Overview of the ceramic industry and focus on home furnishing hot spots.
Hello everyone! Today is May 8, 2022. Welcome to pay attention to this issue of "China Ceramics Daily·Weekly Comments".
The rumors come true!
Is a new round of price increases coming again?
On May 1, the Quanzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission issued the "Notice on Adjusting Pipeline Gas Sales Prices." The notice shows that according to the "Fujian Province Natural Gas Price Management Measures", "Quanzhou City Pipeline Gas Price Linkage Interim Regulations", etc., the maximum sales price of pipeline gas for non-resident users has been adjusted from the current 2.82 yuan per cubic meter to 3.599 yuan per cubic meter, allowing The supply and demand parties negotiate and determine within the maximum price range. This price will be implemented from May 1st.
Source: Quanzhou Development and Reform Commission
Commentary:
Sometimes, rumors spread and become true. The rise in natural gas prices in Quanzhou obviously falls into this category.
In late March, it was reported online that Quanzhou Natural Gas "natural gas prices will increase significantly, from 2.82 yuan/cubic meter to 6.89 yuan/cubic meter." In this regard, the Quanzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission solemnly refuted the rumors and issued a "Statement on the Internet Rumor that Quanzhou City's Natural Gas Price Will Raise from 2.82 Yuan/m3 to 6.89 Yuan/m3" on March 20, making it clear that at that time, Quanzhou's natural gas sales price had not increased. If there is any need to adjust the price of natural gas, the relevant functional departments of the government will strictly follow the relevant provincial regulations and the relevant regulations of the pipeline gas price linkage mechanism and release them to the public through formal channels. We hope that the general public will not believe or spread rumors.
However, only one month has passed, and the rise in natural gas prices in Quanzhou has already become a fact.
At the same time, the price of natural gas in Zibo, Shandong, another ceramic production area, has also begun to increase, with an increase of about 17%-20%, and the average natural gas price per cubic meter has increased by 0.66-0.74Yuan, after the price increase, the price of natural gas is 4.30 Yuan/m³ (LNG users are 5.5 Yuan/m³).
Affected by this, many Zibo ceramic companies have issued price increase notices (400×800mm specifications will increase by 0.3-0.5 yuan/piece, 800×800mm specifications will increase by 0.5 yuan/piece, 600×1200mm, 750×1500mm, The 900×1800 mm specifications will increase by 1 yuan, 2 yuan and 3 yuan/piece respectively, and furniture slate and bathroom slate will increase by 2 yuan/㎡) to alleviate the pressure of rising costs.
Following this, two ceramic companies in the Fujian production area announced price increases. One of them increased prices by 0.5 yuan and 1 yuan per piece for 400×800mm and 400×1200mm products, respectively. The other raised prices for 400×800mm products. The product price increased by 0.4 yuan per piece.
The COVID-19 epidemic is recurring, the economic environment continues to decline, prices continue to rise, and the future is uncertain... Zhongtaojun believes that it is really difficult for ceramic manufacturers. And what about the days of tile dealers? Two catchphrases can be used to describe it vividly: a child drinks soju - it tastes terrible; a mute eats coptis - it's so painful that he can't express it.
If you can't do it as the feeling rises, you can only resist and hold on to death. Perhaps, by consuming competitors to death, the day of success will come. Manufacturers and dealers alike.
Tiles kill people!
Where will the exterior wall tiles go?
Recently, a woman and her companions were walking on the sidewalk in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province when they were hit on the head by a piece of debris falling from the sky and fell to the ground. Staff from the Binxing Subdistrict Office told The Paper that the woman had passed away and that the falling objects were decorative tiles from an old building. Relevant departments have intervened.
Source: The Paper
Commentary:
This is not the first fatal accident involving falling tiles, and there are countless accidents involving falling tiles causing injuries. Relevant data shows that there are no less than 60 incidents of exterior wall tiles falling off that are reported in the press every year, and there are also many casualties and property losses.
Falling off of exterior wall tiles poses a huge safety hazard. It has been regarded as a "sword hanging over the city" just like high-altitude parabolic objects, and is more uncontrollable than the latter.
