2010 organic glass applications and market prospects

With the improvement of building regulations in China, PMMA will surely show stronger competitiveness in more fields of application.

PMMA, commonly known as PMMA, is an important thermoplastic material developed earlier. It has good transparency, chemical stability and weather resistance, is easy to dye, is easy to process, and has a beautiful appearance. It has a wide range of applications in the construction industry. Plexiglass products can generally be divided into casting plates, extrusion plates, and molding compounds.

Application of PMMA in construction industry In construction, PMMA is mainly used in building lighting bodies, transparent roofs, roofs, telephone booths, staircases and room wall panels; sanitary wares include bathtubs, washbasins, vanity tables and other products. In recent years, the application of highways and high-grade road lighting shades and automotive lamps has also developed rapidly. Among them, the market for building lighting bodies, bathtubs, street advertising light boxes, telephone booths, etc. has grown rapidly. The future development space is relatively large and the market prospect is very broad.

In recent years, with the construction of major cities, restaurants, hotels, and high-end residential buildings, China's construction lighting body has developed rapidly. Light-collecting bodies made of extruded glass plates have high overall structural strength, light weight, and high light transmittance. The special advantages of high safety performance, compared with inorganic glass lighting, has great advantages.

At present, the United States and Japan have made mandatory provisions in the law, and the glass used in the construction of primary and secondary schools and kindergartens must use organic glass. With the continuous improvement of China’s laws and regulations, it is expected that in the near future, our laws will also require that the construction glass of primary and secondary schools and kindergartens must also use organic glass. At the same time, the pace of urban construction has accelerated throughout the country, with street signs, advertising light boxes and telephone kiosks appearing in large numbers, of which a significant portion of the materials used are plexiglass.

In terms of sanitary ware, plexiglass bathtubs have been used extensively in recent years due to their luxurious appearance, depth, ease of cleaning, high strength, light weight, and ease of use. Currently, there are about 1.5 million plexiglass bathtubs in the country. Annual consumption of 5,000 tons of PMMA extrusion board or casting board.

With the improvement of building regulations in China, PMMA will surely show stronger competitiveness in more fields of application.

In addition, special organic glass, such as optical plexiglass, anti-ray plexiglass, and disc-level plexiglass, is still a blank in China's construction industry, and there is much room for development.

China's PMMA production and market conditions China's current total production capacity of plexiglass products is around 130,000 tons per day. There are many manufacturers, but the production scale is small.

The domestic plexiglass production and processing capacity is very large, but the product structure is not very reasonable. It can only produce common varieties of products, and it lacks the high value-added products required by the construction industry. It cannot meet market demands in terms of variety and quality, such as construction demand. Large extrusion plates require a lot of imports from abroad.

In recent years, the consumption of plexiglass in China has grown rapidly. However, due to the monotonous nature of China's PMMA products, the relatively small quantity and poor quality, it is far from meeting the needs of the domestic market, leading to a significant increase in imports year by year. In 2000, the import volume of China's PMMA moulding plastics reached 77,000 tons. At the same time, nearly 4,000 tons of organic admin_ysbj sheets were imported. Judging from the import regions, the total import volume of Guangdong, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces and cities accounts for about 95% of the total national import volume. Jiangsu and Shanghai are the main production areas for plexiglass casting panels in China. Because the model casting process is simple and the investment is small, many township and village enterprises use this process for workshop-type production. The scale of the installation is small, and the product quality is far from the quality standard of building materials industry. , has long been eliminated abroad.

In the 1980s, the annual sales volume of organic glass in China was less than 20,000 tons, and the consumer market was not dominated by the construction industry. Since the 1990s, the market application of PMMA in the construction industry has been greatly developed, and consumption has grown rapidly. In 2000, it reached 85,000 tons, including 29,000 tons of casting plates, 25,000 tons of extruded plates, and molding materials. 3.1 million tons (excluding extrusion molding plastic). It is expected that in the next few years, the domestic organic glass market will maintain an annual growth rate of more than 6%. It is estimated that by 2005, the market capacity of organic glass in China will be 110,000 tons, of which the construction industry will account for about 60% to 70%.