Paint & Coating News

In the first week after the holiday, domestic adipic acid prices rose sharply, and adipic acid in East China rose 11% this week.

• Adipic Acid

The accident occurred at the YNCC plant in Yeosu, South Korea, around 9 a.m. Monday. The plant has three ethylene cracking units that produce pure benzene as a by-product.

• Benzene
• YNCC
• Korea

In the first week after the Spring Festival, the market price of isopropyl alcohol rose sharply.

• Isopropyl alcohol

At the beginning of the new year after New Year's Day, thermal coal prices ushered in a new round of rising market

• oil
• coal
• Plasticization

As of February 9, 2022, the average ex-factory price of domestic industrial-grade propylene glycol is 17,000 CNY/ton.

• Propylene Glycol

The domestic PC market is stable and moderately wait-and-see continues. At present, the industry starts stable, and the price is mainly stable after the price rises.

• bisphenol A
• PC market

In January 2022, the output of phenol was 266,700 tons, 150,000 tons more than that in December 2021

• Phenol

As of February 6, post-Holiday social inventory is preliminarily estimated at 301,600 tons, 27.36% more than before the holiday and 78.57% more than last year.

• PVC
• polyvinyl chloride

On the first trading day after the holiday (7th), the domestic commodity futures market ushered in a "good start", with more than 20 kinds of energy and chemical products rising.

• price boom
• chemicals

In 2021, the chloroform market trend will be ups and downs, and the overall trend will be higher. According to the data monitoring of the business agency

• Chloroform market

According to the data of average polypropylene self-sufficiency rate from 2019 to 2021, the average polypropylene self-sufficiency rate in recent three years was 84.39%

• PP
• Polypropylene

The domestic methanol market in 2021 can be described as "unpredictable". The methanol market in the first three quarters was mostly organized, with only a slight upward trend in early May.

• Methanol

According to statistics, the total amount of butadiene imports to South Korea in 2021 is 337,400 tons

• Butadiene
• Import
• Export
• Korea

From 2017 to 2021, the annual average growth rate of China's phenol import volume was 9.33%.From 2017 to 2020, the import volume of China's phenol increased year by year.

• phenol
• Import

In 2021, DOP prices in Asia generally showed an upward trend, among which CFR China prices showed some similarity with domestic trends in China.

• DOP
• Import
• Export

In the whole year of 2021, the MTBE market has stepped out of the "devil's pace", and the whole line is red, and the overall rise, with only four narrow declines.

• MTBE

The recent impact on C5 petroleum resin production enterprises is different, mainly because the affected areas are north China and Henan region

• c5
• petroleum resin

International oil prices remain high and volatile, with geopolitical risks and a lack of global supply limiting the decline.

• Acrylic Acid

According to data monitoring, at the beginning of 2021, the average ex-factory price of n-propanol in the domestic market was 11,800 CNY/ton, and the average ex-factory price of n-propanol at the end of the year was 8,883 CNY/ton, a drop of 24.72%

• n-propanol

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