A Brief Discussion on the Development Reasons and Future Prospects of the Valve Industry

Nowadays, the mechanical industry is developing rapidly, and as a valve in the industry, it is no exception. We all know that the valve industry is an important branch of our general machinery. Its products are widely used as key equipment for fluid control in industries such as petroleum, chemical, metallurgy, power, urban construction, and environmental protection. Currently, the valve production industry is in a very favorable development opportunity. What are the reasons for this? Below is a brief discussion on the development reasons and future prospects of valves. This is because:

Seize the strategic opportunity of WTO

With the accession to the WTO, the lowering of international trade barriers, and the adjustment of product structure by developed countries, China is gradually becoming the world's largest processing plant, and the processing and manufacturing of valve products are facing greater development space. So how to seize this strategic opportunity and accelerate the development of the valve industry. The author believes that we should do a good job in the following aspects:

1. Actively promote joint restructuring among enterprises and quickly build a group of enterprise groups with scale and grade. There are currently over 5000 manufacturing enterprises in the valve industry, with only 7 having annual sales revenue exceeding 50 million, 3 exceeding 100 million, and none exceeding 200 million yuan. The domestic market share is only slightly higher than 2% for China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), while the rest are below 1%. This kind of enterprise scale is difficult to generate shock in the market, and it is even more difficult to compete with internationally renowned companies in the same industry. To change this situation as soon as possible, in addition to the growth factors of the enterprise itself, the most effective method is to achieve capital expansion through alliances, mergers, and reorganizations between enterprises, thereby further expanding market share and standing undefeated in competition.

This is a popular practice in the international economic field today, and it is also a directional issue for the development of the valve industry in the future. On this issue, we must emancipate our minds and break through regional boundaries, ownership boundaries, and traditional professional division of labor boundaries in accordance with the requirements of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which called for "new breakthroughs in reform and new ideas for development". As long as there is a possibility of collaboration between enterprises, they can boldly try and use 3? Strive to build several enterprise groups with an output value exceeding 500 million or even 1 billion yuan within 5 years.

2. We should attach importance to the adjustment of product structure, be brave in technological innovation, and develop high value-added and internationally leading products. At present, China's valve industry can produce more than ten categories of products. Such products as gate valves, globe valves, ball valves, butterfly valves, safety valves, check valves, throttling valves, plug valves, pressure reducing valves, diaphragm valves, drain valves, emergency shut-off valves, etc., have a maximum operating temperature of 570 ℃, a minimum of -196 ℃, a maximum pressure of 600MPa, and a maximum diameter of 5350MM. Although these products strongly support domestic economic construction, it should be noted that most of our products belong to general technical content or labor-intensive products, and rarely have international leading levels.

It is a regrettable fact that all of our valve companies have been defeated in the recent bidding for the West East Gas Pipeline. as a warning for the future. To revitalize the national industry and develop the valve industry, it is necessary to implement technological innovation, adjust product structure, and have the courage to research and develop valve products with high technological content, high labor added value, and international leading level, such as control valves and automatic valve regulating valves, three-way merging and widening, three-way diversion valves, and safety valves; Metal hard sealed fully welded ball valves, high parameter large-diameter valves; And the supercritical C12 power plant? A alloy steel valve.