Highlights
In 2024, the international situation, economic trade, and foreign investment become increasingly complex, and the ethylene industry faces an environment intertwined with both opportunities and challenges. Global ethylene capacity expansion continues in 2024, but the expansion slows down, and project delays become the norm. Against the backdrop of cost reduction and efficiency improvement, technological modifications are frequently heard about, and the process of diversifying feedstock accelerates. Meanwhile, the loss-making situation in traditional downstream fields largely remains unchanged, leading producers to focus more on how to achieve an efficient balance within the industrial chain. The issues of ethylene sales or procurement are often discussed, with a rapid increase in trade resources and price fluctuations filled with uncertainty. Besides, China’s influence in international ethylene trade continues to grow. As the industry structure adjusts and the market changes rapidly, understanding the industry layout, trade flow, and industrial chain changes of ethylene, a key link between the energy and chemical sectors, becomes an essential skill for research in energy and chemical and the industrial chain.
Based on 20 years of industry monitoring experience, SCI portrays global and China’s ethylene industry by virtue of massive data, scientific analysis models, as well as characteristics of ethylene production, consumption, sales, price, and value chain changes. SCI also analyzes the ethylene trade flow change in this annual report. On the whole, the 2024-2025 China Ethylene Market Annual Report will present a comprehensive and fresh perspective to customers through more specific data dimension and subtle changes in the ethylene industry.
Report value
1. To present global ethylene industry pattern by analyzing the global and China’s ethylene supply and demand pattern.
2. To better show China’s ethylene supply and demand patterns by tracking ethylene capacity, output, sales and operating rates over the past 3-5 years.
3. To update market players on clearer international and domestic trade pattern of ethylene via analyzing import and export flow and China’s ethylene trade flow.
4. To point out the direction of feedstock selection for new entrants via analyzing the feedstock structure and competitiveness from multiple perspectives.
5. To interpret changes in downstream consumption patterns deeply and seek growth points in the industry.
6. To show the transmission process of the value chain via dissecting ethylene upstream and downstream industry profits and operation characteristics of units.
Contents
Part 1 Ethylene Market Overview
Part 2 2020-2024 Ethylene Supply and Demand Balance Analysis
2.1 2020-2024 Supply-Demand Balance Trend Analysis
2.2 2024 Monthly Supply-Demand Balance Characteristics and Its Relationship with Price
Part 3 Ethylene Supply Pattern and Change Trend Analysis
3.1 2020-2024 Global Ethylene Capacity Layout and Resource Flow Analysis
3.1.1 2020-2024 Global Ethylene Capacity Change Analysis
3.1.2 2024 Global Ethylene Capacity Analysis by Major Region
3.1.3 2020-2024 Global Ethylene Trade Flow Analysis
3.1.4 2020-2024 Asia Ethylene Trade Flow Analysis
3.1.5 2025 Global Ethylene Supply Change Forecast
3.2 2020-2024 China Ethylene Capacity Change Analysis
3.2.1 China Ethylene Capacity Change Analysis
3.2.1.1 Ethylene Capacity Change Trend Analysis
3.2.1.2 Ethylene Capacity Concentration Ratio Analysis
3.2.2 China Ethylene Capacity Distribution Analysis
3.2.2.1 China Ethylene Capacity Analysis by Region
3.2.2.2 China Ethylene Coastal Capacity Analysis
3.2.3 China Ethylene Capacity Structure by Feedstock Source
3.2.4 China Ethylene Capacity Structure by Enterprise Nature
3.2.5 2025-2029 China Newly Added Ethylene Capacity
3.2.5.1 2025-2029 China Ethylene Capacity Forecast
3.2.5.2 2025-2029 China Newly Added Capacity Table
3.3 2020-2024 China Ethylene Output Change Analysis
3.3.1 2020-2024 China Ethylene Output Change Analysis
3.3.2 2020-2024 China Ethylene Output Regional Layout Analysis
3.3.3 2020-2024 China Ethylene Output Change Analysis in Major Provinces
3.3.4 2024 China Ethylene Production Characteristics and Reason Analysis
3.3.5 2020-2024 China Ethylene Tradable Volume Change Analysis
3.3.5.1 2020-2024 China Ethylene Tradable Volume Change
3.3.5.2 2024 China Ethylene Trade Flow Analysis
3.4 2020-2024 China Ethylene Import Market Analysis
3.4.1 2020-2024 China Ethylene Import Data Analysis
3.4.1.1 2020-2024 China Ethylene Import Volume Analysis
