Recently, there are more rainy days in the whole country, the shortage of funds in some areas is still prominent, the downstream construction progress is slowing down, the market demand is tepid, and the overall performance is weak. On the supply side, the kilns are shut down in many places, and the supply shrinks slightly. Generally speaking, the supply and demand of cement market is still loose, manufacturers continue to accumulate, and the market competition is fierce.
The National Cement Price Index (CEMPI) showed that as of June 9, it closed at 123.22 points, down 1.8% annually and 19.21% year-on-year. It has continued to fall since April.
It is understood that while enterprises bear falling prices, they generally carry out peak staggering production in order to ease supply pressure. People
from Jidong Cement Company told reporters that there is a problem of insufficient demand in the cement market at present, and affected by the accumulation of inventory in the early stage, the market price has dropped significantly, and the price of the company's products has fallen by about 15% year on year. The company's production line will stagger peak production, mainly under the arrangement of industry associations, in order to prevent vicious competition and avoid falling into price war.
Shangfeng Cement Company said that the company has many production bases in the whole country, among which the East China region is relatively less affected, but the southwest and northwest regions have more efforts to stagger peak production this year, which requires a longer time to stop kilns. People
from Tapai Group told reporters that this year's cement peak staggering production span is longer, the company is located in Guangdong, the specific requirement is to stop production for about 15 days every month from May to August.
Recently, Hebei Building Materials Industry Association issued the Notice on Self-discipline and Peak-staggering Production of Cement Clinker Enterprises in Central and Southern Hebei Province. The peak
staggering time is from 0 o'clock on June 3 to 24 o'clock on June 17, 2023, and the kiln will be shut down for 15 days. It covers 30 cement clinker enterprises in central and southern Hebei.
In addition, the notice also mentioned that after the completion of the industry self-discipline peak staggering production, the enterprises will continue to carry out the non-heating season peak staggering production task according to the public information of the non-heating season peak staggering production plan of cement clinker enterprises in Hebei Province. At
present, the cement industry is in a downturn and the situation of overcapacity is still grim. Under the situation of imbalance between supply and demand, a single industrial structure has been unable to support enterprises based on the current complex market situation. Energy saving and carbon reduction, cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, industrial transformation and upgrading, optimization of asset allocation and enhancement of core competitiveness can maintain the healthy and long-term development of the cement industry. On July 6-7,
2023, China Cement Network will hold the "2023 China Cement Energy Conservation and New Energy Development Conference" in Chongqing, starting from energy-saving transformation, photovoltaic, energy storage and other technology applications, green power, alternative fuels to replace tradi tional energy transformation, and so on. Explore new ways of energy saving and consumption reduction in cement industry.
After the meeting, Dongfang Hope will visit the energy-saving demonstration line of "Grade 5 to Grade 6" of Chongqing cement preheater and the energy-saving project of steam driven fan.