2012 appliance hardware in the cost of energy efficiency

Last year, it was a difficult and struggling year for Xiaohui Hardware. The risk of three shortages, two highs, and closures may have caused the company to disappear at any time. However, the Ministry of Finance and Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the “Exemption from Small-scale Micro-enterprise Administrations”. The Notice of Career Charges will be implemented from this year. The notice proposes to eliminate the administration-related charges for management, registration, and licenses of micro-enterprises, and a total of 13 items of 22 small-item fee items. This is undoubtedly a case for oversized hardware companies that are overloaded. It is a matter of gratitude, but I believe that for this year's appliance hardware accessories companies, energy efficiency cost factors will still be the industry's development this year.

The artificial raw material bullishes the downstream competition between finished copper and aluminum products from the middle and early December of last year, and international copper prices have repeatedly hit new highs since breaking through 9000 US dollars/ton. Shanghai ** market data shows that copper prices rose by 32% within six months. In the past three quarters of the previous year, the average price of iron ore rose by 289 yuan per ton compared with the same period of 2010, equivalent to an average increase of 462 yuan per ton for iron ore per ton of steel. The continuous rise in steel prices also continued into the first quarter of this year. In order to control inflation, China has repeatedly raised interest rates in the past year. The slowdown in China’s economic growth has also resulted in a decline in steel production and the price of iron ore has been under pressure.

This year, the labor shortage is still severe. At the same time, there are serious shortages of labor in the coastal areas and the Mainland. In particular, the labor-intensive hardware industry is the most prominent. On February 8, the National Development and Reform Commission again issued a notice and decided to increase the price of gasoline and diesel by 300 yuan per ton from the midnight on February 8 to the retail price of gasoline No. 90 and No. 0 diesel (average of the country). 0.22 yuan and 0.26 yuan. It is understood that oil prices accounted for 1/3 of the hardware company's logistics costs, hardware companies spend the cost of logistics costs on the enterprise are not infrequent, therefore, the oil price increase has a great impact on the logistics and transportation of hardware companies. The rising labor costs of raw materials will undoubtedly be an industry pain for hardware companies. Downstream of hardware companies, the battle of copper and aluminum in air-conditioning evaporators has always been a sensitive topic. It is understood that the use of air conditioning evaporator fins is the core components of air conditioning internal heat conversion, Chigo Air Co., Ltd. Assistant Wang Xiyang once introduced that if the fins use full copper, from the functional, the performance will be more stable, long-term Keeping the surface clean and inhibiting bacterial growth will also highlight the long-term use of energy-saving effects. However, it cannot be ignored that copper-based aluminum will increase costs. In January last year, copper prices soared by 40%, and nearly half of the profits of air-conditioning companies also evaporated. However, under the pressure of cost, aluminum substitute copper has become a hidden rule for many air-conditioning companies to save costs. In the dark, the copper air-conditioning connection pipe is replaced by cheaper aluminum materials. In addition, copper is a scarce resource, and the use of new materials to replace copper has become more popular. The higher the price, the alternative effect of aluminum is still controversial. It is understood that the new copper foil fin air conditioner from Chigo is 600-800 yuan more expensive than an ordinary aluminum fin air conditioner.

Increasing standards for household appliances and energy standards to increase the threshold for hardware accessories In recent years, carbon tariffs on carbon labels have created new green barriers in trade, and in response to global warming trends, awareness of emission reduction has become widespread worldwide, and low-carbon household appliances have become more popular. Continue to heat up. However, the rapid growth of the domestic hardware industry economy is at the expense of waste of resources, energy waste and environmental pollution. It is an extensive economic growth mode. Although China’s hardware products have developed over more than 10 years, some companies have gradually established a series of serialization, standardization, and brand management. Compared to the slightly lower quality production standards in China, in the face of international standards, not all hardware companies are Can quickly break through, hardware appliance accessories to produce finished products meet the export specifications of the product, the production of supporting pressure naturally increase a lot.

According to incomplete statistics, as of now, nearly 20,000 international standards have been issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), among which green standards concerning safety, energy saving, and environmental protection account for a considerable proportion.

Countries such as France, Germany, and Britain have adopted international standards as the trump card for entering the international market. Countries such as the Nordic countries have also made almost no changes to directly adopt international standards as the market entry criteria. The US attitude toward adopting international standards has also changed from lukewarm to positive. Even developing countries have become increasingly interested in international standards. For example, the United States has comprehensively revised and strengthened the certification regulations for the Energy Star program. Currently, the Energy Star label is applicable to more than 40 categories of products. In addition, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Thailand, the Philippines, and UAE have also issued several energy efficiency products. Standards, regulations or drafts. Many developing countries have also followed the introduction of various energy efficiency standards and regulations in developed countries. For example, countries such as Saudi Arabia and Israel have recently issued energy efficiency regulations. On February 3, 2011, the amendment to the WEEE Directive passed by the European Parliament will increase the goal of Member State recovery of products and increase the recovery costs of producers (EU importers and manufacturers).