Weekly Review of Anthracene Oil 4.25

1.  Anthracene Oil Market Analysis

China's anthracene oil market prices fell broadly this week. As of now, the market price in Shandong is 4,500 - 4,600 yuan/ton. The price of high-temperature coal tar market continues to decline, and the cost side is negative for the anthracene oil market mentality; the price of downstream carbon black market has declined within a narrow range, and bid prices are generally low, making it difficult to negotiate and follow up on actual orders; the anthracene oil hydrogenation market has started at a low level, and some companies have plans to deposit and reduce their inventories, and market transaction orders are limited; the operating rate of downstream deep processing companies is close to 50%. Most purchases maintain a wait-and-see attitude. Real orders are not very successful, and terminal needs to support them. The anthracene oil market is expected to be weak in the short term.

2.  Comparison of market prices of anthracene oil

3.  Weekly output of anthracene oil

The weekly output of anthracene oil was relatively high this week, with this week's output of 63,800 tons, an increase of 1,100 tons from last week.

4.  Deep processing operating rate

The effective production capacity of the anthracene oil market this week is about 23.9 million tons. The operating rate of deep processing has increased slightly this week. The current operating rate of deep processing enterprises is 49.96%, up 0.86% from last week.