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21 2023-02

The "new chess game" of chemicals has been opened, focusing on the profit pattern of the industrial chain

Chemicals 2015 Review and 2016 Outlook Behind the "tragic" is profit erosion In 2015, for commodities, the word "miserable" is amazing. Black and non-ferrous materials are in constant distress, and the market has dropped to the "price of cabbage". Chemicals are not immune to the downturn in commodities. In addition to PTA, which is still "hard to carry", both polyolefin "brothers" and methanol have experienced "torture" that is almost "halved". According to statistics from Futures Daily reporters, among the chemicals, the price of PTA fell by 24% from the high point of the year, and the other three varieties all fell by more than 30%. Taking the two varieties with larger declines as an example, the high point of polypropylene during the year was 9027 yuan/ton, and the low point was 5361 yuan/ton, with a cumulative decline of 41%, and methanol fell from the year high of 2654 yuan/ton to 1590 yuan. / ton, the cumulative decline was 40.1%. Looking back on the trend in 2015, Gao Jianming, an analyst at Hairong Investment, believes that chemical products basically reached the high point of the year at the end of April and entered a downward channel in early May. Among them, the most spectacular are the "olefin" brothers and methanol, their "tragic" is reflected in the changes in the market. PP, as the twin brother of LLDPE, under the suppression of loose supply, the "squeezing profit market" in the fourth quarter of 2015 was vividly interpreted. "In addition to the reasons for its own oversupply, there are also propylene monomers plummeting to 3800 yuan / ton, leading to the collapse of the cost end, and the large price difference between pellets and powder, the profit of powder is good, the room for price reduction is large, and the price of PP pellets cannot stand firm. , the downstream demand has little power to pull up." Gao Jianming said. Compared with polyolefins, methanol prices have fallen significantly behind. It can be said that the rise of methanol-to-olefins process closely links methanol and olefins. "Most of the units are outsourced methanol, which increases the demand for methanol on the one hand and the supply of olefins on the other. Methanol and olefins have obvious joint effects, but whether it is the slump at the end of 2014 or the beginning of July 2015. The decline in methanol prices lags behind olefins.” said Cai Yali, an analyst at Zhongyuan Futures. Speaking of the general decline of chemical products in 2015, industry insiders believe that such a trend is actually reasonable. "Coal has fallen by more than 60% since 2012, and the price of crude oil has fallen by more than 60% since the second half of 2014." Cai Yali believes that the decline in the price of coal and crude oil as the source directly compresses the downstream chemical industry The cost of products, downstream products follow the decline of course. However, in the process of falling prices, the specific performance of each chemical is different. After three consecutive years of decline in PTA from 2011 to 2014, the profit of the production link has been squeezed. The decline in olefins is due to the huge profit margins left after the crude oil market slumped in the second half of 2014. It is understood that in the first half of 2015, the average profit of olefins in the naphtha route was 2,500 yuan/ton. The price drop in the second half of 2015 was just a performance of olefins removing high profits during the period of capacity expansion. At present, the average profit of olefin production is 1,500 yuan/ton. "The structure of the olefin price difference is near high and far low, and it is in a state of high discount in the far month, indicating that when the production capacity is expanded, the funds are still shorting olefin profits." Cai Yali said. In December 2015, the 600,000-ton MTO plant of Shenhua Yulin was put into operation. In 2016, China Coal Mengda 600,000 tons, Jiangsu Shenghong 1.2 million tons, Changzhou Fude 330,000 tons, Betel 300,000 tons, Salt Lake Group 1 million tons, Zhongtian Hechuang's 1.37 million tons and Jiutai Energy's 600,000 tons of olefin production capacity will also be launched. "Capacity expansion is generally accompanied by profit contraction. In the middle and late stages of capacity expansion, prices will fall back to around costs. In this way, there is still room for olefin prices to fall in the far month." An industry insider believes. "In the context of weak demand, high-profit industries have more short-selling opportunities. For example, in the PP industry, the current profit of oil-based PP production is 500 yuan / ton, which has been compressed by more than 1,000 yuan / ton, but there is still a squeeze in the later stage. Room." Gao Jianming said. What is the culprit in disturbing the chess game? "This round of chemical price decline is not unexpected, but the rate of decline exceeded market expectations. In 2015, chemical products are not easy to play, and it is a bit tri

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11 2023-02

The "new chess game" has been opened. Chemicals pay attention to the profit pattern of the industrial chain

