Wang Xiaodong: Robust Quality & Cost Down is Key to China Aluminum Wheel

(China Aluminum Network) 2013 China Aluminum Alloy Hub Industry After Market Management Summit Forum was hold in Guangzhou recently. At the meeting, Wang Xiaodong the deputy secretary general of Wheel Committee of China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) released China aluminum wheel output and areal distribution in recent decade, as well as import and export data, expecting the development situation of aluminum wheel in this year.

At the end of 2012, China aluminum wheel production capacity has approached 0.18 billion, sales volume surpassed 0.12 billion; capacity factor was above 70%. While, 5,000 thousand was sold in domestic, more than 60,000 thousand was exported, about 60,000 thousand for domestic OEM.

According to the search results the amount of imports of aluminum wheel and concerned products up from 0.08 billion dollars in 2003 to 0.25 billion dollars in 2012. As to the amount of exports, aluminum wheel and concerned products increased almost 8 times, grew from 0.53 billion dollars in 2013 to 4.05 billion dollars in 2012.

The development situation for China aluminum wheel in 2013, including 6 aspects:

Firstly, aluminum wheel export growth rate will over 5%; secondly, aluminum wheel domestic shipments growth rate will above 5%; thirdly, the growth in after sales repacking market will more than 10%; fourthly, the average price of A00 aluminum will improved slightly compared with 2012; fifthly, robust quality and cost down are key factors for aluminum wheel industry; the last one is brand publicity will be the core for this industry.

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