ECHA’s Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) commented that titanium dioxide was a substance suspected of causing cancer through inhalation, based on existing science and classified by CLP regulations.

The comments will be adopted in writing or after the September meeting. The Risk Assessment Committee classifies the criteria for the potential carcinogenicity of titanium dioxide, strengthens the regulation of labeling and packaging (CLP), and considers the available scientific data. The conclusion is that titanium dioxide is classified as suspicious by inhalation

The committee also concluded that there is insufficient evidence that titanium dioxide is a carcinogenic substance.

Upon adoption, the opinion will be normally reviewed prior to submission to the European Commission for final decision. At the same time, it will be published on the website of the European Chemicals Agency.

Recently, the Indian Fertilizer Department announced that in order to reduce the burden of imported urea subsidies, will try to bag the weight of urea from the current 50 kg to 45 kg.

According to Indian fertilizer officials, the Indian farmers now use the bag as a unit to calculate the amount of urea needed for planting, rather than the weight of the unit to calculate, indicating that the weight of bagged urea is limited to 45 kg can be India’s urea Demand is reduced by 10%.

The officer further noted that the mandatory use of neem coating on urea could increase fertilizer use efficiency and would make 45 kg of urea per bag comparable to the 50 kg of urea used in the previous bag. Neem paint will no longer be used only in the industrial field, but is used in agricultural production of high-subsidized urea.

A 10% reduction in fertilizer consumption is expected to reduce India’s subsidy by 2017 to 2018 by Rs 70 crore at about $ 1.1 billion at current exchange rates.

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said last Friday (June 2) that if the OPEC and its partner countries do not extend the cut-off agreement until March next year, oil prices may fall more than it is now The

Since the OPEC and other oil-producing countries, including Russia, May 25, Vienna agreed to extend the cut agreement for nine months, Brent crude oil prices have fallen by nearly 8%. Monday (June 5) Asian session, Brent crude oil futures rose more than 1% to $ 5.05 a barrel.

As a major negotiator of the cut agreement, Novak said in an interview at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum last week, “If we do not extend the cut agreement, I believe we will see that not only oil prices will fall by 8%, but probably 50% “He stressed that production growth in other countries will not undermine the agreement or target.

Novark also pointed out that “despite the extension of 9 months is the ‘best choice’, but if necessary, the State party has the means to extend or shorten the agreement.Our task is not the price, our task is to inventory.

“The $ 50 per barrel of oil is good for the market, and the price range will increase by $ 50 to $ 60 as demand increases and inventories fall,” he said.

However, the continued increase in US crude oil production has offset OPEC’s efforts to cut inventories to five-year averages. According to the US government data, last week the country’s crude oil production reached 9.34 million tons / day, since August 2015 the highest level since.

Analysts said OPEC is facing more market share to the US shale oil producers risk, which may lead to OPEC second half of the implementation rate of decline in production.

Earlier on Friday, Russian oil company chief executive Igor Sechin said the agreement would stimulate US shale oil production growth, but destined for long-term decline in oil prices.

Against the support of summer’s demands on fertilizer, urea prices rose slightly steady. At present, Shandong mainstream urea prices in the 1550-1560 yuan / ton, Henan mainstream price of 1,600 yuan / ton. Industry sources said that with the summer fertilizer demand from south to north gradually, urea prices are expected to be further support.

Operating rate remained low

This round of price increases since May, mainly by the seasonal demand and supply to reduce the common role. At present, the demand for agricultural fertilizer in the south is strong, and demand in the north is still dominated by industrial demand, but the supply is significantly reduced. It is understood that the current operating rate of about 50% in Shandong, the southern region in about 30%, southwest and northeast of the operating rate is also at historically low. In addition to the reduction in supply, many integrated coal chemical enterprises in order to protect the overall profitability of enterprises, compressed urea production capacity. Some enterprises will switch to urea production capacity of methanol and other products. Part of the small business due to unbearable loss of pressure, choose to stop or exit.

This year, environmental pressures soared to accelerate the withdrawal of small businesses. Some medium-sized large enterprises also need to cut production at a specific time or temporarily stop production, supply is limited.

