Nowadays, only a few manufacturers can meet the requirements in China while most of manufacturers are still focusing on general diameter valve. In terms of the whole industry, the capacity of large diameter drainage valve will show the trend of steady growth.
Sewage treatment playing a leading role
Environmental protection equipment includes irrigation gate, check gate, bar screen machine, disposal equipment after sludge and process equipment of solid wastage, firstly applied in sewage treatment. Environmental protection equipment is non-standard products, which requires that manufacturers should process products based on customers’ demands. The equipment does not have standardization, serialization and generalization, which requires that the environmental protection equipment suppliers should understand the demands of customers deeply and have the ability of quick design of product and technology, efficient supplying chain and refined quality control. The ability is based on experience gradually stored during long-term operation and it is also the primary competitiveness of environmental protection equipment suppliers.
In 20 years, the technological level of environmental protection equipment in China has been highly improved. Through accumulation of engineering practice and constant improvement, some manufacturers have already formed planning production. The level of products makes great progress, quality of products improved significantly and scope of market is also constantly expanding. Through scientific research for tackling, the level of equipment including design, processing, manufacturing and inspection made great progress. The technological level of products can meet the requirements of sewage treatment in China. Some manufacturers improve reliability and automation of equipment through using new materials to strengthen corrosion resistance of products.
However, valve manufacturers in China are mainly small or medium corporations. And competition mainly concentrates on low-end products. Informal competition means are disturbing the market to expand, causing damage to valve manufacturing industry. With recombination of valve industry accelerating, in the future, the competition will focus on product quality and brand. The valve products will development into high technology, high parameter, strong corrosion resistance and long service life. For the huge demands, the valve industry in China will have a better prospect.
Drainage valve is an indispensable products mainly used for urban, construction, industry or daily sewage treatment. Low or medium pressure valves are most used, including butterfly valve and gate valve. Other products contain ball valve, check valve, vent valve, plug valve, diaphragm valve, reducing valve, control valve and mud valve.
Sewage application mainly considers the sewage having been secondary treated by urban sewage treatment plant. The sewage has two application methods: direct reusing and direct application. Direct reusing is mainly used for irrigation of farmland and grassland near the waterworks. The path and method of reusing are limited by territory, inconvenient for distribution. Although the sewage has been strengthened manually and sterilized, it is not purified by nature, which may cause problems due to inappropriate application and control.
Direct application is originated from water area. The water is taken from upstream and used in cities. Caused sewage is purified by urban sewage treatment plant and discharged into downstream, returning to water, which can be applied by cities or regions in downstream. Direct application combines social circulation and natural circulation
Nowadays, about 10% of valve market in China is occupied by foreign manufacturers. To change the current situation, improving the quality of valve products is priority. If FAYA valve manufacturers want to improve production efficiency, they should increase the investment on modern production line and enhance technical innovation.
As key components for industrial manufacturing, valve products will usher opportunities on market. Valve products occupy quite high proportion in mechanical products. According to the statistics of developed countries, the output value of valves is summation of compressors, draught fans and pumps, accounting for about 5% of output value of the whole engineering industry. Meanwhile, as key constituent parts of important technical equipment, particularly in power, petrochemistry, metallurgy and urban water supply and drainage system, valve products play a key role and have high usage.
Due to highly development of economic aggregate, developing countries represented by China drive oil & gas, power, petrochemistry and other downstream industries to develop, stimulating the demands for related vales, becoming the new engine for global valve industry growing.
In terms of current scale of production, Chinese valve industry falls behind the age. Based on report, the age of valve industry highly developing in the past has gone. The market falls into downturn. Actually, the primary reason which causes the growth rate of valve industry slow down and manufacturers face with huge crisis of survival and development is not depressed environment. It is defects existing inside valve manufacturers. At present, the development concept of valve manufacturers still mark time. Backward production models are still popular and among of valve manufacturers cannot catch up with the steps of age advancing.
The highly development of over-all situation of valve has expanded its influences on enterprises further. International market has higher requirements for quality, packaging and delivery time of valve products from china. Some are even extended to research and production of products, combining products with environment protection, energy resources and cultural environment.
The insiders analyze that there are two aspects of reasons resulting in passivity on Chinese valve market. One is that Chinese valve products still fall behind foreign products. The quality still needs to be improved. The other is that some consumers have poor awareness of localization. Some even set threshold factitiously so that Chinese manufacturer cannot win the bidding when bidding with foreign manufacturers.
Valve industry should change current productive relations, enhancing technical innovation to face with more and more serious homogenization. Under the rigorous situation, valve manufacturers should realize that valve products having low cost and low technical content are still full of market, which not only disturb the judgment and buying desire of consumers, but also stop valve market from transferring maturely.
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