Industry Analysis

Analysis on Global Natural Rubber Output Volume

Major producers of natural rubber are Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Vietnam and China, the total output volume of which accounts for 84% of the globe. The output volume, import & export and demand of these countries are as follows. In terms of the output volume, Thailand and Indonesia are the largest producers of natural rubber globally. The output volume of Thailand was 4.5 million tons in 2016 while that of Indonesia was 3.157 million tons. The two countries both consume little natural rubber which only accounts for 10%-20% of the…

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Food & Beverage Medical Healthcare

Analysis on China Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) Vaccine Market

In 2016, the PRRS positive rate was high in China: Henan had the highest positive rate hitting 70% and was followed by Hunan and Hubei, 66% and 65% respectively. Guangdong had the lowest rate nearly 50%. The PRRS was popular throughout China and this detection covered many areas in East China and South China. Large-scale farms are sensitive and active in epidemic prevention due to high stocking density and fast epidemic spreading. They become the major demand sides in the PRRS market since they concern the effect and are not…

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Manufacturing

Driving Factors in China Pump Industry

(1) Changes in Nature Spur Demand Recent years’ frequent droughts have brought soaring demand for agricultural water pump. In addition, China’s groundwater level is lowering. According to the research of China Geological Survey, the fresh groundwater for annual exploitation in major plain and basin areas of northern China is 57 billion cubic meters while the real number is 36.63 billion cubic meters. The intensity and rate of groundwater exploitation is quite imbalanced in these plain and basin areas. Plain areas in North China have the highest groundwater exploitation rate reaching…

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Manufacturing

Status Quo of China Robot System Integration Industry

Robotic system integrators are the main force in China’s robot market, however, they are mostly of tiny scale, have low annual output and are under the pressure of great competition. According to the relevant data, by September, 2014, there were 428 Chinese robotic enterprises and the system integrators accounted for 88% of these enterprises. At present, most domestic integrators are of small scale with sales revenue less than CNY 100 million. The enterprises become the leader of this industry if their sales revenue exceeds CNY 500 million, let alone those…

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Automobile

Analysis on Top 100 Global Automotive Parts Suppliers by Group

Japanese, German and American enterprises are strong in manufacturing whole vehicles, which can be verified by their powerful parts suppliers. By analyzing the location of headquarters of large parts suppliers, it is found that most of the Top 100 suppliers are Japanese enterprises, amounting to 28 (29 in 2013 and 2014, 30 in 2015 and 2016). the U.S. follows, which owns 22 suppliers (25 in 2013 and 2015, 23 in 2014). There are 16 German enterprises (21 in 2013, 19 in 2014 and 18 in 2015 and 2016). Apart from…

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Energy & Chemicals

Analysis on China’s Aluminum Product Market, 2017

The world’s 3 largest aluminum product origins are Asia (Production volume: Asia accounts for 65%, China accounts for 85% of Asia, namely, China accounts for 55% of the global), North America (accounts for 15%) and Europe (accounts for 13%, mainly distributed in Germany and Italy). China’s production volume of aluminum is approximately equal to the consumption. Analysis will focus on changes in China’s demand for aluminum in the future for the global growth of aluminum mainly happens in China. Aluminum is mainly applied in construction (32%), transportation (25%), electric power…

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Energy & Chemicals

Four Major Problems Faced by Rare Earth Industry in China

First, there is still severe overcapacity in primary products of rare earth. Though capacity of rare earth smelting and separation has decreased from 400 thousand tons to 300 thousand tons by integration, overcapacity is still a serious problem compared to 105 thousand tons of final production volume. In addition, illegal exploitation still exist driven by massive profits. Environmental disruption caused by illegal exploitation is not added into value of products, causing oversupply and low price of rare earth. Second, inner competition of the industry is too fierce under the circumstance…

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Energy & Chemicals

Hot Spots in China’s Photovoltaics Market, 2017

Photovoltaics market was sizzling in the first half year of 2017, hotter than the temperature of a summer day. Several hot sectors are as follows: 1 Photovoltaics Project Investment It was generally believed that before fair price was set for solar electricity, the 11GW installation of Jun, 2016 and 22GW new installed capacity of the first half of 2016 were unsurpassable. However, new records created in 2017 was 13.15 GW installation of Jun and 24GW new installed capacity of the first half year 2 Distributed Photovoltaics Project Investment Due to…

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Automobile

Analysis on Global Top 20 Tire Enterprises, 2017

Most of the global Top 20 tire enterprises achieved poor sales performance in 2016 compared to that in 2015 except Continental. On the whole, the total sales value of tire business of the 20 tire enterprises in 2016 was EUR 2.7 billion lower than that of 2015, which amounted to the annual sales value of Cooper. This indicates that the tire enterprises failed to achieve the growth of sales value by raising prices and it also manifests that the market demand is shrinking. Tire enterprises will be under greater pressure…

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Energy & Chemicals

Photovoltaic Export Market Presents a Trend of Diversity

In the first 4 months of 2017, Asia accounted for about 77% of China’s photovoltaic module export value, and Europe and North America, which were the traditional export markets, only accounted for 5.7% and 0.8% respectively due to the “anti-dumping and anti-subsidy policies”. Besides, Latin America accounted for 9.37%, Oceania accounted for 4.18% and Africa accounted for 2.65%, which were the major new markets with great potential under the proposal of “One Belt and One Road”. China’s leading photovoltaic enterprises terminated the European Union’s MIP agreement and built plants in…

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