Why can the pump industry stir the trillion market

Who would have thought that it would be a pump and valve company that will soon rewrite the history of coal transportation?

The situation is as strong as it is, and it must not be taken seriously.

When people were surprised to find that the low-key multi-year pump industry actually occupied the market for domestic alumina diaphragm pumps with nearly 100% market share, Ling Xueqin, the general manager, could not help it any longer: “Don't look at what we are still at home, When we go out, the global diaphragm pump market will usher in a big shuffle!"

Listen to thunder at a silent place.

This company that began to develop diaphragm pumps in the 1990s has hardly ever publicized its own grand plans. In addition to several pieces of fragmented news, people are almost ignorant of Zhongxue Pump Industry. However, in the era of China General Machinery's misfortune, the honors of “the world's top three” and “China's first exclusive supplier of coal pipelines” have rushed toward the Chinese color pump industry. In the cold wind, this unknown city is unknown. The small business ushered in its own spring.

Ling Xueqin's pride and excitement have never been as strong as he is now. He tried to control his volume: "We have no competitors in the country!"

The rise of the “meat eaters” in the Chinese color pump industry is like sleeping lions.

Over the years, it has been playing a role as a "gator". The large-scale alumina diaphragm pump market that was once monopolized by foreign giants is becoming a bit in its bag.

In 2004, China's alumina industry showed a rapid development trend, and its supporting products also ushered in a period of growth. Many industry players are competing against each other. However, in the field of diaphragm pumps, the medium-color pump industry has “covered everything” and almost covered the entire market for diaphragm pumps for alumina! It is hard to believe how such a small company could achieve such a great achievement.

It should be noted that for a long time, the diaphragm pump is like an insurmountable gap, which has left Chinese enterprises far behind. Due to the characteristics of high corrosion, high abrasion, and high temperature, this slurry is widely used in key equipment such as alumina, coal-to-oil, coal chemical, metal mine concentrates, high-concentration tailings, and other major equipment process systems. Good stability and reliability, especially in terms of continuous operation rate is very high, so many companies are stunned. As early as the 1980s, Shanghai and Lanzhou had two companies that had been working on the localization of diaphragm pumps. Although spare parts surveying, drawing design, and prototype manufacturing have always been developed in accordance with the traditional route, core technologies such as control and rubber diaphragms are only simple. The imitation did not do technical research and resulted in the failure of industrial operations. Later, although there are still two or three companies involved in the field of diaphragm pumps, they can only produce low-pressure diaphragm pumps. In the long-distance pipeline transportation of highly corrosive, high-concentration solid-liquid two-phase media, almost all high-pressure diaphragm pumps are marketed in the Netherlands. It is controlled by companies in developed countries such as Germany and Germany.

The monopoly market brings monopoly profits. At the time, the domestic ball mills with higher selling prices were sold for 10,000 to 20,000 yuan per ton, while the prices for imported diaphragm pumps were as high as 500,000 yuan per ton. In 1991, the China Nonferrous Metals Association commissioned China Nonferrous Metals (Shenyang) Metallurgy. Machinery Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as Shenye Machinery) started to produce a diaphragm pump for alumina in the Netherlands. At that time, Xue Xueqin, who studied mechanical engineering, had just graduated from master's degree. As a scarce talent, he was immediately recruited by Shenyang Metallurgical Machinery and participated in the research and development of diaphragm pump localization.

For anyone, the development of a diaphragm pump is a problem with a very high degree of difficulty. At first, no one drawing could be found. The factory selected talents in electrics, hydraulics, materials, etc., and Ling Xueqin together formed a small team to draw pictures in a hut in the dining hall upstairs during the day and make a test in the factory at night. During the period, in order to increase research and development efforts, they also deliberately introduced a research team from outside, but due to the lack of patience for technical research, this team finally played back. So weak foundation, can develop a diaphragm pump? No one wants to believe. However, three years later, the Ling Xueqin team developed miraculously a dual-cylinder double-acting diaphragm pump for the aluminum industry. At that time, the country was encouraging the development of electrolytic aluminum and alumina as raw materials for smelting. Demand was very large. Everyone expected that it would be able to become famous in the first round.

But what Ling Xueqin did not think was that the market for alumina diaphragm pumps could not get in at all! Originally, two large diaphragm pumps were used in the production of alumina in the Bayer process. One is the slurry pressure during the dissolution process. The red mud is transported. The production equipment with a total investment of several tens of billions will not allow unplanned downtime as long as it is running. Therefore, the diaphragm pump's mechanical strength, rubber life, automation control and reliability are very high. Otherwise, the diaphragm pump has a quality problem. One hour of downtime costs as much as 1 million yuan! Many companies prefer to spend high prices on imported products and do not dare to try cheaper domestic products. In desperation, Ling Xueqin can only start from the relatively low metal mine tailings, cut into the diaphragm pump market.