Energy Saving and Emission Reduction Create a Huge Market for Refractory Fibers

With the deepening of energy saving and emission reduction in China's steel industry and the elimination of backward production capacity, refractory ceramic fibers have great development prospects. It plays a major role in saving energy and reducing consumption of steel plants.

The iron and steel industry belongs to the raw material industry, which is the foundation of the national economy and an important pillar of social development. However, the steel industry has also been a large energy consumer. According to the newly published "China Energy Statistical Yearbook", the proportion of China's steel industry energy consumption in the total energy consumption in the past 10 years has been between 12% and 15%, but it is not optimistic that even large steel companies The energy consumption per ton of steel is also 15% higher than in developed countries. In order to fundamentally govern the energy consumption problem in China, the State Council has issued the “Comprehensive Work Program for Energy Saving and Emission Reduction” formulated by the National Development and Reform Commission and relevant departments, requiring all localities to fully understand the importance and urgency of energy conservation and emission reduction work, and establish a strong Energy-saving and emission-reduction leadership coordination mechanism, and specifically pointed out that by 2010, China's energy consumption per million GDP will be reduced from 1.22 tons of standard coal in 2005 to 1 ton of standard coal, a decrease of about 20%, the introduction of the policy is expected It will soon have an important material impact on domestic energy-saving related industries.

Ceramic fibers, also known as refractory fibers, were invented in the United States in the early 1940s as a fibrous, lightweight, refractory material. The main chemical components are Al2O3 and SiO2. Ceramic fiber has a light specific gravity (only about 6% of the traditional fire-resistant clay bricks), high temperature resistance (can withstand 900-1600°C), good thermal stability, and low thermal conductivity (the thermal conductivity is only a quarter of traditional heavy refractory materials. One), small heat and anti-vibration, etc., the United States in the 1960s, the first successful use of the heating furnace, due to its excellent thermal insulation fire resistance, Europe, the United States, Japan and other developed countries have developed and used in large quantities. In particular, after the global energy crisis in 1973, ceramic fibers gained more rapid development and some of the world-renowned ceramic fiber producers were born. So far, the world-class ceramic fiber business still active in the global ceramic fiber industry is the United Kingdom and Europe in the United States for the United Ceramics Corporation of the United States and the United States, and Asia in Japan for Aesopite Industry Co., Ltd..

China's domestic ceramic fiber production line is located in Suzhou New District. There are four ceramic fiber blanket production lines and two ceramic fiberboard production lines. Half of the products are sold back to Japan and other international markets.