Thermal insulation market development trend in 2013

In 2012, there were many major fire incidents in China, and the two biggest ones were the “11.15” teacher's apartment on Jiaozhou Road in Shanghai and the “2.3” fire on Wanxin Mansion in Shenyang. The fire gave people’s lives and property. The huge losses brought about by the thermal insulation material market and developers are at a loss. On the one hand, because of the fire, the government has increased its supervision of thermal insulation materials. On the other hand, people have become more aware of thermal insulation materials. These factors have brought uncontrollable factors to the development of the insulation material market.

What will happen to the thermal insulation material market in 2013? On December 5th, the Ministry of Public Security Fire Department issued the “Circular on Fire Supervision and Management of External Thermal Insulation Materials for Civil Buildings” (No. 350) on its website. The State decided to cancel the "Circular on Further clarification of the Requirements concerning the Fire Protection Supervision and Administration of External Thermal Insulation Materials for Civil Buildings" issued on March 14, 2011 (Kouxiao [2011] No. 65, commonly known as "No. 65"). The announcement also requires strict implementation of the “State Council’s Opinions on Strengthening and Improving Fire Protection Work” issued by the State Council on December 30, 2011 (Guofa [2011] No. 46, commonly known as “New 46”) and July 17, 2012. Newly promulgated the “Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Construction Project Fire Protection”.

Maybe you may not understand what it represents, then I explain to everyone. First, “65 Document” solved the continuous dispute between government departments and enterprises for nearly two years, and finally reached a consensus on the policy of external insulation materials for walls. The most practical performance is that the external insulation material of the wall finally no longer requires the use of Class A materials.

At present, in the insulation material market, inorganic materials with a Class A combustion performance only account for less than 10% of the market share. The current standard of our country divides external wall insulation materials into four grades: A grade (non-combustible), B1 grade (flammable), B2 grade (flammable) and B3 grade (flammable). In the market, inorganic thermal insulation materials represented by foamed glass panels, phenolic sheets, rock wool sheets, and composite rock wool sheets occupy the main position in the market. However, the thermal insulation performance of sheets such as rock wool sheets, phenolic sheets, and foam glass sheets cannot match that of many organic materials. The material is comparable to that of the rock wool board, phenolic board, foam glass board, etc. The complicated construction process and high cost make it unacceptable to the developers.

After the implementation of the new policy in 2013, with the acceleration of urbanization, the building insulation material market with good thermal insulation performance and high cost performance will also be used. According to our statistics, China is currently the largest construction market in the world. , With a construction area of ​​40 billion square meters, the annual new construction volume is 2 billion square meters, and over 95% of the new buildings are high energy consumption buildings. According to the new policy, the construction of organic insulation materials can also be used in the construction of the above projects. This will undoubtedly allow a large number of developers to spend a small amount of money as well as promote the construction of organic insulation materials market.