Inferior quality plate flooded the building materials market situation is worrying, so in the end how much profit prompted manufacturers to produce poor quality plate? The market quality and environmental protection plate and how to produce out? Reporters with questions to leave the town of Jinggou, Gaomi City, to have 'China's paulownia processing hometown', 'China's poplar processing hometown' dual reputation of Cao County Zhuangzhai town.
Zhuangzhai town is located in Shandong Province and Henan Province, the border, according to Cao County, about 42 kilometers from the city, so the land for the Taoist Zhuangzi's hometown and named. The reporter learned from the local government to show the data, the town of forest products and related processing enterprises have more than 5,000, of which the output value of more than one million yuan of more than 800 enterprises. The annual export of furniture, handicrafts and all kinds of boards 500,000 square meters, exports accounted for more than 60% of the national export volume of similar products.
◎Reporter visits
Zhuangzhai town of a large production plate factory
June 8, the reporter took a car to Cao County, Heze City. A local cab driver told reporters that Cao County is one of the largest sheet metal production, under the jurisdiction of several towns are all production of sheet metal manufacturers, sheet metal industry has become a pillar industry in Cao County. And talking about the most famous, but also the production of the most plates, when it comes to Zhuangzhai town. Several towns around the Zhuangzhai have production plate manufacturers.
The reporter rushed to Zhuangzhai town by coach. In Cao County to Zhuangzhai coach, the reporter in addition to see a large area of planted forests, but also see a large wood processing plant, and joinery, particle board, plywood and other manufacturers are countless. In addition to simple board manufacturers, the reporter saw a number of furniture manufacturers are also interspersed. On the not-so-broad highway, you can often see trucks loaded with logs and panels driving by.
The coach, sitting next to the reporter, a passenger told reporters that their town of good quality, low-priced sheet metal, sold all over the country, some manufacturers of sheet metal is also exported to foreign countries. With the plate business is getting better and better, their town has become very prosperous. After more than an hour of bumps, the reporter finally arrived at the town of Zhuangzhai with 'China's paulownia processing township' and 'China's poplar processing township' dual reputation.
As the passenger on the coach said, the whole town of Zhuangzhai is almost a big factory for the production of panels. Whether it is the town or the village, you will see countless sheet metal processing plants, pulling sheet metal cars, tricycles, motorcycles, from time to time in the highway shuttle. In addition to a large number of sheet processing factories, the reporter also saw a variety of glues for gluing sheets for sale in stores, as well as sales and maintenance of woodworking machinery and woodworking tools, and there are many stores related to wood processing. Just walk into an alleyway, you can see piles of slats that are drying and air-drying outside.
Ordinary villagers
To the big factory processing plate core rely on craftsmanship, can not do the work not to
The standard required by the big factory customized is very high, so each part dare not be sloppy, if the quality is too poor, it will smash our own business. This work is not done in our home, there are those who do, there are many homes are scrambling to do.
-- Ding Zhai village villagers Mr. Ding
Ding Zhai village according to Zhuangzhai town is not far, more than 10 minutes walk to reach. Similar to other villages, the villagers in this village also mainly make a living by processing various kinds of plates.
Following the sound of the chainsaw, the reporter walked into a villager's home. This villager's yard piled up a large number of wood, the yard next to a temporary hut, the hut wood debris flying. The center of the house is a medium-sized carpentry chainsaw, a villager in his 30s is cutting the wood with a chainsaw.
Seeing a stranger coming, the villager stopped what he was doing and switched off the chainsaw. He walked out of the house and asked the reporter what was wrong in a strong dialect. The reporter claimed that he came here from abroad to buy plates and heard a sound here, so he came in to take a look. He heard, very enthusiastic, invited the reporter into the house, and greeted the family to give the reporter to pour water to drink. The villagers surnamed Ding, is a bit of native locals.
After learning that the reporter wanted to board type, he said: 'You want to joinery board although I can also process, but processing is not good. We are now mainly processing the core of the board inside, and then send the processed core of the board to the big factory. Generally speaking, we take the big factory's work processing. A year can take down a few big jobs, this year is enough to earn. There are also some like you such as foreign, come to us here to customize a variety of boards. Because the price here is low, the craftsmanship is still very good.''
