Chinese WPC industry status

With the advantages of WPC gradually been discovered, in 2002, the material enters the Chinese Academy of Sciences' 2002 report on high-tech development "; the same year, was included in the national" 863 "project and the State Forestry Administration," 948 "program, for which set up a special Task Force; 2001-2006, the National Development and Reform Commission (SETC) has been the WPC as a "national high-tech industrialization of new materials, special projects"; in December 2005, the National Development and Reform Commission published the "industrial restructuring Guidance Catalogue (2005) ", which encourages the development of related industries or projects involving biomass (wood-plastic) composites as much as up to 18; in January 2006 the State Council issued the" National long-term Science and Technology Development Program ", the inclusion of the 68 priority themes, biomass (wood-plastic) composites with five areas five themes associated in cutting-edge technology and basic research in place respectively. In the "Eleventh Five-Year Economic and Social Development Plan" has just been adopted, the new composite materials and honored to be included.

By the country's new economic policy Dongfeng, nationwide "wood fever" gradually. According to incomplete statistics, by the end of 2005, the country directly or indirectly engaged in wood-plastic composite materials research and development, production and supporting more than 150 enterprises, including state-owned, private, wholly-owned, joint stock and joint venture variety of types, from the total volume point of view, the state-owned or state-holding enterprises occupy a certain advantage. Now WPC industry employed tens of thousands of people, a substantial increase of production capacity, wood products annual sales of close to 100,000 tons, the annual output value over 800 million yuan. From the enterprise to the geographical distribution, far more than in the east, west, of which the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta region WPC companies most concentrated; with the level of technology on the east individual enterprises more leading technology; enterprises in the South will hold the number of products and the absolute advantage of the market. Currently the test sample representative of the industry's major technology companies have reached or exceeded the international advanced level, many of the remaining enterprises have gradually highlights the characteristics of their products.

In addition, some domestic large enterprises outside the industry is also eager to want to race in the wood field. It is reported that a number of multinational corporations are closely watching the dynamic Chinese wood industry. Although at present the true potential of China's wood industry has not been fully excavated, but its prospects worth watching. However, there are a number of domestic investment and planning wood industry has some tendency to overheat, if there is no strong support innovative technologies, a simple extension to expand still not conducive to the healthy growth of the wood industry.

Should arouse our attention is: For wood-plastic composites and foreign research and development compared to the domestic research and development is still in its initial stage, and dispersed research efforts, the lack of adequate research funding. Despite all these years, there are many reports of domestic wood or outcomes research paper, but the real industrialization of research results into very few, do not form scale. Now the domestic wood industry at the same time experiencing the three stages of development abroad, but the main product is all kinds of pallets, crates, bedding boards and other low-end products, high added value and limited production capacity, actual production had tons of little companies . In addition, subject to many limitations of technology, capital, equipment and marketing capabilities, resulting in most product variety single, low productivity and high production costs, poor quality and stability, thereby constraining the market development process. Therefore, WPC overall growth rate in the country is not very satisfactory.