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PTA Industry Weekly Highlights (July 10–16, 2026)

Published on 2026-07-16

This week, domestic PTA weekly production was 1.0200 million tons, down 14,000 tons from last week.
This week, the domestic PTA weekly capacity utilization rate was 53.23%, down 0.65 percentage points from last week.
This week, the polyester industry's weekly average operating rate was 80.06%, up 0.38 percentage points from last week.
This week, the PTA social inventory stood at approximately 2.3649 million tons, a decrease of 354,200 tons from the previous week.
This week, the average PTA processing fee was 539.18 yuan per ton, down 100.64 yuan per ton from last week.

Yuki Tanaka 2026-07-16 20:05

This week’s drop in PTA capacity utilization and processing fee points to continued margin compression, even as inventory draws down. Downstream polyester operating rate is inching up, but the feedstock cost environment..

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