Adipic Acid Price Trend and Forecast: Top 10 Leading Trading Countries and Regions - Latest Edition [2026]

The Expert Market Research pricing report on Adipic acid provides insights into the top 10 leading trading countries and regions.

Adipic acid price trends underwent significant changes throughout 2024 due to a mixture of global supply and demand discrepancies, local production shifts, and economic policies. Adipic acid prices will likely remain low in H1 2025 due to oversupply and weak demand, especially in China, where prices dropped amid high inventories. Operating rates fell to 56%, but North America saw a modest Q1 price increase, supported by strong feedstock costs and end-user demand.

The most affected regions, North America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, exhibited different price pathways determined by industrial activities, feeding costs, and trade policies.

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For the last quarter of 2024, the prices of adipic acid reduced when compared to the previous year at the same time. This price drop was mainly because of continuous oversupply, especially in Asia, alongside weak demand from flagship downstream markets such as nylon 6,6, automotive, and textiles manufacturing. Moreover, prices from new Asian producers who brought their feedstock prices, especially benzene and cyclohexane, have lowered their price caps. Broader macroeconomic factors affecting adipic acid price forecast, such as Europe’s languishing economic growth along with volatile crude oil prices, served to strengthen the statement surrounding adipic acid prices.

Adipic Acid Price Forecast

In 2024, adipic acid prices experienced repeated fluctuations in major markets due to raw material price movements and changing demand. Prices increased worldwide in February; there was an increase in rates by LANXESS due to a surge in raw material prices. China, however, experienced a price increase after the Lunar New Year, with the support of increasing cyclohexanone production costs and firm downstream purchases expecting a further increase in prices. But by mid-year, the market bifurcated—United States prices remained stable with firm supply and demand, while Europe declined with weak automobile demand and economic uncertainties. China experienced a further price increase by December, with the support of recovering consumer confidence and firm demand from the automobile sector, partly due to government trade-in incentives. Meanwhile, German prices declined slightly as weak downstream demand and high operating costs continued to depress the market outlook.

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Global Trade and Supply Chain Implications

Adipic acid prices and availability in 2024 and beyond are heavily driven by patterns of global trade and supply chain pressures. Adipic acid, a key raw material for nylon 6,6, polyurethanes, and plasticizers, is primarily produced from petrochemical feedstocks such as benzene and cyclohexane. As a result, its production is closely tied to fluctuations in crude oil prices, which can significantly impact costs and supply stability.

China, the US, and Western Europe dominate the world's volume, but there have been regional supply squeezes underpinned by trade tensions and regulatory pressures, the ongoing trade tensions between the US and China, and shifting EU chemical regulation. Shipping logistics disruptions, availability of containers, congestion in ports, and related transport delays are inducing shipping disruptions and increased transportation expenses, with some regions experiencing bottlenecks of supply and other regions experiencing oversupply. Furthermore, new environmental regulations in Europe, demanding cleaner production, will put pressure on traditional supply chains. New Asian capacity additions are further tilting the supply-demand equation in the West, compelling even more competition and pressure on old, high-cost plants in the West. In the spotlight of sustainability and minimisation of energy consumption across supply chains, producers and buyers are re-examining sourcing, transport, and trading relationships for adipic acid, affecting the pricing analysis of adipic acid across the globe.

Feedstock Analysis

In 2024, the adipic acid throughout the world was affected by the volatility of the primary feedstocks for its production, benzene, cyclohexane, and nitric acid, and the corresponding higher-order petrochemicals and crude oil markets. At the beginning of December, an increase in the price of benzene and cyclohexane was observed. This was after an automotive demand spike, caused due to the introduction of a government stimulus in China. Due to this, a mild surge in the prices of adipic acid occurred. In Europe, the better part of the year saw a consistent weakness in the polyurethane and nylon industries, caused because of the lack of demand for them. This translated into a stagnant price run in the adipic acid prices. In addition to this, there are announcements to deactivate the Ludwigshafen adipic acid production facility by 2025, showcasing the region’s uncompetitively high feedstock and energy prices. North America faced global oil input price shifts and, as a consequence, raw material prices from other countries' oil without shared borders, although the region enjoyed stable market conditions. The market overall appeared to be highly sensitive to the various cost movements of feedstocks and demand balance from other areas, alongside the strategic decisions of production.

Demand and Supply Outlook for Adipic Acid

Adipic acid prices will continue to remain under pressure in the first half of 2025 because of poor recovery of demand in core markets like automobile and textiles and increased supply from new capacities, mainly in Asia. Poor economic growth in North American and European markets will tend to limit consumption, while uncertain crude oil prices can continue to influence feedstock prices. Yet, impending supply chain disruptions owing to geopolitical tension, port availability, or higher freight costs can have a possibility to exert upward pressure. Econometric market analysis also suggests that with clean substitute demand at higher levels and more stringent environmental regulations, mainly in Europe, we can redraw production patterns and influence world trade balances. Orderly market adjustment and improving industrial demand forecast can lead to a more stable price environment in mid to late 2025, even though near-term price volatility is anticipated.

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