Recently, the reporter learned at the 19th Congress of the China Industrial Gas Industry Association and the 2009 annual meeting held in Xi'an City that in order to avoid disorderly competition, Hubei Industrial Gas Industry Association and Suzhou Industrial Gas Industry Association spoke first. The assembly number marks the beginning of the consolidation and reorganization of China's industrial gas industry.
Hubei Enterprise Reorganization takes the lead
In order to make the Chinese gas industry develop in a direction of scale and standardization, the gas industry in Hubei Province has taken the lead in the country in terms of joint reorganization among enterprises.
According to Lu Qunyu, Chairman of the Hubei Industrial Gas Association, in 2005, the Hubei Gas Association initiated an industry consolidation initiative in Shiyan City. This work has successively received Yichang Lantian Gas Co., Ltd., Yichang Xinxin Practical Gas Co., Ltd. and Qianjiang Jianghan. The company's positive response and strong support from Gas Co., Ltd., and also the support of the Hubei Provincial Bureau of Work Safety, adopted a point-to-face approach to gradually carry out market integration work in the southwestern region of Hubei Province. Most companies in Yichang, Shiyan, Enshi, Jingmen, Xiangfan, Jingzhou, Qianjiang and Xiantao in Hubei Province have already completed their integration. This year, some companies in Wuhan also participated in this action, which has aroused strong response in the industry.
Lu Qunxuan said: "The numbers can best explain the problem. It is not difficult to see the basic situation of the integration of the gas industry in Hubei from the following set of data."
Yichang City integrates in the form of acquisitions, contracted operations, or buyouts. It consists of more than a dozen of the original production and filling companies. The two companies, Yichang Blue Sky Gas Co., Ltd. and Yichang Graceful Gas Co., Ltd., mainly produce and sell. , Shut down 3 sets of dissolved acetylene devices and 3 sets of filling devices. In addition, only dissolved oxygen from Yichang Shipyard of China Changjiang Shipping Group and oxygen from Yichang Marine Diesel Engine Co., Ltd. in Yichang City are still producing for their own use.
Shiyan City participated in 6 reorganization companies, shutting down 4 sets of dissolved acetylene devices and 3 sets of filling devices; Jingmen City participated in 8 reorganization companies, shutting down two sets of dissolved acetylene devices and 1 set of filling devices; Enshi participated in the reorganization of enterprises In 4 homes, two dissolved acetylenes and one filling station were shut down.
Jingzhou City participated in 7 reorganization companies, shutting down 3 sets of dissolved acetylene devices and 2 sets of filling devices; it is currently undergoing technological transformation of 1 sets of air separation devices; 4 companies in Xiangfan City participated in the integration and shut down 1 air separation Due to the large number of companies in the region and the lack of certification of some companies, the integration effect is not obvious; Xiantao City participated in 5 reorganization companies, shut down 1 acetylene plant and two filling stations, and eliminated 4,000 unqualified cylinders. .
Suzhou Gas Industry Restructuring and Increasing Efficiency
Xu Wei, Secretary-General of the Suzhou Industrial Gas Association, said that in order to promote the development of the industry, in 2005, they first tried to subsidize three companies in Jinjiaba Town of Wujiang City (one of them had an hourly output). Air 150 cubic meters of small air space was reorganized. After the merger in 2006, the economic efficiency of the three companies increased by an average of 10% from the pre-merger period.
It is precisely because of the successful experience of this restructuring that Xu Hao decided to reorganize another three companies in Suzhou. The specific approach is that each of the fixed assets and sales market share is assessed through relevant departments and the first, second and third shareholders are determined.
It is worth mentioning that, according to the evaluation of fixed assets, a company that could have been a second shareholder, because of its relatively small market share, can only be used as a third shareholder after being confirmed by a comprehensive assessment.
This assessment method was considered fair and reasonable by the companies involved in the reorganization, and one company that originally occupied a large area was selected as the registered place of the new company. The other two companies cancelled their business licenses, filling certificates, production safety licenses, equipment, and land for auction and transfer. The new company was finally established in May 2007.
The reorganized new company will be fair and impartial in staffing. The first shareholder serves as the general manager, and the second and third shareholder are the deputy general managers. Reassign the original technical department, administrative staff and workers. After the merger, the management capabilities of customers and distributors have also been strengthened, and the phenomenon of dealers leading the nose will no longer appear as before. According to statistics, by the end of 2007, the economic efficiency of the new company has increased by 11.5% compared with 2006.
