Huangshi, Hubei Province: Four major “stumbling blocks” in the aluminum processing industry

Many investors and business owners of aluminum processing companies should see that without any shortage of funds and no shortage of markets, they must succeed without shortage of talent, technology, and management. If a company wastes social resources and energy for profit, it will be difficult to develop for a long time. In addition, the company's operations also need continuous guidance and supervision of policies. Huangshi's aluminum processing industry can only make great progress if it fully considers various factors.

The aluminum resources drive the aluminum processing industry, which is located in central China. Between the two industrial bases in Guangdong and Liaoning, Huangshi relied on local mineral resources. In the 1990s, large-scale aluminum processing companies were established. Aluminum products produced by these companies have a certain degree of competitiveness in the domestic market, especially in the area of ​​aluminum profiles for residential buildings, which occupy a certain market share. It is reported that by 2011, there were more than 100 aluminum processing companies in Huangshi, and the annual output exceeded 500,000 tons.

In recent years, as the real estate industry has entered the third and fourth tier cities, Huangshi Aluminum processing companies have also shown rapid development. This is mainly reflected in two aspects: First, large-scale aluminum processing companies are accelerating their expansion, and on the basis of the original building door and window profiles, the introduction of industrial aluminum profile production lines; second, many foreign funds have been involved in the local aluminum industry, in this industry chain All aspects of the Nuggets.

Huangshi Tieshan veteran aluminum processing company --- Fuxing Aluminum Industry is the representative of the introduction of industrial aluminum profile production line. Two years ago, when a large number of companies invested heavily in the aluminum processing industry and shared the “cake” in the aluminum market, Fuxing began to finance the expansion of nearly two billion industrial aluminum extrusion production lines and moved closer to the transport industry's aluminum market. And even the world's competition.

The author visited Tieshan, an old mineral industrial zone in Huangshi, and learned that this place has become the focus of Huangshi aluminum processing companies. The abundant aluminum resource advantage has brought dynamism to Huangshi's aluminum processing industry. However, the influx of large amounts of capital has also made the entire industry impetuous. In a sense, it is the status of “not bad money” that exacerbates the lack of talents, technology, management, research and development, and environmental protection in Huangshi’s aluminum processing industry.

In general, Huangshi's aluminum processing industry has the following four major bottlenecks.

I. Absolute shortage of technical and management personnel

According to Huangshi Tieshan Xinchang Aluminium executives, some investment companies are not clear in their business philosophy. They do not pay enough attention to the company’s talents and often dig people everywhere, which has an adverse effect on the development of the industry. Due to the scarcity of technical management personnel, a squeezer who had not been in a company for a few days became the head of the squad and was dug into the director by a high salary. The talents of enterprises are extremely unstable, which not only increases the labor cost of the company, but also affects the normal operation of the company. Social education is almost a blank for the training of such professionals. Graduates of universities and colleges tend to have low-caliber jobs. Training is sometimes more difficult than training a general worker. Social organizations such as industry associations have not organized technical training. A large number of job trainings should have been solved by social organizations and now they are all lost to the factory. The state has strict restrictions on the aluminum processing industry, so long as the money can be set up. This created a large number of new aluminum processing companies. It is not terrible that the market “cake” is divided. What is terrible is the scarcity of corporate technicians. Once the company's backbone technicians are hijacked by other companies with high salaries, the company's operations will be paralyzed. In fact, how to solve the problem of the lack of talent in the company has become the key to the development of the Huangshi aluminum processing industry.

Second, product homogeneity is serious

China is a large producer of aluminum processing, not a strong country. China's aluminum processing industry lacks creativity. Huangshi aluminum processing industry is also lacking in creation. At present, the aluminum processing companies in Huangshi carry out the processing, research and development of low-end products, and the quality inspection and other aspects are ineffective. The products have no substantial innovation and the products are homogenized. The profits of aluminum products produced by many small and medium-sized aluminum processing companies are only as good as 500 yuan per ton. According to industry insiders, in the international market, the profits of aluminum profiles must be at least 3,000 yuan to be considered as a healthy development.

Third, energy-saving emission reduction

Aluminum processing industry is a high energy consumption, high pollution industry. One indisputable fact is that the development of many aluminum processing companies is based on the large consumption of non-renewable resources. Driven by interests, many companies and many families live in mine-style industrial areas. Once these mine resources are depleted, many people lose their economic sources. As a result, the use of recycled aluminum has also attracted the attention of the relevant government. It is understood that Huangshi Aluminum's annual output value of processing enterprises is more than 500,000 tons, and more than 99% use scrap. Excessive energy consumption also exists in the use of recycled aluminum.

According to industry experts, in Huangshi, during the recycling process of recycled aluminum, the proportion of burned coal is extremely high. The average processing coal consumption per ton of recycled aluminum is about 200 kg, and the burning loss is more than 8%. This is a great waste. At present, most of the aluminum processing companies in Huangshi are between 15 and 25 tons in weight, and hundreds of kilograms of melting furnaces are also present. These small melting furnaces waste a lot of resources and energy. However, at present, there is no single force that can bring about comprehensive improvements in the melting furnaces of major companies. Although Ningbo, Bazhou and other places have formed smelting bases, some professional large-scale casting companies have emerged. The coal consumption is controlled between 80 and 90 kg per ton, and the burning loss is controlled at about 2%. However, the reality is that these companies are not in their own way. Therefore, the current high energy consumption of Huangshi's recycled aluminum resources is still difficult to change in the short term.

Fourth, the product lacks competitiveness

Only under the guidance of policies, enterprises can make efforts in products, improve the awareness of the entire industry in order to form the core competitiveness in the end market. At present, the rapid development of the Chinese economy has brought tremendous business opportunities and huge market space to the aluminum processing industry in the third and fourth tier cities, which has caused many companies to rush into the market. However, due to lack of policy guidance and monitoring, the threshold of aluminum processing industry is low.