Development Status of Glass Industry

(China Glass Network) Enterprises of domestic glass industry are mainly located in provinces of Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Fujian, etc. With the frangibility characteristic of glass and limit in transportation,

Regional glass market plays an important role in business transaction, however, market circulation of different district is not the same. When price of glass products of East China market increases, goods from other places with relative low price then come into the market by the help of convenient transportation; when price of local market drops, products will outflow the market to get balanced. Market of Southwest China is relatively narrow and price of glass products in different area are various at the same time.

Fluctuation in prices is also

According to related statistics, progressing glass products account for 60% of the whole industry, raw glass occupies 25% and glass sheet exporting of 15%. Unstable price of sheet glass will lead to the raw material purchasing difficultly by deep progressing enterprises and increase the risk of receiving orders with large amount.

There are also other problems for the industry including intermingled quality of the products, difficulty of loading and unloading, high transportation costs and