Automotive rubber products industry risks and opportunities exist side by side

    Automotive rubber products industry while plenty of room for future market, but it also faces severe challenges.    1, the rapid development of automobile and manufacturing industries, making China become the rubber consuming country, according to statistics from related departments of China’s rubber consumption in 2001 for the first time surpassed the United States as the world’s largest consumer and importer in 2003, has become the world’s the second-largest tire producer and exporter of natural rubber consumption in 2004 reached 1.8 million tons, accounting for 21.5% of total global consumption. Currently include Michelin, Bridgestone, Goodyear, Jia Tong and other tire manufacturers have the world’s largest joint-venture factories in China, further exacerbating China’s rubber consumption of resources.    2, automobile rubber products, including raw materials used in almost all the synthetic rubber, such as CR, SBR, NBR, HNBR, CM, ACM, ECO, VMQ, FKM and so on. In recent years, special rubber applications in cars increasing, such as fluorine rubber, polyacrylate rubber, hydrogenated nitrile rubber, epichlorohydrin rubber, silicone rubber. Automotive rubber products in need of raw materials while China can produce rubber, but most people can not meet the performance requirements, so imports remain high. And along with oil prices high, the cost of synthetic rubber production rising for automotive rubber products industry constitutes a tremendous pressure.    3, due to the continuous improvement of the level of car design on the medium of performance used in demanding, so automotive rubber products industry continued to face and solve new issues, the pressure to meet the new requirements. Such as cars compact design, resulting in poor heat dissipation, the temperature under the hood getting higher and higher; the continuous introduction of new lubricating oil; automotive air conditioning non-fluoride; new synthetic brake fluid applications, and so on. These are the automotive rubber products, heat resistance, oil resistance, chemical resistance and so on a newer and higher requirements, need to be completely resolved.    4, the strengthening of environmental awareness, the introduction of new emission regulations, resulting in automobile engine continuously improve fuel combustion efficiency, which led to related rubber products at a higher intensity of work, the traditional rubber products have been unbearable.        Prohibit the use of lead-sulfide additives, the alternative is a new auxiliary aids mostly require the use of a higher intensity of hose, the result has greatly increased the cost of manufacturing rubber products.    5, due to automobile rubber materials and products industry are auto parts category, at present the continuous influx of foreign investors, and become wholly-owned factories, making the domestic automobile rubber materials and products was white-hot competition in the market trend. According to incomplete statistics, the current domestic influential non-tire automotive rubber products has reached more than 70 foreign investors, including from the United States, Japan, Europe and other countries of the foreign capital of nearly 40, more than 30 Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan-funded enterprises, many of whom are internationally renowned businesses, varieties covering all areas of automotive rubber products.