Mr. Ding's father, after learning that the reporter wanted the boards, came out from another room and chatted with the reporter, who told the reporter that the family had been processing the boards for more than 10 years, mainly relying on their own craftsmanship. They processed out of the board, almost without much sanding, very neat. However, now almost every family in the village is dry carpentry, so the competition is also very big.
When the reporter entered the village, he saw a large number of wooden strips piled up by the roadside everywhere in the whole village, so he asked the villager his question. Mr. Ding listened to a smile, he told reporters, these are being air-dried board core wood slats. If the wood strips have moisture, one can not stick glue, it is easy to crack. Secondly, after the wet plate processing, it is easy to deform. The formal process is required to dry. But the cost of drying is also high, they can not afford the villagers. Mr. Ding said, 'The big factory custom-made, the requirements of the standard is very high, so each procedure do not dare to sloppy, if the quality is too poor, it will smash our own business. This job our family does not do, there are those who do, there are many families are competing to do.'
The reporter pointed to a pile of scrap on the ground and asked, "How do they handle these? Is it processed in the board? Mr. Ding told reporters: 'These have someone special to collect, about more than 50 cents a pound it. Collected up the rotten wood, some are and glue made into cheap joinery, some are simply crushed, made of particle board.'
Brand manufacturers
The same raw materials, the process can not create high-quality panels
Not to say that the E0 glue can produce E0 panels, some factories are using E0 glue, the production of panels can not reach the E0 standard, which is mainly still the gap in the production process.
-- a brand production plant boss
So Zhuangzhai has its own brand plate? Driver Mr. Pan told reporters, Zhuangzhai largest plate production plant to count Lonson Wood.'' This factory has the largest area, the most employees, every day there are a lot of big trucks pulling goods from them.'
Subsequently, the reporter came to Shandong Province Lonsen Wood Industry Co. In front of the company's door parked a large truck, workers are using a small crane to the large truck to load the sheet. After inquiries, the reporter came to the company's administrative office, the office of a staff member heard that the reporter wants to buy high-quality panels, told reporters that their company mainly produces high-end panels, the cheapest panels ex-factory price of more than 80 yuan each, and to reach the E0 standard of 1.8cm thick blockboard price of about 115 yuan.'' Like Moganshan and other well-known plate brands are listed here in our production.''
The reporter proposed to visit the plate factory, the staff agreed. Subsequently, he let a middle-aged man wearing a work uniform to lead the reporter to visit. Under his leadership, the reporter came to their raw material warehouse, found this side of the wood strips neatly placed together. Staff let the reporter look at the core of the wood strips, the reporter found that these strips are made of good wood, the gap between the board and the board is very small, and there is no smell. The staff told reporters that these strips of wood raw materials are specialized factories custom-made, and are all dried, which in the small factory simply can not do.
In their warehouse, the reporter saw piles of plates labeled with the Moganshan brand. Staff told reporters that they are part of some well-known brands to some of the OEM processing, the other part is to play their own 'Lonson' brand plate. They are now a limited number of manufacturers in Shandong Province can produce E0 standard environmental protection plate one. So, how can we produce environmentally friendly plates? The staff told reporters, 'the first thing is that you see those high-quality raw materials, which is the production of environmentally friendly plates at all. Then there is the glue used, cheap glue has more than 1,000 yuan a ton of, and the real environmental protection glue are now more than 2,000 yuan, some brand-name E0 standard glue offer to more than 2,800 yuan.'
'However, it is not that the glue with E0 can produce E0 panels, some factories are using E0 glue, the production of panels can not reach the E0 standard, which is mainly the gap in the production process. A few years ago, when E0 glue was not yet developed, we produced E0 sheet with our unique technology. Now, our technology is getting more and more mature, you can take any sheet from us to the quality supervision department for inspection, and we guarantee that there is no problem. Some big projects in Qingdao, such as the panels used in the renovation of the Crowne Plaza Qingdao Yi Zhong Hotel and the Regent Hotel, all use our products.''
Such a good board, of course, the price is high. Staff told reporters: 'We have more than 30 kinds of plates, but the cheapest is more than 80 yuan per sheet. We have always insisted on high-end and environmental protection, which is also the future trend of plate development.' However, when the reporter proposed to order, the staff also frankly told reporters: 'Our side of the plate is now in short supply, small customers we generally do not cooperate. In addition, to plate need to be booked half a month in advance. If it is urgent, the fastest time is more than one week.
