国际平板玻璃市场发展动态.docx

际平板玻璃市场发展动态 Development trend of international flat glass Market world flat glass production According to statistics, the armual production capacity of flat glass in 1950s world is only about about 4000000 tons: in twenty-first Century, the world total output of flat glass in 2001 has exceeded 33 mill ion 100 thousand tons, including 30 million tons of float glass, flat glass accounted for 90. 6% of the total, the world per capita reached 5. 7 kg. World plate glass production is still rising steadily, from 1999 to 2001, the world，s average annual growth rate of flat glass production is about 2. 5%. According to the latest data, as of the end of 2001, the world has built (in operation) float glass (large, medium, small, different scale) production line of about 280. Table 1 Distribution of flat glass output in major regions of the world Flat glass output (10000 tons) of the region and the country accounted for the world，s total (%) China 102030.8 Western Europe 89427 North America 76123 Japan 36411 Eastern Europe 1655 Africa and the Middle East 993 other 70. 2 Total 3310100 Table 2 distribution sorting of world float line Number of float lines in the wor1d (built) float line number (strip) Asia 140 Europe 69 North America 56 South America 10 Africa 3 Oceania 2 total 280 world flat glass market demand 1999?2001 years, the average annual growth rate of world flat glass production was 2. 5%. Under the influence of the world economic recession, the growth rate of world flat glass is expected to be between 1. 8% and 2% in 2002? But some developing countries (such as China, India, Indonesia) will continue to maintain a high growth rate? In the middle and late twentieth Century, the average annual demand growth rate of flat glass in Western Europe, the United States and Japan was 4%, a large nu mb er of primary glass used in deep-processing glass industry (including automotive glass, glass curtain wall, etc?)? The glass produced by developing countries is mainly used in bu