Digital Building Materials DBM: Resumption of work and production is just in time. How is the sand and gravel market in Zhejiang at the beginning of the year?

the Spring Festival, sand and gravel manufacturers around the country have resumed work one after another. What is the current sand and gravel market? Digital building materials DataBM. Com investigated some sand and gravel enterprises in Zhejiang.

"Now the price is about the same as before the festival." A sand and stone manufacturer in Zhejiang told the digital building materials DataBM. Com, "but the demand is not good, so we can't get up."

According to the digital building materials DataBM. Com, the resumption rate and labor arrival rate of engineering projects in Zhejiang are lower than those in the beginning of last year, the enthusiasm of sand and gravel purchasing in mixing stations is not high, and the supply and demand of sand and gravel market are both low.

Current: Construction and market demand are still recovering

. After the Spring Festival, the sand and gravel market in Zhejiang is still in the recovery stage, waiting for the release of downstream demand. The project gradually began to resume work, but the overall pace was slow, and a small number of workers had not yet returned to work. The market downturn at the end of the Year of the

Tiger has affected the price of sand and gravel at the beginning of the New Year. At present, the ex-factory price of natural sand quoted by a manufacturer in Hangzhou who mainly makes pebbles is 120 yuan/ton, the ex-factory price of pebbles is 80 yuan/ton, and the ex-factory price of pebble machine-made sand is 90 yuan/ton. The ex-factory price of 0-5mm ordinary machine-made sand in a mining enterprise in Zhoushan is 76 yuan/ton, and the ex-factory price of 5-10 mm ordinary gravel is 92 yuan/ton.

According to the data of the Digital Building Materials DataBM. Com, as of February 2, 2023, the gravel price index of Zhejiang Province closed at 103.49 points, and the machine-made sand price index of Zhejiang Province closed at 89.35 points, both of which were the same as the previous year. Market

outlook: Looking forward to the second and third quarters of the market

outlook for the first quarter of this year's sand and gravel market, a sand and gravel business to the digital building materials DataBM. Com said that this year's market or the continuation of the previous year's fundamentals, the first quarter is mainly a process of gradual recovery of the market. Some enterprises

also expressed their expectations for the sand and gravel market in the second and third quarters of this year. An enterprise said that sand and gravel is the "just need" of infrastructure construction. In order to promote economic development, Zhejiang Province has actively deployed coastal high-speed rail, Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport Integrated Hub, Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Super Maglev and other projects. With the landing of the project, the demand for sand and gravel may increase significantly in the second and third quarters.

According to the Digital Building Materials DataBM. Com, in 2023, Zhejiang Province launched a "thousand trillion" project, setting off a new round of major project construction climax. The "1000 trillion" project mainly focuses on advanced manufacturing base, strong scientific and technological innovation base, strong transportation province, clean energy supply and other fields, and plans to promote more than 1000 major provincial projects every year, with an annual investment of more than 1 trillion yuan. At present, the first batch of 791 projects has been arranged for implementation, with a planned annual investment of 833.7 billion yuan, including 251 new projects and 540 renewal projects.