Chemical Equipment: Four Steps to Stable Development

China's chemical equipment manufacturing industry is based on the petroleum and chemical industries. The development of the petroleum and chemical industry directly affects the rise and fall of China's chemical equipment manufacturing industry. During the fourth session of the Fourth Session of the China Chemical Equipment Association, Zhang Sheng, chairman of the China Chemical Equipment Association, said that although the current chemical equipment manufacturing industry is facing greater difficulties, the situation is not optimistic, but through the industry's correct response and hard work, chemical equipment manufacturing The industry will continue to maintain a fairly stable development trend.
Zhang Sheng pointed out that the current chemical equipment manufacturing industry showed a slowdown in the growth rate. According to statistics, in 2007, the sales revenue of chemical equipment industry was 36.568 billion yuan, an increase of 42.04% year-on-year. Among them, the export delivery value of 2.037 billion yuan, an increase of 39.5%; product sales rate of 96.75%. From January to May 2008, the sales revenue of chemical equipment manufacturing industry was 16.409 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 36.98%. Among them, the export delivery value of 948 million yuan, an increase of 17.1%; product sales rate of 94.6%. Through statistical data analysis, the growth rate of major indicators this year has been reduced by a certain extent compared with 2007. With the slowdown in the pace of expansion of relevant capacity in the petrochemical industry and the reduction in market share, China's chemical equipment manufacturing industry will face a slowdown in growth.
At the same time, the market's inhibitory effect on the demand for chemical equipment manufacturing industry gradually emerged. With the slowdown in the construction speed of the petrochemical industry, the increase in fixed asset investment has begun to decline. This has led to a slowdown in the market's demand for the chemical equipment manufacturing industry, a greater inhibition on orders for the chemical equipment manufacturing industry, and an increase in product exports. The speed also showed signs of falling month by month. In addition, the appreciation of the renminbi, inflation, high raw material prices, and macroeconomic adjustments are unlikely to change in the short term. The inhibitory effects of these factors on the market demand for the chemical equipment manufacturing industry will gradually emerge and remain for quite some time.
In addition, the chemical equipment manufacturing industry will enter a stage of low-profit development. At present, the environment of the chemical equipment manufacturing industry has undergone major changes, and the production cost will continue to increase. The chemical equipment manufacturing industry is in an environment where the average profit margin is declining. The reasons for this are firstly the impact of high oil prices, high steel prices, and the increase in electricity prices, followed by increases in wages and social security costs, again the excess production capacity of some products, and finally the rapid rise in safety and environmental protection costs.
For this reason, Zhang Sheng proposed four countermeasures for the development of the chemical equipment manufacturing industry.
-- Accelerate the adjustment of the industrial structure of the chemical equipment manufacturing industry. The main tasks of the current chemical equipment manufacturing industry are: to accelerate the transformation of economic development methods, strive to promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure, and vigorously promote professional collaboration and industrial agglomeration, and promote enterprises to become bigger and stronger. In the process of accelerating the development of new industrialization, it is necessary to modernize the traditional production methods, and the market demand for chemical equipment manufacturing industry is considerable. For example, large-scale petroleum technology equipment including oil and gas gathering and transportation, large-scale oil refining and ethylene, etc. Petrochemical complete sets of technical equipment and so on. At the same time, the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization in China also provides a huge market demand for the equipment industry. The organic combination of these policies and market environment has provided a good opportunity for the development of China's chemical equipment manufacturing industry restructuring.
——Increase technological innovation and speed up the transformation of results. At present, China's chemical equipment manufacturing industry is oversupplying low- and mid-range products. On the other hand, high-end products still need to rely on imports. The chemical equipment manufacturing industry must continue to insist on the localization of major technical equipment as an entry point to revitalize the industry, independently research and develop large-scale clean and efficient energy production equipment, develop large-scale ethylene equipment of a million-ton-ton level, develop large-scale coal chemical complete sets of technical equipment, and develop and develop. Large offshore oil engineering and technical equipment. Give full play to the leading role of major special projects, with independent innovation as the main line, to ensure the completion of national key projects and major projects. The research and development of large-scale coal chemical complete sets of equipment will be listed as one of the 16 major technical and equipment tasks that the country will vigorously develop in the future. The chemical equipment manufacturing industry should rely on industrialization demonstration projects, and actively develop "gasification" and other complete sets of technical equipment. The development and innovation of environmental protection equipment such as material recovery, energy recovery, sewage treatment, and utilization will become new growth points for chemical equipment. Equipment companies must make efforts to develop “three wastes” processing and comprehensive utilization equipment with intellectual property rights.
——Strengthen cost control and increase corporate profits. The main approaches include: strengthening enterprise management, reducing product costs; developing advantageous products, transferring price costs; developing high technology, increasing product added value, and increasing corporate profits.
- Participate in international competition and open up foreign markets. The chemical equipment manufacturing enterprises should further expand the markets of developing countries such as India, the Middle East, and Brazil on the basis of increasing the investment in independent innovation, improving the technological level and product grade. At the same time, it will vigorously enter the markets of developed countries such as Europe and the United States to expand its international market. We must actively adopt international standards and participate in the global production system led by multinational corporations, give full play to the advantages of high cost-effectiveness of China's petrochemical equipment, and achieve better development in the new round of international market competition.