Green wire and cable development is unstoppable

In November 2013, Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council met with foreign representatives attending the 2013 Annual Meeting of the China International Committee for Cooperation on Environment and Development in the Great Hall of the People. He said that the Chinese people are increasingly demanding environmental quality and environmental protection has become an important issue. Livelihood issues. It is understood that in 2013 the country has intensively introduced various environmental protection policies, and the national environmental protection war has already begun.

Conventional cables generate a large amount of dioxin, lead, cadmium, halides, and other harmful substances during the manufacturing, use, and disposal of waste materials, which is unfavorable to the environment. According to Zhu Ronghua, Secretary General of the Opto-Electronics Branch of the China Electronic Component Industry Association, at the 2013 China Asia Wire & Cable International Summit held in Shanghai in October 2013, environmental protection cables are non-toxic (low toxicity) and non-toxic to humans and the environment. Pollution, high safety and reliability, long service life, easy to split and recycling cycle economy model.

At the seminar on “Environmental Risks and Countermeasures for Wires and Cables” held in 2013, Du Jiabin, general manager of SGS Consumer Products Testing Services Department, a leading global inspection, appraisal, testing and certification organization, pointed out that environmental protection issues have increasingly become the focus of attention. The growing importance of the importance of manufacturing green products for companies.

Tan Bingwen, president of U.S. General Cable (China) Co., Ltd., believes that only more and more companies are constantly trying out green practices and innovations in their products and operations. The entire cable industry can achieve sustainable development and show a green and flourishing development trend.

Environmental protection cable or cable decommissioning industry with low profit margin

At the 2nd China (Wuhu) Wire & Cable Expo and Product Quality Summit held recently, Zhang Rongzheng, Director of the Heavy Equipment Division of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, pointed out that the average profit rate in the domestic cable industry is very low, hovering at 3%. -- About 4%. At the Wuwei County Wire and Cable Industry Association Conference in 2013, Gao Qingguo, Honorary Chairman of the China Wire & Cable Association's Wire and Cable Branch stated that 80% to 90% of products in the domestic cable manufacturing industry are homogenized low-end products. It is understood that the homogenization of low-end and middle-end products is highly competitive and the relative lack of high-end products is an important factor that leads to low profitability in the cable industry.

At present, the representative green and environmental protection cables at home and abroad mainly include flame-retardant cables and fire-proof cables. These cables have higher added value and higher profits than conventional cables. Therefore, R&D and production of environmentally-friendly cables will likely lead companies to move from mid- to low-end product markets to mid-to-high-end product markets, and the benefits of companies will also increase.

Environmental protection cable - "Admission ticket" to enter the international market

With the continuous improvement of environmental protection requirements in various countries of the world, international environmental laws and regulations have also increased and become more stringent. Take the EU-developed ROHS Directive, if products such as wires and cables fail to pass this certification, they will not be able to enter the European market. In order to obtain the opportunity for product export, foreign countries are constantly reducing the production of conventional cables and replacing them with the production of environmentally friendly cables. In response, Liu Tao, secretary-general of the Guangdong Provincial Wire and Cable Industry Association, called on domestic wire and cable companies to implement green environmental protection controls in the production process in order to achieve green manufacturing.

At present, environmental protection issues have received more and more attention worldwide, which will greatly stimulate the growth of demand for environmentally friendly wire and cable. In addition to the higher profits compared to conventional cables, the development trend of environmentally friendly cables is irreversible.