First, raw material market prices usher in an upward trend
On September 4, the steel company in Wu'an City, Hebei Province, received a notice that the blast furnace and rolling line of 18 steel mills in the area were required to be shut down before zero on the 5th. The time limit for shutting down was tentatively set to 20 days to 1 month. In fact, Hebei’s use of the “closed down†means is not a special case. With the impending arrival of the fourth quarter, the pressure for completing the task of energy saving and emission reduction in 2010 is also increasing. As a high-energy-consuming industry, the steel industry has naturally become the “cutting-off†focus of all provinces and cities. According to previous media reports, at the beginning of September Ningbo Iron and Steel had a 2,500 cubic meter ironmaking blast furnace closed. In addition, Jiangsu Province stipulates that iron and steel enterprises can only produce 18 days a month and continue until the end of October; the price of electricity for high-energy-consuming enterprises will rise, and the peak-valley price policy will be abolished. The steel companies including Shagang, Yonggang and Zhongtian are all implementing power-restricting policies and their output has been affected to varying degrees. In addition, at the beginning of September, steel mills in the Linfen area of ​​Shanxi Province basically stopped production from September 3, except for the steel production cuts. New Jinshan, Xinyuan and other steel mills have stopped purchasing raw materials since August 30. There are also a large number of small steel mills have also received notice of shutdown.
In some regions, the implementation of restrictions on steel mills to limit production and production will reduce the supply of steel in the short term, and the price of steel products will increase sharply. At present, steel products in the Handan and Beijing areas have risen by nearly 200 yuan. If the next step in the Tangshan region is affected by the storm of production cuts, there will still be room for price increases in the later period.
Xiao Bian Comments: The rise in the price of steel means that the price of raw materials for hardware will further increase, which will have a negative impact on hardware companies.
Second, hardware companies "start" affected
In order to achieve the goal of “energy saving and emission reduction†this year, many cities and districts in Zhejiang Province have imposed power cuts on enterprises and imposed severe impact on the production of enterprises. It is understood that Jiashan County put forward a goal of 5% GDP energy consumption reduction this year. However, the county’s yuan GDP energy consumption in the first half of the year has increased by 1.87% year-on-year, putting considerable pressure on the completion of this year’s energy saving target. In order to accomplish this goal, the Energy Conservation Office of the Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Leading Group of the Jiashan County Economic and Trade Bureau issued a notice on August 11 again, requesting the orderly use of electricity by enterprises, and the principle of “stopping three open fours†for all productive enterprises in principle. To provide power to their own companies in turn to ensure the successful completion of the goal of saving energy and reducing consumption by the end of September.
This one-size-fits-all approach has not only affected the normal operation and production of enterprises, but has also in fact hit the enthusiasm of our persistent energy conservation and emission reduction enterprises. In fact, those enterprises with high pollution and high energy consumption have actually been encouraged in disguise.
Xiao Bian Comments: The big banner of energy conservation and emission reduction, companies are really helpless, and only some of them can achieve self-powered companies to escape.
Third, summary:
Energy-saving and emission-reduction are good things, but energy-saving and emission-reduction have caused hardware companies to endure bitter results in the start-up of raw materials and factories. What should you do to save energy? How to combine energy conservation and emission reduction with guaranteed production is believed to be a subject that needs to be explored in the future.