Problems in the development status of modified silica micro powder industry

At present, China has become an important global manufacturing base for modified silica micro powder, but there are still some problems that need to be solved urgently, as follows:

1. The industry has not yet established a mature standard system

Modified silica micro powder belongs to the specialized sub industry of non-metallic mineral processing industry, but a national silica micro powder industry association has not yet been established. The product quality and standards of various enterprises are uneven, which to some extent restricts the rapid development of the industry and further improvement of technological level.

2. Intense market competition and prominent contradictions in product structure

Due to limitations in technology and research and development capabilities, most domestic silicon micro powder production enterprises are squeezed into the low-end product market with lower gross margins. Due to the lack of unified national industry standards and market norms, there are some small enterprises in the industry with low technical level and low capital investment. They impact the silicon micro powder market with low quality and low environmental protection investment, squeezing the living space of other silicon micro powder production enterprises through price competition and leading to disorderly market competition. At the same time, high-end silicon micro powder products represented by spherical silicon micro powder, ultrafine silicon micro powder, etc. are still mainly produced by enterprises in developed countries such as Japan and the United States. Most enterprises in China will continue to focus on producing ordinary crystalline silicon micro powder and molten silicon micro powder in the near future. The supply of high-end silicon micro powder products is insufficient, and they rely on imports, resulting in prominent structural contradictions. This situation is not conducive to the orderly and healthy development of China's silicon micro powder industry.

3. There is still a certain gap in research and development technology compared to foreign countries

The modified silica micro powder industry belongs to a technology and resource intensive industry. Developed countries such as Japan have monopolized the high value-added silica micro powder product market by leveraging their technological and research and development advantages. Due to the development of the domestic upstream and downstream industrial chain and the limitations of the industry's technology, most domestic silicon micro powder production enterprises have relatively simple production equipment, weak quality management systems and application testing systems, and there is still a certain gap in the technical content and quality stability of their products compared to the world's advanced level. Although the production capacity and technological level of the domestic silicon micro powder industry have grown rapidly in recent years, its competitiveness in the international market is still weak. Therefore, there is a situation in the domestic silicon micro powder market where most high-end products need to be imported and competition for low-end products is disorderly. With the development of the silicon micro powder industry and the expansion and extension of downstream industries, the profit margin of low value-added products will continue to shrink. Domestic enterprises must seek technological breakthroughs to break the monopoly of foreign enterprises in the high-end product market.