China’s Deep-Processing Glass Industry From Large To Strong

  Deep processing of glass for flat glass as the main raw material, and its development is also flat glass industry with the development of China's gradual rise. Glass industry is a basic raw material industries, and economic development are strongly linked, the more economically developed countries and regions, the glass needs of the greater growth. In 1978, the Party's Third Plenum was convened to begin reform and opening up policy, on economic development as the center, to the original backward brought thriving glass industry development opportunities. Since 1981, China's Luoyang Float Glass passed the first inspection, flat glass in China has entered a golden period of development. At present, the number of flat glass production lines and annual output of 19 consecutive years, ranking first in the world.

The development of flat glass industry, deep processing of glass provides the perfect foundation and opportunities. Although the deep-processing glass industry in China started late, but with the level of the domestic economy, rapidly rising living standards, people of glass safety, energy efficiency, comfort, aesthetics and environmental requirements are also getting higher and higher, coupled with policies and regulations to promote, the rapid development of deep processing of glass, especially glass, safety glass and energy, the annual growth rate of more than 30%. 30 years ago, China's only a handful of deep-processing of dozens of glass companies, and are basically vertical hanging produced a small glass factory. Today, China's hollow, steel and so deep processing of glass production enterprise to preliminary statistics have more than 4000, annual output of glass and hollow glass, nearly 2 million square meters of coated glass close to 1 million square meters, nearly 50 million square meters of laminated glass. The proportion of deep-processing glass in China accounted for 30% of the original piece of glass around the glass deep processing in 2006 gross industrial output for the first time more than flat glass, reaching 36.998 billion yuan.

In the field of deep processing of glass, architectural and interior decorative glass accounts for more than 80% share, followed by glass, automotive glass and electronics. In recent years, China's real estate more than 20% annual growth rate, an annual increase of residential and public and industrial building 20 million square meters, plus the amount of 40 billion square meters to maintain the maintenance of transformation, led to the construction and decoration of glass glass such as tempered glass, laminated glass, insulating glass, coated glass and so on strong demand. Among them, energy-efficient insulating glass with the increasingly tense energy, the application volume increases, deep processing of glass has become the fastest-growing species. At present, the domestic more than 80% of new public buildings are used in insulating glass, towns and cities for more than 40% of the new civil construction also used in insulating glass. With the state building energy conservation have become increasingly demanding, Low-E insulating glass is also more widely used. Studies have shown that per capita GDP in the 600 ~ 800 U.S. dollars / when the housing industry will enter rapid development period, while in 2007 China's per capita GDP has reached 2461 U.S. dollars is expected in 2010 China's per capita GDP will reach 3,000 U.S. dollars, the construction of deep-processing glass industry will be a huge pull the continuing role in the next few years.

The automobile industry is the second pillar of our national economy industries, the rapid development of automobile industry consumption of the automobile glass provides a strong guarantee. Over the next few decades, China's automobile industry will be at a relatively high stage of development, there is greater room for growth, is a huge market demand for deep-processing glass.

Solar glass is one of China's glass industry, new products, it is primarily with the development of photovoltaic industry, the burgeoning. In 2006, the global solar glass, the total demand of about 30 million square meters. In China, only the field of solar photovoltaic glass demand in 2010 will reach 25 million square meters, solar glass, market prospects are very bright. In recent years, China's solar glass industry has experienced from scratch, from small to large rapid stage of development. In just three or four years time, China has become the world's largest solar glass production and processing bases.

Development of information industry also contributed to the ultra-thin glass production and processing capabilities. Applied to various types of liquid crystal displays, filters, computer with CD-ROM, disk ITO conductive film substrate, is an important material for the electronics industry. At present, China has more than 60 of ITO conductive film glass production line, the 50 million square meters annual processing ultra-thin glass substrate.