Since the reversal of the unseen market in the second half of last year, the price of silicone products has experienced a short period of backwardness. It has stabilized since December last year, and this year it has started a new round of rising since New Year's Day. The industry believes that silicone is affected by various factors such as parking and environmental protection, and the supply and demand pattern has improved significantly. It is expected to usher in a long recovery cycle.

Silicone is expected to usher in a recovery cycle

The data shows that the mainstream transaction price of domestic DMC manufacturers last week was 28,500 to 29,000 yuan / ton; D4 domestic brand reported 30,000 to 31,000 yuan / ton; 201 methyl silicone oil (conventional viscosity) domestic brand reported 30,500 to 32,000 yuan / ton; trichloro Hydrogen silicon reported 7200 to 7300 yuan / ton. The above prices are all higher than the previous week by 500 to 1000 yuan / ton.

At the same time, the supply of silicone crosslinkers has continued to be tight, and prices have risen sharply. Among them, methyl tributol sulfonyl silane manufacturers offer 36,000 yuan / ton, vinyl tridecyl silane manufacturers offer 48,000 yuan / ton, and supply is limited, a difficult to find. According to downstream customers, in the past month, not only the cross-linking agent has soared, but also various raw materials such as silicone oil, 107 rubber and fumed silica have also raised prices by 1,000 yuan/ton. Due to the pressure of high raw materials, the downstream silicone rubber companies have also followed suit.

According to analysis, the reason for the price increase of silicone products is first of all short-term factors. After New Year's Day, Zhejiang Sheng'an used a synthetic butane-ketone-based material for the synthesis of silicone cross-linking agent and silicon curing agent. After that, Dow Corning announced that the shipment and ordering time would be due to the system migration of Dow in early February. Change, delivery or delay; in addition, the domestic northern market has been hindered by the transportation of goods in the rain and snow weather. Driven by the above various factors, the price of silicone downstream products and some by-products, mainly composed of silicone oil, 107 rubber and raw rubber, rose again.