In recent years, with large-scale infrastructure investment at home and abroad and the rapid progress of industrialization, aluminum profiles as an important application material in the field of construction and machinery industry, the industry’s production and consumption of rapid growth, Europe and the United States and other countries and China has become the world’s aluminum profile production base and consumer market. After nearly 10 years of rapid growth, the aluminum industry has entered a new stage of development, and showed a lot of new development trends.
Construction aluminum consumption will remain in strong demand for a long time. Benefit from the accelerated urbanization process, the old building renovation and renewal, construction aluminum profile consumption will still maintain rapid growth. In particular, the second and third-tier cities, small towns and rural markets will gradually become the main market for aluminum profile consumption. It is expected that in the next few years, the construction of aluminum profiles will maintain a relatively stable growth.
Industrial aluminum profile consumption will grow rapidly, high-end products become mainstream. Some developing countries are in the middle of industrialization, the next 20 or 30 years, is to step into the middle developed countries, to achieve the third step of the strategic objectives of the key period. And aluminum profiles in the industrial field of application space is huge, for example, China’s existing 124 industrial sectors, 113 sectors use aluminum products, the proportion of 91%.
At the same time, with the lightweight transportation industry, electronic and electric power industry and the development of machinery manufacturing industry, aluminum profiles in industrial applications continue to broaden, medium and high-strength industrial aluminum profiles, tubes and bars of the demand is growing rapidly. In the next few years, the consumption of industrial aluminum profiles in the proportion of total consumption of aluminum profiles will rise year by year, the proportion of aluminum profile products will rise from the current about 30% to about 45-50% in 2015, and gradually occupy a dominant position in the market.
Technological innovation has become the driving force of the industry. According to the “non-ferrous metal industry adjustment and revitalization plan”, countries will focus on supporting non-ferrous metal technology transformation, research and development, strengthen the research and development of high-performance special aluminum production process; support the export of deep-processed products with high technological content and high value-added products; increase the non-ferrous metal industry technology research and development and technological transformation support, encourage and guide the enterprise to actively promote the energy-saving technological transformation; the technological transformation of enterprises in the issuance of shares, Bank loans and other support.
With the industrial policy, industrial structure adjustment and consumer demand for product quality improvement, aluminum processing industry crude, low value-added status quo gradually change, across the primary development stage characterized by quantitative growth, began to enter a new stage to improve the intrinsic quality of products, rich product variety, relying on comprehensive strength to participate in market competition. With the development of the industry into a new stage, the future integration within the industry will continue to increase, some products positioned in the low-end market and production processes and equipment technology backward enterprises will face the market, capital, cost, energy consumption, technology and other aspects of the pressure, gradually eliminated by the market. A part of the leading production technology, quality, market-oriented, innovative ability, advanced management of enterprises will occupy more market share. With the internal integration of the industry, the restructuring and merger of aluminum profile enterprises will be accelerated, and enterprises will develop in the direction of grouping, large-scale, specialization and branding. Product technology development, quality, management capabilities, sales and service and other comprehensive strength has become a key factor for enterprises to become bigger and stronger.
Products in the field of energy conservation and environmental protection and new energy applications. In the field of building energy conservation, according to the Ministry of Housing and Construction estimates, building energy consumption accounts for about 25% of the total energy consumption of society as a whole, being doors, windows, curtain walls and other enclosure structure heat transfer energy consumption accounted for 20% -50% of the building energy consumption. Therefore, heat-insulating aluminum alloy products with excellent energy-saving effect have a wide range of application space. 2010 – 2015, energy-saving aluminum alloy profile products represented by heat-insulating aluminum alloy products will maintain a compound annual growth rate of more than 30%.
Transportation, home appliances, electronics and mechanical equipment and other fields, due to aluminum products with lightweight, low price, recyclability characteristics, in the national emphasis on energy saving and environmental protection under the premise of the aluminum profile in the transportation, home appliances, electronics and mechanical equipment and other areas of the future market is very huge. Aluminum profiles in the field of new energy and environmental protection are widely used. In recent years, the new energy and environmental protection industry to an average annual rate of more than 20% of rapid growth, which is widely used when the solar energy and LED industries, and aluminum profiles due to good thermal conductivity, light weight and other advantages, in these industries gradually get a lot of applications.