The price of Triethylamine (TEA) in Asia鈥攕pecifically in China鈥攂egan to decline during mid-September 2025 but was largely influenced by lower upstream costs and cautious sentiment downstream. While ethanol prices increased slightly, they continue to trend lower from where they were several months ago. The plants in the region are functioning smoothly and there is no imbalance in the Ethanol supply chain. There is very solid demand from the pharmaceutical and agrochemical sectors, but converters and distributors were focused on balancing inventories and pulling back speculative purchases with all of this caution, which has kept pressure on the TEA market moderately and inventories are presently the single biggest pressure point on short term pricing. In the case of India, TEA prices stabilized and remain stable due to good consistency on demand generics APIs, Surfactants and crop protection as well. Suppliers to that market adjusted TEA production schedules to match current demand conditions and retention of strategic nullifying certain high derivative costs.
