Wollastonite: import and export price difference of ten times Where is the difference?

In 2009, the average price of China's wollastonite exports was US$118.06 per tonne, while the average price of imports was US$577.92 per tonne, with the average price of imports being 4.9 times the average price of exports. And the unit price of imports from Japan for 1147.71 U.S. dollars per tonne, is nearly 10 times the average price of domestic exports. The same mineral, why the price difference will be so huge? I'm afraid this starts in the 1980s.

High-quality needle-like wollastonite resources
China's wollastonite mineral development and utilisation began in the early 1980s, a late start, the enterprise scale is generally small. The whole industry after the initial blossoming mining war and competing price war, customer competition, technology theft war, in the national industrial policy, market regulation and the committee's strong guidance, the industry began to try to resource integration and joint restructuring, to carry out inter-regional strong combination of enterprise production scale, product variety, economic benefits have been expanded and enhanced. China's wollastonite production and exports ranked the world ___. At present, China's wollastonite industry annual output of 550,000 tonnes of products exported to Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia and other Asian countries and Germany, Spain and other European countries, exports amounted to 200,000 tonnes, accounting for 70% of the international market.
Rapid development hidden fatal hidden danger
January 2011 - May, wollastonite once head high, stride forward, turnover release, so that other raw materials for the same mineral brotherhood envy. 1 March, Jiangxi Xinyu southern wollastonite mining implementation of the new price, the price increase of 20-30 yuan / tonne, Anhui Guande Temple West wollastonite mine in April rose 12-20 yuan / tonne, Jilin Lishu Dadei Mountain Wollastonite Co. 30 yuan/tonne in May.
In the wollastonite industry to move forward quickly, we should find that, although the wollastonite industry to achieve overall profitability, but the profit is still very low, especially the appreciation of the RMB and the export tax rebate rate from 8% to zero, compressed the profitability of the enterprise space, coupled with the increase in the number of mining projects, the cost of increasing mining and processing costs to improve the factors, so that the wollastonite industry, the gradual reduction of net profit.
Although China's wollastonite industry as a whole is in a profitable benign development trend, but our eyes can not just stay in the vertical comparison with their own, we should be compared horizontally with other countries, compared to after, it is not difficult to find that we are with the price of wollastonite in some countries is very different. In today's highly developed technology, technology and equipment should be more powerful to drive the development of wollastonite industry.
"Check and mend" now vibrant
Profit is the fundamental survival of enterprises, and how to make corporate profits ___, which is in front of the wollastonite enterprises a major problem. In particular, to narrow the price of wollastonite with other countries, then we need to improve the quality of their products, and to protect the environment from the premise of realising the benefits of ___. Wollastonite enterprises should do the following.
Focus on national policy guidance. In the "building materials industry" Twelfth Five-Year "Development Guidance" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions"), non-metallic mineral deep processing into a major highlight. Opinions" pointed out, to vigorously develop the wollastonite, quartz, fluorite, perlite and other non-metallic mineral materials as the focus of deep processing products. According to the "Opinions" planning, "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, in China's advantageous non-metallic mineral resources in concentrated areas, the construction of mining and deep processing industry base.
Improve the degree of deep processing of products. According to foreign experts predicted that the proportion of future wollastonite application areas are as follows: ceramic industry and related sectors 6%; coatings, plastics and decorative materials 22%; asbestos substitutes 5%; El often life insulating items with insulating ceramic foam 12%; insulating ceramic foam for construction 6%; refractory insulating layer of ceramic foam 2%; casting production with ceramic foam 4%; slag concrete block face coatings 3%; papermaking Production 40%. It can be seen that a variety of applications require wollastonite industry to work on the deep processing of products. In the past two years, China's wollastonite enterprises, scientific research capabilities, mining equipment, processing technology, testing level than before greatly improved, therefore, it is more important to do a good job in the research and development of new products, needle powder, ultra-fine powder and modified powder processing technology innovation and other aspects. This can completely change the business mode of selling raw minerals, so that the enterprise to participate in international competition.
Pay attention to the protection of the environment. No matter what industry should not make profits at the expense of the environment. Narrowing the price gap with other countries is to make efforts on the comprehensive utilisation of wollastonite and the added value of products on the premise of protecting the environment. Protection in the mining, mining in the protection, will be the wollastonite industry continues to develop.
People do not have far-flung concerns, if the eyes will remain firmly in the level of profitability, then, after the low-priced exports, when our resources are facing depletion of the day, we need to spend what kind of price to import it. Therefore, we have to recognise this problem. Saving for a rainy day, in the case of "active", in accordance with national policies, with their own continuous efforts to improve the added value of products and the comprehensive use of wollastonite, in the future international market for bargaining and pricing power, to obtain their rightful place, the "passive"! Leave the "passive" to others, this is the industry's way of doing business.