According to the news reported by China Ceramic information net, Since July, the "2022 Ceramic Industry Long March - National Ceramic Tile Production Capacity Survey" jointly sponsored by China Building and Sanitary Ceramics Association and "Ceramic Information" found that there were as many as 600 ceramic tile production areas in the country. The production capacity of the exterior wall tiles of several production lines has continued to shrink significantly in the past two years. At present, there are only about 150 production lines left in the country, and only about 100 can operate normally for more than half a year throughout the year.
In the past ten years, what happened to the exterior wall tiles?
According to the report from Ceramic information net, they have analyzed there are a few reasons:
The first is the policy factor.
The incidents of external wall tiles falling off basically occur every day across the country, causing property damage and even casualties.
In July 2021, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued the "Catalogue of Construction Processes, Equipment and Materials for the Elimination of Housing Construction and Municipal Infrastructure Projects Endangering Production Safety (First Batch)", which mentioned: due to the use of cement mortar to paste exterior wall veneer bricks exist Falling off is a safety hazard, so it is required that cement mortar should not be used for projects with a sticking height of exterior wall facing bricks higher than 15m. It is recommended to use exterior wall paint.
According to the requirements of the "Catalogue", although other bonding materials can be selected for the pasting of high-rise exterior wall tiles, compared with the high-rise exterior wall decoration that is basically a project, considering the cost and construction difficulty, there is no substitute for cement mortar. , so this is almost equivalent to banning the use of external wall tiles on 15m (ie 5 storeys) floors. This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the external wall brick enterprises.
In fact, before this, for safety reasons, since 2003, many places across the country have successively introduced relevant policies to restrict the use of exterior wall tiles. For example, it is forbidden to use external wall tiles for high-rise buildings with more than 15 floors in Beijing, and the maximum application of external wall tiles in Jiangsu should not exceed 40m. In Chongqing, it is forbidden to use external wall tiles for the external walls of buildings with more than 20 floors or a height of more than 60m...
Under the tightening of policies, alternative products such as glass curtain walls and coatings have gradually replaced exterior wall bricks and become the main products for building exterior wall decoration.
On the other hand, market factors have also accelerated the shrinking of exterior wall tiles.
"Exterior wall tiles are mainly based on engineering and rural markets, and engineering accounts for the vast majority. Now that the demand for real estate is decreasing, it is naturally even more difficult for exterior wall tiles. And other products can be sold even if they can't be sold at a lower price. When we go out, we focus on engineering, and the demand for engineering is gone, and you have nowhere to sell it if you cut prices." The person in charge of a company in Fujian that has completely withdrawn from the production of exterior wall tiles introduced.
Post time: Sep-30-2022
