Since September, isopropanol (IPA) has become one of the leading varieties in the domestic chemical sector. According to the monitoring of the business club, the domestic isopropanol reference price on September 29 was 9,308.33 yuan/ton, up 23.84% from September 1; the market once hit a stage high of 9,780 yuan/ton in the month, down from the low of 6,142 yuan/ton in early July, and the cumulative increase in more than two months was more than 40%. Isopropanol is an indispensable cleaning solvent for semiconductor manufacturing and is widely used in wafer cleaning, photoresist residual stripping, and precision drying. (Finance Association)
