The third round of price increases in the titanium pink industry strikes. On April 11, Longbai Group Co., Ltd. issued a price adjustment letter said, the company from now on, various types of titanium dioxide sales price on the basis of the original price of domestic customers increased 700 yuan (ton price, the same below), international customers increased 100 dollars (ton price, the same below). April 12, there are 11 titanium dioxide producers announced to increase the sales price of titanium dioxide products, the increase in 700 ~ 1000 yuan. This is already the titanium dioxide industry this year set off the third wave of price increases.
At present, most of the domestic sulfuric acid method rutile type and anatase titanium dioxide mainstream quotation in 175 thousand ~ 19 thousand yuan and 15 thousand ~ 16 thousand yuan, domestic and imported chloride method rutile titanium dioxide according to the use of the mainstream price in 21 thousand ~ 23 thousand and thirty-five thousand and 31 thousand and fifteen thousand ~ 36 thousand yuan.
“This round of price increase is mainly because the current titanium dioxide device operating rate is higher, superposition raw material titanium ore price is high and byproduct ferrous sulfate price decline, combined factors lead to titanium dioxide enterprise cost pressure, titanium dioxide price strong; Secondly, affected by the ‘black swan’ event, some titanium dioxide manufacturers exports have obvious signs of warming up, a substantial increase in orders, titanium dioxide market to storage, some brand market supply is tight. Although the titanium dioxide market in April to meet the rising tide, but the domestic downstream market demand is still weak, domestic sales pressure is larger, the market is also different, titanium dioxide market will still be under pressure, the short-term market will be stable operation.” Dauduo data management department titanium analyst Qi Yu said.
Industry market analysis pointed out that in order to start this round of price adjustment, some producers began to seal the order in early April, until the official landing on 11, so that the hazy days of titanium dioxide market immediately clear. But at present the domestic titanium dioxide trading market is still in the “long game” + “industry three difficulties” N+3 “dilemma, that is, upstream and downstream industry chain pairwise game and price regardless of the rise and fall are walking difficult situation, but a paper price letter to make titanium dioxide market refreshing many, but the trading market is still not a good atmosphere.
“The current domestic titanium dioxide price is strong, has ruled out the possibility of price reduction. In the short term, even in the face of ‘N+3′ and other multiple unknown factors, titanium dioxide price is still strong. According to the price letter, the price gradient of titanium dioxide in the future or more obvious, the price difference of the same product is likely to increase, and the specific single price needs a single discussion.” Yan titanium titanium industry analyst Yang Xun believes.
Titanium dioxide analyst Li Man for the future market forecast that dragon enterprises take the lead in raising prices, other enterprises gradually follow up, boost the current market confidence. In the short term, the titanium dioxide market is mainly wait-and-see, and the market price is firm.
Post time: May-04-2023