White fused alumina keeps stable in Shandong in June 2019-06-15

Jun. 15, 2019 - Market situation of white fused alumina gradually turns to stabilize in Shandong Province in June after a round of price increase in last month supported by soaring industry alumina. It seems that upward momentum temporarily ends as the demand keeps depression for both WFA in fractional size and in powder. The market is still full of surprises that Power Plant in …

Market keeps stable for white fused alumina in Henan 2019-06-15

Jun. 15, 2019 - White fused alumina fails to continue growing in price in Henan province in June, as industrial alumina has lost its support to higher price. Affected by the 6.1 safety incident in Dengfeng, some white fused alumina smelting furnaces still keep in stoppage, only leaving processing line keeping working. Benefiting from the flat demand, it doesn’t lead to any fluctuation …

Magnesia chrome clinker price slips strikingly 2019-06-14

Jun. 14, 2019 - Currently, the Chinese steel industry encounters a depressed market circumstance, which subsequently imposes on refractories products sector, pressing the profits thinner. The magnesia chrome clinker manufacturers are compelled to face stress laid by steel mills and cut their price down dramatically. At present, mainstream price of fused magnesia chrome clinker (Cr2O3: 2…

Zirconia runs stable regardless of upturn of zircon sand 2019-06-13

Jun. 13, 2019 - The recent upturn of zircon sand price gets powerless to boost Chinese zirconia and desilicated zirconia as a result of gloomy downstream procurement demand. On the basis of Refwin investigation, there are multiple facets determining this demand status. Other than the fact that numerous manufactures have already hoarded enough for their production, it is underlined the rigorous e…

Little possibilities seen to change the price of phosphoric acid 2019-06-13

Jun. 13, 2019 - In June, market price of phosphoric acid for 85% purity stabilizes in Sichuan, a main province to supply phosphoric acid, while the price achieved steady increase last month as a result of the price hikes of yellow phosphorus, which posed huge challenges to phosphoric acid producers. Consequently, part of producers choose to raise price, but a large num…

Prices of sodium tripolyphosphate and sodium hexametaphosphate seen insignificant changes 2019-06-13

Jun. 13, 2019 - Refwin price monitoring system displays that market of sodium tripolyphosphate and sodium hexametaphosphate achieves stable trends into June. The fact is due to following reasons. On the one hand, solid market performance of phosphoric acid makes it come true to maintain the stability of the refractory raw material. On the other hand, although related producers have inte…

Market situation of dense corundum remains stable in June 2019-06-13

Jun. 13, 2019 - According to Refwin, from 16th of April and 18th of May, CHALCO has raised the price of non-metallurgical industrial alumina for continuous five times, which makes the price of dense corundum realize a slight increase of some RMB 200/t. However, steady performance of industrial alumina boosts the stability in dense corundum market. It is known that the quantity of dense …

Coal tar pitch prices remain stable for the time being 2019-06-12

Jun. 12, 2019 - In early June, market prices of coal tar pitch in Hebei remained stable. Beginning in mid-April, price of coal tar reached its lowest level and began to rebound, now it is stable at 3,300~3,*** yuan/ton. Driven by favorable factors such as low inventory and expected recovery in the downstream, coal tar market is expected to continue its upward trend. Price of coal t…

Guangxi white clay producers to ramp up efforts to improve value added 2019-06-12

Jun. 12, 2019 - In June, stability comes again in the market of Guangxi white clay (Al2O3:30-35%, H2O＜10%) as the price is similar to that of previous months. Refwin source reports that in spite of the dry season in coming in Southwestern China, all white clay producers in Guangxi province have respectively large inventory, which makes it possible to ensure stable supply…

Bauxite supply keeps serious in Henan 2019-06-12

Jun. 12, 2019 - No significant changes come to the market prices of calcined bauxite in Henan province In June, as the supply situation continues going forward in the shortage. Calcination plants in Henan province have been under less impacts from environmental protection regulations compared to the situation in Xiaoyi, however, the production situation doesn’t perform better. …

Aluminum metal powder market seen drastic changes in June 2019-06-12

Jun. 12, 2019 - According to Refwin, aluminum metal powder market faces dull performance into June of 2019, when prices of aluminum ingot see drastic changes, up by RMB 30/t. In fact, the price of aluminum ingot has a direct effect on aluminum metal powder market as it serves as an important raw material. Nevertheless, with the price rise going on, upward momentum is not strong to …

Market prices of phenolic resin remain stable in June 2019-06-11

Jun. 11, 2019 - Prices of phenolic resin in Henan remained stable in June.   At present, market prices of phenol fluctuate slightly and sales are flat. Yanshan Petrochemical's phenol EXW price was 7,*** yuan / ton in June, up *** yuan / ton compared with the same period last month.   Markt price of phenolic resin continued to remain stable this month as there was no signi…

Sintered mullite market unshers into booming in supply capacity 2019-06-11

Jun. 11, 2019 - The price and supply situation of sintered mullite especially for M70 and M60 shows no significant changes in June compared with the previous months.   Overall market supply capacity shows no improvement currently, although most of local producers are reported to run in the normal production operation. According to Refwin sources, some local facilities are trying exp…

Flexible and unsteady forsterite production in Henan 2019-06-11

Jun. 11, 2019 - For the time, an unremitting environmental scrutiny is taking place to forsterite manufacturers in Xixia, Henan province, which is featured with more rigorous eco-friendly benchmark. Since grave troubles generates from local dust emission, processing firms that are capable of surpassing inspection criteria are numerable. As to the running manners, manufacturers ar…

Zircon sand witnesses modest upward price 2019-06-10

Jun. 10, 2019 - On account of two ingredients of ascending customs clearance fees and variable CNY exchange rate, the zircon sand price demonstrates a wave of modest upward adjustment with around RMB 200/t. Viewing circumstance of exotic huge zirconium ores factories, none of profound news ever pops up for quite a long time. By contrast, Chinese domestic market is not too tranquil. Radioac…