Price recovery has attracted some of the port export supply back. During the Dragon Boat Festival, India ended the import of urea tender, the tender offer the West Coast minimum price of 211.25 US dollars / ton, the East Coast minimum offer 212.25 US dollars / ton. Taking into account the east coast freight 12 US dollars / ton, VAT 15 yuan / ton and other factors, set the price of less than 1,400 yuan / ton. This price is clearly not enough to attract, because some of the port supply back.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Department of Materials Industry Deputy Director Pan Aihua in 2017 China Plastics Industry Conference revealed that in order to curb the nitrogen fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer industry capacity of the blind expansion, and guide the industry orderly transfer and layout optimization, will be in the nitrogen, phosphate fertilizer industry capacity replacement Program research. Has commissioned the petrochemical industry and petrochemical planning institute research capacity replacement program.

Analysts pointed out that with the urea industry to accelerate production capacity, coupled with the industry is still not in the overall profitability, the urea industry operating rate is difficult to return to the past high level.

Many factors affect the price trend

Urea industry has been a serious excess capacity. However, the market conditions by the demand, transportation and coal costs, environmental protection and other factors, the price trend is more complex.

According to the business monitoring data show that in 2016, the beginning of the manufacturers offer 1430.8 yuan / ton, the end of the average price of manufacturers to maintain at 1665.4 yuan / ton, urea prices rose 16.4%.

1 – 8 months, the downstream demand is weak, urea market continued weak operation. August by the “overrun transport vehicles driving road management regulations”, freight continued to rise, while coal prices continued to rise, environmental protection led to the operating rate continued low operation, urea market showed up to 300 yuan / ton increase, rally in November Slightly retreated, in December and showed a more substantial rise in the end of the year gradually rose gradually flat.

Into 2017, urea prices show a “N” -type trend, the lowest price in April, the manufacturers offer the basic average of 1,500 yuan / ton, the performance of related listed companies improved significantly.

China’s paint industry is a different industry from other special industries, the overall level of paint industry, the overall low level of marketing. Market operation methods and rules of the game is different from the ceramic, wood flooring, hardware, lamps, up to the plate is almost the same, but in China this big market, paint companies have their own unique side.

China’s industrialization and urbanization process for the industrial coatings, architectural coatings and other rapid development provides an opportunity for China’s coatings industry, the technological level of rapid progress, the variety of paint is also increasingly rich and perfect, paint production has also been greatly improved. At present, China is the world’s largest paint producer. Prospective Industry Research Institute data show that in 2016 the paint industry over the year the size of industrial enterprises above designated size reached 18,997,800 tons to the global total coating production of about 64.557 million tons, accounting for the proportion of global output close to 29.42%, ranking first in the world.

According to incomplete statistics, the current nearly 10,000 paint companies are mainly concentrated in the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and the Bohai Sea region. From the provinces of the paint production accounted for the proportion of the national production point of view, in 2015, Guangdong Province, Jiangsu Province and Shanghai, the country’s top three paint production areas, Jiangsu Province, 199.33 million tons of production, Hunan Province, about 1.184 million Ton, ranking fourth and fifth in the country.

China’s paint industry’s market capacity prospects, the downstream demand will continue to maintain the growth momentum of the paint industry. According to statistics, in 2016 the paint industry over the annual industrial enterprises above designated size reached 18,997,800 tons, an increase of 7.2%; main business income reached 435.449 billion yuan, an increase of 5.6%.

After the development in recent years, the number of enterprises in the industry increased rapidly, the coatings industry market competition has become increasingly fierce, the current paint market environment has become increasingly complex. In the face of competition in the industry, many paint companies are seeking diversified development. At present, diversified development is one of the enterprises’ development strategies of many enterprises including paint enterprises. The so-called diversified development refers to the diversified development. The same product or service of a development strategy, but the implementation of the effect there are significant differences.

China’s current paint industry is about 80% of small and medium enterprises, and this part of the small and medium-sized paint enterprises occupy more than half of the domestic paint market share. In the environmental pressure, supply side reform, raw material prices continue to soar and many other factors under the influence of 80% of the paint business, more than 50% of small paint companies are facing the dilemma of collapse.