{"id":5110,"date":"2026-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/tio%e2%82%82-market-forecast-prices-likely-to-stay-firm-with-further-upside-risk-2026-04-27-to-2026-05-09\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T03:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:11:27","slug":"tio%e2%82%82-market-forecast-prices-likely-to-stay-firm-with-further-upside-risk-2026-04-27-to-2026-05-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/tio%e2%82%82-market-forecast-prices-likely-to-stay-firm-with-further-upside-risk-2026-04-27-to-2026-05-09\/","title":{"rendered":"TiO\u2082 Market Forecast: Prices Likely to Stay Firm with Further Upside Risk 2026-04-27 to 2026-05-09"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Market Report<\/h1>\n<h2>1. Titanium Dioxide (TiO\u2082) Market Analysis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Firm ilmenite, sulfur, and sulfuric acid costs continued to support TiO\u2082 prices, while producers still faced heavy procurement and production cost pressure.<\/li>\n<li>Downstream purchasing remained mainly demand-based and cautious after the holiday, but low inventories and existing order backlogs kept the market in a relatively tight balance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 12px auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"padding: 8px 12px; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: center; width: 50%;\">Product<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding: 8px 12px; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: center; width: 50%;\">Price Index (17th Week, 2026)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px 12px; text-align: center;\">Anatase<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px 12px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\">124-126<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px 12px; text-align: center;\">Rutile<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 8px 12px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\">126-128<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #666; margin: 6px 0 14px 0;\"><b>Price Index Methodology:<\/b> The Price Index is calculated based on the average prices of the top 10 producers in China, with the base value set at 100 as of January 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Titanium Dioxide Pigment Market Trends<\/h2>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/membership-login\/\">Log In<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/membership-join\/\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Market Report 1. Titanium Dioxide (TiO\u2082) Market Analysis Firm ilmenite, sulfur, and sulfuric acid costs continued to support TiO\u2082 prices, while producers still faced heavy procurement and production cost pressure. Downstream purchasing remained mainly demand-based and cautious after the holiday, but low inventories and existing order backlogs kept the market in a relatively tight balance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[680],"tags":[682],"class_list":["post-5110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tio2-index-weekly-report","tag-tio2-index-weekly-report"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5113,"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions\/5113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}