Price Trend
According to a large number of data monitored by business associations, the price of trichloromethane in China has been running steadily this week, and the average price of trichloromethane in Shandong has remained around 2930 yuan/ton.
II. Cause Analysis
Product Reasons: This week, the domestic trichloromethane market has been running steadily, the supply side and demand side are weak, and the overall supply and demand balance in the industry. At present, the price of trichloromethane in Shandong is about 2980 yuan/ton; that in Jiangsu is about 4000 yuan/ton; and that in Jiangxi is about 3600 yuan/ton. In terms of start-up, about 50% of the Jinling chemical plant was started; Jinmao in Dongying was scheduled to be overhauled until the end of June; 60% of the chemical plant in Luxi was started; the science and culture plant in Jiangsu was started normally; and the science and culture plant in Jiangxi was running normally.
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Industry chain: On the upstream side, the domestic methanol market declined weakly this week. At the beginning of the week, the average price of the domestic methanol market was 2228 yuan/ton, with a drop of 3.05% in the weekend and 20.64% in the same period last year. The supply of liquid chlorine market was tight, the downstream market demand was weak, and the overall performance of the industry was stable, with enterprises reporting an overrun of 400-700 yuan/ton. On the downstream side, domestic R22 refrigerant prices remained stable this week, and the market trading environment was relatively general. Now the company quotes 18500-19000 yuan per ton for bulk water.
Industry: According to the price monitoring of business associations, in the 22nd week of 2019 (6.3-6.7), there were 16 kinds of commodities rising annually in the chemical sector, of which more than 5% of the commodities rose, accounting for 1.2% of the monitored commodities in the sector; the first three commodities were epichlorohydrin (14.56%), dichloromethane (2.65%) and sulfuric acid (2.47%). There are 33 kinds of commodities with a decline of more than 5%, accounting for 1.2% of the monitored commodities in the plate. The products with the first three declines are organosilicon DMC (-7.21%), light soda (-4.31%) and phosphate rock (-3.65%).
3. Future Market Forecast
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Business community methane chloride data analysts believe that there is still a big gap in the supply side of the trichloromethane market, but the downstream market demand is not good, the trading atmosphere is flat, and the trichloromethane market is expected to operate steadily in the near future.
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