en.Wedoany.com Reported - The concrete market in the Yangtze River Delta region maintained a weak and stable trend at midday, with terminal demand recovering slowly and batching plant shipments remaining persistently low. The leading enterprises' planned price hike of 30 yuan per ton for cement, originally scheduled for June 15, has been shelved again. Most clinker production lines in Anhui continue to operate at high loads, with inventories generally high. Regional coordinated off-peak production efforts are insufficient, and a unified kiln shutdown plan has yet to be implemented. After the anticipated upstream raw material price increase failed to materialize, cost support for concrete further weakened, and the phenomenon of trading volume for price remains relatively common in the market.

Markets in Fujian and Jiangxi were also affected by continuous rainfall. Construction work in Fujian was hindered, making it difficult to increase batching plant shipments. Cement prices in the region have already softened, weakening cost support, and some batching plants have slightly reduced transaction prices. As Fujian enters the peak typhoon season, market expectations remain pessimistic. In Jiangxi, commercial concrete quotations were generally stable with minor fluctuations. The earlier cement price hikes were not effectively transmitted to the terminal, and batching plant prices continued to operate weakly at low levels.

In the Shandong market, cement clinker production lines in the region resumed operations on June 21, but inventory pressure increased rather than decreased. Market competition is fierce, with transaction prices in southern and western Shandong still undergoing minor consolidation at low levels. In the concrete sector, a lack of new projects, combined with the dual pressures of high temperatures and the rainy season suppressing demand, led to generally sluggish batching plant shipments. Enterprises primarily focused on supplying key projects, and overall prices continued to consolidate at low levels.

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