Market trends for downstream products of isobutylene
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Since 2016, the fine chemicals industry has entered a period of decline. The market price of MTBE has been on a downward trend, prompting many domestic manufacturers to cease production. Many manufacturers now want to shift their production, but they have not yet found a suitable solution. Our company also faces difficulties in this area; we welcome everyone to discuss it. Your advice might prove to be very helpful for us, so we hope that experts from all fields will share their insights with us.
From the perspective of our company, the MTBE production facility is primarily limited in its capacity by the availability of raw materials; sales have been good, and economic performance remains stable.
We have plenty of raw materials here, but the product prices are inverted: L
Compared to alkylation, it is still not very environmentally friendly. It seems that the company plans to scale up alkylation operations in the future (whether this will actually happen is uncertain; at least the plans have been submitted). In the long term, alkylation appears to have more prospects than M, but the outdated production capacities of local refineries also need to be taken into consideration