Market prospects of unshaped refractories

For the refractory industry practitioners, the market in recent years is not optimistic. The depression of the steel market has also directly affected the development of refractory companies and market demand. The price of magnesia chrome bricks, glass furnace magnesia chrome bricks, in addition, the demand for refractory materials in the glass and cement industries is not as good as before. However, as the concept of low-carbon environmental protection has become the main theme of society, low-carbon environmental protection is being practiced in many fields, and so are refractory materials. Many refractory materials that pollute the environment are fading out of our lives. Green refractory materials have become the development trend and future of the refractory industry in 2016. Ladle magnesia carbon brick

According to Refractories.com, some refractory companies have low profit margins, and some products have profit margins of only 1%, while some large refractory companies have profit margins of 5%-10% for some products. It reflects the hot and cold market demand for refractory products with different technical content. Some companies also said that some products are currently selling at a loss, mainly because some companies have a large inventory and have to sell at a loss in order to clear the inventory at the end of the year. "Our industry is not something that you get snapped up immediately at a loss. It is incomparable with eggs in supermarkets." A salesperson from an unshaped refractory company said, "The prices of eggs in supermarkets have dropped. A group of grandparents lined up to buy them. But refractory materials are not good, the downstream market demand is not enough, the supply exceeds demand, and the product price is low and I have not bought it."

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At present, the state encourages industrial products to adapt to the development of the situation and actively carry out transformation and upgrading. For companies, how to reduce costs and increase profit margins is the most important issue for companies.

For the newly emerging e-commerce of refractory materials, it is a new transformational business model. Find refractories.com is a trading platform for refractory buyers and sellers, and a stage for refractory manufacturers to achieve transformation. In 2016, based on the overall improvement of quality, stability and reliability, we will optimize and adjust the type structure, greatly reduce the general level of products, commit to increasing the share of excellent and efficient finished products, focus on the development of green and high-tech refractory products, and vigorously develop It has its own characteristics of excellent composition of raw materials and corresponding functional refractory product series.