Bentonite has a variety of properties such as water absorption, swelling, cation exchange, thixotropy, adhesion, adsorption, barrier properties, lubricity, and decolorization. It is one of the earliest and most widely cited non-metallic minerals developed at home and abroad. , China's bentonite has many varieties, large reserves and wide distribution. Bentonite has been produced and applied for more than 70 years, and its application in traditional fields such as metallurgy, casting, drilling, and construction has been increasing.

At present, there are more than 200 domestic bentonite processing enterprises, most of which are medium and small-scale production enterprises. The output of bentonite exceeds 3 million tons. From the perspective of production layout, my country's main bentonite enterprises are mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Xinjiang, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Anhui and other provinces. At present, the degree of competition in the bentonite industry in my country is not high, the technical level is low, there are many small and medium-sized enterprises in the industry, and there are few large-scale enterprises. With the expansion of bentonite in emerging application fields, the research and development of high value-added deep-processed bentonite has been strengthened, the market scale has expanded, and more and more foreign companies have entered the Chinese bentonite market. Multinational companies such as Vacco International, Germany's Southern Chemical Group, and the British Hemmings Group have invested in China to develop domestic bentonite resources. In the future, capital investment, technical reserves, and new product research and development will become the focus of competition among various companies in the field of bentonite. The competitiveness of enterprises is mainly reflected in the intensive processing of products, which will encourage bentonite production enterprises to gradually extend to both ends of the industrial chain.

With the advancement of science and technology and the continuous deepening of research on bentonite, bentonite resources are increasingly being valued by most countries in the world. New products and new processing techniques of bentonite are constantly being produced. The consumption of bentonite has been changed from traditional drilling mud, iron ore pellets and casting three The large industries are rapidly developing markets in emerging fields such as petroleum, papermaking, textile printing and dyeing, ceramics, medicine, environmental protection, daily chemicals, rubber, plastics, coatings and fertilizers, and the market demand for bentonite is huge. As the global downstream industry demand for bentonite continues to remain strong, and as bentonite products continue to develop in the direction of high value-added products, analysts from China Business Intelligence Network predict that the industry will maintain a relatively high average profitability for a certain period in the future.