China Welding Materials Industry Production & Marketing and Investment Forecast Report

The most distinctive characteristics of this report is forward-looking and timeliness. Through analyzing forward-looking characteristic of abundant first-hand market data, we deeply and objectively dissect China welding materials industry’s market capacity, market size, competitive landscape and characteristics of market demand. Furthermore, based on future development tracks and years' practice experience of welding materials industry, we conduct prudent analysis and forecast for welding materials industry's future development trend. This report helps welding materials manufacturing enterprises, R&D institutions, marketing enterprises and investment enterprises to precisely grasp current latest developments of the industry. Afterwards, they can make wise operating decisions and define enterprises’ development directions. Moreover, this report is the first and weighty report on analyzing the development scale of up and down stream industries in welding materials industry and analyzin

At present, China has become the world’s largest steel manufacturing base. The output of steel is not only an important indicator to measure a nation’s overall economic strength, but also a pillar industry in China industrialization progress. The rapid and continuing growth of China’s economy promotes the fast development of steel industry, while the increasing and rapid development of steel output stimulates the strong development of China welding materials industry. China’s steel output and welding materials output has been the top in the 14 consecutive years. In 2009, China steel output and welding materials output accounted for about 50% of the world’s total output. In addition, China has become the largest welding materials R&D, manufacturing, sales, and consumption base. And China’s welding materials industry has a bright prospect. According to MIIT, China steel apparent consumption was 770 million tons in 2010. Currently, the ratio of welding materials and steel consumption was around 0.6%, so China’s welding materials consumption volume was about 465 tons.

According to relevant data, there are thousands of welding materials manufactures in China and many larger enterprises have formed in Tianjin, Zigong, Shanghai, Kunshan, Jinzhou and so on. Due to the continuing expansion of domestic market scale, many well-known international welding materials manufacturers have set up factories in China, utilizing their technical and capital advantages to occupy the high-end welding materials market and compete directly against domestic enterprises. China welding materials industry has a comparative higher marketilization; the ordinary low-end welding rods and copper wire contain little technical contents. So, in recent years, its severe overcapacity has been shown up. With increasingly fierce competition in the market, the industry tends to show mass-market and conglomeration business modes. Many domestic enterprises keeps nibbling the market by low-costs means, in the meantime, they further accelerate the speed of adjusting product structure, in order to occupy the high-end market.

Welding materials, as a basic material in welding industry, are widely used in infrastructure construction, energy transport, equipment manufacturing, petrochemical, steel industries, etc., which are closely related to every sector in national economy. From the current product structure of China welding materials industry, manual welding is still the main structure. In 2008, China welding rod in the proportion of welding materials was 48.9%, and automation welding rod solid core and drug core welding wire’s ratio was 40.5%. Compared to the developed countries, such as Japan, and Korea, the consumption of China’s higher degree automation welding rod is still very low. Since the 21st century, the automation welding rod in both Japan and Korea exceeds 80%. Therefore, the development strategy should be shifted in the future, gradually replacing the manual-type product with high automation degree and high efficient product; strengthening the quality of manual type welding rod towards the directions of toughness, low oxygen, and environmental protection, so as to different requirement for various types products, various welding structures and various condition.

The development history of world’s developed countries show the consumption volume of steel and welding materials keeps growing when a country is in an industrialization development stage. Nowadays, China is in the mid-term of this stage. The increasing investment in infrastructure construction, energy transport, equipment manufacturing, petrochemical, and steel industries, etc., not only enhances the continuing development of national economy, but also drives the demand for welding materials. In the next 5 years, the consumption volume of steel and welding materials will keep growing. The promotion of steel product and the optimization of its product, as well as the quality enhancement of various equipment manufacturing industries, infrastructure and key projects will put forward higher requirements to welding industry, thus China welding industry will shift from fast development trend to stable growth situation. Under the background of industrialization and urbanization, the growth of China welding materials industry will maintain at a growth pace of around 10%. The industry will shift from pursuing scale to quality. Those new type products with energy saving and pollution reduction will develop very rapidly in the future.

The better development prospect provides good opportunities to welding materials enterprises. Excellent welding materials manufacturing enterprises pay more attention to the industry market research, especially the indepth researches on the industry development environment and product buyers. With Forward's long-term tracking and collecting market data of welding materials industry, we roundly and accurately analyze the industry structure system for you from the view of mastering the whole industry. This report mainly focuses on analyzing China wind welding materials industry's market size, development speed and competitive landscape, depending on macro-prosperity of current wind welding materials industry and relying on its production and marketing condition as well as the demand trend.

The report mainly analyzes the development background of China welding materials industry; the current market environment of welding materials industry; the development status and balance of production and marketing of welding materials industry; the market development situation of main products in welding materials industry; the competitive landscape of welding materials industry; the leading corporations’ operational condition in welding materials industry; the demand and prospect forecast of welding materials industry; as well as the investment opportunities and risks of welding materials industry. Meanwhile, with comprehensive and specific first-hand market data, Forward helps you to grasp the market and development trends of welding materials industry, so as to win advantages from competition!

The most distinctive characteristics of this report is forward-looking and timeliness. Through analyzing forward-looking characteristic of abundant first-hand market data, we deeply and objectively dissect China welding materials industry’s market capacity, market size, competitive landscape and characteristics of market demand. Furthermore, based on future development tracks and years' practice experience of welding materials industry, we conduct prudent analysis and forecast for welding materials industry's future development trend. This report helps welding materials manufacturing enterprises, R&D institutions, marketing enterprises and investment enterprises to precisely grasp current latest developments of the industry. Afterwards, they can make wise operating decisions and define enterprises’ development directions. Moreover, this report is the first and weighty report on analyzing the development scale of up and down stream industries in welding materials industry and analyzing the leading corporations in an all-round and systematical way.

Here, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to State Information Center, Bureau of Statistics of China, China Customs, International Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Tsinghua University Library, Development Research Center of the State Council and Beijing Essence Forward Research Center, for their great support when we conduct this report!

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Qianzhan Business Information Co., Ltd. Industry Research Center
Research Team of Welding Materials Industry