So, how high is the profit of this environmentally friendly high-priced plate? Staff told reporters that although the price of their plates is relatively high, but due to the production of plates of raw materials and glue are better, so the profit per plate is also relatively low.'' The main thing is that the sales volume is very large, it is considered a thin profit.''
Joinery Small Board Factory
Produces both high quality and low quality boards
The difference between the $40 and $70 boards is in the raw material. 40 yuan of boards used are usually some small strips of wood, scraps, this kind of boards on the market is almost impossible to see, but in the construction site is very common.
-- a joinery small board factory boss
Zhuangzhai town different kinds of plate production plant in different locations, and farther apart, distributed in the industrial park around the town of Zhuangzhai. June 9, the reporter rented a car in the local, so that the driver to take to the various kinds of sheet metal factory around.
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The driver, surnamed Pan, is a man in his 40s with a heavy local accent. He told reporters that the entire town of Zhuangzhai has thousands of large-scale sheet metal factories, sheet metal factories are also very strong regionally, some places are mainly producing blockboard, some places are mainly producing particleboard, and some places are producing plywood, plug-in boards, and so on. As he is running a taxi, the distribution of sheet metal factories are very familiar.
Compared with Gaomi's Jinggou town, Zhuangzhai town's joinery production division of labor is more clear, some manufacturers only produce high-end panels, the cheapest panels are 80 yuan a sheet, the most expensive hundreds of dollars a sheet.
The boss of a panel factory told reporters that their family's panels are considered the best on the market. Plate core are after special drying treatment, the glue used is more than 1,600 yuan a ton of environmentally friendly glue, the production of the plate can reach the national regulations of the E1 standard.
The reporter saw in the warehouse of the plate factory, inside the joinery board production are more sophisticated, the board is very clean, few defects. The boss dragged out a board to tell reporters: 'You look at this board, there is no problem. You come to smell, there is no smell. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the inside of the board, and if you saw it and find rotten wood inside, or even unevenness, you can return it unconditionally. Our factory's products are worth every penny, as for some very cheap price boards, the quality is not comparable with us .''
Compared with this one, another factory, which mainly produces low-end panels, is more capable of impressing people on price. The owner surnamed Tong, he heard that the reporter is engaged in engineering, then suggested that the reporter from him to buy goods.
In the warehouse of this sheet metal factory, the reporter saw the most expensive sheet metal is only more than 70 dollars a sheet, the cheapest sheet metal is 40 dollars. Tong boss frankly told reporters that the quality of their boards is really not as good as those high-priced boards. Although more than 70 yuan of plates and hundreds of dollars of plates from the appearance of difficult to distinguish, but he used more than 1200 yuan a ton of glue, far less than some high-priced environmental protection glue. Moreover, the sheets are not dried, but dried outside on their own.
The Tong boss told reporters that the difference between the 40 yuan and 70 yuan boards is in the raw materials. 40 yuan of boards are usually used in some small wood strips, scraps, the boards on the market is almost impossible to see, but in the construction site is very common. It is this poor quality large core board, as used in the decoration, there are formaldehyde content seriously exceeded the standard and other issues.
Particle Board Small Board Factory
Board quality is poor, formaldehyde more, but cheap
Particle Board compared with those solid wood boards, it is certainly very poor. In addition, because of the use of more glue, so the formaldehyde content is also very high. However, it is just cheap, and you can buy four or five pieces of particle board for the money you spend on one piece of solid wood panel.
-- a particle board small board factory owner
Before the reporter in the town of well ditch unannounced visit, and did not see a large area of production of particle board manufacturers, here, but found that the distribution of particle board production area is also very large. The reporter walked into a particle board board factory, the size of this factory is very large, the yard piles of wood flour as high as a small mountain. Wood powder covered with plastic sheeting, it seems to be in order to prevent rain.
When the reporter walked into this particle board factory, the boss was working with the workers. The boss smiled when he saw someone coming in and walked out of the workshop. His pants were pulled up high, and his face and hair were covered with wood dust. In the process of chatting with the boss, the reporter learned that his last name is Jiao. The reporter said he does not know much about particle board, want to know first, see if there is no profit before deciding whether to buy.
Jiao boss told reporters that the cheapest man-made boards on the market are particle board.'' Our family particle board is almost the cheapest on the market, 25.5 yuan a sheet. Using this kind of board to make furniture is much cheaper than using the solid wood kind.'' The reporter said he would like to learn about the process of making particle board, the boss also looked very enthusiastic after hearing, leading the reporter to visit.