Based on the above two successful reorganizations, recently, six original companies in Suzhou, Changshu have also reached a reorganization agreement. After their merger, the original small airspace was completely removed and a new 3000-level air separation unit was added. , to expand the scale of production.
At present, the project is under construction.
Industry restructuring forms a synergy
Lu Qunyu said: "With large-scale market integration, we have not only formed a joint force, but also made the Hubei gas industry truly move toward a safe and standardized direction."
He pointed out that the benefits of integration can be summed up in the following points: First, many licenses are incomplete, serious safety hazards, duplicated production, filling companies are shut down, a large number of unqualified cylinders are decommissioned or scrapped, making these The safety situation in the industrial gas industry in the region has clearly improved.
The second is that after integration, high-quality resources (personnel and equipment) are concentrated, the production safety guarantee capacity (equipment, management) is greatly improved, the production equipment starts to work, the labor cost is relatively reduced, the product is delivered in a unified manner, and duplicate transportation, production, Transportation costs have dropped significantly.
Third, it avoids vicious competition, product prices return to rationality, and corporate profits improve. It can ensure safety investment, and employees’ various insurance premiums can also be purchased in accordance with national regulations. Under the financial crisis environment, the economic benefits of enterprises are relatively Did not fall.
Fourth, the strengthening of cooperation among peers can effectively prevent Lao Lai’s owed money, pressure on price, and pressure bottle, which reduces the economic burden on the company.
Fifth, the free integration of corporate management is implemented, and the problems are concentrated on consultation. The benefits of all enterprises participating in the integration can be guaranteed. The company operates according to the company law, and periodically “shares dividends†according to the company’s laws, and some companies that are shutting down and do not want to participate in management You can "sit yourself" and truly realize the harmony of the industry.
Sixth, after the integration, the ideal result is the establishment of a joint-stock company. Everyone becomes a community of interests, so that they have the ability to carry out technological transformation and innovation, increase the safety guarantee while reducing production costs, and also enhance the market's competitiveness.
Xu Hao believes that the benefits of reorganization of assets by enterprises can be summarized as seven points: First, it is conducive to improving the safety management level of enterprises and ensuring safe production; Second, it improves the land utilization rate and saves land resources; Efficient use of equipment, significant energy conservation, truly achieve the goal of energy conservation and emission reduction; Fourth, after full integration of resources, it will help increase capital investment; Fifth, reorganization can reduce production costs and increase productivity; Sixth, stabilize market and price, Can further improve economic efficiency; Seventh, after bigger and stronger can also compete with foreign companies.
The road ahead is long and heavy
“Although the restructuring has strengthened the competitiveness of enterprises, it does not mean that the gas industry in Hubei is already bright and bright, and the future is bright. On the contrary, I think the development of the gas industry in Hubei has reached a crossroads. Looking at the height of the development of the industry, we still have a lot of more difficult work to do and the task is still very arduous.†Lu Qunyu said.
He pointed out that because Hubei Province has no policy support for the gas industry and there are no industry access standards, many small and medium-sized enterprises in various regions are reluctant to participate in integration or sky-high prices, which makes integration difficult. For those companies that have already participated in the integration, they are also worried that once the benefits of the integration are achieved, there will be a number of new, non-standard, small-sized enterprises, which will make the integration work fail. Coupled with Wuhan's largest gas base in Wuhan, it is still in a disorderly state of "regimes and market disputes." It is very difficult to break through.
Due to the relatively abundant resources and history of liquid products in Hubei Province, there are too many companies in the province: there are more than 70 dissolved acetylenes and more than 200 filling companies. The overall scale is small, the professional level of personnel is low, and there are many fillings. The station adopts a “workshop-style†production mode and a “family-style†management model. The management institutions and rules and regulations are in name only, and they remain in the breadwinning stage. They do not implement safety management at all, let alone promote industrial progress and development. Now. Even so, many companies are still moving toward a small and complete direction. A few people have turned "doing qi" into "pique", and in a very graphic word, "If you don't ask for anything, everyone wants to be the boss." . This also brings great difficulties to industry consolidation.
Looking at the development trend of the domestic gas industry, major international gas companies have successively seized high-quality customers in various regions. The investment and output value of the four major international gas companies in the country have been increasing year after year. This is particularly evident in economically developed regions, and Hubei Province is no exception. Air Liquide’s nearly 100 million yuan on-site gas supply project in Optics Valley has been put into operation last year, and the second phase of the project will start next year.
