At present, representative green and environmentally-friendly cables at home and abroad mainly include flame-retardant cables and fire-resistant cables. These cables have higher added value and higher profits than conventional cables. Therefore, research and development and production of environmentally friendly cables are likely to cause enterprises to move from the low-end and mid-end products to the mid-to-high-end products market, and the benefits of enterprises will also increase.
Recently, the United States General Cable (China) announced that its four alloy aluminum alloy cable products have passed the EU Directive on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS Directive), indicating that the product is in raw materials, zero. Accessories, production processes and process management have met the requirements of green environmental protection. Judging from this move of the universal cable, it just conforms to the current trend of environmental protection wire and cable development irreversible.
Environmental issues are becoming more and more important. Environmentally friendly cables are significant
In November 2013, Premier Li Keqiang met with foreign representatives attending the 2013 Annual Meeting of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development at the Great Hall of the People. He said that the current Chinese people's requirements for environmental quality are getting higher and higher, and environmental protection has become an important issue. People's livelihood issues. It is understood that in 2013, the state has intensively introduced various environmental protection policies, and the national environmental protection war has begun.
Conventional cables generate a large amount of toxic substances such as dioxins, lead, cadmium, and halides during manufacturing, use, and waste disposal, which is disadvantageous to the environment. According to Zhu Ronghua, secretary general of the Optoelectronic Cable Branch of China Electronic Components Industry Association, at the 2013 China Asia Wire and Cable International Summit held in Shanghai in October 2013, environmentally friendly cables are non-toxic (low-toxic) and non-human and environmentally friendly. Features such as pollution, high safety and reliability, long service life, easy to split and recycle circular economy models.
At the seminar on wire and cable environmental risk and response strategy held in 2013, Du Jiabin, the general manager of SGS Consumer Products Testing Service, the world's leading inspection, identification, testing and certification organization, pointed out that environmental issues have become the focus of attention and the importance of the ecological environment. Increasingly, the production of green products is of great significance to enterprises.
Tan Bingwen, president of General Cable (China) Co., Ltd., believes that only a growing number of companies are constantly experimenting with green practices and innovations in products and operations, and the entire cable industry can achieve sustainable development, showing a green and vigorous development trend.
Environmental cable or cable-free industry with low profit margins
At the 2nd China (Wuhu) Wire and Cable Expo and Product Quality Summit held recently, Zhang Rongzhen, Director of the Heavy Equipment Division of the Equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, pointed out that the average profit margin of the domestic cable industry is very low, at 3%. - 4% or so. At the Wuwei County Wire and Cable Industry Association General Meeting held in 2013, Gao Qingguo, honorary chairman of the China Electrical Equipment Industry Association Wire and Cable Branch, said that 80% to 90% of the domestic cable manufacturing products are homogenized low-end products. It is understood that the competition for homogenization of low-end and mid-range products is fierce, and the relative lack of high-end products is an important factor leading to low profit in the cable industry.
At present, representative green and environmentally-friendly cables at home and abroad mainly include flame-retardant cables and fire-resistant cables. These cables have higher added value and higher profits than conventional cables. Therefore, research and development and production of environmentally friendly cables are likely to cause enterprises to move from the low-end and mid-end products to the mid-to-high-end products market, and the benefits of enterprises will also increase.
Admission tickets for environmentally friendly cables into the international market
With the continuous improvement of environmental protection requirements in countries around the world, international environmental laws and regulations are also increasing and becoming stricter. Take the EU's ROHS directive, if the products such as wire and cable fail to pass the certification, it means that they cannot enter the European market. In order to obtain opportunities for exporting products, foreign countries are continually reducing the production of conventional cables and replacing them with environmentally friendly cables. In this regard, Liu Tao, secretary-general of the Guangdong Wire and Cable Industry Association, called on domestic wire and cable companies to achieve green environmental control in the production process, thus achieving green manufacturing.
At present, environmental protection issues have received more and more attention around the world, which will greatly stimulate the growth of demand for environmentally friendly wire and cable. In addition, compared with the higher profits of conventional cables, the development trend of environmentally friendly cables is irreversible.