Curb the extraordinary development of iron alloys, eliminate backward and orderly advancement
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According to the elimination of the backward schedule of the industrial sector formulated by the State Council, this year China will completely eliminate the ore electric furnace below 6300kVA. According to the China Ferroalloy Industry Association, China will further phase out 3 million tons of backward production capacity in the total capacity of 33.6 million tons.
Industry access conditions still need to be improved Although the industry's entry threshold has gradually increased in recent years, China's ferroalloy equipment capacity is still expanding, and the overcapacity has become the consensus of the industry.
Yang Zhizhong, a professor-level senior engineer at the Iron and Steel Research Institute, believes that the “quantity threshold†for not building capacity and electric furnace equipment construction is likely to be one of the reasons why ferroalloy production capacity is still growing. “For example, for ferroalloy production equipment, there is no limit set for the construction of 25000kVA and 12500kVA submerged arc furnaces in remote areas.â€
At the same time, due to the ineffectiveness of local elimination of backwardness, large-capacity, low-level electric furnace equipment is still being repeatedly constructed, and the elimination of small-sized electric furnaces is planned to be delayed and even in production.
In Yang Zhizhong's view, in order to ensure that the relevant national industrial policies can be put in place, the iron alloy industry must be strictly implemented after the elimination of the iron alloy industry.
The extraordinary production capacity of key products The development of high-energy, high-polluting metal silicon, for example, overcapacity, market disorderly competition is the main obstacle to its sustainable development.
The reporter learned from the metal silicon industry policy seminar held at the end of March that in recent years, China's metal silicon production capacity has expanded significantly, from more than 20,000 tons in the 1970s to more than 2 million tons. However, there are only more than 200 of the more than 500 metal silicon producers that can maintain normal production, and the capacity utilization rate is only 50%.
According to statistics from the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, the concentration and disorderly competition of China's metal silicon exports in 2009 has not changed. The share of the top 20 metal silicon exporters has fallen from 57.3% in 2008 to 52.5%.
At the same time, China's metal silicon industry process technology, equipment level behind is also an indisputable fact. According to statistics, the current domestic metal silicon smelting power consumption is about 12,000-13,000 kWh/ton, which is higher than the foreign advanced level of about 2000-3000 kWh/ton.
Yang Zhizhong said: "In recent years, the inexhaustible polysilicon heat has promoted the rapid expansion of metal silicon production capacity in Yunnan, Sichuan, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and other places."
According to statistics, the output of domestic silicon for polysilicon last year increased by more than four times, possibly reaching 60,000 to 80,000 tons.
Similar to the development trajectory of metal silicon, the rapid development of stainless steel has driven the expansion of China's electrolytic manganese capacity to a certain extent. In recent years, a number of electrolytic manganese projects have been launched in Chongqing, Hubei, Guangxi, Hunan, Ningxia and Liaoning.
According to the statistics of the Stainless Steel Branch of China Metal Materials Circulation Association, as of 2009, there are 188 electrolytic manganese production enterprises in China with a production capacity of 2.11 million tons, but the industrial concentration is low, and small-scale enterprises with a capacity of less than 10,000 tons account for a large proportion. Most of the top four companies have a combined capacity of less than 15% of the country's total capacity.
According to the list of enterprises that eliminated backward production capacity in the ferroalloy industry announced by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 180 ferroalloy and industrial silicon production enterprises eliminated 6.62 million tons of backward production capacity and eliminated 265 electric furnaces below 12,500 kVA.
Among them, the three provinces in Guizhou, Hunan and Guangxi ranked the top three in terms of elimination and backward tasks, reaching 37.04, 26.9 and 166,000 tons respectively. It is worth mentioning that the electrolytic manganese production capacity of Hunan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces is very concentrated, and it is known as the manganese triangle area.
This year, China will further strengthen the elimination of backwardness in the ferroalloy industry, and the submerged arc furnace below 6300kVA has become a hard standard for the country to eliminate. Zheng Lixin, deputy director of the Industrial Policy Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at the press conference on the operation of the industrial communications industry in the first quarter of this year that the relevant departments of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology are linking with the provincial industrial authorities on the specific indicators for eliminating backward production capacity, and strive to carry out various tasks in May. Decomposed into various provinces, districts, and cities.
At present, from the actual action of the localities, the elimination of backward plans across the country is also progressing in an orderly manner.
