Bentonite has many properties, such as water absorption, swelling, cation exchange, thixotropy, cohesiveness, adsorption, barrier, lubricity, decolorization, and so on. It is one of the earliest developed and most widely used non-metallic minerals at home and abroad. China has a large variety of bentonites, large reserves, and wide distribution. Over the past 70 years, the production and application of bentonites have been growing in the traditional fields of metallurgy, casting, drilling, construction and other industries.

   At present, there are more than 200 domestic bentonite processing enterprises, most of which are medium and small-scale production enterprises, with the output of bentonite exceeding 3 million tons; From the perspective of production layout, China's main bentonite enterprises are mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Xinjiang, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Anhui and other provinces and regions. At present, China's bentonite industry is not highly competitive, with low technical level, many small and medium-sized enterprises in the industry, and few large-scale enterprises. With the expansion of bentonite in emerging application fields, the research and development of high-value-added deep-processing bentonite has been strengthened, and the market scale has expanded. More and more foreign enterprises have entered the Chinese bentonite market. Multinational enterprises such as American Vico International, German Southern Chemical Group and British Hemings Group have invested and built factories 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 in the field of bentonite. The competitiveness of enterprises is mainly reflected in the deep processing of products, which will promote the expansion of bentonite production enterprises to both ends of the industrial chain.

   With the progress of science and technology and the continuous deepening of research on bentonite, the resource of bentonite has increasingly attracted the attention of most countries in the world. New products and new processing technologies of bentonite are constantly emerging. The consumption of bentonite has shifted from the traditional drilling mud, iron ore pellets and casting industries to oil, paper, textile printing and dyeing, ceramics, medicine, environmental protection, daily chemicals, rubber, plastics The market development in emerging fields such as coatings and fertilizers is extremely rapid, and the market demand potential of bentonite is huge. As the global demand for bentonite downstream industry continues to be strong, and as bentonite products continue to develop towards high value-added products, analysts of China Business Intelligence Network predict that the industry will still maintain a high average profit level in a certain period in the future.