The plastics industry faces a profound adjustment
The plastics industry faces a profound adjustment
From January to June, the total output of domestic plastic products totaled 2640.74 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 7.3 percentage points. In June, domestic plastic products produced 526.77 million tons, a year-on-year decline of 14.18 percentage points. The data shows that the growth rate of plastic industry in China is slowing sharply, and the benefits are falling in a comprehensive way. The plastics industry has reached the key stage of adjusting the structure and transferring.
Plastic processing industry "twelfth five-year" development goals, mainly plastic products production grew by an average of about 12%, industrial output grew by an average of about 15%, the total amount of profit, profit tax is expected to rise 18%, import and export trade volume grew by an average of 9% a year or so, new product ChanZhiLv and scientific and technological progress contribution rate increased to 10% and 10% respectively. But in the first half of the year, there was little optimism that plastic companies have a long way to go. Honorary President of the Beijing plastic industry association Zhang Yuchuan thinks, plastic industry in China is facing a deep correction, transform from production to the value-added upgrade, so we must grasp the following several trends.
The development of differentiated products is key although the overall market of plastic in China is relatively low, but the market and production capacity of modified plastic are faster than that of ordinary plastics. For example, the trend of "plastic steel" for cars and electronic products is obvious. Under the demand of automobile lightweight, in addition to the car plate, damper in car parts such as plastic, fuel system components, such as "plastic steel" demand is big, such as modified nylon and carbon nanotubes to do the internal barrier layer, etc. The application of more and more. The large amount of plastic used in electronic products mainly is the home electric industry, such as color TV, air conditioning and other household appliances, the average usage is 1.5 ~ 2.5kg. In the electronic products, the application of polycarbonate and polyetherimide materials in computer hardware using nanotube enhancement has also become a trend. According to the data, China's steel and plastic consumption per capita is 600 kg and 50 kg respectively, and the development space of "steel with plastic" is very large.
Compared with ordinary plastics, the added value of differentiated plastic products in these fields is higher, which is the key to profit promotion. As domestic cars and electronics are already the world's largest, the demand space for these industries "to be made of steel" is much larger than that of plastic exports.
-- the standard of plastic products has become more stringent in the eu in recent years to introduce or enforce stricter environmental protection standards for chemicals and raise the export threshold for plastic products in China. For example, in February 2011, the eu directly listed various phthalates as chemical elimination lists. On July 20, 2011, the European Union began to further implement the most stringent in the history of the new eu toy safety directive, sharply increased restrictions and banned phthalates and particular heavy metal species. Therefore, the development of more environmentally friendly plastic products with more environmentally friendly resins, fillers and auxiliaries has become the way to develop differentiated products for export products in the domestic plastic industry. In addition to environmental factors, and other functions of products is also put forward for modification and so on high requirements, such as many countries involved in material for electronic components products require must be flame retardant, nearly two thirds of the flame retardant plastic requirements to UL94V level 0, about one 5 of the flame retardant plastic requirements to UL94V - level 2, about one over ten of the flame retardant plastic is DIN4102B1 level.
- biological plastic base development into a hot spot In the global biological development situation of the engineering plastics, according to different industry background, the main can be divided into three kinds of enterprises: the first category is mainly engaged in the original biomass feedstocks and operation of enterprises, such as the United States cargill's NatureWorks development of polylactic acid is more typical products of the company; The second type is mainly engaged in petrochemical products, especially the original fine chemicals development of enterprises, for example, the Dutch chemicals giant DSM companies use 70% castor oil-based materials, development of EcoPaxx products can be used for car engine enclosure of thermoplastic materials; The third category is mainly downstream application development companies, such as many Japanese companies importing the polylactic acid granules of American companies, and developing plastic for cars, electronics and toys. However, the development of plastic industry in China is not enough, and the gap with the international advanced enterprises is one of the direction of the future development of the domestic plastics industry.
Overall, the technological upgrading in the context of product differentiation will be the key to further development of the plastic industry in the future.
