Commodity Index: On August 9, the Polyaluminium Chloride Commodity Index was 104.50, unchanged from yesterday, down 3.34% from the peak of 108.11 points in the cycle (2019-04-24), and up 3.57% from the low of 100.90 points on April 09, 2019. (Note: Period refers to 2019-04-01 to date)

Price quotation: On August 1, the mainstream price of domestic polyaluminium chloride market was 1933.33 yuan/ton, and on August 9, the market price of this product was stable at 1933.33 yuan/ton.  According to the monitoring data of the commercial association (100ppi.com), the current domestic market quotation range of polyaluminium chloride is 1700-1900 yuan/ton for solid polyaluminium chloride (industrial grade, content (>28%) and 330-410 yuan/ton for liquid (industrial grade, content 10-12%).

Industry chain: In recent upstream raw materials of polyaluminium chloride, the price of hydrochloric acid fell this week. Business Association monitoring data showed that the mainstream price of hydrochloric acid market was 123.33 yuan/ton on the 4th day, 110 yuan/ton on the 9th day, down by about 13.33 yuan/ton. Downstream demand has remained unchanged.

Industry: Recently, the water purification and environmental protection enterprises of Yongan Road Street Office in Gongyi City, Henan Province received the “stop-production notice”. The notice requests: According to the analysis of environmental pollution situation and future polluted weather situation in the whole city, the city attack and fortification office requests all deep treatment enterprises to stop production and control before acceptance, and dispatch or acceptance according to fortification. It can be returned to production. Gongyi City, Henan Province, issued a circular on the deep management of enterprise shutdown (see below):

Future forecast: In the near future, the downstream demand of polyaluminium chloride is stable, the price of hydrochloric acid in the upstream is down, and the quotation of polyaluminium chloride manufacturer does not change much. Investigation shows that the shortage of polyaluminium chloride output of the manufacturer who was asked to stop production according to the notice of environmental protection control in the earlier period is not so serious, and the product will not increase frequently and extensively. We should pay close attention to the impact of environmental shutdown requirements on the market.