China's chemical machinery and equipment into a new track of sound development

According to the prediction of China National Chemical Equipment Association, with the continued rapid growth of the petroleum and chemical industry during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, China's chemical machinery industry will usher in a new development period in the next few years.

  At present, under the favorable situation of increasing investment in the petroleum and chemical industries, the Chinese chemical machinery industry is quietly undergoing a new round of strategic transformation from quantitative expansion to qualitative improvement in order to adapt to the new changes in the needs of petroleum and chemical industries. Experts from China Petroleum and Petrochemical Equipment Industry Association recently pointed out that China's chemical machinery industry has been on the verge of loss for a long time. The large-scale import of modern large-scale petrochemical equipment is one of the main reasons for the low economic efficiency of the industry. However, China's chemical machinery industry ushered in the booming market of production and sales in 2004, which reversed the loss of the entire industry in one fell swoop. The main reasons are: firstly, there is strong demand for petroleum and chemical equipment in domestic and foreign markets; secondly, technological progress has improved the economic benefits of the entire industry; thirdly, progress has been made in industry structural adjustment and enterprise restructuring.

  According to the 2004-2005 annual report of China's chemical machinery market research, from the perspective of demand structure, the current demand potential of petrochemical machinery, plastic machinery, etc. is still great. It can be said that after going through hardships, the chemical machinery industry will maintain stable economic growth, and is expected to end the long-term loss situation and begin to change to a healthy development.

  Industry experts have analyzed that since last year, with the rise in international crude oil prices, oil refining companies have set off a climax in the construction or renovation of petroleum hydrogenation units in order to increase the yield of light oil products in the refining process. It is reported that China currently has more than 100 hydrogenation units, and there are 45 hydrogenation units under construction or newly constructed in the second half of 2004 and the first half of 2005. The sudden increase in the demand for domestic hydrogenation units has caused equipment manufacturers to be in short supply. In 2004, many chemical machinery manufacturing enterprises received a large number of orders that have not been seen for many years, and product sales increased substantially, and they increased by 30% in the first half of this year. Obviously, the petrochemical industry provides strong support for the development of the chemical machinery industry

      While the demand is growing strongly and the economic benefits are improving, China's petroleum and chemical machinery equipment industry has also achieved great results in independent research and development in recent years, cultivating certain market competitiveness. For example, the 3.5 million ton/year heavy oil catalytic cracking unit designed and manufactured by China has been successfully commissioned in Dalian Petrochemical, which indicates that China has since possessed independent intellectual property rights of catalytic cracking complete technology and has the engineering design, production and production of large-scale catalytic cracking units. Construction strength; the ethylene cold box designed and manufactured by Hangzhou Oxygen Making Plant was successfully put into operation in Yanhua’s 710,000 tons/year ethylene plant, which achieved the localization of large-scale ethylene cold box and reached the international advanced level; undertaken by Hefei General Machinery Research Institute The national key technological equipment localization innovation project-10,000 cubic meters of natural gas spherical tank was successfully developed, filling the domestic gap. Not long ago, Sui Yongbin, director of the National Major Equipment Office, and other domestic equipment manufacturing leaders and experts visited the hometown of pumps and valves in China—Yongjia County, Zhejiang Province, and positioned the development of pump and valve equipment manufacturing in the petroleum and chemical industries. The development and production of high-temperature, high-pressure and high-parameter large pump and valve equipment with high market demand are quite appreciated. In this regard, a person in charge of Sinopec Ningbo Engineering Company hopes that domestic chemical machinery manufacturing enterprises should adjust product structure as soon as possible to improve the technical content to meet the needs of advanced, large and complex projects.

       In the long run, the domestic chemical machinery market will maintain a relatively optimistic development trend in the next few years. Some experts believe that in the next five years, oil refining and ethylene will become the leader and core of the petrochemical industry, and China's chemical machinery industry will present seven major development trends: traditional products with superior brands will still gain a higher market share, such as large-scale synthetic ammonia And major equipment such as high-pressure vessels in urea plants; equipment required for energy-saving technological transformation and product structure adjustment in petrochemical enterprises will have greater room for development; energy-efficient high-efficiency unit equipment will have a large market; environmental protection equipment development innovation will become chemical New growth points of equipment; large-scale petrochemical installations will bring about large-scale equipment; export products and substitutes for imported products have great potential, such as rubber equipment, tire shaping vulcanizers and other exports have good prospects, radial tire main equipment There is a clear price advantage in terms of alternative imports; petroleum and chemical product storage and transportation equipment will gain a specific market share.