May 06, 2024

Titanium dioxide: how to go after the “Eight Ups”

Domestic titanium dioxide market trends

According to Fu Yijiang, deputy general secretary of the China Titanium Dioxide Industry Association, this year, the increase in the price of titanium dioxide was mainly due to the shrinking production capacity of domestic and foreign titanium dioxide enterprises and the improvement of supply and demand patterns. With the advancement of supply-side reforms in China's titanium dioxide industry and the acceleration of industry mergers and acquisitions, the industry supply and demand pattern in the future is expected to further improve. Benefiting from the recovery of real estate and auto industry, domestic demand in the future is also expected to resume growth. The favorable export is expected to further stimulate the domestic demand for titanium dioxide, and prices will also stabilize at a reasonable range.

Leading enterprises collectively increase

The eight rounds of price increase for titanium dioxide this year were led by leading companies. With the consolidation of the surge in the seventh wave of prices, domestic prices have come to an end, and the external markets have relayed. International giant Ishihara announced that the price of titanium dioxide sold in the Asia-Pacific region has been raised by 150 U.S. dollars since July 1. Immediately afterwards, on July 5th, the domestic Yunfu Titanium Industry Co., Ltd., Longxi Titanium Industry Co., Ltd., Wuli Lian Co., Shandong Daun Titanium Co., Ltd., etc. have raised their products by 500-800 yuan, thus earning the eighth of this year's titanium dioxide. Round of price increases.

At present, the mainstream price of sulphuric acid rutile in the domestic market is basically the same as that of the same period of last year. Therefore, the current price of the titanium dioxide market has continued to rise. It is only due to the price fall in the second half of last year. The current price is a rational return and tends to a reasonable level.

The domestic market is relatively stable

Since the beginning of this year, the export of titanium dioxide has improved, making up for the gap in domestic demand. According to statistics from the General Administration of Customs, from January to May, China’s total export of titanium dioxide reached 285,000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 24.9%. With the increase in the quality of domestic products, the import volume has been relatively reduced. The import volume from January to May was 69,000 tons, a year-on-year decrease of 14.6%.

In terms of demand, from January to May, the growth rate of newly-started domestic housing and completed areas exceeded 18%, the sales area of ​​commercial housing increased by 33%, and the output of automobiles increased by 5.6%, which in turn drove the domestic market demand. Because the real estate sales to the decoration led the paint market to lag behind for about six months to one year, so the second half of the year or even into the first half of next year, the domestic market for titanium dioxide will not fall off the mark.

In terms of supply-side reforms, this year's new production capacity is less, supporting the market price.

Overall price stabilization in the future

According to relevant personage analysis, in July, due to the impact of natural conditions, the domestic market demand for titanium dioxide was weak, and the market price was mostly adjusted before the increase and the completion of prior orders. The top domestic companies have more export orders, the overall inventory will not increase, and the operating rate will remain around 70%, and the market will tend to be stable. Short-term titanium dioxide market narrow adjustment.

Another industry source believes that the domestic titanium dioxide industry in a multi-benefit market environment, the price of sulfuric acid rutile titanium dioxide is about 13,000 yuan will be a reasonable range of market prices in the second half, but also in line with the interests of the market's industrial chain balance point, in line with The “micro-profit” era features will help curb irrational expansion and achieve a reasonable industry to reduce production rates and inventory to match market conditions and achieve a more reasonable market environment.

Chemical branch Titanium Dioxide analyst Yang Xun believes that the price increase of rutile titanium dioxide has been calm, the market is gradually digesting its response, the price market needs to be precipitated. In the short-term, the single-market market is still dominated by a single view, single-serving, and looking at the form of payment.

Industry experts said that although the market is still increasing prices, the actual domestic demand is still not high, and entered the traditional off-season in August, Europe and the United States also began holiday peak, export volume or reduction, the market price is expected to become smaller and smaller, or It will stop "Eight ups." In the second half of the year, manufacturers are more likely to be war-torn each other, and they will be priced based on actual conditions such as their own inventory. The price may fall back, but the falling space will remain within a rational range. Overall stabilization.

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