Automotive rubber products need to improve the performance of domestic stability, quality

China's auto output in 2005 reached 5,700,000, in 2006 and is expected to reach 6,400,000, more than Germany, only to the United States and Japan to become the world's third largest auto producer. Automobile production and capacity to maintain rapid growth in automotive product mix changes in the proportion of cars has increased year by year, rubber products for the automotive industry, provides an excellent opportunity for development. It can be expected in the near future car is expected to be second only to rubber tires, rubber shoes of the Chinese rubber industry's third-largest industry.

Industrial Structure

According to statistics, China's auto production plant rubber Xianzhu over more than 800 enterprises, of which the conditions better equipment, large-scale, high technological level of about 100 or so.

China's state-run automobile rubber products industry, private, joint venture or wholly-owned enterprises such as the co-existence of a small number of state-owned enterprises and state-holding enterprises still shows the role of the leader. If the rubber to China in Shanghai Co., Ltd., Guizhou Hongyang Sealing Co., Ltd., Guizhou public Rubber Company, 7425 Nanjing plant and a number of old state-owned enterprises, self-transformation, and introducing advanced foreign technology, the industry is still the backbone of the enterprise; private enterprises The rapid development of the existing players have potential. Anhui Ningguo in Ding seals Co., Ltd. has developed rapidly in recent years, with annual sales in 2005 amounted to 1,040,000,000 yuan. In addition, as Tieling Brilliance Rubber Products Co., Ltd., Shandong and so on a large number of water-hing, the Group has strong vitality of the private enterprises are playing an increasingly important role; joint ventures or wholly owned enterprises rise. At present, joint ventures or wholly-owned Chinese car manufacturer of rubber products, about 60 to 70, most of these enterprises to adopt advanced technology, product quality, strong degree of specialization in the auto parts industry have become increasingly prominent status, domestic car has been supporting OE For these enterprises in the country.

Production technology

China's auto rubber production technology level, from the late 1980s onwards, through the introduction of foreign technology and production equipment to enhance the access. So far, almost all varieties of automobile rubber products are imported technical equipment or the entire production line.

In the introduction of a large number of projects, car doors and windows to seal the most representative of the development of production technology. From Japan, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom have sealed the introduction of production lines, far domestic manufacturers to introduce the production lines have closed more than 60 articles. In addition to the pure rubber seal, a variety of complex structure of the seal, the metal skeleton with a variety of rubber sealing compound, rubber and plastics production complex will be sealed. At present, China seal the overall level of production technology has been achieved abroad in the 1990s level, and become the rubber industry as a whole in the more advanced technological level of a class of products. At present, Chinese auto rubber on the overall level of production, by the introduction of technology and joint venture enterprises, foreign basically reached on the level of the early 1990s to meet the requirements of the domestic auto ancillary; but the majority of small and medium enterprises are still small scale of production, equipment condition Poor, the low level of technology, lack of new product development efforts, the quality of the product unstable.

Product Quality

China-made low-speed oil seal (line speed of less than 8m / s) performance is better able to meet the basic requirements. High-speed oil seal (line speed is greater than 16m / s) the quality of instability and can not meet the requirements of high-speed high-temperature; belt mileage less than 10 million meters, is the main heat-aging, poor wear resistance, elongation, leading to gear Slip too much, drive big noise; hose in the fuel delivery pipes and lubricating oil resistant hose permeability is not good, most enterprises do not have the pulse of fatigue testing machine, high-temperature vibration test machines, the product can not guarantee the reliability and life; Vibration damping rubber mount poor performance, low-life, in imitation products that stage, behind the structure, part of the product life of only 1 million meters; seal better overall, there are some products Mifengbuyan and easy leakage of air leakage, deformation Large easy to restore, and then position angle easily broken, to maintain clamping force decay, with large glass frictional resistance.

Technology equipment and instrumentation

In the automotive rubber products used in the production of machinery and equipment, currently has provided to the vehicle tank hose, air conditioner pipes, brake control of the main production equipment; V with V-ribbed belts and production equipment; industrial products used in the production of precision Pre-molding machine, since the open flat-panel model curing, vacuum plate and the rubber vulcanization injection molding machine; automotive sealing doors and windows of the microwave curing line, and so on. But on the whole, China's auto rubber products manufacturing equipment level is still not high enough to develop, much less the development of machinery as soon tire, industrial rubber production equipment in particular the production line is also mostly imported. The instrumentation is more weak links, particularly oil seal with a variety of instrumentation most of the domestic manufacturers can not still rely on imports. If the seal reflect the performance of the lip open press, reflecting the strength of the oil seal radial radial force meter, fluid power back to the oil seal effect observation instrument, as well as vacuum tests, high-pressure test used in the test apparatus is currently no domestic production.

