Calcium Hydroxide Price Trend and Forecast

Regional Price Overview

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Calcium Hydroxide Price Trend for the Q1 of 2024

Asia

During the first quarter of 2024, the market trends for calcium hydroxide were observed to fluctuate in accordance with the calcium carbonate prices in the Asian markets. Calcium Hydroxide or slaked lime is sourced from calcium carbonate (limestone) so the costs and availability of limestone manipulate the upstream factors of the calcium hydroxide market immensely. On the demand front, the primary buyers came from the construction and chemical sectors.

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Early on the prices were more inclined in the first half of the quarter as the trade situations were still more favorable and the downstream demands were still supporting the positive price transitions. However, the market situation changes slightly in the second half of the said quarter. Especially in China, a severe crisis has been unfolding in the real estate sector where constructors have been running out of credit. Thus, the construction sector in the country plunged significantly impacting the calcium hydroxide market. Because of this, a wavering price pattern was gauged in the Asian region with confined variations; the market sentiments were largely underwhelming.

Europe

In the European calcium hydroxide market, the downstream consumption was not satisfactory for suppliers as the construction sector was still unable to reignite the people’s interest in the war-stricken region. However, despite this, the suppliers were forced to raise the market prices.

A surge in crude oil and shipping prices significantly reduced the revenue buffers for manufacturers. So, to satiate the upstream cost crisis amidst dull demands the suppliers marginally raised the calcium hydroxide prices in Europe. In the United Kingdom, the monthly average prices went from about 253 USD/MT in January’24 to around 262 USD/MT in March’24; this imparted a 3% incline in the country’s slaked lime prices over the said quarter.

North America

Influenced by the reduction in global demands the calcium hydroxide prices acquired a downward wavering trajectory in the American market as well. Inventories were glutted since the beginning of the quarter in January since the demands had been underwhelming in the previous quarter as well.

This time even though the production and processing costs raised the upstream cost support, the suppliers were having to rely increasingly on the domestic consumption alone. Amidst the Red Sea crisis, the shipping costs jumped drastically within the given quarter. This curtailed the offshore trade avenues. Further, the domestic consumers alone were not able to help in sustaining the market prices.

Analyst Insight

According to Procurement Resource, given the rising trade uncertainties in the global markets, Calcium Hydroxide price trends are likely to behave in a similar manner in the coming months as well.

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