Acid prices have dropped sharply. Jiangsu sulfuric acid companies should regulate their prices like soda ash companies, otherwise everyone will not have a good life.
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Recently, the price of acid has dropped sharply again. Although the price of sulfur has also been reduced, the price of sulfuric acid has dropped even more. Almost all sulfur-based acid production companies have suffered losses. Let's all unite and formulate a pricing mechanism, otherwise this industry will collapse.
In the 1970s and 1980s, due to the sharp rise in sulfur prices in the international market, domestic sulfur acid-making enterprises suffered serious losses. Most of the sulfur-based acid-making plants were forced to close or switch to pyrite acid production. Only a few domestic sulfur-based acid-making enterprises in Beijing and Tianjin relied on* * Subsidies struggled to survive.
The wishes are very full, but the reality is very skinny. Everyone has their own master, it is almost impossible to achieve
The soda ash industry is led by associations, and each unit pays a price deposit. Once there is illegal price reduction and dumping, the deposit will be fined and confiscated. Soda ash and sulfuric acid are both basic bulk chemical raw materials. If others can do it well, why can’t we do it well?
Soda ash companies basically focus on soda ash, while sulfuric acid companies basically produce by-products, either phosphate fertilizers or energy plants. They have different footings, so others can do it, but the sulfuric acid industry cannot.
Sulfuric acid is a liquid product. When the inventory is high, it can only be stopped. In order to sell it, the price can only be lowered. At present, Jiangsu sulfur acid manufacturers are all losing money. Let's see who can survive until the end.
The sulfuric acid industry has its own association, which can implement a unified pricing mechanism, but this method seems to be incompatible with the market economy, and competition will inevitably lead to survival.
If there is a law to follow, below-cost dumping violates the Anti-Unfair Competition Law. The current acid price is more than 400 yuan, and the sulfur price is 1,600 yuan. Even if electricity and gas are included, they are obviously lower than the cost. If any unreasonably low prices were allowed, there would be no anti-dumping investigations often seen in international trade.
Sulfuric acid production includes several processes such as sulfur acid production, pyrite acid production, gypsum acid production, H2S acid production and smelting flue gas acid production. The raw materials are different and the cost of sulfuric acid is also different. The cost of smelting acid is the lowest. Now the price of Tongling smelting acid delivered to Zhenjiang is less than 400 yuan per ton. Sulfuric acid can only be bought at a loss at this price. Those who can't afford the loss have to stop the business, and those who can afford it hold on.
It seems that the sulfuric acid plant must have certain prerequisites as an energy plant.
Our argument was not sufficient at the beginning. It’s a pity that we didn’t know you at that time. We are a state-owned enterprise, and no one dares to say that the project should be stopped. In fact, I really want to suggest that the project be stopped!