Fisher - As global demand for valves increases, opportunities and challenges coexist for valve suppliers

The world's water treatment equipment giant United States Watts Industrial Group recently made a forecast that the total annual demand of China's valve market is not less than 10 billion yuan. According to the scientific concept of development, in order to ensure the coordinated development of the economy and improve the needs of people's lives in the future, China will inevitably put infrastructure construction, such as water, electricity, gas, heat, etc., in the top priority, which is precisely where the valve comes in. That is to say, as a new type rather than a replacement type of China's valve market, its demand potential and explosive power will be amazing.

First of all, China's south-to-north water diversion project, only the suburbs of Beijing to the urban area of 70 kilometers of length, the amount of valve procurement is as high as tens of millions of yuan, so the entire south-to-north water diversion project for the demand for valves can be imagined. Second, in order to solve the problem of electricity shortage, the large-scale launch of hydropower projects is not only a top priority for the Chinese government, but also a long-term task. In addition, there are many projects such as west-to-east gas transmission, renovation of old industrial bases, urban pipe network construction, residential projects, sewage treatment, farmland and water conservancy, etc., which will detonate the huge demand of the valve market.

However, in the face of such a huge future market, how many orders can China's valve manufacturers share from it? How big is the gap between them and foreign capital? These problems are probably only concerned by China's valve manufacturers.

, the gap in the industrial structure. The scale of China's valve production enterprises is too small, and the industrial concentration is too low. According to the data mastered by Watts, at present, there are more than 3,000 valve manufacturing enterprises in China, ranking first in the world. However, most of them are low-level, small-scale, family-workshop enterprises, with an annual sales revenue of less than 500 million yuan, and only a dozen enterprises with annual sales revenue of more than 100 million yuan, and the sum of the market share of the top 10 enterprises is only 8%-9%. Due to the low concentration of the industry, resulting in backward technology, low-price competition, lack of influence and many other unfavorable factors, so that such a huge Chinese valve market has not been in the real sense of the word.

Second, the gap in the overall industrial chain. As a kind of mechanical equipment, valve production is in the downstream of the entire industrial chain, including steel, sealing materials, and machining and other industries The development level will have an important impact on the technical parameters of valves. The strength, ductility and corrosion resistance of the steel directly affect the high pressure and corrosion resistance of the valve; The production level of the sealing material determines the medium to which the valve is suitable and the pressure it can withstand; The accuracy of machining is an important factor affecting the sealing level of the interface, valve head and seat. In China, there is a certain gap between these aspects of technology and foreign countries, which also leads to the domestic valve manufacturers in the production of high-grade products, subject to the constraints of related technology.

Third, there is a gap in the degree of specialization. As a general pipeline equipment, valves are widely used in many fields, including water conservancy and hydropower, urban pipe network, petroleum and petrochemical, sewage treatment and other industries. Due to the different conditions of different industries and different projects in terms of working conditions, medium, sealing, etc., the technical requirements for valve equipment in terms of model, material, pressure level and other aspects are also different, which also causes further market segmentation of valve equipment for different industries. In this case, the valve manufacturers have chosen the path of professional development, they are not satisfied with the production of a single valve equipment, but through the expansion of product lines or seek cooperation, is committed to providing overall solutions for the entire project. The aforementioned United States Watts is a typical example, in the beginning, they only produced valves dedicated to the water treatment field, but now, they can even build a waterworks on their own.

Fourth, the gap in influence. According to the information mastered by the China International Bidding Network, many foreign valve manufacturing enterprises in various professional fields, its effectiveness has been obvious to domestic enterprises. In the water treatment industry, including Germany valve Anchor (), United States Watts (Watts) and other *** have already established a leading position in the market; In the field of electricity, United States Velan (Velan) is the leader among them; In the petrochemical industry, you can see the words Fisher of United States and KTM of Japan everywhere; At high pressures, engineers first think of Uhde and BASF in Germany. China's famous valves, such as: Shanghai Hongfeng Valve Co., Ltd. "Feng" brand valve, China Nuclear Su valve "sufa" *** and so on. are already rooted in the hearts of consumers. So much so that in the process of designing the scheme, the engineer will think of them at *** time.

Fisher - As global demand for valves increases, opportunities and challenges coexist for valve suppliers

Fisher - As global demand for valves increases, opportunities and challenges coexist for valve suppliers

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