With the continuous advancement of industrialization and the upgrading of civil consumption, the apparent consumption growth rate of stainless steel in China from 2004 to 2016 is 12.73%, which is higher than the apparent consumption growth rate of crude steel in the steel industry during the same period of 7.83%. It can be said that the future development of stainless steel will be better and better. Today, Xiaobian will take you to analyze the development trend of stainless steel in various industries.

Vehicle/automotive industry: this is the fastest growing application area of stainless steel. Because stainless steel also has the advantages of resistance to chloride ion corrosion and heat resistance and is used in automobile exhaust systems. Now, Japan, the United States, Sweden and other countries have been a large number of stainless steel vehicles. Japan began to promote from the 80's, its stainless steel train vehicles have reached 60%. The automobile industry is the focus of the development of stainless steel application.

Construction: It is one of the earliest fields of stainless steel application. In terms of architectural decoration, at present, stainless steel is mainly used in the outer wall of high-rise buildings, indoor and external column cladding, handrails, floors, elevator siding, doors and Windows, curtain walls and other internal and external decoration and components. After the surface treatment, coloring, coating of stainless steel plate, to solve the touch after the easy to appear fingerprints and other problems, so that the application of stainless steel further expanded.Home appliance industry: in home appliance industry, what stainless steel dosage is big is inner cylinder of automatic washing machine, inner liner of water heater, shell of inside and outside microwave oven, refrigerator, and use ferrite stainless steel more. The proportion of stainless steel of west European household electricity is larger, Asia is used commonly outside Japanese close to European level less. In 1999, the Japanese home appliance industry ferrite, martensite type stainless steel consumption reached 28%, austenite accounted for 12%.

Our microwave ovens, refrigerators, air conditioners, TV sets and other products have become competitive export products in the world, and the domestic household appliances industry is a potential large market for stainless steel applications. It is estimated that in the next 5-10 years, the demand for stainless steel in China's home appliance industry will reach 100,000-150,000 tons.

Industrial facilities: the proportion of stainless steel used in industrial facilities in developed countries can generally be up to 15%-20%, the current domestic application proportion is still very small. This is due to the introduction of complete sets of industrial equipment, stainless steel materials did not count, on the other hand, because domestic materials have not been used. Chemical, petrochemical, chemical fiber, paper, food, medicine, energy (nuclear power, thermal power, fuel cell) and other fields need stainless steel. In addition, the existing imported equipment has entered the maintenance period. With the improvement of the quality of domestic stainless steel products and the development of special brand products, the application of stainless steel in domestic industrial facilities will increase year by year.