Aluminum alloy wire and cable industry will be the future star
Aluminum net news: aluminum alloy both from the perspective of the cost of production point of view, or from the scope of application point of view, have great potential, but also very likely in the next few years, instead of copper core wire and cable manufacturing enterprises to become the new favorites. And overall, both the high copper prices, or with the power grid construction in new climax, will bring opportunities to the development of aluminum alloy, perfect more let wire and cable production enterprises find copper core alternatives, get rid of dependence on copper.
In recent years, copper prices high ordered the majority of wire and cable production enterprises suffer unspeakably, along with the increase of production cost, meager profits is to let some wire and cable manufacturing enterprises then. Can say even, the market some shoddy, Quejinduanliang, lack of meters short code etc. phenomenon, also with copper prices have inalienable relation. In line with the principle of the supremacy of interests, since the customer requirements is the copper core cable, so in order to gain more profits, can only use their brains in copper, so copper doped, wrapped in the industry such as bad phenomenon meet the eye everywhere.
Of course, in addition to the high price of copper, has its own advantages, otherwise it is impossible to let the production of wire and cable business so dependent on the China. Copper has excellent electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity, so let Chinese wire and cable manufacturing enterprises to find it difficult to tear apart, even just the wire and cable industry year amount to occupy the country for more than copper copper content of 60%! But as everyone knows, China not copper resources country, on the contrary, in China, present situation of copper resources shortage is a problem that can not be avoided, therefore resulting in copper prices have been high.
But, in fact, copper core cable also has its own shortcomings, mainly in the difficult easy installation, installation of high cost, caused by theft, prone to aging, but although the disadvantages of more significant, but because China wire and cable industry inert larger, don't like or that are not easy to choose actively to change the status quo, so the industry lack the strength of the R & D of copper core cable replacement, and put more energy used for low copper on panic buying. But even snatch the compared to cheaper copper, but compared to the development of a copper substitutes, the cost is still high. Considering from the long-term point of view, the development of a new material, thus changing of copper over reliance on such a situation, is the first step to market, other competitors step approach.
In recent years, the enterprise also has invested money and manpower for the development of new materials, has developed the aluminum cable, copper clad aluminum, copper clad steel and other products, but after the current market practice, still very not perfect. And because the performance and recycling and many other reasons have been restricted in application, failed to set off against the new atmosphere, with copper and copper balance. But from the front view of the objective reality, research and development of new materials to replace copper, still is crunch time for! Because of the current China's wire and cable industry is suffering from overcapacity, fierce competition of suffering, if not to find and develop high technology content, performance of new materials with excellent substitute price increasingly high copper, for wire and cable industry is undoubtedly a restriction. As for the wire and cable production enterprises, no doubt is a trap, a serious drag on the production of the enterprise profit margin.
Although both national level or industry in the passing each other, believes that the next five years, with the implementation of construction and urbanization project transmitting electricity from west to East, power grids, the step by step, wire and cable market capacity in China will maintain a considerable growth in 8% - 9% speed, but if you cannot break the excessive dependence on copper unable to break the bottleneck, new materials research and development, so for the wire and cable industry China speaking, perhaps more should be mixed.
Of course, the preliminary application of aluminum alloy cable is likely to break the wire and cable manufacturing enterprises only "copper" is a long-standing problem in the. This point whether in Asia high-end cable summit in 2012 or later, the industry to promote exchanges in many times, have shown, the development of visible aluminum alloy cable is very likely be a trend which cannot be halted, without limit. This fact, from Europe and other developed countries in Europe and the United States can be found according to the American, Canada, including wire and cable production giant using aluminum alloy cable has been nearly 40 years, and the aluminum alloy cable because of its good electrical performance and the safety performance is wire and cable manufacturers and the favor of the market. Therefore, American and Canada have developed cable product standards, the formation of a standardized production.
And with the development of power transmission technology and power transmission lines, aluminum alloy conductor increasingly shows its superiority, in the long distance, large span, ultra high voltage transmission, monopoly advantage. At present, Western Europe, northern Europe, Canada, Japan and other countries American, has been widely used in transmission line, America and France almost 80% more than the use of aluminum alloy wire, Japan also has reached more than 50%, the amount of use of the Southeast Asian countries in increases year by year, and the amount of the current application in China is less than 1%. Therefore, China wire and cable production enterprises can find broken raw material prices high hammer in aluminum alloy cable, aroused widespread interest in the industry.
National Quality Supervision and inspection center director Wu Changshun cable had been introduced specifically the superiority of aluminum alloy, he says, aluminum alloy conductor is through the alloy material, silicon, magnesium, iron and trace elements increase in aluminum and formed through the process of processing, thereby improving the bending, corrosion resistant, machine of aluminum