The shutdown time of the cement industry in 2023 has been extended again!
The Hunan Cement Association issued a notice on adding 5 days of staggered kiln shutdown in the second quarter of 2023, stating that in the first and second quarters, an additional 5 days of staggered kiln shutdown time will be added to the original 35 days.
In the second quarter of last year, Guizhou required an additional 5 days of shut down time for staggered production on top of the 40 days of staggered production, which is 45 days.
Nowadays, due to factors such as market demand not meeting expectations, low enterprise shipments, and environmental protection, some regions are requesting another extension of peak shifting time.
In recent years, the staggered production time has continued to increase and the scope has continued to expand, especially in 2022.
The increase in staggered production time in various regions has been significant, and the execution efforts have also been stronger than before This is the ninth year since the cement industry began trial production of staggered peaks in the winter of 2014.
Units that did not shut down the kiln in the first quarter will be shut down in the second quarter, that is, 40 days+N days (additional shutdown days).
At the end of March, Inner Mongolia Cement Association issued the Notice on Organizing clinker Enterprises in Central and Western China to Delay Kiln Start, saying that, according to the current situation of large clinker inventory of most enterprises, the kiln start was delayed for one month.
This year, it has increased by 15 days.
According to market feedback, enterprises in Guizhou planned to shut down kilns for 60 days in the second quarter of last year.
In recent years, the staggered production time has continued to increase and the scope has continued to expand, especially in 2022.
Every year there are some new changes.
The increase in staggered production time in various regions has been significant, and the execution efforts have also been stronger than before.
Northeast peak shifting production in November 2014 – Pan North China peak shifting production in January 2015 – 15 provinces and cities in northern China peak shifting production in 2016 – Southern provinces successively joined from 2017 to 2021, while northern summer peak shifting began – from 2022, the industry further extended the peak shifting production time, and the peak shifting production time of 21 provinces exceeded 100 days.
Clinker enterprises in Jizhongnan, Hebei Province have shut down the kiln for 10 days since April 25, and continue to carry out peak shift production tasks in non heating seasons after the completion of kiln shutdown; In principle, the total staggered production time of cement during the non heating season in Shanxi is planned to be no less than 70 days According to data from the Cement Big Data Research Institute, the shutdown of kilns in the first quarter of 2023 has not changed much in the northern region, while some provinces in the southern region have extended their peak shift time again
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The peak shift range is all clinker production lines (including carbide slag and collaborative disposal of hazardous waste) in the central and western regions.
The delayed kiln start period is from April 1st to April 30th.
