Yuhuan Valve Industrial Clusters

   Valve industry is a pillar industry of ourand land prices, rising costs of production factors
county. Valve industry competitive intensity isand environmental reasons, middle and low in the
directly related to the county the county'sinternational market, gradually lost their
economy healthy, coordinated and sustainablecompetitive edge, turned to producing high-end
development. In this paper valve status andvalves and high-end bathroom products (plumbing
development trend of the industry to start,equipment ), middle and low product and gradually
combined with county practice, analysis of marketshifted to less developed or less developed
competitiveness, and to propose measures tocountries and regions.
enhance market competitiveness.    As China's valve industry for nearly 20
1, the valve industry, the status quo andyears of development, with a certain basis, thus
development trendthe developed countries to China is a major
    Valve according to general classification, arediversion valve manufacturing. Thus formed
generally divided into the valve gate valve, globeTaizhou, Ningbo (including urban areas, Ninghai, Cixi
valve, throttle, instrument valves, plunger valves,and Yuyao), Fujian Nanan (Lun warehouse town,
diaphragm valves, plug valves, ball valve, butterflyAn Town) and the Town of Zhuji shop four main
valve, check valve, pressure reducing valve,production base of copper valves, as well as the
safety valves, steam traps, regulating valves,Guangdong area (including Shunde, Shenzhen ,
bottom valves, filter valves, sewage valve.Kaiping City Water Town), Fujian Nanan (Lun
Classified according to key parameters, of whichwarehouse town, An Town) and Wenzhou Ryan
the pressure classification, can be divided into the(plum Town) Plumbing the three main production
vacuum valve, low pressure valves, mediumbase. After the outbreak of the Asian financial
pressure valve, high pressure valves and highcrisis, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and other
pressure valve; to body material classification, canSoutheast Asian countries valve industries are
be divided into non-metallic materials, valves,rapidly developing into an international valve
metal valves and metal valve Valve body lining.industry, another transfer of land. Meanwhile, with
Of its widely used in tap water, sewage disposal,the improvement of people's quality of life, valve
hot and cold supply, and gas and oil pipelines andproducts more attention to the durable-and
other school supplies low-voltage systems, theenvironment-friendly direction, plumbing sanitary
biggest user is the petrochemical industry, powervalve industry has gradually become the new
sector, metallurgy sector, the chemical industrymainstream.
and urban construction departments. According to    In recent years, the valve industry in the
statistics, the global annual demand valve 500international market is very active in East and
billion U.S. dollars, of which the United States eightSoutheast Asia, the rapid growth of import and
billion U.S. dollars, 10 billion U.S. dollars in Westernexport of valves in North America developed the
Europe, the Middle East eight billion U.S. dollars,sustainable development of inter-market trade,
Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia 10 billion U.S.Germany, Italy, Japan and other countries in
dollars, other countries are expected to around 14expanding exports, the United States, Britain,
billion U.S. dollars.France the rapid growth of imports of other
    Valve industry originated in the 20thcountries, forming the anchor of prosperity in the
century, the age of 30 in Milan, Italy, in Westerninternational valve market. Valve to further
countries are approaching a 70-year history,expand international trade, making the industry
belonging to a "sunset" industry. The 20th century,competitive and more intense price competition
80 years, the international valve main productionfrom the previous one to rely on the quality and
base is Italy, Japan, Germany, South Korea andbrand to accelerate the overall competition and
China Taiwan. Into the 90's, due to currencyother factors change.
appreciation in these countries and regions, labor