Jefferson Company of the United States invented this product in the 1960s, and it was officially industrialized in the early 1970s. After that, Texaco (now Huntsman) continuously developed new products and promoted the market, and the excellent performance of polyether amine was gradually accepted by the market.

Today, the world's largest producer is Huntsman Company of the United States, and BASF is the second largest producer, and the two companies account for more than 90% of the market. Due to the importance of products in many important application fields, China began to set up projects to carry out related research and development work in the 1980s. In 2003, Changzhou Institute of Coatings Chemical Industry developed a batch production process and realized the industrialization of polyether amine with molecular weight of 2000. At present, several domestic enterprises use this process to produce polyether amine, but the production scale is small, and the product quality is far from that of foreign products, so it cannot be completely replaced. On 20 10, Wuxi Akeli Chemical Co., Ltd. built the first continuous production line in China and officially realized the localization of this product. The production capacity of 20 13 can reach 8000 tons.