Titanium dioxide market surface is quiet but undercurrent

In the main raw material titanium concentrate prices down the case, the market appears a trace of empty voice. So what about the performance of the market this week, with a word to the profile can be described as “calm surface, but actually undercurrent.”

In view of the recent market performance, the current situation is different performance. The mainstream market is divided into two categories.

For the current line of large enterprises, their supply order is mainly for the export – direct supply – dealers. That is to say the monthly production of the first choice to ensure that exports. Mainstream enterprises to account for the total output of 30-40% of the proportion of more enterprises can account for about half of the second is the direct supply of end customers, accounting for about 30-40% share, and finally to the dealer to do Sales. Then the benefits of this model is that the domestic titanium dioxide enterprises in the domestic sales pressure is far less big. Monthly production of the basic products are exported or to the downstream factory. Sometimes the main dealer is difficult to get their monthly contract amount, can only wait, so for the current domestic titanium dioxide business, the domestic first-line brand sales pressure is relatively weak, its multi-stable price wait and see.

And for some second and third line brands of small and medium enterprises, their sales pressure will be greater, the first export they are very difficult to do great. Are basically dominated by domestic sales, coupled with the lack of differentiation advantages, corporate shipments difficult to have significant competitiveness. In the current overall single reduction in the case of small and medium-sized titanium dioxide business sales pressure continues to increase, although the surface to follow the mainstream enterprises to maintain the stability of the strategy, but in the overall transaction to take a single talk strategy, according to Zhuo A survey found that the current number of enterprises in the actual transaction process has been a certain degree of loosening.

For the domestic import agents, the current overall market is relatively optimistic; due to foreign enterprises to domestic supply has limited, in the high-end market, foreign products are relatively tight, in this case, foreign companies have raised the latter part of the plan. Huntsman in the domestic plan raised $ 250 / ton, Tenova plans to raise $ 200 / ton, the curtain is expected to increase in the amount of 250 US dollars / ton.

In view of the above, for the current market of titanium dioxide can be described as several happy several worry, but the market running to the present, the terminal downstream of the resistance to titanium dioxide has emerged, whether it is tight imports or domestic mainstream business inventory is low, late Titanium dioxide business sales pressure gradually increased, the short-term market surface calm, but in fact has undercurrent surging, do not rule out the latter part of the market to save the risk of callback, the proposed industry prudent operation, concerned about the enterprise out of stock and inventory recovery situation.