Cable Raw Materials (PVC) Weekly Report (7.18-7.22)

(1) Calcium carbide market dynamics

This week, the calcium carbide market has performed chaotically, supply and demand continue to game, and price stability and rising phenomena coexist
.
Since the central environmental protection inspection team stationed in Inner Mongolia, Ningxia last week, Ningxia Zhongwei, Shizuishan and Inner Mongolia Junger Banner have successively stopped calcium carbide furnaces, involving a daily output of more than 3,000 tons of calcium carbide.

Affected by this, the ex-factory price of calcium carbide in Ningxia has increased by 30-80 yuan / ton, and the ex-factory price of individual calcium carbide in Inner Mongolia has increased by 50 yuan / ton, and whether the price adjustment is mainly related to the downstream of enterprise sales, different sales methods and changes in enterprise output
.
PVC enterprises are uneven in the arrival of calcium carbide, most of the number of unloaded trucks have decreased significantly compared with the previous period, or the daily arrival volume is slightly short, the purchase is active while cautiously watching the start changes of calcium carbide furnaces and the supply of white ash, the purchase price of calcium carbide in the north is temporarily stable
.
In addition, the maintenance plan of Jilantai PVC was postponed for one month, and the purchase volume of Baotou sea level calcium carbide decreased
significantly.

(2) Ethylene market dynamics

Due to stable demand and the imminent maintenance support of some companies, the Asian ethylene market price partially fell, and the CFR Northeast Asia price held steady to close at 1134.
5-1136.
5 US dollars / ton; CFR Southeast Asia prices fell $10 to settle at $1059.
5-1061.
5/mt
.
The ethylene market price is temporarily stable, and the market investment is quiet
.