Five trends in the development of the valve market

Category： Industry News

Time：2023-02-20

The largest users of valves are the petrochemical industry, the power sector, the metallurgical sector, the chemical industry and the urban construction sector. The petrochemical industry mainly adopts API standard gate valves, globe valves and check valves; The power sector mainly adopts high-temperature pressure gate valves, globe valves, check valves and safety valves for power stations and low-pressure butterfly valves and gate valves of some water supply and drainage valves; The chemical industry mainly adopts stainless steel gate valves, globe valves and check valves; The metallurgical industry mainly adopts low-pressure large-diameter butterfly valves, oxygen globe valves and oxygen ball valves; The urban construction department mainly adopts low-pressure valves, such as large-diameter gate valves mainly used in urban water pipelines, mid-line butterfly valves mainly used in building construction, and metal sealed butterfly valves mainly used in urban heating; The oil pipeline mainly adopts plate gate valve and ball valve; The pharmaceutical industry mainly adopts stainless steel ball valves; The food industry mainly adopts stainless steel ball valves. Due to the change of user demand, the market trend of valve products will also change accordingly, and the main development trends in the future period are as follows:

1. With the transfer of oil development to inland oilfields and offshore oilfields, and the development of the power industry from thermal power below 300,000

kilowatts to thermal power, hydropower and nuclear power above 300,000 kilowatts, valve products should also change their performance and parameters accordingly according to changes in equipment application fields;

2. Urban construction system generally adopts a large number of low-pressure valves, and to the

development of environmental protection and energy-saving, that is, from the low-pressure iron gate valves used in the past to gradually shift to environmentally friendly rubber plate valves, balance valves, metal sealed butterfly valves and mid-line sealing butterfly valves, oil and gas transmission projects to the direction of pipeline, which requires a large number of plate gate valves and ball valves;

3. The other side of energy development is energy saving, so from the perspective of energy conservation, it is necessary to develop steam traps and develop to subcritical and supercritical high parameters;

4. The construction of power stations is developing towards large-scale, so it is necessary to use large-diameter and high-pressure safety valves and pressure reducing valves, as well as rapid opening and closing valves;

5. In response to the needs of complete sets of projects, valve supply has developed from a single variety to a variety and multiple specifications. There is an increasing trend towards valves required for an engineering project to be supplied by one valve manufacturer.

Keywords： Five trends in the development of the valve market

Prev： The way the valve industry quotes is quietly changing

Next： The valve industry has changed and the situation is difficult for everyone

Related News