Building glass companies suffer winter in the industry

Sinochem New Network News For building glass companies that are experiencing overcapacity and are undergoing industry reshuffling, technology upgrades and transformations have become inevitable. At the Forum on Building Glass Safety and Energy Conservation recently held, the construction glass industry put forward the development slogan “Safer, More Stylish, More Energy Efficient”. High-tech glass such as ultra-white glass is generally favored by the market.

“Now it is no longer necessary to rely on the path of homogenizing and copying before. The industry is in a surplus and the industry is coming in winter.” Zeng Nan, Chairman of CSG A, said in an interview with reporters: “There are too many companies that produce flat glass. Most of the companies have started production shutdowns, and 2 to 3 companies are not making losses at the moment. With excess capacity and weak market demand, some companies with high energy consumption and small scale cannot survive."

Zeng Nan said that at present, the CSG production line has not ceased production. Affected by excess production capacity, the company’s profitability has also been affected. However, the company’s cost control is relatively good, so the impact is not great. He believes that in the current situation of serious overcapacity, industry technology upgrading and innovation, take the road of differentiation is the ultimate way out. At the same time, the current industry reshuffle is also an opportunity for CSG. CSG may act against the trend and continue to expand.

It is understood that China's building curtain wall has gone through a 30-year history. In 2010, the annual output of building curtain walls reached 90 million square meters, which is more than 80% of the world's total output. At present, the production capacity of curtain wall glass in China is the first in the world to become a curtain wall. Production and application of big countries.

Although China's glass industry is not late, but the overall level of glass products is not high, the current application of building curtain wall glass in China is still concentrated in ordinary tempered glass, the future of ultra-white glass and other high-tech glass or will usher in a larger market development space. "U.S. civilians use ultra-white or triple-silver glass, not to mention commercial glass," Zeng Nan stressed.

According to reports, ultra-white glass is widely used in the photovoltaic industry because of its high light transmittance. However, in recent years, attention has been paid to the problem of ordinary glass self-explosion. Ultra-white glass has also been widely used in architectural glass curtain walls because of its safety and aesthetic advantages. application.

According to statistics, the application of ultra-white glass in building curtain walls has gradually expanded in the past two years. In 2010, the total area of ​​public buildings completed in China was 461 million square meters, and at least 5.67 million square meters of ultra-white glass was used, which was mainly based on ultra-white floatation. Glass, there are also very few ultra-white rolling glass. Industry experts said that according to a rough estimate, the application of ultra-white glass in building curtain walls is currently no more than 10%. With the improvement of people's life quality, the market outlook for ultra-white glass is very broad.

Zhou Zhiwu, executive deputy secretary-general of China Construction Glass and Industrial Glass Association, said that there are only a few companies that can produce ultra-white float glass, only 5 to 6 of them, of which the quality of products is stable and good, no more than 3, ultra-white glass The price is about 50% higher than that of ordinary white glass. Under the situation of excess industry, upgrading of industrial technology and taking the road of differentiation are the solutions.

Zeng Nan told reporters that at present, CSG’s ultra-white glass is independently developed by the company and its technology has reached the most advanced level in the world. CSG's next industrial transformation and upgrading strategy is to focus on ultra-thin electronic glass production projects. Recently, the company's holding subsidiary Hebei Window Glass Co., Ltd.'s domestic first oxy-fueled 150T/D ultra-thin electronic glass production line has been formally ignited.