The raw material of particleboard is mainly wood powder. Jiao boss pointed to a pile of wood flour, told reporters, 'These wood flour is part of the wood chips from the processing of sheet metal factory, but also part of the specialized crushed wood flour manufacturers to send over. These wood flour can't be used to make particle board directly.' Jiao boss pointed to a smoke machine told reporters that the wood flour should be stir-fried by this machine before it can be used. Stir-frying is the water inside the wood flour steam dry, dry wood flour and then through the machine and glue for mixing. The glue used is their own modulation.
The reporter saw, a few workers are already glued to the wood flour, with a sieve evenly sifted on a steel plate. After the thickness reaches the requirements, the workers will then send the wood powder to the machine for milling and molding. The machine in this workshop can press out 6 pieces of particle board at a time. After the boards are shaped, the workers will use the chainsaw equipment next to them to finish them.
The boss told the reporter that many furniture factories in Qingdao use his particle boards. Speaking about the quality of particle board, the boss said: 'Compared with those solid wood boards, the particle board is definitely very poor. In addition, because more glue is used, the formaldehyde content is also very high. Strictly speaking, particle board cannot be used for interior decoration. However, it is cheap, the money to buy a solid wood panel can buy four or five pieces of particle board.'
◎ Industry Secrets
There is no profit in making poor-quality panels, and the money is all made by the renovation company
There are advantages and disadvantages of panels, so is it not that the production of poor-quality panels is more profitable? Low-end blockboard producers and particleboard producers have given a negative answer to this question. Low-end blockboard production plant owner Mr. Tong said -
In fact, the production of low-end board profits are not high at all, low-end board prices are low, mainly because of the low price of wood. But the glue used is also more, although more glue is not good for health, but only more glue to stick the board. Likewise, it is difficult to find workers to process such boards. Because it is harmful to the body, so many workers are not willing to process these low-end plates.
You may want to ask, then why do we still need to produce this kind of board? I tell you, the market needs it. Many decoration companies are specialized in customizing low-end plates from me. They are in the renovation project, the beginning is to use a good plate, and then I use these cheaper plates, so they can make a lot of money. So , we manufacturers can't make any money at all. But what are you going to do if you don't do this? This side of the competition is very big, good sheet metal factory people have fixed customers, have a very hard relationship. And we have nothing, can only rely on the production of such poor quality boards to survive.
Mr. Jiao, the owner of the particle board factory, answered this question by saying--
You have seen the process of making particle board, it's hard and tiring. But this kind of board is cheap, as long as it is cheap, people will definitely buy it. There are not many particle boards for decoration companies on my side, basically they are supplied to furniture factories that produce low-end products.
And why am I asking for $25.50 a sheet? Why not drop that 50 cents? I'll make a buck or so on a board, and if I do drop it, I'll lose money.
◎ Reporter's note
Try to choose the name brand, decorate more to go to the site around
From the reporter began to investigate the plate so far has been more than 10 days of time. These days, the reporter first investigated the construction site, found that the renovation company in the renovation process using a large number of poor-quality panels, and then in the major building materials market found that the market is a lot of fake brand-name panels, some brands of fake goods than the real thing.
With the depth of the investigation and some of the public information, the reporter learned of two plate production, respectively, in the town of Gao Mi well ditch and Cao County Zhuangzhai town, the two major production sites are the production of high-quality and poor-quality plates. However, in the next interview, the production of poor-quality sheet metal manufacturers are crying foul, saying that their production of poor-quality sheet metal is no profit. Through contact with these manufacturers found that the original highest profit was earned by the renovation company. Renovation companies in the construction, will be high-quality boards and inferior boards mixed with the budget is the price of environmentally friendly boards, the actual construction is the use of poor-quality boards.
By turning around the interview, the reporter suggested that the public in the decoration, or have to turn around. Understand the market of the plate, learn to distinguish between good and bad knowledge of the plate. For the sake of their own health, the public still try to choose some well-known brands of plates, and in the actual renovation, the public should go to the construction site around, do not let the renovation company drilled a loophole, stealing and replacing the plate of their choice.
It is recommended that you contract labor, buy materials to buy their own, choose a bigger brand.