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The domestic fiberglass industry "big but not strong" industry or face reshuffle

2017-07-05 15:41:22

Started in 1958, 1980 after the rapid development. In 2007, the total output to achieve the world's first. After nearly 60 years of development, China has become a veritable glass fiber industry power.

Although the output ranks first in the world, but in the production technology, product added value, industry standards, etc., the domestic glass industry and foreign there is a clear gap, has not yet reached the level of glass fiber power.

"Domestic glass fiber product specifications and grades are generally not high, but to do a large output, the actual technical content is limited. Deep processing products R & D inadequate, especially part of the high-end applications, still rely on foreign imports, can be said to be 'big but not strong "An industry person who declined to be named told the new material online.

It is reported that Zhejiang Boulder Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "China Stone"), Shandong Taishan Glass Fiber Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Taishan Fiberglass") and Chongqing International Composite Materials Co., Ltd., known as China's glass industry, the Big Three , The market share accounted for nearly Qi Cheng.

"Although the three giants occupy most of the market share, industry concentration has been greatly improved, but the industry still exists price war, do not attach importance to innovation, biased towards horizontal development and other issues." Sinoma Technology Co., Ltd. (Nanjing Glass Fiber Research and Design Institute ) General Manager Tang Yu said.

New materials online to understand that China's glass industry, "big but not strong" and other phenomena or will be changed. "At present, China Sinoma Group and China Building Materials Group, the two central enterprises in the group level to complete the integration of the two companies under the Taishan glass and China boulder business coincidence, there will be 'action', which means that China's Fiberglass industry will be re-shuffle, "a senior industry sources said.

"Big but not strong"

"Although China's fiberglass industry accounted for nearly 70% of the market share of the three giants have been field of vision to overseas markets, some production capacity to the international market, but the problem of overcapacity has always plagued the domestic fiberglass industry." Owens Corning complex Material (Beijing) Co., Ltd. official said.

The reason, the industry believes that the industry access system is imperfect and low technical standards of the industry is the main reason. Although the Ministry of Industry and Trade in 2012 revised the promulgation of the "glass fiber industry access conditions" in the enterprise layout, process equipment, energy consumption, environmental protection and other aspects to improve the access threshold, but also added product quality access requirements, But did not achieve the desired results. "'Small workshop' type of business is still widespread."

In Tang Yu view, China's glass industry, "big but not strong," the main reason is that the lack of vertical innovation awareness of enterprises. "Leaders in a market breakthrough, other companies on the herd, resulting in rapid expansion of the market capacity, product quality varies greatly, the price fluctuations, and soon the formation of excess capacity, while the potential application of the market, but the enterprise Do not want to spend too much energy and money to carry out research and development.

From the application field, the glass fiber is widely used in electrical and electronic, mechanical, industrial and all kinds of daily life. Chongqing International Composites Co., Ltd. product manager in the Road, said the domestic enterprises in the field of glass fiber enterprises and foreign enterprises still exist a certain gap between foreign companies are relatively mature.

According to Lucintel, the consumption of wind energy composites increased by about 20 times from 1998 to 2014. Wind power blade applications accounted for nearly 10%, long-term growth of large space.

Fiberglass applications are mainly emerging areas of wind power, automotive industry, but these emerging areas of products companies demanding, many companies in hardware and software standards, the current open areas of emerging market applications are mainly concentrated in the giant business enterprises, Some enterprises are still gathered in the traditional field.

Insufficient research and development of deep processing products

Over the past 20 years, China's glass fiber industry through the rapid development of leap-forward in the world occupies a pivotal position. However, once also due to one-sided pursuit of the expansion of primary product production, resulting in serious development of deep processing of products lag, product and operating homogeneity, low competitiveness of products.

At present, the product structure adjustment and transformation and upgrading has become the development of glass fiber industry consensus, more and more enterprises to turn into glass fiber products deep processing industry. However, many enterprises in the process of converting, often concerned about the market has been the type of products, copy the existing products deep processing production line.

Tang Yu said that the development of glass fiber industry deep processing products seem very lively, but little progress. Fiberglass industry needs a large investment in scientific research, especially in the deep processing of the process, due to the lack of applied research, scientific research capacity is weak, leading to blind production, resulting in serious product homogeneity, low-end product surplus and low price vicious competition. In the high-end emerging collar, due to the lack of scientific research personnel, scientific research facilities are imperfect, leading to high-end product market has long been occupied by foreign companies.

It is understood that some domestic enterprises have realized that the field of deep processing of glass fiber has a higher profit and development prospects. The company has completed the construction of deep processing of the production line of products, Jiangsu Jiuding, Jiangsu Changhai and other professional products manufacturing enterprises have been successfully listed, Sichuan fiberglass, Shaanxi Huate, Changzhou Hongfa, Yanzhou Chuangjia, etc., and so on. Enterprises are also actively build glass fiber products deep processing production base. Glass fiber with high-speed rapier looms, air-jet looms, multi-axial looms and other advanced products production equipment have to achieve localization, and in the industry to obtain rapid promotion, fabric coating processing technology enterprises, especially small and medium enterprises to develop new products , To expand new applications, to achieve the core of differential management.

Industry or will re-shuffle

"In the future, China's glass industry 'big and not strong' situation will be improved in the strategic aspects of China's rock and Taishan glass fiber integration is very likely." The industry on the new material online revealed that with the north and south Car merger similar to the merger of the two giants will bring the advantages of integration of resources to achieve complementary advantages to avoid invalid competition.

In 2016, the central enterprises, state-owned enterprises reorganization and consolidation case surging. Public information shows that on January 25, 2016, China Sinoma Group and China Building Materials Group announced that the implementation of the strategic reorganization, the same year on August 22, the SASAC issued a news that the State Council approved China Sinoma Group and China Building Materials Group Co., Ltd. to implement the reorganization.

Public information: Taishan fiberglass by the Sinopec Group's A-share company Sinoma Technology Holdings, China's boulder is China's building materials group's A-share company.

"Sinoma and China Building Materials as the largest and second largest building materials group, both in the glass fiber business sector has coincident, even if the Thai glass fiber and the Chinese boulder is not reorganized, it will certainly make adjustments in business. This means that China's fiberglass industry will re-shuffle. "Tang said that through business restructuring can effectively reduce the vicious competition, to achieve strong combination.