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The upstream of the stainless steel pipe industry is stainless steel smelting and stainless steel profile industry, and the development of China's stainless steel smelting industry has tended to be stable in recent years. With the stable recovery of the economy and the gradual recovery of downstream demand, the national production and apparent consumption of stainless steel showed a growing trend, and from 2014 to 2021, the production of stainless steel increased by 10,941,100 tons, with an annual compound growth rate of 6.01%; The apparent consumption of stainless steel increased by 11.848 million tons year-on-year, with a compound annual growth rate of 8.21%.
(1)The overall market concentration of the industry is low
Because the industrial stainless steel pipe is suitable for many industries, the product variety is diverse, the specifications are different, and the regional demand is different, so the stainless steel pipe industry has a large number of manufacturing enterprises, and the industry concentration is low. China's industrial stainless steel pipe industry is generally more competitive. At present, the manufacturing enterprises participating in the competition of China's industrial stainless steel pipe market include not only private enterprises represented by the company, Jiulitai Material, ZTE Energy, Shengde Xintai, but also foreign enterprises represented by Sumitomo, Sandvik, Ottokumpu, etc., but also Taiwan-funded enterprises such as Huaxin Special Steel, and some state-owned enterprises.
(2)The competition in the low-end market is fierce, and some enterprises in the middle and high-end market dominate
The main products of the low-end market of industrial stainless steel pipes are ordinary specifications of small and medium-sized stainless steel pipes, due to the low technical content of this market, the threshold of entry is not high, small and medium-sized steel pipe manufacturers more, among them, there is a large part of the OEM manufacturers, the market competition is the most intense, the profit level is low, and industrial high-end stainless steel pipes are in short supply.
In the middle and high-end market, due to the relatively strict use environment of products, and most of them are special steel grades, the quality requirements are relatively strict, and the technical content is relatively high. Some high-end stainless steel pipe varieties, such as high-alloy large-diameter thick wall pipe for power station, special alloy pipe and stainless pipe for nuclear power plant, and special alloy high-corrosion sleeve for oil field opening, need to rely on imports.
The end customers of high-end industrial stainless steel pipes generally set qualified suppliers, the entry threshold is higher, the competition degree is lower than the low-end market, and the enterprises represented by Wujin stainless steel and Jiuliti special material have a long operating time in the high-end market, high level of technology and equipment, excellent product quality, and certain brand advantages. At the same time, it has established stable cooperative relations with many large industrial customers, so it has a certain competitive advantage in this kind of market and is in a relatively dominant position.
