Week summary: titanium dioxide, xylene, MDI, epoxy propane and other raw materials price trend

1.Titanium white powder market this week held steadytitanium white powder market this week, due to tax rate adjustment problems, some enterprises with tax quotations have a small profit, enterprise shipments still maintain a stable situation, the current domestic gold and redstone titanium white powder tax ex-factory price in 15800 -17300 yuan / ton, sharp titanium titanium white powder tax ex-factory price in 13200-14300 yuan / ton, chlorinated titanium white powder price in 18500-20500 yuan / tonEnterprises in March orders more, the current factory inventory to maintain a lowRecent market safety incidents, the government to increase inspection efforts, manufacturers production has no impact, some enterprises said that the recent order situation has slowed down, the late market is still to be seen, this week's meeting of long enterprises is also to maintain the price unchangedAt present, the supply of imported titanium raw materials is tight, and prices continue to rise, the price of titanium dioxide again support, titanium white prices will be strong operation2The ethylene oxide market is stable
April 19, the mainstream price of ethylene oxide in East China 8200 yuan / ton, northeast 8600, south China 8400, central China 8350, North China 8500The regional price difference of ethylene oxide is still large, the market of ethylene glycol is stable, and the support strength of ethylene oxide is smallRecent safety and environmental inspection is still ongoing, on ethylene oxide and downstream manufacturers have a certain impact, so that the short-term price is still stable-oriented, the market wait-and-see atmosphere is strongIn the short term, stability is the main, or there may be a small regional price adjustment, the follow-up price trend still depends on the degree of recovery of downstream demand3Domestic price trend of xylene temporarily stable
the recent domestic market price trend of xylene temporarily stable, on-site installation Pengzhou petrochemical plant operation is stable, Urumqi petrochemical plant started 50%, Fuhai aromatics plant driving a line, CNOOC Huizhou refining plant maintenance, Hengli Petrochemical PX plant put into operation, other devices temporarily stable operation, due to the new device put into production domestic supply of xylene market, the market price of xylene stable trendAsia PX plant operating rate in about 80%, April 17 in Asia on the market close of xylene market fell sharply by $38 / ton, closing price of 987-989 USD / ton FOB Korea and 1006-1008 USD / ton CFR China, domestic more than 50% need to import, the sharp decline in the external price on the domestic market price of xylene has a certain negative impact on the market price of xylene temporarily trend4Convergence MDI market weakness finishing domestic aggregate MDI market weakness, according to monitored sample data show that the average price of the aggregateMDI market at the beginning of this week is 17925 yuan / ton, weekend aggregate MDI price of 17875 yuan / ton, a weekly decline of 0.28%, the price decreased 13.86% compared with the same period last year On the positive side, direct supply demand is better, companies are putting less on the distribution market; Wanhua has maintained a one-fold supply this week; Ryan has no offer to the market this week; and this week, individual units started overhauling On the negative side, the distribution of downstream real orders follow-up slowly, foaming agent 141B rose sharply, the cost face shift, indirectly affecting the terminal demand for MDI, most of the downstream up-front hoarding inventory, raw materials inventory to be further digested 5 The ethanol market is weak
the domestic ethanol market this week is mainly weak down, according to business monitoring data show that the domestic ethanol market price at the beginning of the week is 5356 yuan / ton, the weekend domestic ethanol market price of 5333 yuan / ton, a weekly decline of 0.44%, the price fell 2.91% from the same period last year Some parking enterprises in the southern region to see the market sentiment is high, liquor demand gradually into the off-season, the start of enterprise shipping mentality is positively supported by the expected downward expectations To sum up, ethanol analysts expect the short-term domestic ethanol market is still likely to decline 6 The market price of epoxy propane is stable
as of April 19, the average price of epoxy propane market is 10900 yuan / ton, the current market mainstream price of epoxy propane in 10700 yuan / ton to 11200 yuan / ton, compared with the beginning of the week increased by 0.31% The market for epoxy propane has been stable this week As of April 19, Wanhua Chemical Shandong mainstream market cash delivery price is 10900 yuan / ton, East China mainstream market cash delivery price is 11200 yuan / ton This week, some downstream plants of epoxy propane were slightly adjusted by external impact loads, but the overall supply and demand of the market is not unbalanced, and the need to continue to pay attention to the domestic upstream and downstream plant start changes 7 The price of glycol was weak
on April 19th the average listing price in North China was 4850 yuan/tonne, down 2.02% from the previous cycle and a new low This week the domestic spot market price continued to fall slightly, the mainstream price of ethylene glycol market in East China has fallen to around 4615 yuan / ton, the south China market price remained at about 4600 yuan / ton With the market price of ethylene glycol all the way down, the oil-based glycol project has been in a loss-making state Due to cost pressure, late-stage glycol manufacturers may reduce supply However, low prices are likely to continue at this time, as port destocking progress is slow