China's environmental testing equipment industry will be localized

The environmental monitoring instrument is a subdivision field of the instrument. It collects analytical data and obtains professional on-site analysis instruments for pollution sources and environmental background pollution. Today, China's environmental detection instruments and meters mainly include water, air, and soil. After more than ten years of development, the market for environmental monitoring instruments has gradually risen in the field of instrumentation. A number of domestic listed instrument companies, such as Concentration Technology, Xianhe Environmental Protection, Xuedilong, and Tianrui Instruments, have acquired the ability to compete with foreign companies on the same platform.

The China National Environmental Monitoring Center announced on July 9 the list of qualified products for environmental air automatic monitoring system certification and inspection (as of July 9, 2013), including 13 models from 8 companies including Thermo Fisher, Xianhe Environmental Protection and Concentration Technology. Product list. While proving the advantages of the company, it also reflects that there are only a few instrument manufacturers with large scale in China. At present, it is far from meeting actual needs in terms of variety and quantity.

In fact, China's instrument manufacturers are mostly SMEs. The lack of production capacity of these enterprises is mainly concentrated on the supply of low-end products, low-price competition, product shoddy, and poor product reliability and stability. Many businesses responded that low-quality environmental protection monitoring instruments have problems such as low monitoring frequency, large sampling error, and inaccurate monitoring data. These problems not only affect the scientific decision-making of environmental management and the seriousness of law enforcement, but also tend to dampen the enthusiasm of enterprises for pollution control and environmental protection. High-quality analyzers, special-purpose monitoring instruments, and automatic monitoring systems are mostly introduced from abroad, so the share of domestic instruments is very small.

In order to accelerate the pace of localization, the country has issued a corresponding procurement policy. Recently, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued the "Second Phase Monitoring Implementation Plan for New Air Quality Standards", which stipulates that areas that undertake the second phase of air quality monitoring and implementation tasks should give priority to selecting cost-effective monitoring equipment under the same conditions. Purchasing domestic equipment according to relevant requirements of government procurement.

With the support of policies, environmental monitoring equipment companies have full confidence in the development of domestically-made equipment. Domestic monitoring instruments need a mature process. At present, there may be gaps in the maturity and reliability of products compared with mature products from abroad, but the technical line is the same. This requires the market to give time for domestic instruments to become more mature, stable, accurate, and reliable. . Domestic instruments are also fully able to meet the market's needs and applications, and domestic instruments are more cost-effective and better served.