1. Chizhou Tianci High tech Materials Co., Ltd. plans to invest 315.01 million yuan to upgrade and expand the production of the "150000 ton/year lithium battery new material project" to the "280000 ton/year lithium battery new material project".
2. Recently, Jiangtian Chemical plans to invest in the construction of a 60000 ton per year refined acrylic acid project within its existing factory area, with a total planned investment of 49.8 million yuan. The main sources of project construction funds are self owned funds and self raised funds, with an estimated construction period of one year.
3. On January 20th, Jiangxi Fuli New Energy Materials Technology Co., Ltd. approved the investment project filing for the first phase of the 50000 ton lithium hexafluorophosphate new energy project on the relevant website.
4. Recently, an intermediate handover ceremony was held for the 50000 tons/year PPC plant of the Lianhong Gerun (Shandong) integrated project, which was contracted and constructed by Guangzhou Engineering Company. The 240000 tons/year high-performance continuous process polyether polyol plant constructed by the project is an important component of the project. Using epoxypropane and epoxyethane produced by upstream units as raw materials and double metal cyanide as catalysts, we produce high-performance polyether polyol products including three series: flexible foam 330, CASE220, and CASE240.
5. Recently, Teno Group announced that based on an evaluation of its global asset layout, the company has decided to permanently close its titanium dioxide production facility located in Fuzhou, China. The factory has entered a planned long-term shutdown state since October 1, 2025, and the company will no longer restart the factory.
6. According to market rumors, a 450000 ton/year ethylene glycol plant in Saudi Arabia is currently undergoing maintenance and may continue until the end of February or early March; There are rumors in the market that Saudi Arabia's ethylene glycol shipment volume may decrease by more than 100000 tons in January and February.
7. On January 22, 2026, the total spot inventory of ethylene glycol in the main ports of East China was 740000 tons, an increase of 12000 tons compared to the total spot inventory of 728000 tons on January 15, 2026.
8. On January 22nd, the overall capacity utilization rate of soda ash this week was 86.42%, a decrease of 0.40% compared to last week; The production of soda ash was 771700 tons, a decrease of 0.46%.
9. On January 22nd, Chinese soda ash companies shipped 825600 tons of soda ash this week, an increase of 6.80% compared to the previous week, with an overall soda ash shipment rate of 106.98%.
10. This week (20260116-0122), the average utilization rate of production capacity for sample enterprises of 100000 tons or more of caustic soda in China was 87.7%, an increase of 1.0% compared to last week.
11. As of January 22, 2026, the inventory of fixed liquid alkali sample enterprises with a capacity of 200000 tons or more in their warehouses nationwide was 509600 tons (wet tons), a decrease of 0.49% month on month and an increase of 105.77% year-on-year.
12. The market has learned that the utilization rate of ethyl acetate production capacity this week was 51.08%, a decrease of 2.61% compared to last week.
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