Hebei: Salt and alkali chemicals trapped "fog after snow"
Xingtai Shahe City is famous for its glass production. The city's 24 glass companies account for 22% of the country's flat glass production, making it the largest glass base in northern China. The development of the glass industry drove the activity of the soda ash market. Zhao Shijun, chairman of Hebei Yingxin Glass Group, said in an interview with CCIN reporters: “Our factory consumes more than 900 tons of soda ash a day. We have to buy soda ash from local middlemen because of heavy snow transportation. The price is 100 to 200 yuan more expensive than buying directly from a manufacturer (t price, the same below)."
"Because of heavy snow transportation difficulties, our inventory of more than 3,000 tons of soda ash was sold out in two days, and the price was still more than 200 yuan per ton before heavy snowfall." said Fan Junpeng, manager of Shahe Chemical Raw Material Sales Co., Ltd., "At present, the local price of soda ash 1300 to 1,500 yuan, 20% higher than before snow; heavy oil price reached 3,600 yuan, 18% higher than before snow. "However, rising soda ash and heavy oil prices have increased company costs, and also digested the rise in glass product prices. Profit.
"This heavy snow has a great impact on our company's product sales and raw material transportation. It's really annoying that our products can't get out of raw materials!" Wang Tianhua, chairman and party secretary of Shijiazhuang Shuanglian Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., told the CCIN reporter anxiously. , “The biggest problem we encountered in front of our plant was raw coal, which was in an emergency. Soda ash, ammonium chloride and other product inventories increased. We have not shipped coal for 5 days since the day of heavy snowfall. There is still 12 days of stock, and we are reducing With coal consumption, soda ash is limited to one-third of production to ensure the normal operation of production equipment.†CCIN reporters interviewed the company's fleet of coal transportation is still trapped in Shanxi.
Wang Meifeng, manager of Shijiazhuang Xinglun Chemical Materials Co., Ltd., told CCIN reporters that due to heavy snowstorm and heavy fog, the caustic soda market also faced a severe test of the transportation situation. At present, caustic soda transportation is difficult in most regions in China, or it will cause the caustic soda market to show differentiation. But subject to steady demand and cost pressures, most manufacturers have no intention of continuing to lower prices to stimulate sales, making the prices relatively stable. However, due to the impact of transportation, the products in the Shijiazhuang region could not be effectively supplied temporarily, making the local market relatively tight and stimulating the quotation. The average price of 32% of ion-exchange membranes is 520-550 yuan, and 99% of protopine is quoted at 2000-2150 yuan, up 50-100 yuan from the previous period. Wang Meifeng analyzed that the domestic refined oil price has recently risen, and the cost attached to the transportation of products has increased. This has, to a certain extent, increased the cost of caustic soda sales. However, in view of the stable downstream demand and the relatively abundant supply in the domestic market, the increase in prices is only a short-term performance of regional regions, and it is still difficult to change the pattern of caustic soda in the mid-to-long term.
In the face of crazy blizzards, the snow melting agent market has become extremely hot and the market is in short supply. The CCIN reporter learned from the Tangshan Sanyou Group that the company decided to urgently donate 400 tons of new green and environmentally friendly snow melting agent worth more than 600,000 yuan to Shijiazhuang for snow and ice protection in highways, railways and airports. At present, 400 tons of calcium chloride snow melting agent has been sent to the provincial capital. Sanyou Group has an annual production capacity of 150,000 tons of calcium chloride snow melting agent. Its product quality has always been at the leading level in its domestic counterparts. The products are widely used in the major cities of Beijing, Shenyang, Harbin and other ice-snow removal markets, and are sold Europe, the United States, Japan, Canada and other countries and regions. At present, the company's sales of snow melting agents are booming and full-load production is underway to meet market demand.
Shi Zhizhuang Ouhai Chemical Co., Ltd. Deputy General Manager You Zhizeng, Shijiazhuang Furun Chemical Co., Ltd. Sales Manager Liu Yonggang, Yan Hengrui Tianyu Chemical Co., Ltd. Manager Wu Liangbin, Baoding Mancheng Luyuan Chemical Co., Ltd. Manager Luo Xin, Hebei Hengshui Huacheng Chemical Co., Ltd. Li Xiaoming, deputy general manager of the company and many other companies responsible person told reporters CCIN, Blizzard dense fog certainly have a certain impact on the chemical market, Hebei stock market less demanding titanium dioxide, lithopone, barium sulfate, trimerization Sodium phosphate, sodium metabisulphite, trisodium phosphate and other varieties will have different degrees of price increases; the contrary, the market supply of varieties such as white carbon, sodium sulfide, sodium thiosulfate and other prices will be relatively stable or weak.