Lead acid battery production capacity behind, lead acid battery industry how to achieve transformation and upgrade?

Lead acid batteries are the largest battery product in the world, accounting for 50 % of the total battery production. It is understood that even in developed countries and regions, lead acid batteries are still produced and used in large quantities. Looking at the entire lead-acid battery market, the lead-acid battery industry is at a mature stage in terms of the number of competitions, the rate of travel, the exit barriers, the degree of homogenization, and the level of competition. However, the overall quality of the lead-acid battery industry is uneven, and due to the limitations of enterprises 'own factors, most enterprises are concentrated in low-end products. Price war, the current market on the fierce competition between enterprises.

In recent years, the lead-acid battery industry has made remarkable achievements in accelerating the elimination of backward production capacity, increasing industrial concentration, promoting transformation and upgrading, and green development. However, in fact, the production of lead-acid batteries and the possible environmental pollution caused by waste have not yet been cured.

Faced with lead pollution caused by lead-acid batteries, in general, companies can effectively control pollution as long as they strictly comply with national environmental protection regulations. However, this requires companies to pay a huge amount of environmental investment. According to industry experts, as lead acid storage in the production process is prone to pollution, environmental protection equipment requirements are extremely high. Only environmental protection equipment accounts for 20 to 30 % of the total investment, and there are continuous follow-up environmental investment after completion. At present, the environmental operating cost of the battery at the factory for each production of 10,000 kVA needs 30,000 to 60,000 yuan, and its sales revenue is only 56 million yuan. The profit margin is very low. Most companies have a net profit of only 3 million, and the maximum is not more than 5 In the face of huge environmental investment, A large number of related enterprises are deterred, and in order to win higher profits, they choose to turn a blind eye to environmental issues.

Lead acid batteries are widely used, and there is no better product to replace it in the short term. It is also the best resource recycling product in the battery industry. Most lead-acid batteries can be collected and recycled, which is in line with China's sustainable development policy goals. In the face of environmental protection and the implementation of related industry regulatory policies, as well as the widespread use of new batteries such as lithium-ion batteries in many fields, due to its own defects and the development of the market, lead-acid batteries can only be actively transformed and upgraded to stand firm. Therefore, China's lead-acid battery industry transformation and upgrading needs are increasingly urgent.

How to realize the transformation and upgrade of lead-acid battery industry

In 2013, at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed: "Do not exchange economic development at the expense of the ecological environment. The development economy needs both Jinshan Yinshan and Qingshan Qingshan. "Today, lead-acid batteries have become a common" consumer product "in people's lives with the rapid development of the economy. The transformation and upgrading of the lead-acid battery industry is an inherent requirement for accelerating the construction of ecological civilization and the development of green and circular low-carbon development. It is also a vivid practice to practice the "green water Qingshan Mountain is Jinshan Yinshan". To realize the sustainable development of lead-acid battery industry, the key lies in how to combine the economy and environmental protection effectively, maximize win-win results, and minimize environmental pollution while promoting rapid economic development, thus creating a harmonious and healthy economic and social environment.

As an enterprise, on the one hand, we must improve the management level, improve the production process, do our own environmental protection work, and achieve the relevant standards of the country; On the other hand, we need to increase investment in scientific research, actively use high-tech and advanced equipment to improve product effectiveness, develop new products, and speed up the transformation and development of enterprises.

As the government should take the following measures to promote the transformation and upgrading of the lead-acid battery industry in China:

1 Raise the entrance threshold of lead-acid battery industry to curb the expansion of inefficient production capacity.

We will strengthen supervision over the production process of lead-acid batteries and implement cleaner production. All departments should strengthen coordination and take more measures to raise the level of supervision. All lead-acid battery enterprises shall undergo mandatory clean production audits and actively promote the use of advanced production technologies and pollution control and environmental protection technologies.

We will improve the exit mechanism for backward production capacity, step up the elimination of backward production capacity, and resolutely crack down on the illegal transfer of lead-acid battery companies that have been eliminated.

4 Strengthen the supervision of the recycling process of lead-acid batteries, standardize the recycling system through active policy guidance, solve the hidden danger of pollution of waste lead-acid batteries, and improve the efficiency of resource use.

The relevant trade associations should also play a better duty of supervision and supervision, and at the same time, the mass media should conduct effective public opinion supervision, and then guide the entire lead-acid battery industry to develop in a positive and healthy direction.

Experts said: "actively build a national standardized recycling system for used lead-acid batteries is one of the urgent tasks." In recent years, China has actively promoted the recycling of used lead-acid batteries, and the General Office of the State Council issued a circular on the implementation of the extended producer responsibility system, encouraging lead-acid battery enterprises to adopt such models as self-recovery and joint recovery. Using its own sales channel to set up a network to recover lead-acid batteries at the end of consumption, the producer's responsibility for the resources and environment of the product is extended from production and manufacturing to the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to product design, circulation and consumption.