It is understood that U.S. air product companies are busy looking for breakthroughs in Hubei. Once they are successfully stationed, high-end customers in the gas industry in Hubei Province are likely to become intra-company meals for foreign companies. If in two or three years, the national gas industry will not be able to achieve healthy development, it will lead China's gas companies to go their own way.
Hubei Enterprise Reorganization takes the lead
In order to make the Chinese gas industry develop in a direction of scale and standardization, the gas industry in Hubei Province has taken the lead in the country in terms of joint reorganization among enterprises.
According to Lu Qunyu, Chairman of the Hubei Industrial Gas Association, in 2005, the Hubei Gas Association initiated an industry consolidation initiative in Shiyan City. This work has successively received Yichang Lantian Gas Co., Ltd., Yichang Xinxin Practical Gas Co., Ltd. and Qianjiang Jianghan. The company's positive response and strong support from Gas Co., Ltd., and also the support of the Hubei Provincial Bureau of Work Safety, adopted a point-to-face approach to gradually carry out market integration work in the southwestern region of Hubei Province. Most companies in Yichang, Shiyan, Enshi, Jingmen, Xiangfan, Jingzhou, Qianjiang and Xiantao in Hubei Province have already completed their integration. This year, some companies in Wuhan also participated in this action, which has aroused strong response in the industry.
Lu Qunxuan said: "The numbers can best explain the problem. It is not difficult to see the basic situation of the integration of the gas industry in Hubei from the following set of data."
Yichang City integrates in the form of acquisitions, contracted operations, or buyouts. It consists of more than a dozen of the original production and filling companies. The two companies, Yichang Blue Sky Gas Co., Ltd. and Yichang Graceful Gas Co., Ltd., mainly produce and sell. , Shut down 3 sets of dissolved acetylene devices and 3 sets of filling devices. In addition, only dissolved oxygen from Yichang Shipyard of China Changjiang Shipping Group and oxygen from Yichang Marine Diesel Engine Co., Ltd. in Yichang City are still producing for their own use.
Shiyan City participated in 6 reorganization companies, shutting down 4 sets of dissolved acetylene devices and 3 sets of filling devices; Jingmen City participated in 8 reorganization companies, shutting down two sets of dissolved acetylene devices and 1 set of filling devices; Enshi participated in the reorganization of enterprises In 4 homes, two dissolved acetylenes and one filling station were shut down.
Jingzhou City participated in 7 reorganization companies, shutting down 3 sets of dissolved acetylene devices and 2 sets of filling devices; it is currently undergoing technological transformation of 1 sets of air separation devices; 4 companies in Xiangfan City participated in the integration and shut down 1 air separation Due to the large number of companies in the region and the lack of certification of some companies, the integration effect is not obvious; Xiantao City participated in 5 reorganization companies, shut down 1 acetylene plant and two filling stations, and eliminated 4,000 unqualified cylinders. .
Suzhou Gas Industry Restructuring and Increasing Efficiency
Xu Wei, Secretary-General of the Suzhou Industrial Gas Association, said that in order to promote the development of the industry, in 2005, they first tried to subsidize three companies in Jinjiaba Town of Wujiang City (one of them had an hourly output). Air 150 cubic meters of small air space was reorganized. After the merger in 2006, the economic efficiency of the three companies increased by an average of 10% from the pre-merger period.
It is precisely because of the successful experience of this restructuring that Xu Hao decided to reorganize another three companies in Suzhou. The specific approach is that each of the fixed assets and sales market share is assessed through relevant departments and the first, second and third shareholders are determined.
It is worth mentioning that, according to the evaluation of fixed assets, a company that could have been a second shareholder, because of its relatively small market share, can only be used as a third shareholder after being confirmed by a comprehensive assessment.
This assessment method was considered fair and reasonable by the companies involved in the reorganization, and one company that originally occupied a large area was selected as the registered place of the new company. The other two companies cancelled their business licenses, filling certificates, production safety licenses, equipment, and land for auction and transfer. The new company was finally established in May 2007.
The reorganized new company will be fair and impartial in staffing. The first shareholder serves as the general manager, and the second and third shareholder are the deputy general managers. Reassign the original technical department, administrative staff and workers. After the merger, the management capabilities of customers and distributors have also been strengthened, and the phenomenon of dealers leading the nose will no longer appear as before. According to statistics, by the end of 2007, the economic efficiency of the new company has increased by 11.5% compared with 2006.
Based on the above two successful reorganizations, recently, six original companies in Suzhou, Changshu have also reached a reorganization agreement. After their merger, the original small airspace was completely removed and a new 3000-level air separation unit was added. , to expand the scale of production.
