
Purchasers reported a sharp rise in prices of sulfuric acid in Purchasingdata. coma?? s monthly survey that the supply and demand tightening on domestic and foreign markets is to blame.
Sulfuric acid prices in March hit a record high of $ 329/ton, according Purchasingdata. com, after trading at $ 90/ton as recently as October. Buyer Bobbie Fallaw at Devro Castings received a 26% increase from a sulfuric acid supplier this week and said that the increase is due to a combination of factors: rising sulfur prices, increasing demand for contracts Sulfuric acid shortages of fertilizer and sulfuric acid.
Suppliers a?? We say that the increase in ethanol plants will further increase the demand for sulfuric acid, with a?? Fallaw said.
In September, Shopping. com said that the biofuels boom, in particular the proliferation of ethanol plants, has a “double” of the application of sulfuric acid, according to Paul Bacon, business director of Rhodia Eco Services, a French producer sulfuric acid. But a more recent history in February at Ames (Iowa) Tribune says?? The price of sulfuric acid, a manufactured product used in the production of metals and fertilizers, has soared due in part to the increased additional demand for ethanol. â??
A buyer of sulfuric acid in a biotechnology company in the north-Shopping said. com this week its two partners distributor of chemicals has increased the price of sulfuric acid in the first quarter. He said: â?? They claim that production costs have increased due to higher production costs. As I am not a huge user of sulfuric acid and sulfuric acid, prices stayed for the last 18 months I did not push very hard on this latest increase. I hope to keep prices at least for the rest of the year. â??
at automotive supplier Johnson Controls in January raised the prices of lead-acid 4%, citing a jump in sulfuric acid prices as one reason. At least one buyer of sulfuric acid, Frontera Copper in Toronto, said a strike at a major supplier of sulfuric acid has wreaked havoc on its supply and prices in the first quarter. In an update at the end of February, the border said the strike has been ongoing since July and the lack of supply of sulfuric acid has affected their ability to operate, although the company declined to name the supplier copper .
Key Compton, president of chemistry sulfuric producing states of the South, Savannah, Ga., said higher prices of sulfur are the main cause of sulfuric acid prices increase. Compton said sulfuric buyers may be a long journey, because sulfur prices look to remain high for the remainder of 2008 and 2009, pushing the price of sulfuric acid in the U.S. At one point, however, , follow the prices in the United States internationally, offering buyers the opportunity to source of sulfuric acid and abroad by increasing competition.
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