Middle Class Coordinated Research On Shandong Geotechnical Construction Materials Industry

From March 10 to 13, Zhu Xiusen, vice president and secretary-general of China Industrial Textiles Industry Association, Xiang Feng, president of the Geotechnical Building Materials Branch of China Association for the Middle East, and chairman of Tiandingfeng Holdings Co., Ltd. led a team to carry out research in major areas and key enterprises of geotechnical building materials in Shandong Province, focusing on the development status of industrial textiles industry and geotechnical building materials The recent operation and development demands of key enterprises, the preliminary study of the "Tenth Five Year Plan" industrial planning, and the annual work plan of the Association were exchanged.

During the period, the research team visited Weifang Fazhan Cloth Co., Ltd., Potential Nonwovens Co., Ltd., Qianghua Waterproof Technology Co., Ltd., Jinan Tianhai New Material Engineering Co., Ltd., Yibo Sunshine Engineering Materials Co., Ltd., Fulant Carpet Co., Ltd., Jinying Geomaterials Co., Ltd., Yingxin Geomaterials Co., Ltd., Luyuan New Material Technology Co., Ltd, Dezhou Tiandingfeng Holding Co., Ltd., Hongxiang New Material Co., Ltd., Jiantong Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., Hongrui Geomaterials Co., Ltd., Huaxiang New Material Technology Co., Ltd., Yurun Geomaterials Co., Ltd., Minghao Geomaterials Co., Ltd., Meicheng Carpet Co., Ltd., Deying Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., Taitou Town Party Committee and Government, Laiwu Bureau of Industry and Information Technology Laiwu Nonwoven Industry Association, Lingcheng Industry and Information Bureau, Dezhou Geotechnical Materials Association, Linyi County Government and other relevant units had a discussion, and entered Tianding Fengdezhou Factory together with Shandong Chenghuijin Industrial Co., Ltd. and Wuxi Rongfu Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Affected by the macroeconomic situation and the downward trend of the real estate industry, since last year, the market demand for waterproof tire base fabric has shown a downward trend, but there are also many high-quality enterprises that still maintain a good operating rate and capacity utilization, enrich product categories and strictly control quality; Strengthen technological innovation and promote informatization construction; Expand the international market and speed up the offshore layout. Follow the trend, which will promote the industry to further improve industrial concentration. Tiandingfeng has four production bases in Dezhou, Shandong, Chuzhou, Anhui and Changde, Hunan, with an annual production capacity of 280000 tons of nonwovens, 46 one-step polyester spunbonded tire base fabric production lines and China's first high-strength coarse denier polypropylene spunbonded needle punched geotextile production line. As the world's leading tire base fabric manufacturer, Tiandingfeng has recently officially announced the commencement of the construction of the Canadian production, research and logistics base after the construction of the Middle East production base project in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, to further improve the supply capacity to the North American and European markets and optimize the global industrial layout. Developed cloth industry has a full range of high, middle and low-end products, with an annual production capacity of more than 300 million square meters. The company has participated in the preparation of a number of national standards for tire bases for coiled materials and non-woven fabrics for roads, not only providing a single product with superior performance and stable quality, but also providing comprehensive solutions that have been applied to customers in a large scale. While focusing on waterproof coiled materials, Qianghua Waterproof has driven the development of polymer waterproof industry chain, with an annual production capacity of 40 million square meters of asphalt and polymer waterproof coiled materials, 3000 tons of polyurethane waterproof coatings, 5000 tons of grouting materials, and 8000 tons of nonwoven geotextiles.

