Analysis: China's ceramic color glaze industry development status

The person in the industry knows that ceramic color glaze is an indispensable material for every ceramic product. In addition to ceramic products with obvious glazed marks on the surface, unglazed ceramic products also commonly use blank pigments. Color glaze For a ceramic product, although it is not as important as air to humans, its importance is already very important. It is already an integral part of ceramic products. However, there have been some errors in the recognition and assessment of the development status of ceramic glazes in China. In this regard, we have made the following observations on the productivity of ceramic products in the entire industry in recent years and the inspection of the pigment industry. The analysis of the status quo of the development of ceramic color glaze industry, with a view to give a certain reference to the industry's decision-making.

The output value of ceramic color glaze production analysis The annual consumption of ceramic mineral raw materials is 250 million tons. Sanitary ceramics, daily-use ceramics, and glazed wattiva products are almost all 100% glazed products. At least two-thirds of ceramic tile products are also glazed products. One third of unglazed products generally use a large amount of green body color. It can be said that ceramic color glaze is used in almost every ceramic product.

According to the statistics of the China Building Sanitary Ceramics Association, the output of China's building ceramic tiles in 2010 was 75.7566 billion square meters; the production of sanitary ceramics was 1.7784 billion pieces; the annual output of daily-use ceramics reached 27 billion pieces, of which the artistic ceramics output was more than 5 billion yuan. Pieces. Architectural ceramics, sanitary ceramics, and daily-use ceramics are the world's largest manufacturing and manufacturing countries. Ceramic tile products consume an average of 25 kilograms of raw materials per square meter. In 2010, 7.576 billion square meters of ceramic tiles will require 190 million tons of ceramic raw materials. Accounting for 178 million pieces of sanitary ceramics, 27 billion pieces of ceramics for daily use (including arts and crafts ceramics), and glazed tiles and sinks not included in the ceramic products, it is estimated that the current consumption of various ceramic mineral raw materials is about 250 million tons per year in China's traditional ceramics industry. .

The annual output value of ceramic color glaze is about 30 billion yuan. In recent years, with the popularity of antique brick products, the output of antique brick products has been increasing, and the proportion of enamel products in ceramic tile products has increased year by year. The variety of ceramic color glazes, The dosage is constantly increasing. The recent popularity of full-glazed products, microcrystalline products and inkjet printing has not only increased the variety of new color enamels but also greatly increased the use of color enamels. Macroscopically, the output value of China's 7.576 billion m2 ceramic tile is about 250 billion yuan, and the color glaze accounts for about 8% to 10% of the total output value. The rough estimate of the output value of China's ceramic tile color glaze is about 200 to 25 billion yuan. If it covers sanitary ceramics and ceramics for daily use, the total market volume of ceramic glazes in China will be about 30 billion yuan.

In 2010, the annual output of ceramic glazes was 5.637 million tons. As China's ceramics has already become the world's largest producer and consumer, ceramic glaze products are also the world's largest producer and consumer, and it is also the world's largest exporter of colored glazes. At present, China has more than 2,000 color enamel manufacturing enterprises, of which more than 500 are large-scale enterprises, mainly located in Foshan, Chaozhou, Guangdong Province and Zibo, Shandong. Color glaze enterprises in Guangdong and Shandong provinces account for more than 60% of the total number of color glaze companies in the country.

As we mentioned before, in 2010 ceramic tile production was 7.576 billion square meters, in 7.576 billion square meters of ceramic tiles: 30% of polished tiles (25% of ceramic tile total polished tiles use 3% of blank color); 40 % of tiles (1000 g glazed/m2); 20% of antique tiles (320-760 g glaze/m2); 10% of antique tiles are fully polished; 10% of external tiles (400 g glaze/ M2); plus 0.5% Siva glazed tiles (1200 g glaze/m2), sanitary ceramics (400 g glaze per piece), daily ceramics (15 g glaze per piece). In 2010, a total of 5,157,800 tons of color glazes were used for architectural ceramics, sanitary ceramics and daily-use ceramics; among them, 450.35 million tons were glazed, 60,700 tons were fully glazed, 534,600 tons were used for blanks, and 50,200 tons were used for glazes. Color and glaze exports were 206,000 tons. In 2010, the total output of ceramic glazes was 5.637 million tons.

