Commodity Index: Polyaluminium chloride Commodity Index on July 31 was 104.50, which was the same as yesterday. It was 3.34% lower than the peak of 108.11 points in the cycle (2019-04-24), and 3.57% higher than the low of 100.90 points on April 09, 2019. (Note: Period refers to 2019-04-01 to date)

Price quotation: On July 1, the mainstream price of domestic polyaluminium chloride market was about 1950 yuan/ton, and on July 31, the market price of this product was stable at 1933.33 yuan/ton. In July, it fell first and then rebounded slightly, with an overall decrease of 2.52%. 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: Recent upstream raw material calcium powder of polyaluminium chloride is affected by environmental protection shutdown factors, the market anticipates that the subsequent price rise of polyaluminium chloride will be caused by the reduction of calcium powder output; different manufacturers have different stock volumes and prices, and some distributors have slightly increased prices; hydrochloric acid prices began to rise substantially on 26 th of this month. Italian news agency monitoring data show that the mainstream price of hydrochloric acid market was 123.33 yuan/ton on 31 this month, which has a great impact on the follow-up price of polyaluminium chloride.

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: the demand of polyaluminium chloride downstream is stable in the near future, the production cost of the production enterprises with insufficient supply of calcium powder in the upstream is rising, and this month the production enterprises of polyaluminium chloride are required to stop production in accordance with the requirements of environmental protection management. The relevant manufacturers say that, according to the inventory situation in the factory, the price of products will increase frequency during the period of shutdown. The market generally predicts that the market price of related products will be in a tight supply situation in the later period, and that there will be a two-month shutdown period and the price of products will rise significantly. The products involved are polyacrylamide, polyaluminium chloride, molecular sieve, brown corundum, etc.