The Price Rise Of Polyurethane Is Coming In Spring.

< p > Cangzhou Dahua TDI (short for toluene diisocyanate) announced today that the listing price in March will rise from 700 yuan to 21200 yuan / ton, the first increase in six months.

At the same time, three other raw materials, MDI (two phenyl methane diisocyanate), propylene oxide and polyether, have already started to rise in price.

Analysts pointed out that the confidence of several major manufacturers of polyurethane raw materials to boost prices is mainly due to the anticipation of the upcoming spring season.

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< p > industry insiders say that the traditional polyurethane plate has spring and "golden nine silver ten" two wave season in a year.

The support for spring's small peak season mainly comes from the downstream refrigerators (cabinets), and its production will be concentrated before the summer. In addition, the sponge and other furniture industries are also gradually recovering and rising due to the end of the Spring Festival.

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< p > JOYOU Information Analyst Wang Xue said, JOYOU information polyurethane analyst team said that the four major raw materials of polyurethane TDI, polymerization MDI, propylene oxide, polyether trend in March remained optimistic.

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< p > according to the great wisdom news agency, BASF, a leading TDI company in China, raised the price tag in March from 1000 yuan to 21500 yuan / ton, or 5%; in addition, the domestic polymerization MDI leading enterprise Wanhua chemical announced yesterday that it raised the March listing price from 500 yuan to 18000 yuan / ton, or 3%.

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< p > at the same time, propylene oxide continued to rise in the second half of last year. It has risen 700 yuan since the first working day after the Spring Festival, up to 14200 yuan / ton, or 5%.

The rise of propylene oxide has also led to a sharp rise in prices of various grades of polyether in the lower reaches.

Among them, soft foam polyether rose 300 yuan to 14700 yuan / ton from the Spring Festival, or 2%, and the rigid polyether rose 150 yuan to 12750 yuan / ton, or 1%, after the Spring Festival.

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< p > as shown above, in the industrial chain of polyurethane industry, the contract price of the TDI plant of sponge furniture raw materials increased by 5% in March, the price of soft foam polyether market increased by 2% in February, the raw material polymerization of fridge (cabinet), the contract price of MDI factory rose by 3% in March, the market price of rigid polyether increased by 1% in February, and the domestic production capacity of BDO of spandex has been in excess, and the price has been in a doldrums for a long time.

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< p > but Wang Xue also pointed out that several big raw materials have gone up slightly, mainly because the factory is determined to firm up. First, the lower reaches of the spring festival begin to resume production, and the two is the anticipation of the coming spring peak season.

But the actual volume has not been significantly improved.

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