Ethylene glycol market size, number of enterprises, industry position is very important
But at the same time, price fluctuations, the industry average profit is only about 5%, to cover price volatility, industry hedging demand is very strong. The polyester industry enterprises currently only use PTA futures hedging, only part of the cost of raw lock. If the ethylene glycol futures market, enterprises and traders can hedge through the futures market, risk aversion caused by price fluctuations in the stock trading.” Some people in East China, glycol futures market and brother varieties complement each other, can make a more complete industry chain hedging, contribute to better play the function of related species.
But from the listed plastics, PP, PTA, methanol and other chemical species experience, before and after listed futures, the spot market price volatility does not appear significant growth or significant differences, instead, the futures tools can better achieve stable operation of enterprises.
It is understood that, at present, the ctmeg product launch time is not long, the quality is not stable. At the same time, generally small scale ctmeg enterprises, production is not stable enough, lack of capacity can not meet the most continuous and stable downstream polyester enterprise consumer demand. Therefore, polyester enterprises failed to widely accepted ctmeg products as raw materials. From ethylene glycol futures contracts and the draft rules learned that because of the market circulation of ctmeg can not reach the delivery quality standards, will not enter into the futures market.
Market participants believe that the futures market, to a certain extent, can promote the ctmeg the continuous improvement of product quality, and ultimately gained wide acceptance of the downstream polyester enterprise. Through the listing of glycol futures can be market-oriented means to promote coal chemical and petrochemical production capacity and balance.
“Although the glycol high external dependence, but does not have a monopoly of the spot condition.” Shen Ning said. From the import share, related enterprises do not have the absolute monopoly of the market. At the same time, since 2010, affected by the domestic production of ethylene glycol device factors, the main source of imports such as Saudi Arabia and Taiwan imports accounted for the proportion of China’s consumption decreased year by year. From a global perspective, the overall excess production capacity of ethylene glycol is more obvious, the operating rate decreased gradually. With the future of the new production capacity, excess capacity may be more obvious, but do not have the monopoly in the market environment.” An industry experts said.
The ethylene glycol on futures, is expected to improve the domestic market pricing right.” The industry said, due to the formation of the price in the futures market can truly reflect the supply and demand situation, can provide a reference price for the stock market, is conducive to the formation of a guide to foreign suppliers and restrain the price standard, improve the domestic ethylene glycol market initiative.