Analysis of China's four major difficulties in security cable market

After more than 30 years of vigorous development, the security industry in China has continuously expanded its scope of application, and industry segments have touched all aspects of society. In the construction of the entire weak current project, the cable is the most basic facility, and the cable industry will also rise accordingly. For a high-quality security project, no one part can be neglected. Many people compare security cables to the nervous system and spread across various security subsystems for information transfer. What is a security cable product? Simply speaking, in a security engineering project, cables used to transmit video signals, control signals, and other data information are collectively referred to as security cables.

First, diversified development of security cable product market

In China, with the rapid development of the national economy and informatization technology, the country’s investment in power grid construction has increased, coupled with the rapid development of the domestic security industry, which requires a lot of wire and cable, which has promoted the domestic wire and cable industry. Great development.

According to incomplete statistics, the cable market is growing at an annual rate of 8% to 12%, and the security cable is rapidly growing at a rate of 15% to 20%. Compared with electric power, telecommunications, radio and television and other industries, the security cable industry has objective conditions such as late start-up, backward technology and equipment, and small industrial scale. Major domestic cable manufacturers are concentrated in the Yangtze River Delta region and the Pearl River Delta region. According to the size of the company and the characteristics of the company, it is generally divided into: foreign-funded enterprises, domestic professional companies, and general small-scale enterprises.

Foreign-funded enterprises also look at the tremendous potential of China's wire and cable industry. They have set up factories in China in order to enter the Chinese cable market, and domestic security cables usher in the peak of development.

Second, China's security cable is facing difficulties

(1) Unqualified, each way to survive, and lack of sustainable development

There are many large and small security cable companies in China's security cable market, and the industry scale is not large. At present, there is no definite statistical data, but more than 70% of security cable manufacturers, due to restrictions on various conditions, production equipment Are very old. Its production tools are still using the domestic equipment of the 1970s and 1980s, and some manufacturers even use the equipment eliminated by regular manufacturers. In general, the total investment of such equipment manufacturers is less than *** million yuan, a considerable proportion of manufacturers even stay in the small workshop-style production stage, just invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a few necessary production equipment, Most of the production processes need to be completed by hand. There are no professional testing equipment and testing methods, and production process management is confusing.

(II) Slow application of new products and new technologies, lagging behind in technology renewal

The cable industry is a traditional industry where the development of technology tends to mature. Since the 1990s, China's wire and cable manufacturing industry has developed rapidly. The current production scale ranks second in the world, second only to the United States. Wire and cable products of various specifications and models of new processes and new materials have appeared one after another and are widely used in communication systems, networks, and fire protection engineering systems. A large number of cable products with unique performance and special structure, such as flame-retardant and fire-resistant, high temperature and low temperature resistance, low inductance and low noise, green environmental protection, low smoke, halogen-free, anti-termite and rodent-proof, waterproof and moisture-proof, etc. It has been applied in all walks of life. This may seem like a good trend, but cable products in fact have a big gap with some developed countries in terms of application promotion and technology updates. Security cables are no exception. Slow application of technology and late renewal have become an important issue. problem.

(c) There are misunderstandings

Security engineering is a combination of many different functional devices. It is the cable that connects these different devices. The correct use and purchase of cable products will directly affect the compatibility and stability among various devices. However, many users or engineering companies have not yet fully realized the important role of cables in system engineering. Usually spend a lot of energy on the security engineering equipment from the front end to the back end, from domestic to foreign countries, from the price to the service and other aspects of detailed understanding and selection, but for the middle of the cable plays an important role in transmission is not enough Pay attention. Some engineering associations will temporarily go to the local electronics market after all the equipment has arrived at the venue. If they do not understand the quality performance and service guarantee of the cable products, they just pay attention to the price and buy it back.

(4) The quality of weak cables still has to be solved

Weak cables have a huge application market at home and abroad, but because the weak cable industry is relatively hidden, it is relatively easy to be ignored by the cable industry. Weak cables are mainly used for weak security, fire alarms, communication networks and building controls. However, the development of weak cables in recent years is not optimistic, especially the development of the domestic weak cable industry, it is also crowned with the "poor quality" of the name.

The source of the "poor quality of weak domestic cables" comes from the joint quality inspection of cable quality organized by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine in 2012. In this random inspection, one of China's weak electric cables was almost "destroyed." The main reason for the poor quality of home-made weak cables is in line with the power cable industry – low-price competition.

As China's weak cable production is relatively concentrated, it has both advantages and disadvantages. The benefit lies in the early stage of the development of weak cables. Because of the high concentration of production, it can drive the rapid development of the weak cable industry in a region. The disadvantage is that when the weak cable industry develops to a certain stage, competition will inevitably become more intense. In the same way, due to the high degree of production concentration, the production companies are almost “knowledgeable and knowledgeable” and have hidden dangers in the price war. Some manufacturers began to maliciously lower their prices. They first learned about the quotations from their hometown competitors through relationships, and then they snatch orders through low-cost forms. In order to be able to pursue higher profits, these production companies will continue to reduce product prices and then reduce the quality of products to reduce and then reduce the lack of real materials.