Carbon black high-quality development encountered four roadblocks

"At present, the carbon black industry is experiencing four major problems, such as structural overcapacity, shortage of raw oil supply, disorderly competition in the market and severe export situation." Referring to the real problems faced by the high-quality development of the industry, Wei Ming, chairman of the carbon black branch of the China Rubber Industry Association, said. This is the reporter from March 14 held the 2019 China Carbon Black Annual Meeting and General Assembly learned that
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overcapacity. Wei Ming said that since 2002, the country's carbon black production capacity has maintained an annual growth rate of nearly 400,000 tons. By 2018, the country's total carbon black production capacity reached 7.52 million tons, the output of only 5.7 million tons, the industry has serious overcapacity. In the next two years, there will still be large new capacity, the problem of overcapacity in the industry will become more prominent.
continue to face multiple pressures such as shortage of raw oil, industry profits are low. Wei Ming stressed that with the change of national macro-policy and the weakness of the downstream tire market, the situation in the carbon black industry continued to decline, with the average operating rate of the industry remaining at only about 70% in the past five years. From 2009 to 2018, China's carbon-black industry has made great stroth of progress, but the industry's profit margins are low, the industry has been in a small profit until 2017, and even in 2015 a loss. The industry's profit margin was only 7% last year, and the outlook for 2019 is even bleaker.
market disorderly competition. Wei Ming said that with the increasing contradiction between supply and demand, the pressure of industry enterprises to operate is increasing, the market homogenization of competition is becoming more and more intense, the business situation of enterprises is becoming more and more difficult. Due to the lack of effective market control mechanism, in order to compete for limited market resources, carbon black enterprises blindly snapped up raw materials, products continue to reduce prices, seriously disrupt the market, accelerate the decline of the market.
export situation remains grim. Wei Ming pointed out that, because China's carbon black enterprise layout is only in china, the export situation mainly depends on the global oil carbon black oil and domestic carbon black coal tar series of resources price difference. In recent years, global oil prices are running at a low level, while domestic coal tar has been a tight product, high price fluctuations, China's carbon black enterprises lost export price advantage. Coupled with the export market facing anti-dumping and green technical barriers and other difficulties, the original export plan of part of the carbon black production to the domestic market, so that domestic competition is becoming increasingly white hot.