New environmentally friendly energy-saving wall materials become investment hot spots

The main wall material of buildings in China ("wall materials") is still solid clay bricks, which is often referred to as "red bricks". Because the production of solid clay bricks requires excavation to extract the earth, it has caused great damage to the land, especially cultivated land. In the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" of the building materials industry, it has been pointed out that China produces nearly 600 billion solid clay bricks each year and consumes about 660,000 mu of land. In the dual role of environmental protection requirements and policy regulations, solid clay bricks are increasingly withdrawn from the market. The market vacancies left behind are being blamed for some new wall material manufacturers in Quanzhou.

Su Qingwen, the general manager of a new type of building materials company in Jinjiang, has been very busy recently. On the one hand, he is busy looking after his new wall material production line in Yonghe and Zhoukeng Village in Jinjiang. On the other hand, he has to go around for the production line to be built in Shaoye. . Su Qingwen did not produce new wall materials before, but did construction work. It is precisely in the general situation that solid clay bricks must be replaced by more environmentally friendly new wall materials under the mandatory regulations of national policies. Su Qingwen and several partners have chosen to enter the new wall material production field. “The firing of solid bricks requires a lot of clay, and a large amount of coal is also needed in the firing process, and the smoke and dust emitted pollute the environment. In general, solid clay bricks are a kind of energy-intensive products. According to Quanzhou Stone Industry The status quo, drawing on domestic and foreign practices, various industrial wastes such as fly ash, coal slag, can be used to produce new wall materials.” He said. “In the past, in order to solve the problem of stone powder pollution, the village adopted stone powder to transport it to the construction project for landfilling. Now it is concentrated and uniformly transported to the centralized control area, making it a raw material for the production of new wall materials, which will help develop the cycle. Economics.” Zeng Shimin, the branch of Jinjiang Yonghe Zhoukeng Village, said.

Su Qingwen believes that under the guidance of the State's policy of exploring sustainable development, Quanzhou enterprises can adapt to local conditions and use some "waste materials" to develop new wall materials. To this end, he specifically introduced equipment from Malaysia and chose to set up production lines in areas where the stone industry is developed. The reporter learned that currently, there are only 135 powder and aggregate utilization companies in Nan'an, which can use 1 million tons of stone powder and 1.1 million tons of gravel per year, and most of them are used to produce new types of wall materials, such as Pengxiang and Quanbao. enterprise.

Chen Zhendong, General Manager of Quanzhou Quick-fitting Wall Co., Ltd., said that it was the country’s policy of restricting clay bricks that was the environmental protection requirement for sustainable development. It was the trend and the direction. It only strengthened and would not weaken, so many people in the industry believe that the future New wall materials have a great market space.

Emerging market space is bigger Then in the eyes of the industry, how large is the new wall material market?

In previous interviews, the reporter learned such a set of data. According to incomplete statistics, according to the calculation of solid clay bricks, with the rapid development of urban construction, domestic wall bricks have consumed more than 600 billion standard bricks per year for several years. The price of each standard clay brick in the domestic market is 5 cents. In other words, in recent years, the total market share of domestic wall tiles has reached an astonishing 150 billion yuan***. In fact, in the second half of last year, solid clay brick prices in Quanzhou rose due to the imminent deadline for the ban. “Because of the traditional concept, in the construction of new houses in rural areas in Quanzhou, more solid clay bricks are used, which has led to the price of solid clay bricks rising to about 4 cents per square foot.” Su Qingwen.

Quanzhou City Building Materials Office data shows that in 2008, the market for new wall materials in Quanzhou was about 800 million standard bricks, with an output value of about 240 million yuan. “After more than two years of development, the output value is certainly more than 240 million yuan. With the development of the real estate industry in Quanzhou in the past two years, the emergence of many new real estate projects will increase the demand for new types of wall materials. Look, the production capacity of existing new wall materials in Quanzhou alone may not fully meet the needs of the Quanzhou market in the future after the ban is implemented. The future market space for new wall materials will have a blowout-type development,” Chen Zhendong said.

The introduction of price advantages and the introduction of policies have given all parties a strong confidence in the market for new wall materials. “According to national policies and future development trends, in the future, only new wall materials will be used in cities, and the use of solid clay bricks will be limited to rural areas. When the solid clay bricks are evacuated from the market left by the city, they will be bound by the new wall bricks. Filling.” Industry insiders believe that in terms of function, new wall materials “high-strength, thermal insulation, heat insulation” and other characteristics are favored by real estate developers, and also in line with the government’s “energy saving” concept.

Urbanization also provides opportunities for new wall materials. Take Fujian Province as an example. According to the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan Outline for National Economic and Social Development in Fujian Province", the urbanization level will increase from the current 47% to 52% by 2010, and the new urban population needs annual housing. 16 million square meters; the per capita floor area of ​​urban residential buildings in the province will increase from 32.2 square meters to 35 square meters, and the annual new residential buildings will be 24.6 million to 27.5 million square meters; within five years, the new area of ​​rural residential construction will reach 110 million to 125 million square meters. m; This provides a huge market space for the development of new wall materials. “As far as we know, some large buildings in Quanzhou and reconstruction projects in some towns in Jinjiang have begun to use new wall materials,” said Su Qingwen.

Prices are becoming "a weapon" for new wall materials to grab the market. At present in other regions of the country, with the strengthening of farmland protection, the materials for burning solid clay bricks have become scarce. Coupled with the rise in coal prices, the prices of solid clay bricks have been increasing year by year. Coupled with the increase in transportation costs, the price of each solid clay brick actually exceeds 3 cents. With the maturation of production technology and technology, the prices of some new wall materials have already dropped sharply compared with previous years. Many product prices are lower than 3, and the price advantage has begun to show.