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Enligt Times of India, Indian gas company Gujarat Gas Ltd (“GGL Gas”) has increased the price of industrial gas. This will make the country’s largest ceramic industry cluster Gujarat Morbi gas cost an additional expenditure of more than 1 billion rupees.
GGL Gas announced on August 24 that it would increase the price of industrial gas by approximately Rs 5 per standard kubikmeter (Rs 4.37 including taxes) for companies producing sanitary ware and tiles in the Morbi and Surendranagar regions. Its final price will be Rs 37.51 per standard kubikmeter. The new prices are effective from the same day. Priset på gas för bostäder är oförändrat.
The increase in industrial gas prices is mainly due to the significant increase in LNG prices on the international market. Nyligen, there has been a significant increase in global gas prices. Prices in the Chinese market also exceeded 5,400 Yuan av ljud, a price increase of more than 100 percent over the same period last year, while prices in the U.S. market also hit the highest level in nearly 10 år.
Enligt uppgifter som släppts av China Building and Sanitary Ceramics Association, från och med 2020, the natural gas usage rate of building ceramic enterprises increased from less than 15% till ungefär 55%. dock, med den föreslagna kolneutrala och koltopp, industrigaskvoten kommer inte att öka efter 2025, and the proportion decreases after 2030. Natural gas is a transitional energy source for carbon neutrality, and electricity will be the “main energy source” of the future. Electric firing kiln will be the new direction of energy technology development in the building and sanitary ceramics industry. Det är underförstått att, at present, Guangdong, Fujian, Shandlig, Sichuan, Liaoning och andra produktionsområden, de flesta företag har slutfört omvandlingen av ren energi.
And India is also mandatory in 2019 to complete the process of switching from coal gasification furnaces to natural gas production. It is reported that GGL Gas is now supplying 6.5 million cubic meters of natural gas for the Indian ceramics industry daily, and the price increase will add an additional monthly expenditure of Rs. 1 miljard. The sudden increase in gas prices will have an impact on the existing orders of Indian ceramics companies.
Nilesh Jetpariya, ordförande i Morbi Keramikförening, said the increase will increase production costs by 7 till 8 procent, and could even lead to the shutdown of nearly 30 percent of factories in Morbi. I regionen, bränsle står för nästan 35 till 40 procent av de totala produktionskostnaderna. The sudden price hike may prevent many manufacturers from adjusting their production plans in time, or they will be forced to clear their inventories at a loss.
Dessutom, containerbrist och höga fraktkostnader pressar kakelfabrikerna i Morbi. Last few months sea freight costs rose two to three times, local exporters can not get containers, tile exports fell 20% till 40%.
Export står för 30 procent av Morbis kakelproduktion. KG Kundariya, chairman of Moresby-based Wintel Ceramics Private Limited, said exports are down 20 procent. Originally when the Indian market was slowing down due to pandemic demand, exports could have brought incremental volumes. However poor logistics caused the export market to take a hit as well. Genom att höja priserna för att föra över de ökade produktionskostnaderna, end retail will also be affected.
Att säkerställa att det inte finns något överutbud på marknaden och att befintliga lagervaror säljs till rimliga prisnivåer, kakelfabriker överväger att stänga ner ugnar som svar. Än så länge, 115 tile factories have reportedly shut down production, och en annan 250 will stop production for a month from September 1.