Cable materials have a wide range of applications and the high-end development of the industry has become a trend

Cable materials are materials used for the insulation and protective layers of wires and cables, including rubber, plastic, nylon and other products. The downstream of cable materials is the wire and cable industry, and its application fields are extremely wide. In order to meet the needs of different application fields, there are many types of cable materials, including polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, polypropylene, polyamide, ethylene-propylene rubber, fluoroplastics, etc. . As the application fields develop towards high-tech industries, the cable material preparation technology is still improving, and new cable materials with better performance are constantly coming out.

According to the “In-depth Market Research and Investment Strategy Suggestions Report on Cable Material Industry 2022-2026” released by the Industrial Research Center, in 2021 , my country’s wire and cable market size is approximately 1.4 trillion yuan. Cable materials are an important part of wires and cables. They have application requirements from low-end wires and cables to cutting-edge wires and cables. Its market size continues to expand with the growth of the wire and cable market, especially with the development of high-end wires and cables such as nuclear power, rail transportation, and aerospace. With the development of the technology industry, the demand for high-end wires and cables continues to rise, which is beneficial to the continuous expansion of the sales scale of the cable material market.

my country’s cable material manufacturing enterprises mainly include three categories. The first category is chemical enterprises, with cable materials as one of its series of products; the second category is wire and cable enterprises, which in order to improve competitiveness, lay out the upstream raw material business; the third category is professional Cable material manufacturer. The main cable material manufacturers in my country include Zhejiang Wanma, Shanghai Kaibo, etc. With the continuous advancement of technology and the growing demand for high-performance cable materials, the demand for irradiation cross-linked cable materials is rising rapidly, and nuclear technology companies have also entered the cable material industry layout, such as China Guangdong Nuclear Technology.

Irradiation cross-linked cable materials use high-energy electron beams generated by electron accelerators to bombard polymer materials to transform linear molecular structure materials into three-dimensional network molecular structure materials, which can improve the heat resistance, corrosion resistance, radiation resistance, and use of cable materials. Life span and other properties, the representative product is radiation cross-linked polyethylene. Irradiation cross-linked cable materials can broaden the application scope of wires and cables, allowing them to be used in scenarios with harsh working environments and high requirements, such as in nuclear power plants, aircraft, rockets, spacecraft and other fields.

my country’s demand for wires and cables is large. Attracted by interests, the number of cable material manufacturers in my country is constantly increasing. At this stage, the industry is huge. But overall, in my country’s cable material market, foreign companies still occupy a competitive position and are highly competitive in the mid- to high-end, especially the high-end market. Representative companies include Dow, PolyOne, and Teijin. Most local cable material companies mainly compete in the low-end market. Only a small number of companies can enter the mid-to-high-end market. The overall competitiveness of the industry is weak.

Industry analysts said that my country’s nuclear power industry is developing rapidly, military aircraft technology upgrades are accelerating, civilian large aircraft have entered the commercialization stage, and satellites The number of launches continues to increase and manned space technology becomes increasingly mature. These factors have driven the rapid increase in the demand for high-end cable materials in my country’s market. At present, my country’s companies represented by China General Nuclear Technology and Zhizheng Co., Ltd. already have the production capacity of third-generation nuclear-grade cable materials. Companies such as China General Nuclear Technology are accelerating the layout of aerospace cable materials. Generally speaking, the high-end development of my country’s cable materials industry has become a trend, and companies that cannot keep up with the pace of development will gradually shrink their market space in the future.