Vinyl Ester Resin (VER) prices in China recorded a sharp **.*** weekly advance during the week ending March **, ****, marking one of the most significant single-week price movements in the domestic market in recent months. The advance was driven by a powerful convergence of surging feedstock costs, constrained domestic supply, and an accelerating restocking wave from key downstream industries 鈥� all set against the backdrop of the ongoing Middle East conflict, which has inflicted extraordinary disruption on China&#**;s petrochemical raw material supply chains since late February ****.
On the supply side, the primary price driver was a simultaneous and severe spike in VER&#**;s two critical feedstocks 鈥� epoxy resin and styrene monomer. Epoxy resin prices are influenced by bisphenol-A (BPA) and epichlorohydrin markets, while methacrylic acid derives from the C* petrochemical stream 鈥� with volatility in these feedstocks, driven by crude oil dynamics,...
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