SMM February 13 News:
This week, lithium battery separator material prices remained stable. Due to prolonged price wars and price suppression by battery cell manufacturers in the earlier period, separator material prices have been pushed to a relatively low range. Additionally, affected by the Chinese New Year, demand from downstream battery cell manufacturers declined, leading to a reduction in the operating rate of separator enterprises. Consequently, separator enterprises have shown a growing sentiment to stand firm on quotes. Facing this scenario of weak demand and supply, most downstream battery cell manufacturers have ceased price suppression to ensure procurement, resulting in stable separator prices this week. Looking ahead, with the gradual release of separator capacity, the separator market may still face the challenge of oversupply. Therefore, in order to compete for market orders, separator enterprises may adopt price reduction strategies in the future.
SMM New Energy Research Team
Cong Wang 021-51666838
Xiaodan Yu 021-20707870
Rui Ma 021-51595780
Disheng Feng 021-51666714
Yujun Liu 021-20707895
Yanlin Lü 021-20707875
Zhicheng Zhou 021-51666711
Haohan Zhang 021-51666752
Zihan Wang 021-51666914
Xiaoxuan Ren 021-20707866
Jie Wang 021-51595902
Yang Xu 021-51666760
Mengqi Xu 021-20707868
