{"id":5204,"date":"2026-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/china-tio%e2%82%82-market-forecast-titanium-dioxide-price-weakens-under-slow-demand-2026-06-12-to-2026-06-26\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T02:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:55:01","slug":"china-tio%e2%82%82-market-forecast-titanium-dioxide-price-weakens-under-slow-demand-2026-06-12-to-2026-06-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/china-tio%e2%82%82-market-forecast-titanium-dioxide-price-weakens-under-slow-demand-2026-06-12-to-2026-06-26\/","title":{"rendered":"China TiO\u2082 Market Forecast: Titanium Dioxide Price Weakens Under Slow Demand 2026-06-12 to 2026-06-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Buyer Summary:<\/b> The China TiO\u2082 market moved lower this week as weak downstream demand, slow new orders, and rising producer inventories increased price pressure. Although sulfuric acid costs remained high, weak transactions continued to weigh on Rutile TiO\u2082 and Anatase TiO\u2082 prices.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Titanium Dioxide (TiO\u2082) Market Analysis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The market remained in the off-season, with weak new order activity, rising producer inventories, and limited improvement in shipments even after price reductions.<\/li>\n<li>First-tier producer quotations stayed relatively firm, while second- and third-tier producer prices declined more sharply. Most transactions were negotiated on a case-by-case basis.<\/li>\n<li>China exported <b>152,800 tons<\/b> of titanium dioxide in May 2026, up <b>12.63%<\/b> year on year but down <b>21.05%<\/b> month on month. From January to May 2026, cumulative exports reached around <b>883,100 tons<\/b>, up <b>12.55%<\/b> year on year.<\/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 (23nd 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;\">135-133<\/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;\">137-135<\/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. 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Titanium Dioxide (TiO\u2082) Market Analysis The market remained in the off-season, with [&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-5204","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\/5204","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=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5207,"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions\/5207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tio2.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}