It is understood that glass fiber tube is an ideal alternative material for metal materials. With the rapid development of market economy, glass fiber tube has become an indispensable raw material for construction, transportation, electronics, electricity, chemical industry, metallurgy, environmental protection, national defense and other industries. Therefore, glass fiber tube is increasingly valued by people.
The world's largest producers and consumers of glass fiber are mainly the United States, Europe, Japan and other developed countries and regions, with a high per capita consumption of glass fiber. Europe is still the region with large consumption of glass fiber tubes, accounting for 35% of the total consumption in the world.
The rapid development of China's fiberglass tube industry in recent years is driven by the domestic and foreign markets. The expansion of the international market is due not only to the growth of total demand, but also to the development space left for domestic enterprises in the international market after international enterprises withdrew from the industry due to low profit margin.
China's glass (600176) industry and enterprises have properly grasped this historical opportunity and achieved rapid development. After more than 50 years of development, the domestic glass fiber industry has been quite large, and a number of powerful enterprises such as Jushi group have emerged.
Among the competitive and excellent enterprises, Jushi group achieved a new breakthrough in 2008 when Chinese enterprises became the world's largest producer of glass fiber industry.
The rapid development stage of China's glass fiber industry is the "Eleventh Five Year Plan" period. In 2007, China's glass fiber tube output was 1.6 million tons, and the "Eleventh Five Year Plan" target was completed three years ahead of schedule. The capacity expansion of China's fiberglass tube industry benefits from the growth of global market demand for fiberglass and the strong support of major achievements such as domestic scientific and technological innovation and technological progress.
During the Eleventh Five Year Plan period, the advanced alkali free tank furnace wire drawing technology accelerated the process of enterprise scale. There are more than 200 glass fiber tube enterprises in China, including 20 tank furnace enterprises and more than 100 glass fiber deep processing enterprises. Under the background of supporting the development of large enterprise groups and characteristic enterprises.
The industry concentration has accelerated. At the end of the eleventh five year plan, the output concentration of the three major production enterprises, Jushi, Chongqing and Taishan, reached 60%, and the enterprises with high production capacity reached 800000 tons/year.
Industry experts told reporters that in the long run, the strengthening and transformation of infrastructure in the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region will continue to increase the demand for glass fiber, and the future market space will be immeasurable. Moreover, with the continuous growth of global demand for glass fiber in glass fiber modified plastics, sports equipment, aerospace and other aspects, the prospect of glass fiber industry is very optimistic.
At present, the application field of glass fiber continues to expand, and the potential wind power market will become a highlight of the future development of glass fiber. Because the energy crisis has prompted countries around the world to seek new energy, wind energy has become a focus of international attention in recent years, and China has also increased investment and research and development in the field of wind power.
By 2020, China's investment in the field of wind power generation will reach 350billion yuan, of which about 20% of the fields need to use glass fiber, such as wind turbine blades. This is undoubtedly full of opportunities for China's glass fiber enterprises.