Therefore, building a standardized recycling system for used lead-acid batteries is of great significance to accelerating the transformation and upgrading of the industry, advancing supply-side structural reforms, implementing the extension of producer responsibility, and realizing the sustainable development of the green cycle of the industry and promoting the construction of ecological civilization. Battery enterprises are duty-bound.

What difficulties are faced in constructing standardized recycling system for lead-acid batteries?

The law and policy need to break through

At present, only the "Management Measures for the Operation Permit of Hazardous Waste" can be used for the recovery of lead-acid batteries. There is also a lack of a series of risk control rules such as warehousing, recovery, transportation standards, and vehicle-borne route control.

2 Construction operation is difficult to land

It takes more than six months to carry out the recycling business of used lead-acid batteries, from project establishment, environmental assessment to publicity, review, and approval. The procedures are cumbersome and time-consuming, while the construction and transformation requirements are high and expensive.

The cost is high

Waste lead-acid batteries must be stored and transported in a hazardous waste transfer form. Even if the two cities in the province transfer transport, they must also use dangerous products logistics vehicles, which are more than twice the transport price of ordinary transport vehicles, and the recovery operation costs are higher.

The recycling market is chaotic

At present, illegal recycling dominates, and the market cake is divided by regional markets. It is difficult for legal and formal recycling companies to open up markets, and standardized recycling is often resisted.

In the face of the above problems, people in the industry suggest encouraging and supporting green recycling enterprises that have the ability to integrate industrial chains to build a standardized recycling system for used lead-acid batteries throughout the country, and building a comprehensive solution for the production and collection of used lead-acid batteries, so as to achieve green manufacturing, recovery, transfer and disposal. Lead the lead-acid battery industry to take the road of ecological civilization and sustainable development.

In recent years, large and medium-sized lead-acid battery companies have successively introduced green ecological design, reducing pollutants from the source, improving the utilization rate of resources, and achieving ecological product design. A number of lead-acid battery enterprises have increased their technical reform efforts and adopted more advanced and green technology to improve environmental protection and occupational health protection. At the same time, automation and intelligent equipment were introduced to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction during the manufacturing process. Some large lead-acid battery companies also carried out recycling of used batteries, and they embarked on the road of green circulation and ecological civilization development.

At present, the Environmental Protection and occupational health security system of lead-acid storage enterprises in China has reached the same level in developed countries, and has been unanimously recognized by foreign industry and related institutions. In the face of domestic market demand, global competition and requirements for ecological civilization construction, experts suggested that more encouragement and support be given to lead-acid battery companies that already meet industry standards and achieve cleaner production. We will ease the financial pressure on China to achieve innovative, high-quality and sustainable development, and strengthen its internal drive to provide green and clean energy to society.

In fact, the lead-acid battery industry is not only facing environmental shock wave, but also the application of national industrial policy to traditional lead-acid battery is becoming tighter.

Effect of Development of New Energy Vehicle power battery on Lead Acid Battery Industry

China is the world's largest producer, consumer and exporter of lead-acid batteries. Lead acid batteries are also the most productive and widely used batteries in the world. However, since the outbreak of the new energy automotive industry in 2015, the status of lead acid batteries has been challenged.

Reports indicate that domestic lead-acid battery output has begun to show a small decline since 2015. Mainly because the development of the electric bicycle industry powered by traditional lead-acid batteries has reached the saturation stage, the application of domestic lead-acid batteries has slowed down. With the gradual substitution of new energy automotive batteries to traditional automotive lead-acid batteries, especially in 2020 and beyond, the substitution impact and impact will further increase. Therefore, domestic lead-acid battery production and marketing has the possibility of continuous contraction, the overall domestic lead-acid battery industry in the later period of development or will be in a relatively passive pattern.

However, some people in the industry have previously stated that lead-acid battery products have a long history and mature technology, and have advantages in power characteristics, high and low temperature performance, combination consistency, recycling and price. At the same time, lead-acid batteries are also the most widely used battery products in the chemical battery market. There are no mature alternative products in the field of internal combustion engine start-up and large-scale energy storage. Therefore, in the short term, lead-acid batteries can not be replaced by other battery products.

On the whole, the future development prospects of new energy vehicles in China are relatively optimistic. According to data, domestic new energy vehicles account for about 2.4 % of domestic auto production in 2017 and will increase to 3.4 % in 2018. Therefore, due to the small base, by 2020, the proportion of new energy vehicle production in the total domestic car production is still relatively low, or within 5 inches. Therefore, the traditional lead-acid battery industry for automobiles still dominates and is affected by the impact or relatively small. It is expected that by 2020 and beyond, with the further increase in the output of new energy vehicles, the proportion of their production will gradually increase, and by 2020 and 2025 they will reach 6 and 16.

The rise of new energy vehicles brings the challenges to the lead battery industry, and how the illegal recycling problem is efficiently managed, which has become an important topic facing the lead battery industry.

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