Taking Guizhou Province as an example, as early as March 19, the Guizhou Provincial Industrial and Information Commission announced the first batch of plans to eliminate backward production capacity this year. According to the plan, before June 30 this year, 106,000 tons of iron alloy outdated capacity from 10 companies in Liupanshui, Zunyi, Tongren and Southeastern Guizhou will be eliminated. These include the elimination of one 6300kVA submerged arc furnace in Zhongshanshan Shenfa Ferroalloy Plant, the elimination of one 6300kVA submerged arc furnace by Liuzhi Special Zone Yuxing Silicon Industry Co., Ltd., and the elimination of two 6300kVA submerged arc furnaces by Liuzhi Special Zone Xinzhongji Chemical Co., Ltd. A 6300kVA submerged arc furnace was eliminated from the Huaquan Ferroalloy Plant in Gonggong County.
In addition to Guizhou Province, Yunnan, Qinghai and Shanxi provinces have also developed a plan for the annual iron alloy elimination backward.
According to the “Guiding Opinions on the Elimination of Backward Capacity in Yunnan Province in 2010†issued by the Yunnan Provincial Industry and Information Technology Commission, this year Yunnan Province will speed up the work of eliminating backward production capacity, implement differentiated treatment, support superiority and eliminate inferiority, and merge and reorganize and phase out production. Combined, it plans to phase out the backward production capacity of iron alloys of 83,000 tons.
For a long time, the industrial energy consumption level in Qinghai Province has been generally high. In order to reduce the energy consumption per unit of industrial added value, the province has focused on the energy-saving technological transformation of key industries and key enterprises and the elimination of backward production capacity, and has continuously increased the intensity of industrial restructuring. This year, the province plans to eliminate 160,000 tons of backward ferroalloy production capacity.
Shanxi Province has also set an annual iron and steel phase-out target, and will eliminate 30,000 tons of iron alloy backward production capacity, involving 14 enterprises. Among them, Shanxi Yiyi Ferroalloy Co., Ltd. and Shanxi Xinxing Coal and Electricity Group eliminated 3 outdated production equipment.
Related reports Intensified competition in the ferroalloy market At the same time as the domestic overcapacity is oversupplied, the Chinese ferroalloy market has already felt strong competition from foreign ferrochrome and manganese-silicon alloy products.
According to the statistics of China Iron and Steel Association, due to the sharp decline in exports and the significant increase in imports, China’s ferroalloy import and export pattern has undergone a major reversal in 2009 – from a net export of 171.14 million tons in 2008 to a net import of 1,640,500 tons. The first year of importing a large number of ferroalloys. From the perspective of imported products, China imported a total of 2.504 million tons of ferrochrome and nickel-iron last year, accounting for 93.7% of the total imports of ferroalloys.
It is worth mentioning that this year China has continued the rapid growth of ferroalloy imports. In the first two months, China imported a total of 420,300 tons of ferroalloys, an increase of 68.58% over the same period of last year; the net import of ferroalloys was 253,500 tons, an increase of 137.8%.
Luo Bingsheng, executive vice president of China Iron and Steel Association, said that from the perspective of the development of the whole year, the trend of China's ferroalloy imports exceeding exports should not change significantly. At the same time, domestic ferroalloy production capacity will be further released. In the first two months of this year, China produced a total of 3.43 million tons of ferroalloys, a year-on-year increase of 41%.
According to industry experts, the output of ferroalloys in the first half of this year will basically maintain the trend in the second half of 2009, reaching a monthly output of 1.9 million to 2 million tons. The monthly ferroalloy production in the second half of the year may reach 2.1 million to 2.2 million tons. From 24 million to 25 million tons, it has increased by nearly 3 million tons compared with 2009, an increase of 3%.
Yang Zhizhong, a professor-level senior engineer at the Iron and Steel Research Institute, believes that the increase in ferroalloy production will further intensify competition in the ferroalloy market, and that the reduction and discontinuation of ferroalloy enterprises will increase. “Unsatisfactory living conditions will cause some ferroalloy companies to close down and go bankrupt, and successful ferroalloy companies will grow through mergers and acquisitions.â€
Faced with the expansion of domestic production capacity and the strong entry of foreign products, China's ferroalloy industry will achieve development in this turmoil this year.