The price of ceramic pigments “rises”

It is precisely because of market expectations, from January to June this year, the price of ceramic raw material market is strong.

"Oxide from the 160,000 yuan / ton rose sharply to 21 yuan / ton, zinc oxide also rose by 600 yuan / ton, imported zirconium rose 100 US dollars / ton, made of domestic Zirconia rose 1,000 yuan / ton," The person in charge, Tian Hongxin, said in an interview with the media.

According to analysts of ceramic glaze industry who are unwilling to be named, the prices of copper, cobalt, nickel and other non-ferrous metals have been driven by higher prices in the international market, and the price of seaborne products has risen. The price increase of domestic colorants has increased from 15% to 30. % varies. In addition to non-ferrous metal raw materials prices, starch raw materials also rose. In addition, as an important raw material for color glaze frit prices have also risen, up to 20%.

The veteran believes that the technical threshold of the ceramic color glaze industry is relatively low, and the company's product development capability is poor, and it is easily affected by the raw material prices in the international market. For example, when the lowest price of cobalt oxide market is more than 10 million yuan/ton, and the highest price is 600,000 yuan/ton, the price fluctuations of several times exceed the expectations of the industry.

It is understood that since the beginning of this year, the domestic raw material market has seen booming production and sales, and some raw material prices have continued to rise strongly. Some raw material manufacturers have increased their production capacity by nearly 30%.

For the price increase of ceramic raw materials, China Ceramic Industry Association Huang Xinhong believes that, first of all from the perspective of total production and sales, the market growth in the second half of last year has seen blowout-type growth, so that the industry is generally optimistic about the market expectations; second is from the current ceramic industry layout The pattern of flowering nationwide is being formed. The proportion of production capacity of ceramics in the north has gradually increased, and the pattern of ceramic production has changed. Third, the country’s restrictions on mining of mineral resources have become more and more stringent. The raw materials produced in the north are iron and titanium. Such as a high proportion of components, not suitable for high-quality production of polished tiles; In addition, the rapid development of Linyi, Shandong Linyi factors such as the superposition of the impact - in the short term supply and demand have changed, is a direct impact on the price of ceramic raw materials.