The present situation and tendency about Chinese valve market.

The competitions are fierce both in Chinese and world valve market, the main Chinese market is to establish new projects as well as old projects to maintain and rebuild the world market for valves. East Asia and Southeast Asia’ valve exporting and importing are increasing very fast as well as Germany, Italy, Japan and other regions. Valve exporting is increase in US, UK, France and the rest of the world. The International Corporation enables the valve market to go forward internationally.

There are more than 2000 mid and large valve manufacturers in China. Most of these companies are located in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and center region of China. Some Chinese valve companies can manufacture valves meet the ISO, DIN, AWWA standards. Some manufacturers produce good quality but some of them produce bad quality and that affect the good reputation of the Chinese valve market.

The solutions of the problem that Chinese valve market face:

A: Reduce the cost, improve the quality

B: Design new production with advanced technology and high quality, or manufacture Non-standard products.

C: Manufacture high-performance valves to meet the needs of the market.

D: Reward the international quality certification

E: The valve development should be environmentally friendly, energy-saving.

The largest valve consumers are petrochemical industry, power industry, metallurgical industry, the chemical industry and urban construction industry. The Petrochemical Industry mainly use API gate valve, globe valve and check valve. Power industry mainly use high temperature and pressure valve, globe valve, safety valve, drainage valve, low-voltage butterfly valve and gate valve. The chemical industry mainly use stainless steel gate valve, globe valves and check valve. The metallurgical industries mainly use large-diameter butterfly valve, oxygen globe valve, and oxygen Ball valves. Urban construction industry mainly use low-pressure valve. The city water piping mainly use large diameter gate valve. Buildings mainly use butterfly valve. The city heating mainly use metal seal butterfly valve and hydraulic valve. Oil pipeline mainly use plate gate valve and Ball valves. Food and pharmaceutical industry mainly uses stainless steel Ball valves, nontoxic plastic valve and butterfly valve.

Market have the following major trends:

1. In the oil industry, the oil exploitation has been transferred from the mainland to the offshore oilfields. The power of the main thermal generator has been change from 30 kilowatts to more than 30 kilowatts; so valves should follow these changes and correspond to these changes.

2. The urban system need environmentally friendly plastic plate valve, balance valve, metal seal butterfly valve, though it mainly use low pressure iron gate valve; oil and gas pipelines also need a large number of plate gate valves and Ball valves.

3. The other side is to save energy, so development of (steam traps) with thigh subcritical and supercritical parameters also have good future.

4. The power plants are becoming more and larger, therefore the market need more and more large-diameter with high-pressure safety valve and pressure reducing valve andpreparing rapid valve;

5. The trend of one project required the valves are supplied by a special manufacturer, so the manufacturers should supply many specifications valve.

It is important for manufacturers to design new products, but design is not copy, Chinese manufacturers should adopt the advanced foreign technologies, and accord their own advantage to innovate new technology for the quality of the valves. In order to target this goal, the manufacturers should follow the following: first the makers should follow the consumers’ need to design the products. Secondly use new material and new technology to design the products. Third use information technology and intelligent technology to design products. Fourth, know well with the characteristics of large-scale Integrated Device to design the valves to suit it. There are many kinds of valves, and the demands of the market are changing, the manufacturers should follow the trendy of the market to design products, in this case it can push the valve market to develop properly.