Repair the PVC industry outlook in 2018

Since this year, the PVC market movements are similar with the same period last year, just after the Spring Festival, under the support of recovering, the supplier price slightly pull up a week or so, but as information is gradually clear, social inventory of PVC increased and recruitment difficult subjects, environmental protection and result in low finished product start recovery than expected, PVC market prices turned lower again, falling prices have continued for more than two weeks, so far the price drop from peak to 500 yuan/tons. Dirty work has been basically returned to normal level at present, and future of several important factors affecting market movements are social factors such as the transition of the inventory, spring overhaul and export, this paper compared the overhaul, other factors will be in the subsequent articles analysis respectively. PVC assembly maintenance exist certain seasonal pattern, enterprise every year to arrange 1 - as usual Two regular maintenance, each time in a week or so. 4 - each year June is the most centralized maintenance time, another is relatively concentrated period of time is the autumn maintenance wuhan website production, in the spring of 2017 maintenance is the most concentrated in May. In the first quarter of 2018 is drawing to a close, from 1 - Maintenance in February, group maintenance involves the capacity is not much, PVC starts relatively high. By data annotations, 1 - PVC assembly in February due to repair yield loss is higher than the same period last year, because there are two important medium-sized enterprises caused by a failure to stop for a long time. April - May have maintenance plan of enterprise at present also announced, the late is expected there will be other companies have announced plans to overhaul, but the reality maintenance time is still uncertain, is expected to 4 - Capacity of maintenance in May involve the enterprise all around 4 million tons, overhaul loss is hard to estimate, but can certainly will be higher than the first quarter. So in the future in the second quarter of the PVC market from the Angle of maintenance, still worth waiting for.