After the holiday, crude oil rose sharply during the holiday, which drove raw materials such as pure benzene to rise sharply. On the first trading day after the holiday, the raw material phenol/acetone rose sharply. Supported by the cost side, bisphenol A went up against the trend, and the focus of market discussions rose rapidly from 22,167 yuan/ton. Pull up to 24,200 yuan / ton. But the good times are not long, the downstream is weak to follow up. With the new equipment put into production and the East China auctions continue to fall, the market has entered an unstoppable downward trend. Up to now, the domestic bisphenol A price has been lower than 20,000/ton. Although the price fell back to fall, it still rose by about 50% from the beginning of the year.

On September 9, the Management Committee of Meishan High-tech Industrial Park made the first public announcement on the environmental impact assessment of Wanhua Chemical (Sichuan) Co., Ltd.'s "50,000 tons of lithium iron phosphate lithium battery cathode material integration project". The project mainly builds 50,000 tons/year iron phosphate, 50,000 tons/year lithium iron phosphate and supporting equipment. The construction site is located in Meishan High-tech Industrial Park, Sichuan Province.
On September 3, Wanhua Chemical announced that the company's own intellectual property rights POE products have completed the pilot test. According to the current plan, Wanhua Chemical will put into production of 100,000 tons of POE per year in 2023, and put into production a total of 200,000 tons of POE per year by 2025. Wanhua Chemical’s POE pilot products already have good performance.

As the leader of the titanium dioxide sector, the fiery enthusiasm of the new energy materials sector has also attracted the attention of Longbai Group, and it has quickly deployed the sector.
In the first half of 2021, Longbai Group acquired 100% of the shares of Henan Zhongtan New Materials, using its advantages to enter the graphite anode industry and formally enter the new energy field; in addition to the acquisition, the company is also planning to cooperate with Hubei Wanrun New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. established a joint venture in Nanzhang County, Hubei to build a 100,000-ton iron phosphate project; at the same time, it planned three new energy projects with an annual output of 200,000 tons of battery material grade iron phosphate projects and an annual output of 200,000 tons of lithium ion Battery material industrialization project, artificial graphite anode material project for lithium ion batteries with an annual output of 100,000 tons.

The annual production capacity of EVA under Shenghong Group's Serbon Petrochemical reached 300,000 tons, accounting for 31% of the total domestic production capacity, of which the photovoltaic-grade EVA capacity exceeded 200,000 tons, accounting for 28.6% of the global photovoltaic-grade EVA production. The company is planning to expand its EVA production capacity to 1 million tons per year to further replace imports, increase self-sufficiency, and provide a stable guarantee for the country's clean energy transition.

On September 3, the Maoming Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment announced on its official website the acceptance announcement of the "Environmental Impact Report on the 1,000 Ton/Year Polyolefin Elastomer (POE) Pilot Project of Maoming Branch". The construction unit, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation Maoming Branch, as the main body of implementation, plans to build a 1,000-ton/year polyolefin elastomer (POE) pilot plant, including 1,000-ton/year POE pilot plant, public works and auxiliary facilities.

On October 25, Lee & Man Chemical issued an announcement that Lee & Man International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, and Ruichang Municipal Government signed a "20,000 tons of PVDF and 10,000 tons of lithium hexafluorophosphate project" agreement to develop chemical business in Ruichang City, Jiangxi Province. The planned production scale of the project is an annual output of 20,000 tons of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), 10,000 tons of lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF6), and a newly built annual output of 50,000 tons of hydrogen fluoride.