With the rapid increase of domestic silicone rubber market demand, China has become the world center of silicon rubber consumption, while the foreign main silicon rubber producing countries and regions, will also expand the market of our country. China's neighboring countries Japan, Russia silicone rubber production capacity has more than 1000000 tons / year, and South Korea, China's Taiwan region and the southeast of the silicone rubber industry is developing rapidly. At the same time, the main varieties of silicon rubber in China, CIS polybutadiene rubber (BR) has been able to meet the domestic demand, styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) device construction is speeding up, the next few years may also have excess, in recent years the domestic enterprise are put forward on the import of silicon rubber anti-dumping lawsuits increasing, these augur well for future the competition of domestic silicone rubber market will be increasingly fierce.
China silicon rubber industry has four major competitive advantage. The healthy development of silicon rubber industry, depends on constant speed up its own technological progress, strengthening development of high performance products. At present, China's synthetic rubber industry competition advantage:
There is support for the core technology. Our country has established includes 7 basic types of plastic than the complete product system, which has the support of a strong solution polymerized styrene butadiene rubber (SSBR), the core technology of thermoplastic styrene butadiene rubber (SBS) and butadiene rubber (BR) and other products in the domestic market share is higher, and the expansion of capacity in time according to the development of the market capacity, is conducive to further expand market share. Ethylene propylene rubber (EPR), nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) and butyl rubber (IIR) and other products imported technology construction device, the products have successfully entered the market, and there is a certain development in the device capabilities and product brands, has established the market and technical basis for the further expansion of capacity.
The huge market demand in china. The world rubber industry investment focus has shifted to the developing countries, especially in China, China is becoming the key regions of the world tire and rubber products manufacturing and processing base in the world market competition and silicone rubber.
Domestic natural rubber resources shortage. Our long-term supply of natural rubber, imports in 2000 from 850000 tons in 2007 rose to more than 160 tons, external dependence is increasing. To improve the use ratio of silicone rubber has become an important way to solve natural rubber supply problems, some can partially or completely replace natural rubber of silicon rubber will have greater market.
Adequate supply of raw materials such as butadiene. The main raw material for the production of synthetic rubber is butadiene and styrene, acrylonitrile and a certain amount of ethylene, propylene, isobutylene, isoprene and chloroprene. Ethylene industry in China sustained and rapid development, will provide adequate resources for butadiene synthetic rubber industry. With a number of domestic new construction and expansion of the ethylene plant completed and put into production, raw material supply situation will be improved a lot of butadiene butadiene, China's net imports in 2004 from 155000 tons in 2007 fell to 86000 tons, self-sufficiency rate increased from 82% in 2004 to 95% in 2007. In the next few years, butadiene amount of resources will no longer is the main factor to restrict the development of silicon rubber. In addition, in 2010 China's styrene production capacity will reach about 6000000 tons / year, while demand is about 5800000 tons, the contradiction between supply and demand will be basically solved. Overall arrangement from the point of view of technology or investment, a by-product of ethylene plant which can be used for manufacturing silicon rubber isoprene isobutylene resources and long-term as a low-cost fuel utilization situation will gradually change. Isoprene resources 2010 China's ethylene plant coproducing carbon fifth of more than 300000 tons, the comprehensive utilization of resources and development of five carbon isoprene rubber industry more and more attention by. The situation of supply and demand of acrylonitrile, chloroprene and other raw materials will also be changed.
The influence of the change of import market and downstream industry development. Neighboring countries and regions producers continued influx. Our neighbouring Russia, South Korea, Japan and China's Taiwan region mostly silicon rubber production capacity surplus, will accelerate the influx to the domestic market. With the further opening up of China's market, foreign manufacturers to obtain distribution rights in our sales of products, can be directly set up trade mechanism and distribution system, further reduce import product circulation costs, reduce the price of imported products. In addition, the level of management, sophisticated marketing means foreign can also rely on the higher to business products, which will be more intense direct competition in the market and the domestic manufacturers a full range of. Part of China's rubber for the lack of core technology. Our country still has some gum brands lack of its own core technology support, these varieties to expand production capacity is still subject to high input and the introduction of technology and equipment constraints, will increase the uncertainty of investment, increase the risk of. Rubber downstream market facing international competition. In China's synthetic rubber imports, its way of processing trade accounted for more than 50%. The rise of developing countries, such as India Brazil rubber industry in recent years, bring enormous pressure to rubber products export in china. Compared with foreign products, domestic products competitive in the market quality, service and cost price, these are variable factors of rubber products export volume growth and synthetic rubber capacity expansion of our country's. The impact of the industry development of downstream industry structure adjustment. At present, the capital structure and product structure of domestic rubber processing enterprises is undergoing major changes, including foreign controlled or wholly owned share rise further: on the one hand car synthetic rubber used a higher proportion of radial tire market, yield 70% as foreign controlled or wholly owned enterprises share, domestic synthetic rubber into holding foreign tire enterprises by technology standard and use habits and other factors; on the other hand, the domestic synthetic rubber tradition downstream market bias truck tire, the products are accelerating structural adjustment to all steel radial truck tire tread rubber, and has the extensive application of BR and SBR, most will be converted to natural rubber, is bound to exacerbate the contradiction between supply and demand of domestic natural rubber. How to tread production of all steel radial truck tire use which kind of synthetic rubber and synthetic rubber continued to occupy the domestic part of the market, has become a major concern of enterprises processing rubber and silicone rubber production enterprises.
