In recent years, stainless steel valve products to get involved in an increasingly wide range of areas in the industrial wastewater, construction and structural industries, environmental protection industrial facilities demand also increased year by year. In the water industry, the problem of water being contaminated during storage and transportation has been paid more and more attention by people. A lot of practice has proved that stainless steel valve pipe fittings in the water preparation, storage, transportation, purification, regeneration, desalination and other water industry, the best selection. Stainless steel valve fittings achieve many of the desirable properties required by architectural design materials and are unique in metals while their development continues.
At present, China's stainless steel valve market, the total annual demand of less than 10 billion yuan. In the long run, it is estimated that by 2015, China's stainless steel production will be controlled at 25 million tons, the stainless steel valve production capacity will exceed 900,000 tons, and the demand for stainless steel valves will increase to 650,000 tons. In accordance with the scientific concept of development, in order to ensure the coordinated development of economy and improve the people's livelihood in the future, China will inevitably place the greatest emphasis on infrastructure construction such as water, electricity, gas and heat. This is exactly where the valve is used. In other words, as a new type rather than replacement of the Chinese valve market, the potential and explosive demand will be staggering. For example: China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project, only Beijing suburbs to the urban area of 70 km in length, the amount used for the valve procurement up to tens of millions of dollars, then the entire South-to-North Water Diversion Project on the demand for the valve can be imagined. In addition, many projects such as the project of transiting the natural gas from the west to the east, the transformation of old industrial bases, the construction of urban pipe networks, residential projects, sewage treatment and farmland irrigation will all detonate the huge demand of the valve market.
Current status of China's stainless steel valve market:
First, the gap between industrial structure. China's valve manufacturer is too small, the concentration of industries too low. According to statistics, at present there are about more than 3,000 valve manufacturing enterprises in the world, ranking the first in the world. However, most of these enterprises are low-level, small-scale and family-owned workshops, and the market share of the top 10 enterprises only accounts for 8% -9% of the market share. Due to industrial concentration is too low, resulting in technical backwardness, low price competition, the lack of influential brands and many other negative factors, making such a huge Chinese valve market up to now there is no real sense of the brand name.
Second, the gap between the overall industrial chain. As a kind of mechanical equipment, the valve production in the downstream of the whole industrial chain, including the development level of steel, sealing materials, and machining industries will have a significant impact on the technical parameters of the valve. The strength, ductility and corrosion resistance of steel directly affect the anti-high pressure and anti-corrosion ability of the valve. The production level of the sealing material determines the medium to which the valve is applied and the pressure that can be applied. The precision of machining also affects the sealing of the valve and the valve Head and seat sealing grade important factor. In our country, there are some differences between the technologies in these aspects and those in other countries. As a result, the domestic valve manufacturers are also under the control of related technologies in the production of high-end products.
Third, the degree of specialization. As a general-purpose pipeline equipment, stainless steel valves are widely used in many fields, including water conservancy and hydropower, urban pipe network, petroleum and petrochemical, sewage treatment and many other industries. Due to different industries, different projects in the conditions, medium, sealing and other aspects of the different conditions, the valve equipment model, materials, pressure levels and other technical requirements are not the same, it also resulted in the valve equipment for different industries further Market segmentation. In this case, the valve manufacturers can choose a professional development path, through product line expansion or seek cooperation, committed to providing the overall project as a whole solution.