3.4.1.2 2024 China Ethylene Import Structure Analysis by Trading Partner
3.4.1.3 China Ethylene Import Structure Analysis by Enterprise Registration Place
3.4.1.4 China Ethylene Import Structure Analysis by Trade Mode
3.4.2 2024 China Ethylene Import Volume Change Analysis
3.4.2.1 2024 China Ethylene Monthly Import Volume and Characteristics Analysis
3.4.2.2 2024 Influence of Import on China Ethylene Overall Supply
3.4.3 2024 China Ethylene Major Trading Partner Trade Flow Analysis
3.5 2024 China Ethylene Transportation Analysis
3.6 2025-2029 China Ethylene Supply Forecast
3.6.1 2025-2029 Total Supply Volume Forecast
3.6.2 2025 Monthly Supply Forecast and Impact Forecast on Price
Part 4 Ethylene Demand Pattern and Change Trend Analysis
4.1 2020-2024 China Ethylene Consumption Volume Change Analysis
4.1.1 China Ethylene Annual Consumption Volume and Change Trend
4.1.1.1 2020-2024 China Ethylene Consumption Volume Change Trend and Analysis
4.1.1.2 2024 China Ethylene Monthly Consumption Volume Change and Analysis
4.1.2 China Ethylene Downstream Consumption Characteristics Analysis
4.1.2.1 China Ethylene Downstream Consumption Structure Change
4.1.2.2 China Ethylene Downstream Industry and Industrial Chain Capacity Utilization Rate Change
4.1.2.3 China Ethylene Downstream Industry and Industrial Chain Profit Change
4.1.3 China Ethylene Downstream Consumption Structure Analysis by Region
4.1.4 China Ethylene Major Downstream Customer Scale Analysis
4.1.5 China Ethylene Downstream Customer Scale in Key Regions
4.2 2020-2024 China Ethylene Export Market Analysis
4.2.1 2020-2024 China Ethylene Export Data Analysis
4.2.1.1 2020-2024 China Ethylene Export Volume Analysis
4.2.1.2 2024 China Ethylene Export Structure Analysis by Trading Partner
4.2.1.3 2024 China Ethylene Export Structure Analysis by Enterprise Registration Place
4.2.1.4 2024 China Ethylene Export Structure Analysis by Trade Mode
4.2.2 2024 China Ethylene Export Volume Change Analysis
4.2.2.1 2024 Monthly Export Volume and Characteristics Analysis
4.2.2.2 2024 Influence of Export on China Ethylene Overall Demand
4.3 2025-2029 China Ethylene Demand Growth Forecast in Major Downstream Industry
4.4 2025-2029 China Ethylene Demand Volume Forecast
4.4.1 Consumption Volume Change Trend Analysis
4.4.2 Export Volume Change Trend Analysis
4.5 Ethylene Demand Peak and Slack Seasons Analysis
4.5.1 Ethylene Demand Peak and Slack Seasons Characteristics Analysis
4.5.2 Ethylene Price Performance in Demand Peak and Slack Seasons
4.6 Downstream Customer Key Purchasing Factors Analysis
Part 5 Ethylene Product Price Trend Analysis
5.1 International Ethylene Price Trend Analysis
5.2 China Ethylene Market Price Analysis
5.2.1 2024 Price Trend Characteristics Analysis
5.2.1.1 2024 CFR China USD Market Price Trend Analysis
5.2.1.2 2024 Ethylene East China Market Price Change Analysis
5.2.2 2020-2024 China Ethylene Price Trend Seasonal Characteristics
5.3 Related Product Price Co-Movement Analysis
5.3.1 Ethylene and Major Feedstock Price Co-Movement Analysis
5.3.2 Ethylene and Major Downstream Product Price Co-Movement Analysis
5.3.3 Ethylene and Related Product Price Co-Movement Analysis
5.4 Ethylene Cost and Gross Profit Change and Impact Analysis
5.4.1 Main Process Gross Profit Trend and Characteristics Analysis
5.4.2 Gross Profit Change Influence on Ethylene Production
Part 6 Industry Competition Pattern Change Analysis
6.1 Ethylene Market Competition Pattern Analysis
6.2 Value Chain Analysis and Forecast
6.3 SCI Monitoring Enterprise Operation Trend Analysis
6.4 PP Downstream Customer Purchase Key Factor Analysis
Part 7 Ethylene Industry Development Outlook
7.1 2025-2027 Ethylene Price Trend Forecast
7.2 Ethylene Price Driver Future Development Forecast
7.2.1 Influence of Macro Environment on Ethylene Market Analysis
7.2.2 2025-2029 China Ethylene Supply and Demand Balance Forecast
7.2.2.1 2025-2029 Supply-Demand Balance Forecast
7.2.2.2 2025 Monthly Supply-Demand Balance Forecast
7.2.3 China and Global Ethylene Trade Flow Forecast
7.2.4 Related Product Price Co-Movement Forecast
7.2.4.1 Major Feedstock Price Trend Forecast
7.2.4.2 Major Downstream Product Forecast
7.3 2025 Major Price Drivers Influence Forecast
Appendix 1 Ethylene Industry Annual Events
Appendix 2 Macro Environment and Industry Policies in 2024
Appendix 3 Methodology and Related Definition
3.1 Data Collection and Calculation Methodology
3.2 Forecasting Model Interpretation
3.3 Definition and Abbreviation
Appendix 4 Tables and Charts
Appendix 5 Related Annual Reports
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