Driven by national infrastructure projects, the market demand for geosynthetics such as geotextiles/membranes/grids and composites is relatively good. Last year, the industry generally grew, and most enterprises reported that the market situation at the beginning of this year was also better than the same period last year. Advantage enterprises insist on innovation first, and develop new products around sponge cities, water conservancy, mining areas, agriculture, animal husbandry, fishery and other fields; Adhere to quality first, strengthen quality control management and talent training, and improve digital and intelligent operation level; Adhere to the goal of sustainability, reduce costs and increase efficiency when settling in the park, standardize sales channels, maintain capital chain safety, and ensure healthy development. Hongxiang Company, established in 1987, is a leading enterprise in the domestic industry, focusing on the R&D, production, sales and after-sales service of geosynthetics, and is committed to providing one-stop procurement and overall solutions for customers. The company's patented products continue to sell well, while actively developing intelligent robots to improve the level of monitoring services. Yibo Sunshine is a global service provider of environmental protection technology integrating the research and development, production, sales, construction and maintenance of geotechnical materials, and has the qualifications of municipal, environmental protection, water conservancy and hydropower and other construction. In 2024, the company expanded international trade, and the new Urumqi office radiated engineering business in northwest China. Tianhai is equipped with 25 domestic and international first-class automatic production lines. The company promotes enterprise transformation and upgrading with technological innovation. Up to now, Tianhai has 89 patented technologies and has participated in 13 national and industrial standards and technical specifications. As the new factory is put into use, it will push the company to a new level.

Laiwu non-woven fabric industry has more than 130 enterprises with an output value of 5 billion yuan, forming a variety of products such as fiber, carpet, automobile interior, filter geotextile, geotextile, etc. At present, there are 11 fiber enterprises, 28 carpet mats, 5 car carpets, 8 filter materials and 68 geotechnical materials. The non-woven industry in the whole district is in the "golden period" of development to release its potential. We will speed up equipment upgrading, process upgrading, and digital empowerment, so that the traditional industry can "sprout from old trees". The non-woven carpet floor mat is a large export base in China, and the exhibition and trade carpets in many large exhibitions have the symbol of Laiwu production. Shandong Fulante is a diversified group company integrating new materials, building materials, feed and electronics. Its subordinate Fulante carpet was put into production in 2024, producing carpet floor mats, car interior carpets and other products. With the production of Fulante reaching its capacity, Luyuan Company, which is supporting Fulante, is also expanding the production scale and variety of raw materials.

Lingcheng District focuses on geotechnical material clusters, strengthens the layout of new quality productivity, and enables high-end, digital and green development. There are 60 enterprises above the designated size in Lingcheng's textile and clothing industry, realizing an output value of 9 billion yuan, and actively carrying out intelligent and digital transformation. Seven enterprises, including Hongxiang New Materials and Jiantong Geotechnical Engineering, have been selected into the "Morningstar Factory" warehousing cultivation project of Shandong digital economy. In 2024, the output value of geosynthetics in the cluster will be stable. Some enterprises in the industrial chain will be good at sales, some will focus on processing, some will transform from e-commerce to foreign trade, and some will give consideration to both geotechnics and carpets. The cemetery will also make new progress in assisting the industry in terms of specialization, novelty, financial support, industrial park construction, centralized procurement platform, labor dispatch, etc. For future development, relevant enterprises also put forward opinions and suggestions that they hope the functional departments will provide more support, the park construction will be more complete, high-end talents will be more sufficient, and market competition will be more standardized.

Chenghuijin and Wuxi Rongfu gave feedback on raw materials and supporting equipment respectively. The overcapacity of upstream raw materials requires time to digest and transfer at the market end. Raw material enterprises started late this year with a low operating rate. Moreover, due to the small number of special-purpose raw material production enterprises, geotechnical construction material enterprises are also under pressure at both ends. Equipment supporting enterprises should not only innovate for development, but also seek benefits from the inside, improve the applicability of molding equipment, and expand the use of production products, such as extending from tire base cloth to geotextile and carpet materials.

In the next two or three years, with the urbanization process in China, geosynthetics will still maintain a good trend. The downturn of tire base cloth will continue, and there will be no growth in the past real estate boom. The "internal" competition in the industry has intensified the deep reshuffle. Only by transforming and upgrading, focusing on constantly improving the core competitiveness, can enterprises have the opportunity to explore new development opportunities from their survival and meet the high-quality development road in the field of geotechnical construction materials.