revenue of about RMB 9.01 billion, up about 23%, on higher chloropyridine herbicide prices and volumes.
Mar 2026: Jubilant Ingrevia; Contract / Partnership; Deliveries began under an agrochemical CDMO contract worth about USD 300 million.
Apr 2026: Corteva Agriscience; Leadership; Chief executive named for the future standalone crop protection company.
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Company Headquarters: Indianapolis, US Founded: 1989 Workforce: ~21,100 Company Working: Corteva Agriscience develops, manufactures, and markets a wide range of products, including seeds and traits, crop protection, software, and digital solutions, seed treatments, forages, inoculants, vegetation management, pasture management, turf and ornamental, urban pest management, and oil. It is directly present in more than 50 countries and covers all major regions such as North America, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East & Africa. Corteva Agriscience is a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company. Hence, the provided financial information is of the Dow Chemical Company.
DuPont de Nemours today is a focused, roughly USD 7 bn-revenue multi-industry company. It is no longer the diversified chemical conglomerate of its heritage. After a decade of portfolio surgery, the company consists of two segments: **Healthcare & Water Technologies (about 47% of FY2025 sales):** Tyvek® medical packaging and protective garments, specialty medical device components (Spectrum, Donatelle), and the FilmTec™ / Amberlite™ water purification franchise. **Diversified Industrials (about 53%):** Building envelope products (Tyvek® house wrap, Styrofoam™, Corian®) and engineered industrial technologies (Molykote®, Vespel®, Betaseal™/Betaforce™ adhesives, Cyrel® printing plates). The company earns a premium-specialty margin profile: operating EBITDA margin was 23.8% in FY2025, with guidance of about 24.5% for FY2026. Management targets 3–4% organic growth, 150–200 bps of margin expansion and 8–10% adjusted EPS CAGR through 2028, supported by a lightly levered BBB+/Baa1 balance sheet. The principal overhang is legacy PFAS liability, shared with Chemours, Corteva and Qnity under contractual arrangements. The principal opportunity is a cleaner, higher-growth healthcare/water mix and capital redeployment. --- **Company's own description (FY2025 10-K, Item 1).** DuPont describes itself as a leading provider of advanced solutions that improve everyday life across healthcare, water, construction and industrial markets. It emphasizes helping customers advance their technology pipelines, from clean water to medical packaging that enhances safety and performance. It names its competitive strengths as: - proprietary product and process technologies; - robust application-development pipelines; - well-known brands; - customer intimacy; - global manufacturing and local service capability. **Independent characterization.** DuPont is now best understood as a specialty engineered-materials and components company with four businesses of roughly comparable scale: **Business model and revenue model.** - Revenue is overwhelmingly product sales: materials, components, membranes, resins, garments and plates. Some engineered systems and modules are sold in Water. - There is no material subscription or licensing revenue. Trade secrets may be licensed occasionally (10-K, Intellectual Property). - The contract manufacturing and design services of Spectrum and Donatelle (medical devices) add a design-in / build-to-print services element, but are recognized as product revenue. - Seasonality: North American Building Technologies demand peaks in Q2–Q3. **Value-chain position.** DuPont sits mid-stream as a Tier-1/Tier-2 supplier. It converts purchased raw materials (polyolefins, specialty monomers, resins, silicones, polymers) into engineered materials, membranes and components. These are specified into customers' finished products: medical devices, sterile packaging, water plants, building envelopes, aircraft, vehicles and print packaging. **Customer types.** - Medical device OEMs and sterile packaging converters - Biopharma manufacturers - Industrial end users and EPC/OEM water-system integrators - Municipalities and desalination operators (via integrators) - Builders, contractors and distributors (e.g., Corian® distribution through Hallmark and Parksite) - Automotive and EV OEMs and Tier-1s - Aerospace OEMs - Printing and packaging converters Most products are sold through DuPont's own sales organization, with distributors used for some lines (10-K, Distribution). **End markets.** Healthcare (medical devices, packaging, biopharma, PPE), water (industrial, municipal/desalination, life sciences, microelectronics UPW), construction (residential, non-residential, repair/remodel) and industrial (aerospace, automotive/EV, printing and packaging, general industrial).
