Weekly Review of Anthracene Oil 7.18

1. Analysis of Anthracene Oil Market

The domestic anthracene oil market declined slightly this week. So far, the market price in Shandong is 4,300 - 4,400 yuan/ton, and the market price in Shanxi is 4,300 - 4,400 yuan/ton. The market price of raw material high-temperature coal tar fluctuated and fell, which provided poor support for the cost of anthracene oil; the downstream carbon black market price fell within a narrow range, which was negative for the anthracene oil market mentality and held a suppression mentality on the raw material anthracene oil; The anthracene oil hydrogenation market remained weak and stable, and the support for anthracene oil was not strong; although the operating rate of downstream deep processing enterprises has increased, the enterprises have suffered serious losses, the shipment of anthracene oil is difficult, and the negotiation of new orders is difficult. It is expected that the anthracene oil market will be weak in the short term.

2. Comparison of market prices of anthracene oil

3. Weekly output of anthracene oil

Anthracene oil production rebounded this week, with output this week being 55,800 tons, up 1,200 tons from last week.

4. Deep processing operating rate

This week, the effective production capacity of the anthracene oil market was about 24.3 million tons, and a total of 300,000 tons of units in Ningxia resumed production. This week, the operating rate of deep processing enterprises increased. Currently, the operating rate of deep processing enterprises is 46.8%, up 1% from last week.