Imports and exports

In recent years, China and automotive-related non-tire rubber products and the import volume of imports grew quickly, in 2005 has reached 1,318,000,000 U.S. dollars, more than doubled in 2002, while the export growth rate far faster than imports. In the car and several related non-tire rubber products, imports than exports of steel products to enhance hose, pure rubber hose, timing belt, sealing products, sponge rubber sheet material, vulcanized rubber sheet profile And so on, the export volume of imports is greater than the amount of fiber-reinforced hose products, V belt, a variety of miscellaneous items such as rubber.

With auto-related non-tire rubber importing countries or regions mainly Japan, Germany, the United States, South Korea and China Taiwan Province, with a maximum of imports from Japan. In 2005 China's imports of non-tire rubber products are the main varieties of rubber seals, pads, imports amounted to 375,710,000 U.S. dollars, exports to 199,110,000 U.S. dollars; rubber profiles, Profile, such as slab, while imports amounted to 147,870,000 U.S. dollars, Exports 83,430,000 U.S. dollars; enhance the steel wire tube amounted to 58,850,000 U.S. dollars of imports and exports to 34,260,000 U.S. dollars; rubber hose net imports amounted to 71,860,000 U.S. dollars, exports to 36,410,000 U.S. dollars; line of rubber, imports amounted to bring to justice 39,960,000 U.S. dollars, exports to 9,710,000 U.S. dollars; timing belt amounted to 20,390,000 U.S. dollars of imports and exports for the 7,870,000 U.S. dollars.

2005 China Automotive and related non-tire rubber products for export 1,248,000,000 U.S. dollars, and exports more products are sealed products, machinery and equipment used rubber accessories, belts, rubber sheet profiles, and so on, the main export countries and regions Japan, the United States, China and Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Australia, Singapore, United Arab Emirates. China's exports and imports of rubber products in the same species, mainly products of different grades, in a lower quality.

Joint venture and wholly owned enterprises situation

At present, joint ventures or wholly owned enterprise of basic products, including the car used in a variety of rubber, these enterprises are the main features, one of the leading local and bundled Automotive Group, which is majority foreign-funded enterprises to enter China's first step to strengthen The rubber auto production and the direct link; Second, joint ventures or wholly owned enterprises in China several major automobile production base, such as Shanghai, Tianjin, Changchun, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shanghai, among the largest concentration, about half of the Shanghai to build more in its surrounding areas; Third, the Japanese companies in China's building up joint ventures or wholly-owned enterprises, Japan's major automobile companies in the production of rubber products in China's major automobile-producing areas have built more than a rubber factory, such as Japan in the East China Sea Rubber Company In Tianjin, Dalian, Guangzhou respectively, to build a 3 with the damping rubber hose plant; Fourth, from the content of the joint venture to expand rubber production to raw materials, rubber machinery and equipment in areas such as detection, so as to further close relations between the upstream and downstream to form a family , To strengthen the internationalization.

Market demand forecast

China's auto industry prospects, while domestic car production plant is a joint venture from the simple assembly plants to the integrated automotive business transition, a number of key components have begun to domestic production, rubber parts for auto manufacturers to provide an excellent opportunity. But at the same time, as some of the important vehicle performance, such as safety, braking, high-speed, comfort and noise, and so on, rubber and auto parts corresponding closely related to the performance, but also the general rubber plant has put forward higher requirements.

Chinese cars each with plastic quality of the total (excluding tires) is about 40 kilograms, in the truck about 20 kg.

Automotive rubber on the raw materials used in rubber, mainly natural rubber (NR), styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM), acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (NBR), chloroprene rubber (CR), D -Rubber (IIR), and other general-purpose rubber, but also fluorine, such as rubber (FKM), silicone rubber (MVQ), ACM (ACM), epichlorohydrin rubber (ECO), saturated nitrile rubber (HNBR), and other special rubber, As well as some of the materials and additives such as the skeleton. Automotive rubber material, although all domestic production, but most still can not meet the needs of a large volume of imports. To that end, general-purpose types of plastic such as EPDM, NBR, IIR, such as further expansion of production capacity, these types of consumption in half to rely on imports; special rubber such as FKM, MVQ, ACM, ECO, etc. In recent years the development of domestic production capacity Soon, but in the variety, performance products can not meet the needs of industry. In recent years, new foreign developed some special types of plastic such as high saturated nitrile rubber, China's industrial production is no device, and the demand for fast growth; the other in favor of environmental protection, energy saving of thermoplastic elastomers such as the TPO in the amount of auto parts Fast growth, should actively create conditions for the building of industrial installations.

