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Many chemical companies shut down production and maintenance, affecting the capacity of more than 15 million tons
Recently, there have been large-scale overhauls of acetic acid, acetone, bisphenol A, methanol, hydrogen peroxide and urea, covering nearly 100 chemical companies with a capacity of over 15 million tons, with the parking market ranging from one week to 50 days, and some companies have yet to anno...Read more -
August epoxy resin market reversal, epoxy resin, bisphenol A up significantly; epoxy resin industry chain August big events summary
In the first half of this year, the domestic epoxy resin market has been falling since May. The price of liquid epoxy resin dropped from 27,000 yuan/ton in mid-May to 17,400 yuan/ton in early August. In less than three months, the price dropped by nearly 10,000 RMB, or 36%. However, the decline w...Read more -
Bisphenol A market rises, PC market cost pressure all the way up, market stops falling and picks up
The “golden nine” officially opened, review the PC market in August, the market shocks have risen, the spot price of each brand up and down. As of August 31, the business community PC sample enterprises reference quotation at about 17183.33 yuan / ton, compared with the average price ...Read more -
Propylene oxide supply tightens, prices rise
On August 30, the domestic Propylene oxide market rose sharply, with the market price at RMB9467/ton, up RMB300/ton from yesterday. The recent domestic epichlorohydrin device start-up low downward, temporary shutdown and maintenance device increase, the market supply suddenly tighten, supply fav...Read more -
The toluene market was suppressed first and then increased. Xylene was weak and shaken. The factory’s production and supply side will continue to tighten
Since August, the toluene and xylene markets in Asia have maintained the trend of the previous month and maintained a weak trend. However, at the end of this month, the market improved slightly, but it was still weak and maintained more impact trends. On the one hand, the market demand is relativ...Read more -
Domestic phenol market up and down dilemma, supply and demand game
phenol market Lihuayi was the first one to raise 200 yuan to 9,500 yuan per ton at the opening of the morning session. It continued to control the volume of shipments, and when the contract was finished, the tension in the supply area increased. At noon, Sinopec of North China also raised 200 yua...Read more -
Toluene prices rebounded on the surface, the actual transaction is muted, toluene manufacturers operate normally
As of August 17 closing: FOB Korea closing price at $906.50 / ton, up 1.51% from last weekend’s value; FOB U.S. Gulf closing price at 374.95 cents / gallon, up 0.27% from last weekend; FOB Rotterdam closing price at $1188.50 / ton, down 1.25% from last weekend’s value, down 25.08% fro...Read more -
Isopropyl alcohol market prices in the first half of the low level, limited amplitude, the second half of the focus on cost trends and export demand
In the first half of 2022, the overall performance of the isopropanol market was not satisfactory. Some new capacity has been released, but compared to last year, some capacity has been eliminated and capacity remains stable, but supply and demand pressure remains unabated. Inventory pressure in ...Read more -
Styrene prices rebound, downstream ABS, PS, EPS slightly boosted
Styrene is currently weak fundamentally, in the pattern of tired storage, their own contradictions are not big, the price also followed the pure benzene back down. The current contradiction point in the styrene downstream hard rubber, downstream three big S in styrene prices back after the profi...Read more -
MMA market continues to weaken, supply and demand dilemma, real single purchase cautious wait-and-see attitude
Recently, the overall domestic methyl methacrylate market has continued to weaken, and downstream end-users mostly maintain just purchase operations. Due to the recent domestic methyl methacrylate overall market price continues to be low, hovering near the cost line of major domestic methyl meth...Read more -
Bisphenol A market continues to lift, stimulating the upward movement of downstream epoxy resin market
Recently, due to the decline in the bisphenol A industry start rate, Yanhua poly carbon 150,000 tons / year bisphenol A plant stop for maintenance, the industry is currently open near seventy percent. At the same time there is support from the cost side of phenol, phenol yesterday after the plant...Read more -
Crude oil falls below the $90 mark, a variety of chemical raw materials plunged
Crude oil falls below the $90 mark Iran said this morning that it has issued a formal response to the draft text of the nuclear deal proposed by the European Union and that an Iranian nuclear deal may be reached, according to foreign media sources. Iran’s position on the latest draft deal h...Read more