China Non-metallic Refractory Building Materials Market Report, 2012

China Non-metallic Refractory Building Materials Market Report, 2012

China Non-metallic Refractory Building Materials Market

In recent years, driven by the rapid development of new technology in high-temperature industry, China’s refractory industry adheres to the scientific development concept, change concepts and focus on independent innovation so as to achieve outstanding achievements in many aspects, such as the upgrading of industrial structure, product structure adjustment, independent innovation, upgrading of craft and equipment, the industrial competitiveness all over the world and many other aspects. These achievements have laid a solid foundation for the development of China’s steel and high-temperature industries. 

In 2011, China’s main refractory materials production areas are Henan, Liaoning, Shandong and Shanxi, the production of these four provinces accounted for 86.86% of the country’s total output. 

In 2011, the national refractory output was 29.4969 million tons, of which the output of dense shaped refractory product was 17.6522 million tons, year on year growth 3.90%; the output of heat preservation and heat insulation refractory products was 673,400 tons, year-on-year growth 4.57%; the output of unshaped refractory products was 11.1713 million tons, year-on-year growth 6.93%.

Among the dense shaped refractory products, there are 4.2196 million tons of clay bricks, 2.8799 million tons of high alumina bricks, 2.6340 million tons of siliceous bricks and 2.0654 million tons of magnesia bricks, year-on-year growth 4.98%, 2.19%, 6.48% and 21.33% respectively. Special refractory products (include carbon-contained products, casting products and functional refractory materials) are 4.0724 million tons, decreased by 6.07%. 

With the up towards trend of international and domestic macroeconomic situation, China’s high-temperature industry will usher a new round of development opportunities in the next few years, which brings development opportunities and market space for refractory industry. We can estimate that the development space of refractory materials’ numbers is limited, the space for variety structure adjustment is huge, the service mode will converse and the industrial layout will have adjustment. The demand for refractory materials will have no large growth but the demand for high performance materials is bound to increase, of which the advanced refractory materials’ market space such as functional type, energy-saving type, environmental-friendly type materials will further expand; the demand for ordinary products will reduce gradually.