At present, the project is under construction.
Industry restructuring forms a synergy
Lu Qunyu said: "With large-scale market integration, we have not only formed a joint force, but also made the Hubei gas industry truly move toward a safe and standardized direction."
He pointed out that the benefits of integration can be summed up in the following points: First, many licenses are incomplete, serious safety hazards, duplicated production, filling companies are shut down, a large number of unqualified cylinders are decommissioned or scrapped, making these The safety situation in the industrial gas industry in the region has clearly improved.
The second is that after integration, high-quality resources (personnel and equipment) are concentrated, the production safety guarantee capacity (equipment, management) is greatly improved, the production equipment starts to work, the labor cost is relatively reduced, the product is delivered in a unified manner, and duplicate transportation, production, Transportation costs have dropped significantly.
Third, it avoids vicious competition, product prices return to rationality, and corporate profits improve. It can ensure safety investment, and employees’ various insurance premiums can also be purchased in accordance with national regulations. Under the financial crisis environment, the economic benefits of enterprises are relatively Did not fall.
Fourth, the strengthening of cooperation among peers can effectively prevent Lao Lai’s owed money, pressure on price, and pressure bottle, which reduces the economic burden on the company.
Fifth, the free integration of corporate management is implemented, and the problems are concentrated on consultation. The benefits of all enterprises participating in the integration can be guaranteed. The company operates according to the company law, and periodically “shares dividends†according to the company’s laws, and some companies that are shutting down and do not want to participate in management You can "sit yourself" and truly realize the harmony of the industry.
Sixth, after the integration, the ideal result is the establishment of a joint-stock company. Everyone becomes a community of interests, so that they have the ability to carry out technological transformation and innovation, increase the safety guarantee while reducing production costs, and also enhance the market's competitiveness.
Xu Hao believes that the benefits of reorganization of assets by enterprises can be summarized as seven points: First, it is conducive to improving the safety management level of enterprises and ensuring safe production; Second, it improves the land utilization rate and saves land resources; Efficient use of equipment, significant energy conservation, truly achieve the goal of energy conservation and emission reduction; Fourth, after full integration of resources, it will help increase capital investment; Fifth, reorganization can reduce production costs and increase productivity; Sixth, stabilize market and price, Can further improve economic efficiency; Seventh, after bigger and stronger can also compete with foreign companies.
The road ahead is long and heavy
“Although the restructuring has strengthened the competitiveness of enterprises, it does not mean that the gas industry in Hubei is already bright and bright, and the future is bright. On the contrary, I think the development of the gas industry in Hubei has reached a crossroads. Looking at the height of the development of the industry, we still have a lot of more difficult work to do and the task is still very arduous.†Lu Qunyu said.
He pointed out that because Hubei Province has no policy support for the gas industry and there are no industry access standards, many small and medium-sized enterprises in various regions are reluctant to participate in integration or sky-high prices, which makes integration difficult. For those companies that have already participated in the integration, they are also worried that once the benefits of the integration are achieved, there will be a number of new, non-standard, small-sized enterprises, which will make the integration work fail. Coupled with Wuhan's largest gas base in Wuhan, it is still in a disorderly state of "regimes and market disputes." It is very difficult to break through.
Due to the relatively abundant resources and history of liquid products in Hubei Province, there are too many companies in the province: there are more than 70 dissolved acetylenes and more than 200 filling companies. The overall scale is small, the professional level of personnel is low, and there are many fillings. The station adopts a “workshop-style†production mode and a “family-style†management model. The management institutions and rules and regulations are in name only, and they remain in the breadwinning stage. They do not implement safety management at all, let alone promote industrial progress and development. Now. Even so, many companies are still moving toward a small and complete direction. A few people have turned "doing qi" into "pique", and in a very graphic word, "If you don't ask for anything, everyone wants to be the boss." . This also brings great difficulties to industry consolidation.
Looking at the development trend of the domestic gas industry, major international gas companies have successively seized high-quality customers in various regions. The investment and output value of the four major international gas companies in the country have been increasing year after year. This is particularly evident in economically developed regions, and Hubei Province is no exception. Air Liquide’s nearly 100 million yuan on-site gas supply project in Optics Valley has been put into operation last year, and the second phase of the project will start next year.
It is understood that U.S. air product companies are busy looking for breakthroughs in Hubei. Once they are successfully stationed, high-end customers in the gas industry in Hubei Province are likely to become intra-company meals for foreign companies. If in two or three years, the national gas industry will not be able to achieve healthy development, it will lead China's gas companies to go their own way.