There is a huge demand potential for the transformation of chemical machinery to benign development

It is predicted that with the rapid growth of 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, in 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 quantity expansion to quality improvement in order to adapt to the new changes in the demand of petroleum and chemical industries. The 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, and a large number of modern large-scale petrochemical equipment imports are one of the main reasons for the low economic benefits of the industry. However, China's chemical machinery industry ushered in a booming market in 2004, which reversed the loss situation of the whole industry. The main reasons are as follows: firstly, the domestic and foreign markets have a strong demand for petroleum and chemical equipment; secondly, technological progress has improved the economic benefits of the whole industry; thirdly, progress has been made in industrial restructuring and enterprise restructuring.

According to the annual report of China's chemical machinery market research from 2004 to 2005, from the perspective of demand structure, the demand potential of petrochemical machinery and plastic machinery is still great. It can be said that the economic benefits of chemical machinery industry will maintain stable growth after going through difficulties, and it is expected to end the long-term deficit situation and start to transform into a benign development.

According to industry analysis, since last year, with the international crude oil price rising, refineries have set off a climax of building or reforming oil hydrogenation units in order to improve the yield of light oil in the refining process. It is reported that at present, there are more than 100 sets of hydrogenation units in China, while 45 units are under construction and newly built from the second half of 2004 to the first half of 2005. The domestic demand for hydrogenation units has suddenly increased, which makes the equipment manufacturing enterprises in short supply. In 2004, many chemical machinery manufacturing enterprises received a large number of orders that had not been seen for many years, and the sales volume of products increased significantly, and increased by 30% in the first half of this year. Obviously, petrochemical industry provides strong support for the development of chemical machinery industry.

At the same time, 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 was successfully put into operation in Dalian Petrochemical Company, which indicates that China has owned the complete set of catalytic cracking technology with independent intellectual property rights, and has the engineering design, production and construction strength of large-scale catalytic cracking unit; the ethylene cold box designed and manufactured by Hangzhou oxygen making plant has been completed in the 710000 T / a ethylene plant of Yanhua The successful development of 10000 cubic meters natural gas spherical tank, a national major technical equipment localization innovation project undertaken by Hefei General Machinery Research Institute, has filled in ^.

Not long ago, Sui Yongbin, director of the national major equipment office, and other leaders of domestic equipment manufacturing industry visited Yongjia County, Zhejiang Province, the hometown of pumps and valves in China. They appreciated that they had positioned the development of pump and valve equipment manufacturing in the petroleum and chemical industry, and devoted themselves to the development and production of high temperature, high pressure and high parameter large pump and valve equipment with large market demand. In this regard, a person in charge of Sinopec Ningbo Engineering Co., Ltd. hopes that domestic chemical machinery manufacturing enterprises will adjust the product structure as soon as possible, improve the technical content, and meet the needs of advanced, large-scale and complex projects.

In the long run, the domestic chemical machinery market will maintain a relatively optimistic development trend in the next few years. According to some analysis, in the next five years, oil refining and ethylene will become the leading and core of petrochemical industry, and China's chemical machinery industry will present seven major development trends: traditional superior products will still obtain a higher market share, such as major equipment such as high pressure vessels in large-scale ammonia and urea plants, and energy-saving technology transformation and product structure adjustment of petrochemical enterprises need There will be a large development space for equipment; there will be a large market for energy-saving and efficient unit equipment; development and innovation of environmental protection equipment will become a new growth point of chemical equipment; the large-scale petrochemical plant will bring large-scale equipment; export products and substitute imported products have great potential, such as tire molding and vulcanizing press in rubber equipment, and main equipment of radial tire It has obvious price advantage in substituting import; petroleum and chemical products storage and transportation equipment will obtain a specific market share.