This week, the price of pure benzene fell, the price of aniline plummeted, the price of cyclohexylamine fell, the price of MIBK remained stable, the price of acetone fell, and the price of other raw materials for auxiliaries was basically stable.
Affected by the sharp decline in crude oil prices, a variety of raw materials upstream of the accelerator followed the weakness of crude oil, accelerator prices fell slightly. After the holiday downstream tire enterprises to resume work is relatively satisfactory, but due to adequate stocking in advance, in anticipation of the fall in raw materials, the downstream is basically based on the digestion of inventories, the overall market turnover of accelerants is relatively flat. At present, the accelerator market wait-and-see mood is strong, is expected to accelerator prices in the near future under the influence of the cost of weak operation.
Antioxidant supply tight situation has basically eased recently, coupled with the sharp decline in upstream raw materials, antioxidant transaction prices have fallen this week. At present, by aniline broadly down, channel pessimism is heavier, stronger desire to go, but the production plant inventory is low, the willingness to reduce prices is not strong. In the downstream antioxidant inventory is relatively sufficient background, the new single transaction is flat, is expected in the short term antioxidant prices run weakly.
Insoluble sulfur supply remains sufficient, prices remain stable; zinc oxide prices fell slightly, stearic acid, silane coupling agent and anti-coking agent prices remain stable.