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Chinese Wollastonite Price Is Increasing |
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Reported by Zheng Huirong: The reporter has been informed from the recent
China Non-Metallic Mineral Industry Association, Wollastonite
Committee¡¯s conference that people in the industry unanimously agreed on
increasing the price of Wollastonite products. Affected by the price
increase of production materials and freight, producing cost of
Wollastontie products is rising which put a lot of enterprises out of
business. During the meeting, delegates from Jilin, Liaoning, Jiangxi,
Hubei and Zhejiang gave detailed information respectively on the local
markets and production planning/ operation, research and development,
flume utilization of wollastonite products, various topics have been
brought to the discussion table, as how to explore and utilize resources
properly, how to improve the capacity of industrial products development
and production, how to improve the quality and additional value on
products.
Chief director of China Non-Metallic Mineral Industry Association,
Wollastonite committee Mr.
Zhang
gave an analysis on the challenges and opportunities in the
industry, giving great emphasis on the importance of sharing information
in the industry and enhancing comprehensive mineral products utilization,
he also announced the major schedule for this year at the meeting.
According to M.X. Zhang, the market for wollastonite products is quite
promising because of the restriction on using asbestos and replacing
asbestos by wollastonite, and the fast growth in metallurgic industry.
Currently, demand on high quality wollastonite is increasing in the
international market, especially on those products with less loss on
ignition and low iron. Meanwhile, there is a great potential in the
domestic market too. Demand on pottery body, metallurgic fire resistan
wollastonite is rising, the application field is expanding. Opportunities
always come with challenges. The new export tax-return policy makes 10%
decrease on the business profit; the price increase on gas and
electricity, especially on freight, all these make export harder, for
example, the freight for export to Europe has been increased from 65
dollars to 100 dollars.U.S.each metric ton. Needle shaped wollastonite
resources are decreasing, the golden time has already been passed, so
proper exploration and comprehensive utilization has become the first
priority in the industry. He brought delegates¡¯ attention to taking the
chance, optimizing production structure, improving quality, stopping low
price competition, increasing awareness of resource conservation and
comprehensive utilization. ¡¡ |
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2004.5.15 ¡¡ |