Pure Benzene Industrial Chain Capacity Utilization Statistics (20260710-0716)

Petroleum benzene output was 341,800 tons, down 1,700 tons from the previous cycle, a change of -0.49%. The capacity utilization rate was 56.91%, down 0.28 percentage points from the previous cycle. During the period, units including Zhoushan Petrochemical, Maoming Petrochemical's reformer, and Zibo Junchen were restarted, while units such as Yanchang Petrochemical were taken offline.

The domestic hydrogenated benzene plant operating rate was 62.59%, down 1.48 percentage points from the previous week. China's weekly hydrogenated benzene output stood at 83,000 tons, down 2,000 tons from the previous week. During the week, Xinyang lowered its operating load, Tangshan Zhongrun temporarily shut down one unit, and Puyang Shengyuan's unit was shut down, while Henan Shouchuang and Shanxi Lubao units were restarted.

This week, capacity utilization among the main downstream products — styrene, caprolactam, and phenol — declined from the previous period, while aniline's utilization rate rose and adipic acid's remained stable week on week. In detail: Shaanxi Yanchang shut down its styrene unit for maintenance; Luxi's Phase III unit and Shanxi Lubao's unit were shut down for caprolactam; for phenol, Guangxi Huayi and Lihuayi Weiyuan's Phase I unit were shut down as scheduled this period, while Bluestar Harbin's phenol/acetone unit resumed operations and is ramping up its load; for aniline, Fujian Wanhua was restarting and increasing its load; adipic acid units saw no changes.

Looking ahead to the next period, factoring in recent maintenance and restart activity, capacity utilization is expected to decline for styrene and caprolactam, rise for aniline and phenol, and hold steady for adipic acid.