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Output and Capacity of Steel Pipe Industry Are Rising

author: Jeawin   time: 2014-07-22 15:20   hits: 1102

Due to nearly 10 years rapid development of steel pipe industry in China, we have reached the world advanced level in output, varieties, quality, device and equipment, production technology, equipment manufacturing levels, etc. China's steel pipe industry has entered the rank of world powerful nations.


Output

The output of steel pipe, seamless steel pipe and welded pipe in China has reached 5,282, 2,179 and 5,282 tons accordingly in 2009. The output of steel tube started to exceed the integrated output of the world's top eight countries (Japan, Russia, the United States, France, Britain, Italy, Germany and Ukraine) from 2006, accounting for 49.8% of world output in 2008; From 2005, seamless steel tube began to surpass the integrated production of world's top eight countries (Russia, the United States, Japan, Germany, Argentina, Italy, France and Mexico), accounting for 61.9% of total world production in 2008; Welded pipe production in 2008 was close to the integrated of production of the world's top eight countries (Japan, South Korea, Russia, Italy, the United States, Canada, Germany and the UK), accounting for 45.6% of total world production.


Capacity

According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 170 hot rolled seamless steel tube plants (the actual number could be more than this) in China, and various kinds of seamless steel tube units are about more than 300 sets by 2009. Seamless steel tube production capacity is about 24 million tons, of which are 18 sets under construction, 4.5 million tons. In addition, it is planning to produce 8 sets and the production capacity is 3.2 million tons. After all these units were built up, the production capacity will reach 27 million tons or more, the weld pipe unit plants will be more than 380 sets, and all kinds of welded pipe units and production lines will be more than 3000 sets whose production capacity will be over 40 million tons.

Varieties, Specifications, Standards and Quality

(1) Varieties and Specifications
1. OCTG (Oil Country Tubular Goods) steel pipe, line pipe and tube for high-pressure boiler tube can satisfy domestic needs for a large number to export except a few special varieties.

2. The general use of large diameter thick wall steel pipe can fully meet the needs of the market.


(2) Standards and Quality
1. Steel tube standards: standard number, level and usable range can meet the needs of the domestic and export trade (adopting the conversion standard or directly use the international standards and enterprise standards)
2. Newly-built units and newly-transformed units generally have installed online quality detection, control devices and systems and online quality inspection and scratch devices and even establish the quality guarantee system.

3. Each plants have passed quality certification of domestic and international quality certification institutions and obtain right to use logos in terms of their respective products.


(3) The degree of market self’s sufficiency of steel pipe, seamless steel pipe and welded pipe have reached 98.6%, 97.8% and 97.8% respectively in 2009 whose market shares are all over 100%.


Output and Capacity of Steel Pipe Industry Are Rising