According to the Ministry of Ecological Environment issued by the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas of the 2018-2019 autumn and winter air pollution Comprehensive Control action Plan" (hereinafter referred to as the "program"), this year North China's heating season, the styrene market will still have a heavy pressure. The scope of implementation of the program includes: Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, Handan, Xingtai, Baoding, Cangzhou, Langfang, Hengshui, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, Yangquan, Changzhi, Jincheng, Shandong province Jinan, Zibo, Jining, Dezhou, Liaocheng, Binzhou, Heze, Zhengzhou, Henan province, Kaifeng,
Anyang, Hebi, Xinxiang, Jiaozuo, Puyang, basically covers the entire northern styrene market.
In the programme, the impact of styrene on the larger has the following provisions:
1, during the heating season (November 15, 2018 – March 15, 2019), all localities should increase the construction site control, according to the environmental air quality to improve demand, the establishment of Earth-rock operations, housing demolition construction and other discontinued shutdown programs, and to the public, accept social supervision.
As we all know, the most important terminal of the North EPS industry is real estate, and the "plan" in the construction site of the control of the strength is still strong, will affect the start level of the North EPs factory, then the downstream demand for styrene is bound to be weak. 2, the implementation of bulk material fault peak transport.
Iron and steel, building materials, coking, nonferrous metals, chemical, mining and other major materials involved in the transport of key vehicles and ports, urban logistics and distribution enterprises, the need to develop a peak transport plan, included in the contingency plan, in yellow and above heavy pollution weather warning period, in principle, do not allow diesel trucks in and out of the plant.
Temporary restrictive transport Measures that may occur at any time during the heating season will not only increase the transportation cost of styrene to a certain extent, but also increase the difficulty of traders ' operation, and the market of styrene in the northern part of the period will stagnate due to traffic obstruction. 3, the implementation of VOCs comprehensive management of special action.
VOCs refers to volatile organic compounds, styrene, benzene, toluene, xylene belong to this type.
"Plan" in the city will be the industry to upgrade the VOC management, including petrochemical, coking, pharmaceutical, rubber, plastic, industrial coating, packaging and printing industries will be affected, including plastics, rubber, packaging and printing industries are more directly related to styrene. Currently announced policy, after entering the heating season, the styrene market downstream demand and transport links will be a certain blow, but because the styrene industry does not participate in the wrong peak production, styrene market supply will remain abundant.
Overall, from November onwards, Beijing, Tianjin, north China, Shandong and other northern provinces and cities, styrene demand will gradually decline, then not only the North styrene market will continue to be weak, but also lead to the East China market to increase the supply of the north, the styrene market to form the overall repression. Heating season Approaching | Weakening of the styrene market