(April 24, 2026) Recently, the domestic silica (hydrated silica) industry has a clear operating trend, the price adjustment cycle brought about by the rise in raw material costs in the early stage has ended, and the overall high price of all categories of products has stabilized.
According to the latest market quotation data, as of April 24, the benchmark price of the domestic precipitation general-purpose silica market was stable at 6066.67 yuan/ton, and the mainstream transaction price of rubber-specific grade products remained in the range of 6300-7000 yuan/ton; the supply of high-end gas-phase silica continued to be tight, and the market price remained strong, with high-end models quoting 16000-32000 yuan/ton. The price of upstream sulfuric acid, soda ash, coal and other chemical raw materials is still at a high level, building a solid bottom of product costs; downstream tires, silicone rubber, coatings, food additives and other fields have resumed work and production steadily, rigid demand procurement is stable, and market supply and demand tend to be balanced.
At the industry level, the competent authorities and industry associations have recently continued to improve the quality specifications of silica products, refining the assessment standards for core indicators such as purity, particle size distribution, dispersion, and oil absorption value of precipitation and gas-phase products, increasing market sampling inspections and rectification of non-compliant products, promoting the steady improvement of the overall quality of domestic silica, and accelerating the clearance of low-end backward production capacity.
New breakthroughs have been made in the field of technological innovation, and green preparation technology patents of domestic enterprises have been intensively publicized recently. Shaanxi Saikorisi Enterprise has recently been approved for the patent for the resource preparation of silica from rice husk ash, which uses agricultural solid waste rice husk ash as the silicon source, combined with microwave reaction and high-pressure carbonization process to achieve high-purity silica production, taking into account circular environmental protection and rubber reinforcement performance improvement, providing a new path for the low-carbon development of the industry. At the same time, large-scale new carbon dioxide acidification silica projects in Shandong, Jiangsu and other places are steadily advancing, and the new process replaces the traditional high-pollution route, which is in line with the policy orientation of the green transformation of the domestic chemical industry.
In terms of exports, overseas orders have continued to pick up since April, with significant increases in exports of high-dispersion, food-grade, and low-impurity high-end silica, with Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East as the core incremental markets, with high-end product exports increasing by more than 20% year-on-year, and the international competitiveness of domestic high-end silica continuing to increase. According to industry analysis, the domestic silica market will continue to stabilize prices in the short term, and in the medium and long term, with the release of high-end production capacity and the popularization of solid waste resource technology, the industry will develop in depth in the direction of high quality, greening and high added value.