In 2015, for commodities, the word "miserable" was amazing. Black and non-ferrous materials are in constant distress, and the market has dropped to the "price of cabbage". Chemicals are not immune to the downturn in commodities. In addition to PTA, which is still "hard to carry", both polyolefin "brothers" and methanol have experienced "torture" that is almost "halved". According to statistics from Futures Daily reporters, among the chemicals, the price of PTA fell by 24% from the high point of the year, and the other three varieties all fell by more than 30%. Taking the two varieties with larger declines as an example, the high point of polypropylene during the year was 9027 yuan/ton, and the low point was 5361 yuan/ton, with a cumulative decline of 41%, and methanol fell from the year high of 2654 yuan/ton to 1590 yuan. / ton, the cumulative decline was 40.1%. Looking back on the trend in 2015, Gao Jianming, an analyst at Hairong Investment, believes that chemical products basically reached the high point of the year at the end of April and entered a downward channel in early May. Among them, the most spectacular are the "olefin" brothers and methanol, their "tragic" is reflected in the changes in the market. PP, as the twin brother of LLDPE, under the suppression of loose supply, the "squeezing profit market" in the fourth quarter of 2015 was vividly interpreted. "In addition to the reasons for its own oversupply, there are also propylene monomers plummeting to 3800 yuan / ton, leading to the collapse of the cost end, and the large price difference between pellets and powder, the profit of powder is good, the room for price reduction is large, and the price of PP pellets cannot stand firm. , the downstream demand has little power to pull up." Gao Jianming said. Compared with polyolefins, methanol prices have fallen significantly behind. It can be said that the rise of methanol-to-olefins process closely links methanol and olefins. "Most of the units are outsourced methanol, which increases the demand for methanol on the one hand and the supply of olefins on the other. Methanol and olefins have obvious joint effects, but whether it is the slump at the end of 2014 or the beginning of July 2015. The decline in methanol prices lags behind olefins.” said Cai Yali, an analyst at Zhongyuan Futures. Speaking of the general decline of chemical products in 2015, industry insiders believe that such a trend is actually reasonable. "Coal has fallen by more than 60% since 2012, and the price of crude oil has fallen by more than 60% since the second half of 2014." Cai Yali believes that the decline in the price of coal and crude oil as the source directly compresses the downstream chemical industry The cost of products, downstream products follow the decline of course. However, in the process of falling prices, the specific performance of each chemical is different. After three consecutive years of decline in PTA from 2011 to 2014, the profit of the production link has been squeezed. The decline in olefins is due to the huge profit margins left after the crude oil market slumped in the second half of 2014. It is understood that in the first half of 2015, the average profit of olefins in the naphtha route was 2,500 yuan/ton. The price drop in the second half of 2015 was just a performance of olefins removing high profits during the period of capacity expansion. At present, the average profit of olefin production is 1,500 yuan/ton. "The structure of the olefin price difference is near high and far low, and it is in a state of high discount in the far month, indicating that when the production capacity is expanded, the funds are still shorting olefin profits." Cai Yali said. In December 2015, the 600,000-ton MTO plant of Shenhua Yulin was put into operation. In 2016, China Coal Mengda 600,000 tons, Jiangsu Shenghong 1.2 million tons, Changzhou Fude 330,000 tons, Betel 300,000 tons, Salt Lake Group 1 million tons, Zhongtian Hechuang's 1.37 million tons and Jiutai Energy's 600,000 tons of olefin production capacity will also be launched. "Capacity expansion is generally accompanied by profit contraction. In the middle and late stages of capacity expansion, prices will fall back to around costs. In this way, there is still room for olefin prices to fall in the far month." An industry insider believes. "In the context of weak demand, high-profit industries have more short-selling opportunities. For example, in the PP industry, the current profit of oil-based PP production is 500 yuan / ton, which has been compressed by more than 1,000 yuan / ton, but there is still a squeeze in the later stage. Room." Gao Jianming said. What is the culprit in disturbing the chess game? "This round of chemical price decline is not unexpected, but the rate of decline exceeded market expectations. In 2015, chemical products are not easy to play, and it is a bit tricky to operate." An industry veteran who focuses on chemical products

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12 2022-12

The competition in the air separation market is fierce. Watch the multinational chemical giants talk about how to invest in the Chinese market

