Into the heating season, with the industrial production cut-off, titanium dioxide also immediately into the off-season, the price decline, but the picture is not long, but once again let the paint business down.
Since 2018, the off-season is not over, many titanium dioxide giants at home and abroad do the opposite, frequently announced the price increase.Compared with previous years, titanium dioxide market this year, 'rose' sound came earlier, companies in accordance with their own Market conditions regulate market prices, is no longer just look at leading enterprises 'face' act.
Ishihara (ISK) From January 1, 2018 onwards, sales of titanium dioxide in the Asia Pacific region (titanium dioxide) price increase 200 US dollars / ton.
Since January 1, 2018, Tenova has raised the price of all its Tronox titanium dioxide (Tio2) products and raised the Asia-Pacific region by 125 US dollars / ton.
Coming from January 1, 2018 will be sold in Greater China Ti-Pure titanium dioxide will increase $ 150 / ton, special specifications R-350 and TS-6300 will rise 200 US dollars / ton.
Titanium from Panzhihua Since January 9, 2018, the domestic price of Titanium Dioxide Anatase Titanium Dioxide THA2000 / Titanium Dioxide Titanium Dioxide PDA1000 has been raised by 500 yuan / ton, with immediate effect today.
Titanium from Panzhihua Since January 12, 2018, the domestic price of titanium dioxide rutile titanium dioxide has been raised by 500 yuan / ton, and the price of foreign trade has been raised by 50 U.S. dollars / ton.
By the end of January, however, the soaring price of titanium dioxide in the market and the increase of manufacturers in Panzhihua and Guangxi were as much as 500 yuan / ton, perhaps the beginning of the comprehensive profit-taking in the price market. The advance unit has already led Atmosphere, the follow-up needs 'heavy unit' to implement the hike, finally 'small unit' follow-up.
From January 19, 2018, Panzhihua Tian Lun Chemical Co., Ltd. increased the domestic prices by 500 yuan / ton on the basis of the current implementation price of all products and raised the foreign trade price by 100 U.S. dollars / ton.
Guangxi Pinggui UFO from January 25, 2018 onwards, titanium dioxide price increase 500 yuan / ton.
Guangxi Detian Chemical since January 24, 2018, anatase titanium dioxide on the basis of the original price increase 500 yuan / ton.
Guangxi Shun Feng Titanium since January 25, 2018, the price of various types of titanium dioxide on the original basis of the original increase of 500 yuan / ton.
As of January 25, 2018, no fewer than 8 enterprises in the market have conducted price adjustment.
The rising wave of this wave seems to be incompatible with the current situation in the industry. As for the reason for the rise, insiders have explained to the outside: limited production of environmental protection has led to the decrease of production volume and the rapid decline of inventory; meanwhile, the prices of major raw materials such as sulfur and natural gas, energy prices Rapid rise in product costs have increased significantly.
It is understood that since December last year, affected by the comprehensive management of autumn and winter air pollution, Sichuan, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and other regions have different levels of titanium dioxide producers limited production, and in early January of this year, Panzhihua Vanadium and Titanium Industrial Park, all suspended , And started collectively, titanium dioxide business operating rate is not high, the industry as a whole remained at about 60%, the majority of low inventory.In addition, it should be noted that the first month of 2018 is coming to an end, the national logistics holiday time has been basically established, Titanium dioxide market into the tight stocking period ......
Looking back on 2017, the trend of the titanium dioxide market in China basically achieved the expected good performance for the whole year. After experiencing continuous 'rising' in 2016, it entered the market in 2017 basically maintaining the stability: from January to May, the price of inertia continued to extend from June to August Market weakness callback, 9 October gold bullish more than 10 bullish jump, the traditional 11 ~ December weak demand coupled with the return of capital market price cut a single argument, in general, the mainstream market in 2017 remained stable.
Prospects 2018, insiders predict that with the normalization of environmental policies, raw material prices will continue to rise, titanium dioxide prices will be stronger, the market is still expected to go up.However, industry capacity growth is greater than demand growth, the market in the process of rising There will be twists and turns.
On the other hand, the new normal features of China's titanium dioxide industry will become more apparent in 2018, the outdated products will be eliminated and the high quality products will rejuvenate.At present, the demand for architectural coatings mainly comes from the renovation of new homes and the re-coating of second- In the past few years, the completed area of our houses and the size of the second decoration market are estimated. Only the market scale of wall coatings in China is expected to exceed 130 billion yuan in the next three years, and the titanium dioxide industry is expected to continue its steady upward trend.