China's commercial concrete development history and industry characteristics

Ready-mixed concrete is an advanced stage in the development of bulk cement. It is a reflection of social progress and civilized construction. The development, production and use of concrete have experienced nearly 200 years of development history. The premixed concrete adopts concentrated mixing, which is the transformation of concrete production from extensive production to intensive production. It realizes the specialization, commercialization and socialization of concrete production. It is the construction that relies on technological progress to change the small production mode and realize the industrialization of construction. An important reform, but also significant social and economic benefits.

China's ready-mixed concrete industry began in the late 1970s and began to flourish in the 1990s. In order to distinguish the concentrated mixing concrete used in metallurgical systems in the 1950s, such as Anshan Iron and Steel and Baotou Steel, and emphasize the commodity properties after entering the society, it was named "commodity concrete". However, in the technical standards of commercial concrete, in order to be in line with the international standards, it is still referred to as ready-mixed concrete, and the entire commercial concrete industry is observed, which has the general characteristics of the building materials industry.

Cycling: As the entire construction industry is affected by the seasons, it also affects the building materials industry, making it seasonal. Generally, the whole commodity concrete industry is shrinking at the end of the year and the beginning of the year.

Regionality: Due to the limitation of effective transportation distance in the building materials industry, regional market prices vary greatly.

Investment Pulling: The growth of ready-mixed concrete production is directly affected by the growth of real estate construction and large-scale infrastructure projects. It belongs to the investment-pull industry and is directly affected by macroeconomic policies like other building materials such as cement. This can be seen from the history of the entire commercial concrete industry, the clear context of this factor on the industry.

It has the effect of scale: the scale advantage of the enterprise is obvious, and the equipment utilization rate and the supply capacity are improved.

At the same time, due to the unique development of concrete in the development process:

Production is a simple processing property, there is no complicated furnace, and the technical threshold for entering the industry is relatively low;

The discontinuity of production often requires a concentrated supply of time;

Regional market equipment capacity is prone to excess, should trigger price competition;

The size of a single enterprise should not be too large, similar to commercial outlets, suitable for reasonable layout, in order to maintain reasonable transportation, timely supply, and timely service.

Because the concrete industry has these characteristics, companies entering the industry also vary in their regions and developments. The entrants of the commodity concrete industry mainly consist of the following categories:

State-owned large-scale construction enterprises, such as local construction and municipal construction enterprises; foreign professional concrete companies, such as Hanson, Rinker, etc.; commercial concrete upstream material suppliers and equipment suppliers, such as Huaxin Cement; real estate developers (owners) The relationship (expressed in the development of mature areas still has new entry into the enterprise); private owners with certain funds and industry-related background; entrants with certain funds but no relevant industry background.

Taking the composition of Shanghai enterprises in 2005 as an example, state-owned enterprises accounted for 47.18% of the total; joint ventures accounted for 26.06% of the total; private enterprises accounted for 19.01% of the total; collective enterprises accounted for 7.74% of the total. The trend of the development of the whole industry will be that commodity concrete enterprises will gradually shift from state-owned to private enterprises.