Automotive rubber products industry risks and opportunities

Although the rubber products industry in the future of the automotive market, a lot of space, but is also facing severe challenges.

A, automobile manufacturing and the rapid development of China's rubber consumption to become a big country, according to statistics from related departments, China's rubber consumption in 2001 for the first time the United States as the world's largest consumer and importer in 2003, has become the world The second-largest tire producer and exporter of natural rubber consumption in 2004 reached 1,800,000 tons, accounting for the world's total consumption of 21.5 percent. At present, including Michelin, Bridgestone, Goodyear, Jia Tong, and other major tire manufacturers in the world have set up joint ventures in China, further exacerbating China's rubber consumption of resources.

2, automobile rubber products used in raw materials, including almost all of the synthetic rubber such as CR, SBR, NBR, HNBR, CM, ACM, ECO, VMQ, FKM, and so on. In recent years, special rubber in the car in the ever-increasing applications, such as fluorine rubber, polyacrylate rubber, HNBR, epichlorohydrin rubber, silicone rubber, and so on. Automotive rubber rubber raw materials needed While domestic production can be, but most people can not meet the performance requirements, so imports are still big. And accompanied by high oil prices, the cost of manufacturing synthetic rubber also rising for automotive rubber products industry produced an enormous pressure.

3, the level of automotive design as a result of rising use of the media demanding performance, the car facing the rubber products industry continued to address new issues, the pressure to meet the new requirements. If the car's compact design, leading to poor heat dissipation, the engine under the hood of the rising temperature; has introduced a new type of lubricant; fluoride-free automotive air-conditioning; new synthetic application of brake fluid, and so on. All of the car's heat-resistant rubber, oil resistance, the resistance of media and so on the newer and higher requirements need to be thoroughly addressed.

4, to enhance the awareness of environmental protection, new emissions regulations introduced, leading to motor vehicle fuel burning continuously improve the efficiency and thus lead to rubber-related products at a higher intensity of the work under the traditional rubber has been unbearable.

Prohibition of the use of lead-curing agent, to replace most of the new auxiliary aids, require the use of a higher intensity of the tube, resulting in significantly increased manufacturing costs of rubber products.

5, as the auto and rubber products industry belong to the scope of auto parts, the current continuous influx of foreign and wholly-owned factories tend to make domestic automotive rubber materials and products market was white-hot trend. According to incomplete statistics, the domestic impact of the non-automotive rubber tires foreign investment has reached more than 70 of which came from the United States, Japan, Europe and other countries of foreign investment nearly 40, more than 30 Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan-funded enterprises, including international Well-known enterprises, cover the variety of automotive rubber in various fields.