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2026 Week43 Rubber Material Price in china
for rubber and tire industry
DH MKT TEAM
10/27/20261 min read
2026 Week 43 Price Commentary
BD has stopped falling — and that changes the tone of this market.
📊 The numbers: Butadiene 13,495 → 13,475 (essentially flat), PBR 16,100, ESBR 13,590, SSBR 13,720. Synthetics are drifting lower on cost, not demand — declines of 1–1.4% against a feedstock that has now found its floor.
🛞 Demand story unchanged. With domestic tire prices holding higher (TBR +2%, PCR +6%), processors keep absorbing the softness. NdBR (22,500) and Butyl (35,000) didn't move at all — specialties remain the bedrock.
🌴 Natural rubber taking a breather. SVR3L eased to 20,270, STR20 to 18,850. Profit-taking after the 9-year-high run, nothing structural.
⚫ N660 stabilized at 9,500 — confirming last week's read: this was a feedstock correction, now done.
🔮 Outlook: The range-bound call is playing out. With US midterms keeping Middle East risk alive, expect choppy, directionless trade in Bd and synthetics — dips stay shallow as long as tire demand holds.
Quiet week. Sometimes consolidation is the signal.
Butadiene, 14125 => 13495 => 13475
Polybutadiene rubber (PBR BR9000), 16500 =>16320 =>16100
NdBR 9106, 22500 no change.
ESBR 1712, 14000 =>13780 => 13590
SSBR 2564S, 13666 => 13840 =>13720
Butyl rubber (BB2030), 35000 no change.
SVR3L, 20466 => 20480 =>20270
STR20 MIX, 19546 => 19186 => 18850
CB N660, 9600 => 9500 => 9500