In 2010, the gross output value of China's color glazes was approximately 28.399 billion yuan. China is the world's largest exporter of colored glazes. In 2010, 206,000 tons of colored glazes were exported, and the export value was US$162 million. The average export price is 790 US dollars per ton (equivalent to more than 5,290 yuan per ton of ***). The color enamel enterprises in Guangdong and Shandong provinces account for more than 70% of the total exports. According to the average unit price of China's colored glaze products exported in 2010 of 5,293 yuan per ton, the output value of ceramic glazes in China in 2010 was 28.399 billion yuan***. This result is close to the estimated value of 30 billion yuan worth of colored glaze produced based on the output value of ceramics. In fact, this calculation result should be slightly lower, and the production of rustic tiles with a large amount of colored glaze is increasing year by year. The use of low basic data for the average glaze consumption of each sanitary ceramic and each daily ceramic is used. . What's more, it does not cover some emerging color enamels at all, such as dry powder glazes and inkjet printing inks. Also does not include ceramic color glaze used in electrical ceramics, electric porcelain, electronic ceramics. At present, it is estimated that 70% of glazes are produced by ceramic manufacturers, 30% are produced by color glazes; 40% of frits are produced by ceramic manufacturers, and 60% are produced by color glazes; 5 % is produced by ceramic manufacturers and 95% is produced by color enamel enterprises.

The distribution of color glaze enterprises There are more than 500 color glaze enterprises above the national scale, among which there are 218 in Guangdong Province, 142 in Shandong Province, 31 in Fujian Province, 19 in Jiangxi Province, and 34 in Hunan Province. There are 18 in Jiangsu Province, 14 in Hebei Province, and 51 in other provinces.

Color glaze enterprises are mainly distributed in the country's three major ceramic producing areas: 118 Foshan ceramics producing areas in Guangdong, 74 Chaozhou ceramic producing areas in Guangdong, 125 Zibo ceramic producing areas in Shandong, and a total of three major producing areas. There are 317 glaze companies, accounting for more than 60% of the color glazing companies above the national scale.

After more than 20 years of development, the domestic color glaze industry has made considerable progress. China is in the dominant position in most color glaze markets. At present, except for ink-jet printing inks, which are mainly dependent on imports, other ceramic-colored glaze products have all been domestically produced and exported to many parts of the world. Domestic ceramic color glaze companies can say that the full range of products, each with expertise, has emerged a number of outstanding companies in various fields.

The color glaze enterprise has a low degree of specialization. The ceramic glaze has been separated from the ceramics production enterprise. It has only been a ceramic manufacturing industry for more than 20 years of history. In fact, this separation is still incomplete, especially glazes. With the frit, there are still a lot of ceramic enterprises themselves producing a large number of glazes and frits, such as: Hongyu, Xinzhongyuan, New Pearl and other large ceramic enterprises. Some ceramic enterprises have a large scale of frit and glaze production scale in the ceramic color glaze industry. At present, it is estimated that about 70% of the glazes, 40% of the frits, and a small amount of colorants are still self-sufficient in ceramics production.

In spite of this, the proportion of professional production of ceramic glaze products has been increasing year by year, and the large and complete and small model of ceramic production is being abandoned by most companies.

The small scale of the enterprise disperses China's ceramic color glaze industry to enter the low threshold (investment, technology, environmental protection, etc.), the entire industry is mostly small businesses, small and multi-enterprise scattered, many small glaze production enterprises rely on only one or two colors Glaze species and the corresponding business relationship of one or two ceramic enterprises survive. At the same time, most ceramic companies lag behind in payment, even default on payment, and lack of credit, resulting in a large financial pressure on color enamel companies and poor financing channels. This not only fails to expand production scale, but also results in insufficient funds for corporate R&D. Product quality control upgrades and new product development cannot be guaranteed. The large number of ceramic color glaze manufacturers, small scale, and dispersion have become the current characteristics of this industry. At present, there are very few companies that sell 500 million yuan of color glazes, and color glaze companies that sell 300 million yuan are big companies. The size of most decent ceramic color glaze companies remains between 50 million and 150 million yuan. This industry situation is very different from the development of the ceramic color glaze industry in developed countries in Europe and America.