China's Stainless steel tube-pipe policy 1 - Stainless steel tube

China's Stainless steel tube-pipe policy - Stainless steel tube

Due to various reasons, the number of stainless steel pipe manufacturers in China is too large (according to incomplete statistics, 108 stainless steel seamless steel pipe plants, 1,800 welded stainless steel pipe plants) and small scale (unit average production capacity, stainless steel seamless steel pipe The unit has a capacity of 113,000 tons and the welded Stainless steel tube unit is only 0.35-0.50 million tons, which is the lowest in the world.

According to statistics, in 2007, there were 14 stainless steel pipe manufacturers with a stainless steel pipe output of 50-100 million tons. The combined output of stainless steel pipes of these 14 companies was 13.62 million tons, accounting for 32% of the total output of stainless steel pipes. Among them, there are 7 stainless steel seamless steel pipe enterprises, the sum of stainless steel pipe production is 6.89 million tons, accounting for 37% of the total output of stainless steel seamless steel pipes: 7 welded stainless steel pipe enterprises, the sum of stainless steel pipe production is 6.73 million tons, accounting for welding stainless steel. The total output of the pipe is 28.5%. It can be seen that the industrial concentration of the stainless steel pipe industry in China is very low.

Although the production scale of the stainless steel pipe factory is not large, the stainless steel pipe manufacturers have to expand the production specifications to the extreme in the design of the new unit in order to meet the needs of many specifications and varieties of the stainless steel pipe market, resulting in high investment and even The product specifications of existing units are expanded as much as possible. Frequent changes in specifications and replacement of tools in production organizations cannot guarantee that the unit will be produced under the conditions that can best exert the scale of production capacity. The characteristics and division of labor of the units are also extremely unclear, and often there will be “big horses” or “units are not able to "Case. It brings a series of problems such as difficulty in ensuring product quality, waste of production capacity, and increased manufacturing costs.

On the other hand, because the stainless steel pipe manufacturers are in charge of each other, the products of each factory are facing the national market. Under the condition of oversupply, vicious competition is inevitable. At the same time, due to China's vast territory, thousands of kilometers away from the southeast and northwest, stainless steel pipe production enterprises located in the northeast region should sell their products to the southwest region. Stainless steel pipe production enterprises located in the southwest region must sell their products to In the northeast region, transportation costs and transportation pressure will undoubtedly increase. Stainless steel pipes will be “large series” on the land of China, which will worsen China’s transportation industry, which has insufficient capacity.

On the other hand, small-scale, scattered and separate stainless steel pipe manufacturers cannot have too high R&D capabilities and technical inputs, and low technological innovation capabilities. It is difficult to achieve the goal of becoming stronger and bigger.