What drives price direction for Alcohols & Ethers in China's coatings chain?

What drives price direction for Alcohols & Ethers in China's coatings chain?
Pricing here is feedstock-led and increasingly broad rather than product-specific. Crude oil strength lifts propylene, propane and benzene, which feed resins, solvents, monomers and plasticisers. Within solvents, glycol ethers have moved more sharply than resins: ethylene glycol butyl ether and isopropanol have posted larger gains than epoxy or unsaturated resin. Because alcohols and ethers sit mid-chain, they transmit cost both upward into coatings formulators and downward from propylene oxide and ethylene oxide. With crude-driven increases hitting nearly every grade at once, the category behaves less like isolated products and more like one correlated cost block.