From late March to the end of April, the shutdown and maintenance of major manufacturers such as Huayuan caused carbon dioxide resources in South China to be strained, and the price of carbon dioxide in the market also increased at one As the supply of carbon dioxide resources in various places returned to normal, since the end of April, the price of carbon dioxide has gradually receded. The market price of carbon dioxide was stable at one point in mid-May.

Analysis of carbon dioxide production and sales in the first half

According to Zhuo Chuang statistics, since 2016, China's new production capacity of carbon dioxide in 350,000 tons/year or so, but downstream demand has not been synchronized growth, such as welding, oilfield injection and mining, such as some of the industry use not only did not grow but there has been a decline. In view of China's carbon dioxide market oversupply situation, some carbon dioxide manufacturers of the start of the load has been not full of load, another part of the manufacturers due to equipment transformation and upgrading or upstream raw material supply abnormal and other factors caused carbon dioxide devices when the time to stop, therefore, combined with the above reasons, The start rate of carbon dioxide installations in China was around 45.9% in the first half of 2016.

Since late May, with the suspension of some carbon dioxide enterprises in Shandong, the supply of carbon dioxide resources in Shandong has tightened, driven by the increase in sales prices of the main manufacturers of carbon dioxide in Weifang area, the market price of carbon dioxide in Shandong, Hebei, northern Jiangsu and other places has been rising. According to Zhuo Chuang statistics, so far, the price of carbon dioxide negotiations in Shandong is 260-400 yuan/ton, the price of carbon dioxide in Hebei region varies by 250-290 yuan/ton, and the price of carbon dioxide in northern Jiangsu varies by 240-300 yuan/ton.