2023 China Refractory Industry Market Development Overview
With the development of China's economic transformation and energy conservation and emission reduction, compression of backward production capacity and other industrial policies, the growth rate of iron and steel, non-ferrous, building materials and other high-temperature industries has slowed down, but also indirectly guided the development direction of refractory materials, in recent years, China's refractory industry market size overall growth, as of 2022, the market size of about 171.798 billion yuan.
Keywords: refractory industry chain, refractory production, refractory import and export, refractory market size, refractory demand, refractory trend
According to "Refractory Terminology" GB/T18930-2020, refractories refer to non-metallic materials whose physical and chemical properties are suitable for use in high temperature environments, but it is not excluded that some products may contain a certain amount of metal materials. Refractories are used in various fields of the national economy such as steel, non-ferrous metals, glass, cement, ceramics, petrochemicals, machinery, boilers, light industry, electric power, military industry, etc. They are essential basic materials to ensure the production operation and technological development of the above industries, and play an irreplaceable important role in the development of high-temperature industrial production. The demand for refractory materials is closely related to the development of high-temperature industries, especially iron and steel, building materials and other industries. China's refractory industry implements a regulatory system that combines competent departments and industry associations with self-regulatory organizations.
Among them, the industry authorities for the national Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, undertake macro-management functions, supervision and management of refractory industry, formulate industrial development policies, regulations, etc.; The industry self-regulatory organization is mainly the China Refractory Industry Association, whose main responsibility is to assist the government in implementing the industry management and coordination role, safeguard the overall interests of the industry and the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises in the industry, and guide the healthy development of the industry. In recent years, the relevant departments of the state have conducted policy guidance and normative requirements in terms of eliminating backward production capacity and improving the entry threshold of the refractory industry, so as to promote the upward concentration of the refractory industry. The upstream industry of refractory materials is mainly refractory raw material processing manufacturing. Refractory raw materials are divided into natural raw materials and synthetic raw materials. Natural raw materials mainly include bauxite, magnesite, graphite, clay, dolomite, quartz and other mineral raw materials and the use of these mineral raw materials through sintering, melting, processing of raw materials (such as high aluminum, corundum, magnesia, etc.); Synthetic raw materials mainly include mullite, spinel, etc., is the use of one or more natural raw materials or purified raw materials through a certain synthetic process processing to optimize the performance of raw materials; The downstream industries of refractory materials are mainly steel, building materials, non-ferrous metals, chemicals, power and other industries, and downstream demand changes will affect the consumption of refractory materials.
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