Weekly Review of Anthracene Oil 8.8

1. Analysis of Anthracene Oil Market

Domestic anthracene oil market prices fell within a narrow range this week. So far, the market price in Shandong is 4,100 - 4,100 yuan/ton, and the market price in Shanxi is 4,050 - 4,150 yuan/ton. The high-temperature coal tar market is weak, and negative support on the cost side is difficult to exist; the downstream coal tar asphalt is still declining, and companies are losing serious losses. The anthracene oil market has limited room for profit. Most manufacturers are operating at high prices, and some are loosened; the downstream carbon black market prices are stable. The decline has strongly suppressed the raw material anthracene oil; the starting load of the anthracene oil hydrogenation market is low, and the support is not good; Downstream deep processing losses have increased, industry operating rates have continued to decline, enthusiasm for raw material procurement has not been good, and the anthracene oil market is expected to operate weakly in the short term.

2. Comparison of market prices of anthracene oil

3. Weekly output of anthracene oil

Anthracene oil production fell this week, with output this week being 53,500 tons, down 0,400 tons from last week.

4. Deep processing operating rate

This week, the effective production capacity of the anthracene oil market is about 24.3 million tons. Recently, the deep processing industry has suffered serious losses. Some manufacturers have reduced negative production. This week, the operating rate of deep processing enterprises has dropped slightly. The current operating rate of deep processing enterprises is 44.9%, down 0.4% from last week.