1. Existing market supply and demand analysis
At present, aluminum alloy wheel hub production is at the start stage, but supply and demand of the domestic and foreign aluminum alloys wheel hub market still has a big gap. According to the materials of Chinese international project consultant firm, every year the gap reaches 10 million in the world scope, with the unceasingly aluminizing of automobile aluminum wheel hubs and the larger and larger supply and demand gap, the existing enterprise's productivity is far behind to satisfy the market demand. Besides the merits of aluminum alloy wheel hub including reducing the automobile weight, conserving the energy, anti-corrosion, good radiation performance, good processing performance and long life performance, the beautiful appearance and colorful design are also the important reasons to attract the users, and aluminum alloy wheel hub is gradually replacing the steel wheel to become the best choice. Therefore, regardless of the necessary market or the retail market of automobile entire vehicle, the development prospect is extremely broad. The automobile industry is the high-speed development industry in our country at present; usually has the name of "Big province of automobile ". For many years, it has built up many automobile production factories and automobile fittings plants in the national scope, which take Dongfeng group the representative of Hubei automobile industry as the core. In recent two years, Dongfeng group successively enlarges the cooperation with Richan, Bentian and PSA Xuetielong company, transform and establish multi- strips brand-new car production lines. With Shenlong, Dongfeng bentian and Dongfeng richan three big car manufacturers successively expanding the production scale in Wuhan, in future 2 years, only cars produced in Wuhan occupy above 10% of market share (in 2004 the sales volume of domestically produced cars is 2.2478 million ). The boost of entire vehicle manufactures also leads the huge automobile fittings enterprises. It is reported that the whole Hubei automobile fittings market share is above 40 billion Yuan. At present, the specialized production enterprises are not many when speaking of the automobile using the aluminum alloy wheel hub product, in Hubei Province only has two and the scale is not big, therefore, the investment prospect of this project is very good.
2. Future market supply and demand analysis
Our country automobile industry has been rapidly developed. After breaking through 4 million in 2003, the automobile production and marketing raised a new stage in 2004 again with production and marketing over 5 million, and took on a steady and greatly developing situation. This provided a broad market for the use of aluminum alloy wheel hub and aluminum alloy casting for vehicles. It is estimated that the loading rate of world automobile aluminum alloy wheel is about 40%. In 2003, the loading rate of our country motorcycle aluminum wheel hub has surpassed 55%, and automobile loading rate has surpassed 50%. With the developing tendency of automobile to miniaturization and light-duty, aluminum alloy wheel hub development and popularization is imperative, and the market prospect will be broader. In Our country automobile especially the middle and high- level automobiles (apply aluminum alloy wheel hub most), the price is gradually approaching to international level. With the automobile import quota having been cancelled (on January 1, 2005) and the import customs duty being further reduced, the price is continually taking on drop tendency. This tendency of entire vehicle lowering prices inevitably affect the spare parts. Therefore, the automobile aluminum alloy wheel hub not only faces the problem of raw materials, energy and increasing cost, but also faces the dual pressure of unceasingly reducing prices with the entire vehicles. So the enterprises must consider the influence of syntheses factors including raw material, energy, cost in the investment choice, locate the enterprises in those good places with quick transportation, convenient raw material, sufficient energy, cheap labor force cost, good industrial necessary foundation.
Construction condition
1. Transportation condition
The transportation in Yichang is convenient. It has formed water, land and spatial three-dimensional transport network.
2. Raw material supply and cost Existing projects in pilot area have laid a good foundation for forming a complete set and gathering of industry. Hunan Zengshi group is constructing electrolytic aluminiums factory with capacity of 260,000 tons in the pilot area. The first issue of plan has completed the construction with capacity of 130,000 tons, which provides reliable raw material safeguard for the development of Yichang aluminum processing industry. The aluminum alloy wheel hub production enterprises can not only melt the raw aluminum material on the spot and reduce the transportation cost, but also may guarantee the stable quality of identical raid of original aluminum casting and reduce the management difficulty, thus further increase the batch, enhance the scale benefit, lay the foundation for the development of later enterprises. Yichang is an opening city along the river, a hub of joining Chongqing economical circle and Wuhan economical circle, an important transportation channel and commodity collection and distribution center in mid-west area. In the geography it is located in the center of the peripheral automotive necessary factories.
本文转自：China Industry News