Weekly Review of Anthracene Oil 9.21

1.  Anthracene Oil Market Analysis

China's anthracene oil market prices fell this week. As of now, the market price in Shandong is 5,100 - 5,150 yuan/ton. The price of raw material coal tar fell within a narrow range, and the cost side was negative for the market; the prices offered by terminal carbon black companies were firm, which provided limited support for the anthracene oil market; the atmosphere of stocking before the downstream double festival has dropped somewhat, and at present, most of the goods received are mainly based on price reduction and demand; The anthracene oil hydrogenation market started at a low level, and most of the goods received on site remained in demand. The anthracene oil market is under great pressure for real order negotiations this week, and the focus of real order transactions has declined. It is expected that the anthracene oil market will operate weakly in the short term.

2.  Mainstream prices in the anthracene oil market in major regions of China

3.  Weekly output of anthracene oil

In the early part of this week, some enterprises that stopped production and maintenance resumed construction, and output increased significantly. This week's output was 63,100 tons, an increase of 7,600 tons from last week.

4.  Deep processing operating rate

This week, 2.41 million-ton deep processing units such as Inner Mongolia Rongxin, Angang Chemical, and Xinjiang Herun completed maintenance and resumed production. The start-up of enterprises in most other regions remained stable, pushing the operating rate of deep processing to rise sharply this week. Currently, the operating rate of deep processing enterprises is 48.65%, up 5.76% from last week.