Weekly Review of Anthracene Oil 5.23

1.  Anthracene Oil Market Analysis

China's anthracene oil market prices fell within a narrow range this week. So far, the market price in Shandong is 4,300 - 4,450 yuan/ton, and the market price in Shanxi is 4,300 - 4,350 yuan/ton. The market price of high-temperature coal tar continues to decline, and the support for the cost of anthracene oil has weakened again; anthracene oil companies have strong intention to raise prices, and most of the new orders are single discussions; the downstream carbon black market price has fallen, strongly suppressing the anthracene oil market; The anthracene oil hydrogenation market has declined, and the received volume of anthracene oil is limited, and the market trading pressure is high; the starting load of downstream deep processing companies is average, and there is just insufficient demand for raw material anthracene oil. The anthracene oil market has a negative atmosphere. It is expected that the anthracene oil market will operate in a weak position in the short term.

2.  Comparison of market prices of anthracene oil

3.  Weekly output of anthracene oil

Weekly output of anthracene oil fell slightly this week. This week's output was 60,100 tons, down 1,800 tons from last week.

4.  Deep processing operating rate

This week, the effective production capacity of the anthracene oil market was about 24 million tons, and a total of 500,000 tons of equipment were suspended for maintenance. The operating rate of deep processing dropped slightly this week. The current operating rate of deep processing enterprises is 47%, down 1.42% from last week.