In December, the market of nitrile rubber declined slightly. According to the monitoring of business society, the price of nitrile rubber was 24575 yuan / ton at the beginning of the month and 24100 yuan / ton at the end of the month. At the end of the month, it fell by 1.93% compared with the beginning of the month.

The supply of nitrile rubber in China is basically stable, the enterprise inventory is small, and the ex factory price of nitrile rubber in December is stable. It is understood that as of December 31, Lanzhou Petrochemical nitrile n41e reported 22800 yuan / ton, 3305e reported 23100 yuan / ton and 3308e reported 24200 yuan / ton. On the one hand, the ex factory price was stable, on the other hand, the environmental protection monitoring in winter reduced the start-up of nitrile downstream products enterprises, the demand side was weak, and the market traders’ offer fell slightly.

In December, the prices of raw materials butadiene and acrylonitrile fell, and the cost side was empty. According to the monitoring of business society, as of December 31, the price of butadiene was 4451 yuan / ton, down 27.26% from 6120 yuan / ton at the beginning of the month; As of December 31, the price of acrylonitrile was 14560 yuan / ton, down 7.36% from 15716 yuan / ton at the beginning of the month.

Future forecast: nitrile analysts of business society believe that the cost side is empty and the demand side is weak. Although the pressure on the supply side is small, it is expected that the price of nitrile rubber will fluctuate weakly in the later stage.