Electricity price increases pushing up PVC prices

Since December, the price of PVC has risen as a whole due to the increase in national electricity prices. Last weekend, the price of calcium carbide PVC products in East China market was around 6,700 yuan (ton price, the same below), up 200 yuan from the previous week; the price of ethylene products in East China market was between 6900 and 7,000 yuan, up 100 to 200 yuan from the previous week. . In terms of the current PVC market price level, most domestic PVC manufacturers are in serious losses. Most companies need to ensure that they have market share, but also reduce the loss. Most of them use methods to reduce the load or stop production.

At present, PVC post-processing industry is generally sluggish, PVC sales market did not show any signs of improvement, and now the reason why the PVC market prices rebounded, mainly due to PVC is a high power consumption industry, although this time the country will only industry The price of electricity was raised by 3 cents per kilowatt-hour, but the impact on the rise in production costs of PVC was huge. Plus, most regions had successively cancelled preferential tariffs for the chlor-alkali industry. Therefore, the increase in the price of PVC in this round was to raw materials and calcium carbide. Rising prices and natural reactions of rising electricity prices.