Domestic plastic hose market development

One of the outstanding characteristics of the current plastic hose market is that consumption has entered a mature period, especially in the international Europe and the United States. In recent years, the growth rate of market demand has obviously slowed down. As an early development of plastic products, the current domestic production of plastic hose has reached a certain scale, the market has many applications. However, in recent years, domestic enterprises have paid more attention to polymer hard pipes used in the construction field, investment is too concentrated, such as PVC hard pipe and other projects, but the product technology and market applications have very mature polyethylene hose projects are not many.

(I) Analyze hot spot varieties of plastic hose market

As the plastic hose has the advantages of corrosion resistance, anti-scaling, no leakage, long service life, etc., the application amount and application fields are rapidly increasing. At present, the market for plastic hoses at home and abroad is mainly divided into four major application areas: daily consumption and health care, hydraulic drive systems in industry, automotive and water conservancy projects. The market demand for daily-use consumer and health care was the largest, and the market growth rate ranked first in the total market share of plastic hoses. The average annual market growth rate in 2002 was 2.9%. The second largest market demand is for industrial use of various plastic hoses such as air hoses and chemical industrial hoses, as well as for hydraulic drive systems. The hose used in industrial and industrial use has an average annual growth rate of 2.5%. The plastics hoses used in the automotive and aerospace sectors such as cooling pipes and fuel hoses have grown at an average annual rate of 2.7% in 2002 and their sales increased from 84 million pounds in 1997 to 96 million pounds. The average market growth rate for water conservancy hoses, which are the major market share for thermoset plastic pipes, was 2% in 2002.

As far as the variety of plastic hoses is concerned, the current polyethylene market is the fastest growing and is becoming the second largest variety in plastic hoses, especially the emergence of high-performance polyethylene resins in recent years, giving the polyethylene hoses a stronger market competition. force.

(II) Competition in plastic hose market: Use of competition between old and new materials to compete for market share

As the market demand for plastic hoses has entered a steady growth, but at the same time the production capacity is rapidly increasing, and some types of production and supply are greater than the market demand, and due to rising crude oil prices, leading to rising raw material costs, product profit margins are becoming smaller. In the face of fierce market competition, plastic hose manufacturers have to maintain their market quotas through technology and the development of new products.

This has caused the competition between old and new materials in the plastic hose market to remain fierce. New varieties emerge in endlessly. For example, in the plastic hose market, the main materials used were polyvinyl chloride resin and rubber materials, along with plastics technology and processing equipment. The development of polyethylene, thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) such as thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs), thermoplastic polyolefins (TPOs) and thermoplastic alloy materials (TPVs) as a new generation of materials in the plastic hose market. These new materials have better processability and show good substitution. At present, some high-performance thermoplastic elastomers, fluoropolymers, and nylons have occupied a large market share in the market because of their excellent performance-to-price ratio.

The main problem in the development of domestic plastic hoses: The technical content of products urgently needs to be improved. At present, the domestic plastic hoses are mostly general-purpose products, and the application fields are mainly used for water conservancy projects. The market usage of aluminum-plastic composite pipes and polyethylene cross-linked pipes is also rapidly increasing. However, as far as the market is concerned, the market applications in other areas are in the initial stage, and there are fewer products with high requirements and high added value. For example, China's domestic fiber optic cable products have been in short supply in the past two years. Domestic manufacturers now account for about 50% of China's fiber optic cable market share, and the rest are owned by some foreign giants.

However, a new market message that is worthy of attention by domestic related companies is that Zhao Yusen, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering with the title of “Father of China's Optical Fiber,” pointed out that China’s optical fiber and cable production capacity will reach 20 million kilometers by next year. In fact, the total demand for fiber optic cables last year was around 8 million kilometers, which is expected to be around 11 million kilometers this year. With the current momentum of the expansion of major optical fiber and cable manufacturers, the domestic optical fiber cable market will begin to oversupply next year. By 2005, the domestic market will have a serious surplus of optical fiber and cable products. By then, the price of optical fiber may come from the current The 35 US dollars fell to 18 US dollars.

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