For safety reasons, many places have long issued regulations banning exterior wall tiles on high-rise buildings, but there is no unified requirement at the national level. Until December 2021, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued an announcement on the "Catalogue of Elimination of Construction Techniques, Equipment and Materials Endangering Production Safety in Housing Construction and Municipal Infrastructure Projects (First Batch)". The announcement clarified that a total of 22 types of related processes, equipment and materials will be eliminated, and the "cement mortar pasting process of facing bricks" closely related to ceramic tiles is listed as "prohibited" (9 months from the date of the announcement, cement mortar pasting ceramic tiles will be banned) The traditional construction technology will be completely banned), but in fact it is prohibited to "paste exterior wall facing bricks".
In fact, in the "Catalogue of Elimination of Construction Processes, Equipment and Materials Endangering Production Safety in Housing Construction and Municipal Infrastructure Projects (First Batch) (Draft for Comments)", the elimination type of "Facing Brick Cement Mortar Pasting Process" is "Restrictions", the restriction is "not to be used in projects where the exterior wall cladding bricks are pasted at a height higher than 15m", and an alternative material "exterior wall paint" is provided. In this regard, some people in the industry interpreted it at the time as "this regulation is equivalent to prohibiting the use of exterior wall bricks in high-rise buildings with more than 5 floors."
Looking now, in the officially released "Catalogue of Elimination of Construction Processes, Equipment and Materials Endangering Production Safety in Housing Construction and Municipal Infrastructure Projects (First Batch)", the elimination type of "Facing Brick Cement Mortar Pasting Process" has increased Come to "forbidden". I don’t know how to interpret this?
No matter how you interpret the fact that the cement mortar pasting process of facing tiles has been banned, or what impact this ban will have on the development of exterior wall tiles, domestic and foreign wall tile manufacturers have transformed one after another (some have entered the field of floor tiles) It has long become an indisputable fact.
Falling off exterior wall tiles can easily cause casualties, and the dangers of falling off interior wall tiles cannot be underestimated, and there are documented cases.
2019In November 2019, a woman from Qingdao, Shandong Province was taking a shower at home when a tile from the bathroom wall suddenly fell off and hit her ankle, causing serious injuries; in April 2019, a woman from Beijing stayed at a hotel in Zibo, Shandong Province and was taking a shower in the bathroom. My right foot was hit by a falling tile, and blood flowed...
From this perspective, safety issues after ceramic tiles are laid, especially the problem of shedding, must be paid great attention by all parties. In Zhongtaojun's view, this is not only an issue that owners, users and ceramic tile laying contractors of buildings with ceramic tiles should pay special attention to, but is also closely related to ceramic manufacturers and their dealers.
Sentenced to 7 months in prison!
Just because of counterfeiting well-known ceramic tile brands?
In August 2020, Li ordered the "Guanzhu" brand ceramic tiles specified by a project in Furong Town, Yueqing City from the defendant Wu. In order to earn the price difference, the defendant Wu purchased the cheaper "Boton" brand ceramic tiles from elsewhere at a price of 41,176.8 yuan, instructing others to produce packaging boxes with counterfeit "Guanzhu Ceramics" registered trademarks, and then sold the "Boton" tiles on his own Brand tile packaging boxes were replaced with packaging boxes bearing the counterfeit "Guanzhu Ceramics" registered trademark, and the batch of counterfeit tiles was sold to Li for 48,762 yuan. On September 3, 2020, law enforcement officers from the Yueqing Market Supervision and Administration Bureau inspected the project site and discovered 1,204 boxes of the above-mentioned counterfeit ceramic tiles. It was also found that the defendant Wu later voluntarily surrendered to the Economic Crime Investigation Brigade of the Yueqing Municipal Public Security Bureau and compensated the trademark owner 90,000 yuan to obtain forgiveness. In the end, Wu was sentenced by the court to seven months in prison, suspended for one year and two months, and fined RMB 30,000.
Source: Yueqing People's Court
Comment:
Who says the brand of ceramic tiles you buy is not important? This counterfeit infringement case is a slap in the face to this view.
For ceramic tiles with very low attention and repurchase rates, extremely homogeneous designs and colors, and no brand logos on the front or even the back, lay consumers cannot tell the difference between the quality and the difference between them. Which brand does it belong to. This is an important reason why it is difficult to build a brand in the building ceramics industry.
Although some well-known ceramic tile brands have not yet become consumer brands, they have at least made a name for themselves in the industry, and have also affected a considerable part of consumption in terms of popularity. It is not easy for these well-known brands to get to where they are today, and they must have spent countless financial, material and human resources.
In a word, brands are hard-won, and the fight against counterfeiting has a long way to go. In addition to relying on relevant government departments, ceramic tile brands and their dealers must also work hard.
