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

According to the China Chemical Equipment Association forecast, along with the petroleum and chemical industry "eleventh Five-Year" period will continue to grow rapidly, China's chemical machinery industry in the next few years will usher in a new period of development.

At present, under the good situation of increasing investment in the petroleum and chemical industry, China's chemical machinery industry is quietly carrying out a new round of strategic transformation from quantitative expansion to qualitative improvement in order to adapt to the new changes in the demand of the petroleum and chemical industry. China Petroleum and Petrochemical Equipment Industry Association experts recently pointed out that China's chemical machinery industry has been on the brink of loss for a long time, and a large number of modern large-scale petrochemical equipment imports are one of the main reasons for the low economic efficiency of the industry. However, China's chemical machinery industry in 2004 ushered in a boom in production and sales, reversing the industry-wide loss situation. The main reasons are as follows: firstly, the domestic and foreign markets have strong demand for petroleum and chemical equipment; Secondly, technological progress has improved the economic efficiency of the whole industry; 3) Progress was made in industrial restructuring and enterprise restructuring.

According to the annual report of China Chemical Machinery market research from 2004 to 2005, from the perspective of demand structure, the current demand potential of petrochemical machinery, plastic machinery and so on is still very large. It can be said that the chemical machinery industry after experiencing difficulties, economic benefits will maintain stable growth, is expected to end the long-term loss situation, began to change to benign development.

Since last year, with the international oil price soaring, oil refineries have been constructing or remodeling oil hydrogenation units to increase the yield of light oil in the refining process, industry experts said. It is reported that at present, China has more than 100 sets of hydrogenation units, and from the second half of 2004 to the first half of 2005, there are 45 sets of new hydrogenation units under construction. The demand for domestic hydrogenation units has suddenly increased, making the equipment manufacturing enterprises appear in short supply of products. In 2004, many chemical machinery manufacturing enterprises received a large number of orders not seen for many years, and product sales increased significantly, and increased by 30% in the first half of this year. Obviously, the petrochemical industry has provided strong support for the development of the chemical machinery industry.

At the same time of strong growth in demand and improved economic benefits, China's petroleum and chemical machinery and equipment industry has also made great achievements in independent research and development in recent years, cultivating a certain market competitiveness. For example, the 3.5 million tons/year heavy oil catalytic cracking unit designed and manufactured by China is successful in a commissioning test in Dalian Petrochemical, marking that China has owned complete sets of catalytic cracking technology with independent intellectual property rights, and has the engineering design, production and construction strength of world-renowned large-scale catalytic cracking units; The ethylene cold box designed and manufactured by Hangzhou Oxygen Machine Factory was successfully put into operation at the 710,000 tons/year ethylene plant in Yanhua, realizing the localization of large ethylene cold boxes and reaching the international advanced level; The successful development of 10,000 cubic meters of natural gas spherical tank, a national major technical equipment localization innovation project undertaken by Hefei General Machinery Research Institute, filled the domestic gap. Not long ago, the director of the National major equipment Office Sui Yongbin and other domestic equipment manufacturing industry leaders and experts visited the town of China's pump valve - Zhejiang Yongjia County, the development of its pump valve equipment manufacturing positioned in the petroleum and chemical industry, committed to the market demand for high temperature, high pressure and high parameter large pump valve equipment development and production is quite appreciated. In this regard, a person in charge of Sinopec Ningbo Engineering Company hopes that domestic chemical machinery manufacturing enterprises should adjust the product structure as soon as possible according to the demand, improve the technical content, and 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 leading and core of the petrochemical industry, China's chemical machinery industry will show seven development trends: traditional brand advantages will still gain a high market share, such as large ammonia and urea plants in the high-pressure vessels and other major equipment; The equipment needed for energy saving technology transformation and product structure adjustment in petrochemical enterprises will have a large space for development; Energy-saving and efficient unit equipment will have a large market; The development and innovation of environmental protection equipment will become a new growth point of chemical equipment; Large-scale petrochemical equipment will bring large-scale equipment; Export products and alternative import products have great potential, such as rubber equipment in the tire vulcanization machine export has a good prospect, radial tire main equipment in the replacement of imports has a clear price advantage; Oil and chemical products storage and transportation equipment will gain a specific market share.