Small and medium-sized paint companies, such as raw material prices, are in trouble.

In recent years, under the influence of environmental pressure, product upgrading and soaring raw material prices, some small and medium-sized
paint companies
are in trouble and are at risk of bankruptcy at any time. There are also some enterprises by virtue of their own advantages and strengths, in the face of adversity gradually strong.domestic and foreign
coatings
giant enterprises to increase production capacity investment, according to incomplete statistics, since January 2017, China's new paint production capacity has reached more than 2 million tons, investment Enterprises involved in PPG, Libang, Changrunfa, AkzoNobel, Xuanwei, Asda and other foreign-funded enterprises, as well as
this three trees
, Chenyang, Oriental Yuhong, Buds, Mei Tushi and other domestic national paint enterprises. Production projects mainly include
water-based coatings
projects, functional coatings projects, high-performance coatings projects, it can be seen that the development path of domestic and foreign paint enterprises and the national green environmental protection policy. With this momentum, total paint production is expected to grow to about 22 million tons by 2020 at an average annual growth rate of 5%.
environmental protection coating projects continue to grow, the raw materials enterprises put forward higher product performance, quality requirements, while improving the utilization of raw materials, which is one of the reasons for the rise in raw materials. And the rising prices of raw materials caused some downstream coating enterprises have to raise prices, with the cost pressure (human costs, environmental protection costs and research and development costs) increased, three trees, Carberry, Bards and a large number of well-known paint enterprises have issued price adjustment notice, raw material prices so that paint enterprises finally can not stand, but there are paint enterprises to wait and see their attitude, because some end customers do not pay.
the year of the 2016 surge in raw materials, the raw materials in 2017 are still soaring again. Such as aromatics,
powder,
, phenolics, resins and so on. (Yuan/tonne)
. Average price of product name February January average price year-on-year year market or brand
PX9178827383.97% 24.25% CFR China
pure benzene 8608795545188.20% 90.50% East China Market
toluene 5893572046443.02%26.98% East China Market
dethylphenyl 5742560546022.44% 24.82% East China Market
styrene 113 911038976199.65%49.50% East China Market
epoxy chloropropane 8568864-76-0.88%
butylone 7003.5767777.4222 6.153.34%
MIBK14985.7114880105.710.71%
epoxy resin (solid) 143661398333332.74%
. Acetone 800773586498.82%
isopropanol 832578294966.34%
BPA A11413106687456.98%
Phenol 83627376986 13.37%
MMA156051516294922.90%64.40% East China
propylene 7769768250251.10% 54.60% Shandong
isbutanol 650 6631646613.00%39.60% East China
xinol 785574275227555.80% East China
Acrylatene 11207117425958-4.4.30% East China 60%88.10% East China
benpropyl emulsion 7600755062000.66%22.58% -
Pure propylene emulsion 10050100085000.50%18.24%
glycol butyl ether 10385967666937.33%34.99% East China market
ethylene glycol ether acetate 9955970092572.63% 7.54% East China factory
Propylene glycol methanol methanol 109501079590001.44%21.67% East China factory
propylene glycol methanol acetate 99759957001.84% East China factory.27%
sulphate method redstone type 161941509698757.27% 63.99% --
chlorinated method redstone type 177801790014625-0.67%21.57 %-
titanium-type titanium dioxide 144231356388166.34%63.60% -
Final prices in January and February 2017 at a glance
As can be seen from the table above, the rise in the aromatics market is significant, mainly related to the trend of international oil prices. In February, the average price of pure benzene market in East China reached 8608 yuan/tonne, an increase of 90.5% over the same period last year, styrene increased by 49.5% compared with the same period last year, and the phenolic ketone industry chain continued to recover from the prices of raw materials pure benzene and propylene. Among them, phenol and acetone increased by 13.37 percent and 8.82 percent, respectively. Bisphenol A and isopropyl alcohol for pure benzene support is limited, the initial cost affects the market to rise, the late downstream demand is weak, the market is rapidly declining. Bisphenol A and epoxy propane as an important raw material of epoxy resin, in January and February of this year, the support is insufficient, epoxy chloropropane market performance is depressed, down 0.88% month-on-month, while BPA trend is rising, up 6.98 percent month-on-month, therefore, epoxy resin generally increased by 8.82 percent month-on-month.
as the 2016 winner of the titanium white powder, 2017 is still ferocious. Compared with January, the market trend of sharp titanium-type titanium dioxide was raised in February, while the chlorinated gold-redstone titanium dioxide has a downward trend, compared with the same period last year, are upward trend. Since the Spring Festival in February, the domestic titanium dioxide enterprises set off the first annual price adjustment, HC Chemical Network statistics to 18 titanium dioxide production enterprises price increase information. This price increase, only Dongjia, super color, Pinggui flying saucer three enterprises domestic price increase is 500 yuan, the rest of the enterprise price increase is more than 500 yuan. Entering March, HC Chemical Network also counted five titanium dioxide enterprises to raise prices, respectively, the sub-river square circle, Longyu Lilian Haifeng Xin, Panzhihua Oriental titanium industry, the price increase range is more than 800 yuan / ton. Visible, China's titanium dioxide enterprises to raise prices higher and higher. According to the author's analysis, mainly related to the price increase of titanium semen, the market price of Panxi titanium seminite entered 2017 was 1650 yuan/tonne (excluding tax), rising from the beginning of 2016 to 244% now.
, the raw materials rise and rise again, to the paint enterprises have brought great pressure, do not rise must die, price increases will face the loss of customers situation. However, pressure is also the driving force, environmental protection policy tightening background, green environmental protection coatings are favored by coating enterprises, in addition to cost pressure, there are some consumers' consumption level is increasing year by year, this part of the consumer is able to accept changes in the market, therefore, paint enterprises price adjustment is also a normal thing. 2017 paint enterprises no longer bear the sound, open the price adjustment model, because the distribution of industry users is more dispersed, no pricing power, unlike raw materials enterprises holding a group price increase, such as titanium dioxide, more than three titanium white enterprises are still in the collective price increase, it can be seen that the leading coating enterprises lead the rise, I believe will drive a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises in the country to increase prices.