Introduction before the surge in demand for masks, meltblown cloth prices climbed extremely fast, from 18,000 yuan / ton before the epidemic, to 200,000 / ton at the end of February, the first half of March doubled again to 520,000 yuan / ton, a price increase of 29 times. Just over a week later, according to the securities times news, the recent meltblown fabric prices have a certain degree of decline, from the previous 500,000 about a meal, down to 350,000 yuan / ton or so, the price plummeted 150,000 yuan. The market price monstrous upward trend has been suppressed, but the overall look of the meltblown cloth material supply tension is still not significantly alleviate the situation.
It is understood that the meltblown cloth raw material polypropylene futures prices fluctuate with the price of oil, the impact is not significant, the price surge is mainly due to a serious imbalance between supply and demand for meltblown cloth, downstream enterprises and individuals to take the initiative to bid on purchases, plus some of the dealers to boost the superimposition of factors such as the price per unit caused by the way soaring. During the epidemic, a number of mask production downstream enterprises due to a shortage of meltblown cloth and suspend production.
There have been research organizations that. At present, the main midstream link to expand production include: the original production enterprises through technology research and development, equipment transfer and other ways to increase production capacity; some upstream petrochemical companies began to build new production lines; industrial line similar enterprises to transform the production line in order to ease the pressure of raw materials. For example, Dalian Ruiguang Nonwovens Group Co., Ltd., through the meltblown key technology of the second R & D as well as the optimization of the process, production capacity from January 28 when the commissioning of 4-5 tons, increased to 80-100,000 tons.
The upstream petrochemical companies, represented by Sinopec, began to build new production lines, and now there are products for sale out of the factory: Sinopec's party group decided that, in view of the current national epidemic prevention and control of the situation is grim, the shortage of core raw materials for masks, it will invest about 200 million yuan to take advantage of its own raw material production advantages, and immediately organize the sources of supply, in the Beijing Yanshan petrochemicals and Jiangsu Yizheng Chemical Fibers two enterprises, to quickly speed up the construction of 10 meltblown fabric production lines.
March 9, Sinopec Yanshan Petrochemical new meltblown fabric production line was completed and put into operation after the first batch of product sales factory, *** counting 35 boxes of 1.26 tons of meltblown fabric to ease the company's mask raw material shortages of the urgent need.
It is understood that Yanshan Petrochemical put into production meltblown nonwoven production line with an annual design capacity of 14,400 tons, including two meltblown nonwoven production line, three spunbonded fabric production line, daily production of 4 tons of N95 meltblown fabric or 6 tons of medical plane mask meltblown fabric. These raw materials can produce 1.2 million pieces (4 tons x 300,000 pieces/ton) of N95 masks or 6 million pieces (6 tons x 1 million pieces/ton) of medical flat masks. In addition, the production of automotive acoustic cotton, meltblown insulation cotton, meltblown oil-absorbing cotton and other materials can be converted to the production of mask protection special filter material.
As of now, the midstream segment of the expansion of production, ushering in a wave of capacity release, and therefore also make the meltblown fabric prices began to fall. The explosive growth in demand for masks, making the meltblown fabric raw materials phase shortage, but in the various enterprises to actively expand production, the supply tension has been greatly eased, according to the latest announcement of the Dow shares on March 10, "Recently, a number of companies new production of polypropylene meltblown special material, the product market supply gradually increased, there is a risk of overcapacity in the industry! ".
In addition, on March 19, the Market Supervision Bureau publicly exposed the tenth batch of epidemic prevention and control supplies and livelihood commodities price violations of typical cases show that the parties involved have been investigated, suspected of a crime will be transferred to the public security organs to pursue criminal responsibility.
Which, Jiangsu Province, Nantong City Market Supervision Bureau of Jiangsu Province, a company to check. After investigation, the party meltblown fabric selling price on January 28 for 45,000 yuan per ton, February 3 rose to 60,000 yuan per ton, February 10 rose to 90,000 yuan per ton, February 14 rose to 150,000 yuan per ton, February 18 rose to 200,000 yuan per ton, February 21 rose to 300,000 yuan per ton, the end of February rose to 550,000 yuan per ton, March 5 up to 560,000 yuan per ton. The parties involved are suspected of constituting price gouging illegal behavior, Nantong City Market Supervision Bureau has filed a case against the parties involved in the investigation, such as suspected of committing a crime will be transferred to the public security organs to pursue criminal responsibility.
Meltblown fabric midstream production capacity release, raw material production capacity there is a risk of overcapacity, coupled with the market supervision departments pay close attention to meltblown fabric commodity prices, to strengthen and standardize the epidemic prevention and control during the price regulation, meltblown fabric prices fell back quickly, is also expected. Core raw materials, including meltblown cloth, began to fall in price, from the side of the release of upstream production capacity, the supply of masks is also close at hand.
Yesterday, according to Guangxi Yixin Group WeChat public number notice: from March 20 to March 26, to the market 100,000 disposable medical masks, the price of 0.9 yuan each, the public into the small program to make an appointment to buy. In fact, with the gradual release of mask production capacity, masks around the world is no longer "a mask is hard to find" - governments around the world to the market one after another to put affordable masks, according to the price of masks now fall back to the speed of view, there have been a lot of areas will be the price of masks down to 0.9 yuan /
According to Jinhua news, the reporter visited a number of pharmacies in the city, found that with the easing of the epidemic in the country as well as the rise in supply, affordable masks arrived in large quantities, "you can want to buy a few to buy a few". A drugstore store manager said that the store is currently selling masks have sufficient stock, the next mask supply will increase, the price of masks will also fall, the public can understand the purchase of friends according to their own situation. As the price of meltblown cloth falls, the supply is sufficient, masks will gradually ensure the supply.
Recently, the comprehensive demand for masks at home and abroad is tending to flatten the trend, before the market is to solve the problem of have or have not, but now can clearly feel the market requirements of product quality has been raised on a daily basis.