High-cost extrusion The roll industry is struggling to break through

In recent years, driven by the rapid growth of China's steel production, the metallurgical roll manufacturing industry has developed rapidly. Judging from the situation in the first half of this year, some of the strong large-scale roll manufacturing enterprises are difficult to meet all the needs of key customers even if they are working at full capacity and working overtime.

Industry experts pointed out that although the market situation is better, it does not mean that there are no problems in China's roll industry, especially in the first 8 months of this year, the price of raw materials has skyrocketed, the production cost has increased sharply, the shortage of funds, the market competition is not standardized, the product structure is unreasonable and other new and old contradictions are concentrated, and it is urgent to require roll manufacturing enterprises to break through as soon as possible from the high cost squeeze and maintain the sustainable and healthy development of the industry.

Enterprises facing a variety of pressures due to declining efficiency

In the first half of this year, the metallurgical roll manufacturing industry continued to maintain a rapid growth trend. Industry Leaders??? Compared with the same period last year, the output value, output, sales revenue, profits and taxes of Sinosteel Xingtai Machinery Roll Co., Ltd. still maintained a growth rate of nearly 40%. However, behind the growth of product production and sales, the economic benefits of enterprises have not "risen all boats", but have shown a sharp downward trend. The main reason is that the prices of pig iron, scrap steel, various ferroalloys, coal, oil, electricity and other energy required for roll production continue to rise sharply, eating into corporate profits.

According to the relevant data, cast pig iron last year was 2,800 yuan/ton, now it is close to 6,000 yuan/ton, scrap steel from last year's 2,300 yuan/ton to the current 4,000 yuan/ton, ferrovanadium prices doubled compared with last year; coupled with the doubling of coal prices, electricity, oil prices and transportation costs increased, only a few, the cost of each ton of roll products rose by about 2,000 yuan/. According to Sinosteel Xingji executives, the company's annual cost this year is expected to increase by more than 300 million yuan compared with last year.