Price Trends

Phenol prices have moved down greatly and holders are cautious about the market.

• Phenol
• Price

However, acetone producers didn’t cut the prices further.With the declines in supply of low-priced goods, the market prices rebounded.

• Acetone
• Price

Some low-priced goods were sold to Shandong, which weighed on the market prices in Shandong.

• Aniline
• Dyes
• Rubber Additives

From early 2018, MMA producers published their maintenance schedule and the MMA market prices continued increasing and reached a new hig...

• MMA
• Coatings
• PMMA

Weekly offers and analyses for chemicals this week are as follows:

• Weekly
• Offer

Some units phenol units will undergo maintenance, but the weak demand will weigh on the prices.

• Phenol
• Benzene

Benzene prices from Sinopec moved up and propylene market prices moved marginally, which give limited support to the acetone market.

• Chinese
• Phenol
• Acetone

Seen from the above chart, the export volume of Chinese titanium dioxide in Q1, 2018 increased greatly year on year.

• Titanium Dioxide
• Operating Rate
• Export
• Import

Weekly offers and analyses for chemicals this week are as follows:

• Weekly
• Offers

Chinese acetone producers increased prices by RMB 300/mt.In H2 April, the Chinese acetone market prices became stable.

• Acetone
• Phenol
• Propylene

As for the demand, the hot and rainy weather will influence the demand for formaldehyde.

• Formaldehyde
• Methanol
• Aldehyde

Prices for cyclohexanone in East China were in the range of RMB 11,800-12,000/mt, up RMB 80/mt.

• Cyclohexanone
• Benzene

The supply and demand in the Chinese rutile titanium dioxide market will be stable.

• Titanium Dioxide

Market prices continued moving up, and the mainstream negotiation prices followed the uptrend.

• Isopropanol
• Acetone

Negotiation delivered prices in North China were in the range of RMB 5,700-6,350/mt, with those prices in Shandong were in the range of ...

• Sec-Butyl Acetate

The demand in March and April is weak.Benzene prices remain low, and CPL producers still have profits.CPL market may continue to move down.

• CPL
• Benzene

Players are bullish about the nitric acid market and the intensive shutdown will support the nitric acid market in the short term. It is predicted that the Chinese concentrated nitric acid market prices will move up by RMB 50/mt.

• Nitric-Acid
• Aniline
• TDI

Downstream users will continue to purchase TDI from hand to mouth.

• TDI
• Price
• BASF

Weekly offers and analyses for chemicals this week are as follows:

• Weekly
• Offer

It is predicted that the aniline market prices will continue to be high in the short term.

• Aniline
• Benzene
• Profit