Needle coke market price runs smoothly

Price quotation

1. This week, China's coal-based raw coke market average price was 9500 yuan/ton, up 4.97% from last week, and the mainstream price was stable at 9000-10000 yuan/ton.

2. This week, China's coal-based calcined coke market average price was 12500 yuan/ton, up 4.17% from last week, and the mainstream price was stable at 14000-11000 yuan/ton.

3. This week, China's oil-based raw coke market average price was 10500 yuan/ton, up 3.45% from last week, and the mainstream price was stable at 9500-11500 yuan/ton.

4. This week, China's oil-based calcined coke market average price was 14250 yuan/ton, up 1.42% from last week, and the mainstream price was stable at 13000-15500 yuan/ton.

 General review

This week needle coke market prices run stably. Under the continuous positive condition of cost, supply and demand aspects, enterprises still have bullish price outlooks. At present, the operation of oil-based needle coke is at a high level. As the raw material cost and downstream demand continuous to be strong, the enterprise has high production enthusiasm; Coal-based needle coke enterprises’ production enthusiasm is higher than that in the early stage, With the increase of industry profits, enterprise construction has also improved. As the high expectation of downstream demand, the investment and production expansion is active at present, and needle coke market supply will continue to increase in the later period. At present, the anode materials market is stable and strong, the bullish trend of new orders is strong, the enterprise production is active, and raw coke demand is active; In terms of graphite electrode, enterprises produce on demand and also perform well in terms of hard demand for calcined coke.

Market forecast

At present, some enterprises plan to overhaul, while the resumption enterprises have good capacity release, and the overall supply is relatively stable. In the short term, under the strong raw material prices and high downstream demand, the production enthusiasm of needle coke enterprises is relatively high, the external quotation continues to be strong, and needle coke market will continue to run strongly. Contact us to learn more of market trend.