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2026 Week42 Rubber Material Price in china
for rubber and tire industry
DH MKT TEAM
10/19/20261 min read
2026 Week 42 Price Commentary
Butadiene surged, then pulled back — but synthetic rubber barely flinched.
📉 The core story is Bd. Butadiene spiked to 14,125 on supply fears, then retraced to 13,495. Yet PBR (-1%), ESBR (-1.6%) and even SSBR (+1.3%) held their ground — because downstream demand is genuinely firm, not fading.
🛞 Why synthetics are resilient: Domestic tire prices just moved up — TBR ~+2%, PCR ~+6% — giving processors room to absorb the cost swing. Demand, not speculation, is holding this market up.
⚫ N660's dip is a raw-material story. Carbon black's correction tracks feedstock (coal tar) volatility, not a demand problem.
🔮 Looking ahead: With the US midterms in play, Middle East instability isn't going away — expect butadiene and synthetic rubber to stay choppy and range-bound rather than trend in either direction.
Volatility in the feedstock, stability in the demand. That's the setup heading into Q4.
Butadiene, 13708 =>14125 => 13495
Polybutadiene rubber (PBR BR9000), 15566 => 16500 =>16320
NdBR 9106, 22500 no change.
ESBR 1712, 13300 =>14000 =>13780
SSBR 2564S, 13000 =>13666 => 13840
Butyl rubber (BB2030), 34500 =>34833 => 35000
SVR3L, 19550 => 20466 => 20480
STR20 MIX, 18716 => 19546 => 19186
CB N660, 10266 =>9600 => 9500