Nippon Soda is a mid-cap, diversified Japanese chemical group founded in 1920 as a chlor-alkali producer and progressively re-shaped into a portfolio anchored by two high-value franchises: research-based crop protection (Agri Business, 35% of FY3/26 sales) and specialty "Chemical Materials" (25%), complemented by lower-margin but stable trading/logistics, plant engineering and environmental-recycling businesses. Its crown jewels are niche, high-barrier products in which it holds globally relevant positions — the pharmaceutical excipient NISSO HPC (hydroxypropyl cellulose), liquid polybutadiene NISSO-PB for AI-server copper-clad laminates, KrF photoresist polymer VP-POLYMER, and proprietary agrochemicals such as Mospilan (acetamiprid) and Topsin-M. With FY3/26 net sales of JPY 152.1 billion, record net profit of JPY 18.3 billion, an equity ratio of ~66.6%, and a 50%+ total shareholder return policy, the company is a conservatively financed, R&D-led specialty player now pivoting toward healthcare (including animal health) and advanced ICT materials under its Stage III plan to FY3/30. --- ### Company's own description According to its Stage III medium-term plan (May 2026), Nippon Soda describes its mission as creating new value through the power of chemistry, and frames the group as supporting everyday life through chemical products and services across four "material" fields: Agriculture (securing food and sustainable agriculture), Healthcare (healthy life for all people), Environment (toward a resource-recycling society) and ICT (chemical functions for IT devices). The Yuho describes the parent's business as manufacturing, processing and marketing of industrial chemicals, synthetic resins and plastics, dyes, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, veterinary pharmaceuticals and other chemical products. ### Business model and revenue model Nippon Soda's revenue is overwhelmingly product-based (manufactured chemical sales), with secondary service revenues from logistics (warehousing, transport, customs brokerage), engineering/EPC contracts and waste treatment. There is no material subscription revenue. Licensing/active-ingredient supply is embedded in Agri Business: the company supplies proprietary active ingredients (AIs) to global majors and sells formulated products through its own overseas network and partners. The revenue mix by nature (approximation from FY3/26 segment data; company does not disclose a product/service split): *Note: the above split is an analytical characterization; the company does not report revenue by nature.* ### Value-chain position **Agri Business:** fully integrated R&D-type agrochemical originator — chemical synthesis, biological/safety research, formulation research, field evaluation, AI manufacturing (including via Nisso Namhae Agro in Korea) and formulation, registration and global marketing (Stage III plan). The company emphasizes that R&D-type agrochemical originators are largely limited to five overseas majors plus Japanese firms, and that Japanese originators punch above their weight in new AI discovery. **Chemical Materials:** upstream chlor-alkali (caustic soda, chlorine, hydrochloric acid) feeding downstream fine/specialty chemistry (living anionic polymerization for NISSO-PB and VP-POLYMER; cellulose derivatization for HPC; penem API synthesis). **Trading & Logistics:** captive and third-party distribution (Nisso Shoji) and specialized hazardous/pharma logistics (Sanwa Soko, Sanso Unyu). **Engineering:** fine-chemical-type EPC (Nisso Engineering) and civil works (Nisso Kensetsu). **Eco Solutions:** waste treatment, zinc recovery from electric-arc-furnace dust, sulfuric acid recycling (Nisso Metallochemical). ### Customer types and end-markets Customers include global agrochemical majors and distributors, farmers' cooperatives (via channels), generic and innovator pharmaceutical companies and supplement makers (HPC, SSF, faropenem API), copper-clad-laminate (CCL) and semiconductor-materials producers (NISSO-PB, 1,2-SBS, VP-POLYMER), thermal-paper manufacturers (color developers), battery-materials producers, industrial users of commodity chemicals, steelmakers (EAF dust treatment), and public/private construction clients (Engineering). End-markets: crop protection (fruit & vegetables first, expanding to grains), pharmaceuticals/nutraceuticals, semiconductors/electronics (AI servers, HBM, automotive chips), infrastructure, and environmental services. ### Independent characterization Nippon Soda is best understood as two engines and three stabilizers. The engines — Agri Business and specialty Chemical Materials — generated roughly 75% of FY3/26 segment operating profit (JPY 11.2 billion of JPY 14.97 billion before adjustments) on 60% of sales. Agri is cyclical and FX-sensitive (65.7% overseas sales ratio in FY3/26), while Chemical Materials has been structurally re-rated from a ~5–6% margin business to ~15–17% after exiting commodity lines (metallic sodium via Alkaline S.A.S., NISSO HI-CHLON, phenol-based color developers, sodium cyanide). The stabilizers (Trading & Logistics, Engineering, Eco Solutions) are low-growth and modest-margin but add scale and cash. A further, often-overlooked profit pillar is equity-method income (JPY 6.06 billion in FY3/26, chiefly Iharabras in Brazil), which made ordinary profit (JPY 22.99 billion) much larger than operating profit and is highly FX-sensitive (BRL/USD).
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