Market Flash

Since January, due to the increase in crude oil price fluctuations, the profits of petrochemical plants have plummeted, coupled with frequent fires and natural disasters at the end of the year

• plastic chemical
• production stop
• SABIC
• LG
• Dow

As of now, the transaction price of 46.10 titanium ore from small and medium-sized manufacturers is 2150-2220 CNY/ton, 47.20 ore is quoted at 2500-2550 CNY/ton

• Titanium Dioxide
• Titanium ore

Mediterranean Shipping Lines (MSC), the world's largest container shipping company, has suspended some overland operations in Brazil over fears of drug cartels sending cargo to North America and Europe.

• MSC
• shipping lines

Long before the outbreak of metaverse, Mr. Zhai Shanying put forward the theory of "ecological planet" based on the development of finance, Internet and business fields, integrating the wisdom of Chinese studies and insight into the essence of t

• universe
• Technology
• social

Total global orange production is forecast to increase by 3.6 million t to 49.4 million t in 2020/2021 compared to the previous year, mainly due to favorable weather and increased production in Brazil and Mexico.

• production capacity
• agriculture
• Orange

After the New Year's day holiday, the wait-and-see market demand side of the industry has always been flat, coupled with the smooth production of new installations in East China

• propylene oxide

According to customs data, China imported 242,700 tons of titanium ore in December 2021, a year-on-year decrease of 19.24% and a month-on-month decrease of 54.06%

• trade data
• Titanium

Industrial-grade and battery-grade lithium carbonate prices continued to rise this week. On January 20, the average price of industrial grade lithium carbonate in East China was 332,600 CNY/ton

• lithium carbonate

During the regular nucleic acid test of employees in key industries in Shenzhen, 2 cases of positive infection of the new coronavirus were found. In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, Shenzhen has strengthened travel control!

• freight rate
• port

Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that in order to ensure the safe and smooth holding of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics

• factory shutdown
• production

Ceftiofur sodium, ceftiofur hydrochloride, in January 2022, the market is stable, the market price of ceftiofur sodium 2380, ceftiofur hydrochloride 1600

• pharmaceutical
• API

After more than half a month of overall upward trend, the current cyclic chlorine is weak and consolidating, and bisphenol A fluctuates at a high level.

• liquid resin
• cyclic chlorine

In recent years, environmental protection inspectors have become stricter, and under the continuous pressure of environmental protection policies and safety control

• chemical factory

Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on January 17 showed that in the fourth quarter of 2021, the national industrial capacity utilization rate was 77.4%, down 0.6 percentage points from the same period last year.

• macro statistics
• chemical raw material

Domestic propylene glycol imports in 2021 will be about 70,000 tons, down 19% year-on-year.

• Propylene Glycol
• Export
• Import

Since the Spring Festival in 2021, driven by the bull market of the collective rise of chemical bulk commodities, the domestic potassium chloride market has shown a trend of sharp rise in the first three quarters and wide fluctuations in the fourth quarte

• Potassium chloride

The company has been working with professional strength and carried out a series of management improvement work such as optimization of organizational structure, adjustment of incentive policy and increasing investment in R&D.

• Plastics
• china market trend
• Raw Materials

According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on January 17, in December 2021, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 4.3% year-on-year in real terms

• chemical raw material
• textile industry

According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on January 17, in 2021, the national fixed asset investment (excluding farmers) will be 54,454.7 billion yuan

• investment
• statistics

On January 3, ExxonMobil sent a letter saying that it will adjust the price of the company's high-performance polymers (POE) in the Asia-Pacific region from now on, with a maximum increase of $100/ton (about 637 CNY/ton).

• chemical market
• butadiene
• BDO