The Polyurethane Industry In The United States Is Under Heavy Pressure From High Oil Prices.

Last week, the price of crude oil and oil was high, and the contract price of benzene and propylene rose.

The price of polyurethane, the main raw material of isocyanate and polyols, is also unprecedented.

Buyers and sellers said that the quotations for the two materials increased by 5% to 15% in June this year.

The high cost of raw materials and energy costs forced us polyurethane manufacturers to raise prices, some even to 20%. Is this user buying?

"In the end, we made concessions to the oil price of 130 US dollars / barrel."

A bubble producer said.

The same is true.

Most polyurethane intermediates and finished products manufacturers have no choice but to accept this round of price increases, but at the same time hope to pass the rising cost to end users.

However, for middlemen, only a small proportion of them will be resolutely resisted by the fact that they can not digest the rising costs. The authorities believe that these intermediaries will soon be eliminated from the market, because sellers have already taken the resistance factors into consideration when raising prices, and set the rate of increase enough to offset the possible reduction in demand.

Polyurethane intermediates and foam users believe that different end-users, such as furniture, mattresses, footwear and so on, have different degrees of acceptance of price increases, which may bring problems to sellers of value chain terminals.

An end market producer said: "American customers are reluctant to accept the price rise beyond gasoline.

Our profits are shrinking. "

In addition to raw materials TDI, MDI and polyols, other prepolymer and curing agent also face the highest price increase of 20%.

It is reported that the United States manufacturers of the total price increase, including Ke Ju ya, Dow Chemical, Huntsman, PolyOne and Roman Haas, and so on.

At present, the scattered price of TDI and aggregated MDI in the US market is 190-196 cents / pound and 138-145 cents / pound respectively, and polyether polyols are sent to the price of 126-134 cents / pound.