China's chemical industry surpassed the United States to become the first in the world. When did this happen? year 2010! The Chinese market is undoubtedly fatally attractive. For global chemical giants such as BASF, Bayer, INVISTA, LANXESS, and Praxair, this market always seems to have boundless imagination. Accompanied by the high growth of China's petroleum and chemical industry for more than 30 years, multinational chemical companies have developed from simply exporting products, to establishing offices, to building factories, to establishing sole proprietorships and joint ventures, and to systematic localization. Process - Together with many partners in China, they have promoted the sustainable development and prosperity of the entire chemical industry. However, in 10, 20, or even 30 years, have multinational chemical companies really "understood" China? The realistic answer is clearly between yes and no. The only certainty is always "change". Gone are the days of welcoming chemical giants with flowers, champagne, red carpets. There is no more accurate description of the mentality of multinational chemical companies in China than "crossing the river by feeling the stones". However, Chinese companies have to cross the river by feeling the stones themselves, and it is difficult for foreign companies to surpass this stage. And - for more than 30 years, many companies have rolled into the river without touching the stone. The industrial process here may be a thousand miles away, and the changes in policies, partners, competitors, and technology levels here may also be dazzling; the Chinese market is sometimes still confusing for multinational chemical companies. Standard Porter's Five Forces Analysis and Boston's Five Forces Analysis The Matrix is no match for Sun Tzu's Art of War and conventional wisdom. Even if they are proficient in studying the speeches of Chinese state leaders, even if they are familiar with "Chinese characteristics", the pressure and risks faced by some chemical giants are obviously no less than the expectations brought by opportunities. Management professor Juan Antonio Fernandez has long studied the Chinese business environment. In his book "Relationship", he likened that there is often a certain degree of disconnection between multinational companies and Chinese partners (officials, clients, buyers), just like a pair of dance partners, the male dance partner always wants to dance too fast, while the female dance partner always wants to dance too fast. On the other hand, being careful, how to keep pace with China's business environment is a difficult lesson for multinational companies - and some multinational chemical companies are no exception. Then, for the chemical giants who have deeply cultivated the domestic market in China and gained a competitive position here, what are the opportunities and risks they see in the face of the new normal, new policies, new environment and new opponents? In this regard, the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation conducted a survey, and they fully communicated with the executives of more than ten multinational companies such as BASF, Dow, and Bayer, and obtained valuable first-hand information. Although the strategies, markets and investment strategies of different companies are very different, their opinions and judgments also have obvious similarities. Overall, it can be summed up as follows: the importance of the Chinese market is unquestionable, and the investment in the most Chinese market will basically remain at a considerable level in the future. However, concerns about overcapacity in the industry continue unabated; energy demand, water resources, urbanization, demographic changes, and motorization may bring about profound changes in the industry; more focus on cost control, profitability, value growth, and R&D markets Orientation; full of expectations for the market-oriented reform in the chemical industry, and full of desire for a fairer and freer market environment. Qian Mingcheng, President of LANXESS Greater China: Generally speaking, innovation that does not adapt to the market has no future, and the two must be closely related. Historical experience has proved that even if a good product is developed, it will be eliminated without the support of market demand. Based on the core business of LANXESS itself, we believe that the future global development will face four major trends: green motorization, urbanization, clean water demand and sustainable development of agriculture. LANXESS is particularly optimistic about motorization and urbanization. In the last 30 years of reform and opening up, the industry must be transformed and upgraded in order to adapt to future challenges. Transformation is a painful process. During the process of transformation, the requirements for safety, environmental protection and health are constantly increasing. This is a process of big waves. The transformation and upgrading of

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07 2022-01

The price of refrigerant R134a fell sharply in August in the off-season of the air-conditioning industry

In August, the air-conditioning industry began to enter the off-season.

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07 2022-01

The latest refrigerant market in 2020: the price of refrigerant R22 rises

According to data monitoring, as of November 5, the average price of refrigerant R22 was 14,166.67 yuan / ton, up 2.41% from the beginning of the week, down 4.49% month-on-month, and down 7.21% year-on-year.

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07 2022-01

What is the difference between refrigerant and refrigerant

1. Essentially different, refrigerants, also known as refrigerants, refrigerants, and refrigerants, are intermediate substances used to complete energy conversion in various heat engines.

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07 2022-01

2016 Beijing China Refrigeration Exhibition

The company will participate in the 2016 Beijing China Refrigeration Exhibition, April 7-9 Booth No.: E3C64 Welcome new and old customers to visit and guide.

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07 2022-01

The "new chess game" has been opened. Chemicals pay attention to the profit pattern of the industrial chain

In 2015, for commodities, the word "miserable" was amazing.

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07 2022-01

2016 The year of strong and weak conversion of chemical products

After careful calculation, the author has been engaged in chemical futures analysis for more than three years.

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04 2016-01

Warm congratulations on the launch of the website of Quzhou Xiecheng Chemical Co., Ltd.!

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