Valve companies intensively change the development mode is the key

It is well known that valves are an important branch of general machinery and an important part of large-scale complete sets of equipment. The quality of the valve directly affects the normal production, safe operation and environmental pollution of these devices and plays a crucial role. As the key equipment for fluid control, valves are widely used in petroleum, chemical, metallurgy, electric power, urban construction, and environmental protection industries. As China's macro-control policies have been continuously strengthened, investment in the petrochemical, energy, metallurgy, and chemical industries has decreased, and the number of valve companies has increased rapidly. The situation in which the valve industry exceeds production has already emerged. The operation of valve companies entered a period of vicious price competition.

After decades of development, China's valve industry has made great progress. The current valve industry has been able to provide users with about twelve major categories, more than 3,000 models and more than 4,000 specifications of products. The parameters range from vacuum valves to ultra-high pressure valves up to 600 MPa, with cryogenic temperatures ranging from -196 degrees Celsius to 570 degrees Celsius.

Most of China's valve export enterprises are in Wenzhou, Taizhou, Ningbo, Shanghai, and Suzhou. The United States is the largest exporter of China's valve industry, accounting for 22% of exports, followed by the United Kingdom and Japan, which together account for 10%. The valve industry currently has about 5,000 production companies. There are about 180 valve companies managed at or above the county level, of which 19 are key enterprises, and there are more than 2,000 townships and individual enterprises with a certain scale. It is difficult for small individual manufacturers to count, and township enterprises and individual factories are mostly distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and central China. . In the valve industry, advanced technology has promoted the improvement of valve production levels and product quality, and the science and technology industry is unstoppable.

In recent years, with the upgrading of industries in the United States and the European Union and other countries and regions, the global shift in the valve industry has become increasingly evident. As a manufacturing and emerging market country, China has a high cost advantage in the development of its manufacturing industry and has grown into one of the most important production bases in the global valve industry. Moreover, the technical strength of the domestic valve companies has been continuously improved, and has basically been able to adapt to the technical parameters of the global multi-level valve applications. Therefore, more and more multinational corporations rank China as one of the most important countries in global procurement of valve products, creating a great business opportunity for domestic valve companies with strong strength.

At present, the construction of China's valve market is becoming large-scale development, so large-diameter and high-pressure safety valves and pressure reducing valves are needed, and valves need to be quickly opened and closed. From the perspective of energy conservation, we need to develop steam water transmission valves and develop them to subcritical and supercritical high parameters. Urban construction must also transition to energy conservation and environmental protection. In the past, low-pressure valves, especially low pressure iron valves, were generally used. Now they are transitioning to environment-friendly rubber sheet valves, balancing valves, metal sealing butterfly valves, and midline sealing butterfly valves. As the project gradually develops into pipelines, more slab gate valves and ball valves are needed. For the needs of the complete set of projects, the valve supplier's production should be developed to many varieties and specifications. It is a trend that a project needs valves that can satisfy a manufacturer. China's valve market has basically formed a state-owned, collective, joint venture, stocks and individual private co-exist.

Enterprises must strive for steady development in the fierce market competition, must strive to reduce production costs, focus on improving product performance and efficiency; development of high-grade products or the production of small batches of non-standard products; through the international quality of valve products Certification; valve products should be environmentally friendly, energy-saving direction; based on the original valve variety, expand other types and models of valve production.