At present, Chinese auto rubber products such as the skeleton of the main varieties of oil seal, V belt, seal, hose, rubber products such as the shock absorption capacity, in 2010 from the requirements of the development of the car are still a long way, with the exception of the need to further expand production capacity, more The product is to improve the performance, stability, product quality, increase the standard varieties, which need attention rubber enterprises in technological innovation, strengthen enterprise management, and to the introduction of new materials, advanced production technology and improve the means of detection efforts.

Development proposals

The realization of large-scale specialized production

At present, the international rubber industry trends, one towards large-scale enterprises, the Group of the development of the economies of scale, and the other is toward professionalization of the factory, the production of intensive direction. The large foreign companies with annual sales of rubber as much as 20 billion dollars, while the majority of Chinese products of small-scale production, low degree of specialization, it is difficult to take part in international competition in the market, it is hard to adapt to the requirements of the development of the automobile industry. As a result, existing enterprises is an urgent need for restructuring, reorganization, most of the enterprises to promote professional and large-scale development, a high level of technical support, good benefits and competitive business excellence, according to the voluntary, mutual benefit, reciprocity principle Through mergers and diversification of investment shares, to speed up the reorganization, restructuring, developing gradually in the regional, inter-departmental group of rubber products, achieve economies of scale and specialized production.

Explore international and domestic markets

Automobile rubber products (excluding tires) represented by non-tire rubber international trade each year 25,000,000,000 U.S. dollars, the major multinational car companies to take parts of the international procurement initiatives, so that a variety of automotive rubber products have a lot of Market space. Chinese rubber industry after years of development, has been a considerable number of exports, compared with the developed countries, the number of very few in the world ranked only 10th. As a result, Chinese rubber industry should aim at the international market needs, actively expand exports.

In addition, concern is China every year there are more than 1,000,000,000 U.S. dollars of auto and rubber-related products have been imported to reduce imports, which is also a considerable market space. In a year's imports of rubber, mainly to various types of pipes, tape, seals, etc., from a technical perspective, is the insufficiency of domestic production can not be difficult, as long as serious analysis and study, to take appropriate measures, it should be said that many Imported products can be produced internally.

To strengthen communication and co-operation with the car OE

With the new plant to speed up the pace of development models, and rubber parts for the continuous improvement of performance requirements, automotive manufacturers have been satisfied with rubber processing plant drawings by matching the requirements of the rubber, but rubber manufacturers to the new concept car Independent development of new products, that is, in the car on new product development phase of the intervention, the independent structure of the product design, CAE simulation analysis with the ability to establish different levels of product platforms and do a good job of technical reserves, to change from passive to active with the development, which Rubber enterprises need to increase investment in science and technology, improve the means of detection, strengthening the collection of information and encourage innovation in science and technology personnel. At present, individual companies do, but most companies do not have the condition.

To strengthen the standardization of products and testing work

China's old standards automotive rubber parts, indicators also lower, compared with the CAE system different from the standard should be amended to speed up the work so that the national standard and foreign standard synchronous development of the rubber parts. The development of new materials, new products should be based on international standards or advanced foreign standards as a starting point.

In addition, China now has the means to detect rubber products behind much of the auto industry can not meet the performance requirements of supporting the product, there is an urgent need to increase domestic research and development of the testing machine, and as soon as possible to develop in line with national standards, performance and stability of the practical Test-drive products.

The realization of the modernization of scientific management of the broad masses of rubber business, the establishment of an integrated information management network (ERP) is an important requirement for the information age. At present, domestic enterprises have begun to individual products restart ERP projects can be monitored storage of raw materials, process management, quality management, cost management, production planning, equipment management, leadership, and other inquiries, the organic system and network monitoring, on the one hand to grasp quickly the supplier To be able to provide what kind of raw materials, on the other hand, can quickly grasp what customers need products that significantly enhance the competitiveness of domestic and foreign markets.