{"id":5123,"date":"2026-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/tio%e2%82%82-market-forecast-high-costs-to-keep-prices-firm-with-further-upside-still-possible-2026-05-08-to-2026-05-15\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:00:30","slug":"tio%e2%82%82-market-forecast-high-costs-to-keep-prices-firm-with-further-upside-still-possible-2026-05-08-to-2026-05-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/tio%e2%82%82-market-forecast-high-costs-to-keep-prices-firm-with-further-upside-still-possible-2026-05-08-to-2026-05-15\/","title":{"rendered":"TiO\u2082 Market Forecast: High Costs to Keep Prices Firm, with Further Upside Still Possible 2026-05-08 to 2026-05-15"},"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 some plants faced production pressure due to difficulty sourcing sulfur for captive acid units.<\/li>\n<li>A new price increase letter of about <b>USD 145\/ton<\/b> reappeared in the market this week, but downstream demand stayed cautious, transaction prices became more differentiated, and the overall market remained firm rather than fully following higher offers.<\/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 (18th 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;\">126-133<\/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;\">128-135<\/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 some plants faced production pressure due to difficulty sourcing sulfur for captive acid units. A new price increase letter of about USD 145\/ton reappeared in the market this week, but downstream demand stayed cautious, [&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-5123","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\/5123","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=5123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5125,"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions\/5125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}