On September 12th, the PX Commodity Index was 84.00, which was the same as yesterday. It was 17.97% lower than the highest point of 102.40 points (2013-02-28) in the cycle, which was 84.41% higher than the lowest point of 45.55 on February 15, 2016. (Note: Period refers to 2013-02-01 to date)
Recently, the domestic p-xylene market price fluctuated at a high level. The on-site installation of Pengzhou Petrochemical was overhauled. The Urumqi petrochemical plant started 50%. The Tenglong aromatics plant has been in operation. Other devices are temporarily operating stably, and the domestic p-xylene market is normal. The operating rate of PX devices in Asia is less than 70%. On September 12, the closing price of the paraxylene market in Asia increased by USD 24/ton, and the closing price was USD 1317-1319/ton FOB Korea and USD 1337-1339/ton CFR China, USA WTI crude oil futures market price rose in October, reported 70.37 US dollars / barrel, an increase of 1.12 US dollars, Brent crude oil futures prices rose, reported 79.74 US dollars / barrel, or 0.68 US dollars, upstream raw material prices rose slightly, the recent textile industry The market trend is general, and the PX market price fluctuates. The downstream PTA market was affected by the delay in resumption of production, and the PTA supply was slightly tight or continued. By the 12th, the domestic PTA operating rate was around 78.58%, the PTA price remained high, and the average price in East China was 9300-9350. /Ton the vicinity of the self-lifting, coupled with the downstream production and sales maintained relatively high level of smooth operation, PTA is still in a balanced small de-stocking state, it is expected that the PX market price will remain high in the later period.
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