PM2.5 billion market monitoring equipment business inaugurated

Introduction: At the China National Environmental Monitoring Center in Beijing, nine PM2.5 automatic monitors are working silently, and an "undercover battle" begins here. These instruments come from 6 different companies at home and abroad. Through this suitability test, it means that they got tickets for the 2 billion PM2.5 monitoring market in the country. Among them, there is also a Wuhan company.

Hard-won "tickets"

The Ministry of Environmental Protection plans to set up PM2.5 monitoring sites in 338 prefecture-level cities in China within five years, making Li Hongjie, general manager of Wuhan Tianhong Instrument Co., Ltd. very excited.

At present, the average price of PM2.5 monitoring equipment on the market is about 200,000 yuan, and the total investment of 388 cities above the prefecture level is more than 2 billion yuan. With the application of industrial pollution source monitoring equipment, the output value of pollution source online monitoring equipment industry will exceed 10 billion yuan in 2015.

As one of the few manufacturers of environmental monitoring equipment in Wuhan, Li Hongjie has discovered business opportunities.

"On January 5, we received a call from the Environmental Monitoring Center to purchase our 4 PM2.5 samplers." Li Hongjie told reporters: "The sampler is a manual measurement of PM2.5, generally used to compare auto The accuracy of the equipment was monitored. This purchase reminded us that the terminal must start testing the PM2.5 monitor. Through testing, the product can obtain a production license.”

For the next few days, Li Hongjie started an intensive public relations campaign. On January 15, Tianhong’s PM2.5 monitor was finally sent to Beijing and entered the “test room”.

According to the official website of the Environmental Monitoring Terminus, the companies that participated in the comparison tests included nine kinds of PM2s from Thermo Fisher Scientific, US MetOne, Hebei Xianhe, Beijing Zhongyi Tyco, Wuhan Tianhong, and Anhui Blue Dun Optoelectronics. .5 Automatically monitor the instrument.

"The tests were conducted in Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, and Jinan, but our chances were only Beijing this time." Li Hongjie said: "The results may come out a month later. Since the sampler used as a comparison standard comes from Tianhong, we passed this. The field test also has confidence."

Domestic and Foreign Brands "Infighting" PM2.5

As early as last October, Wuhan Environmental Protection Bureau purchased two sets of PM2.5 analyzers and nitrogen oxide analyzers for 1.946 million yuan. The relevant person in charge of the Wuhan Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau introduced: “Tendering last year used the import standard, and the imported machinery was also imported, and it is still under debugging. Wuhan plans to use 9 PM2.5 monitoring points during the year, and at least 7 more instruments will be purchased. ."

It is understood that in the current PM2.5 testing equipment market, non-domestic equipment market share should exceed 70%. On behalf of the brand Thermo Fisher, the price of a single instrument is as high as 280,000 yuan, and that of domestic brands is around 15 million yuan.

Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau introduced: "In fact, the principle of testing PM10 and PM2.5 is the same, mainly the difference between the cutter. Before the Wuhan monitoring PM10 instrument, also adopted the domestic branded products."

"Last year, we sold about 100 PM10 monitoring instruments. WISCO is currently using our monitoring equipment, and the cutters have even been exported to more than 200 US," Li Hongjie told reporters: "In fact, the cutter geometry is open The key lies in the precision of each process."

Zhu Zhichao, dean of Wuhan Research Institute of Central Research, pointed out: “We can't deny that foreign brand equipment is better than domestic brands in terms of stability and accuracy. But if it is used for routine routine monitoring, domestic brands can meet the demand. Advantages can also ease the pressure on local finances."

It is worth noting that the pace of foreign brand promotion is accelerating.

At the end of last year, Thermo Fisher and Wuhan Bio-Industrial Park signed a cooperation agreement. "If it goes well, Wuhan will become our seventh resident point in China." Xinfei Lei, head of the Thermo Fisher's Wuhan project, is confident: "Wuhan's environmental monitoring stations have our instruments and may be the future of the government. And more large-scale industrial companies to carry out more cooperation."