Opportunities and challenges for steel pipe industry

Carbon peaking and carbon neutrality has become a global consensus, with more than 100 countries making commitments to carbon neutrality. Against this backdrop, China’s low-carbon development is in action. At the national level, China attaches great importance to and vigorously promotes low-carbon development for galvanized steel pipe. At many important meetings, we have repeatedly stressed the importance and necessity of solid carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. At the same time, China is accelerating the establishment and improvement of carbon emission trading mechanism, exploring carbon sink rights trading pilot. The iron and steel industry, as an important field to implement carbon emission reduction, has both opportunities and challenges.

From the perspective of opportunities, low-carbon development will help China’s iron and steel industry to build a higher level of dynamic balance between supply and demand of hot dipped galvanized steel pipe, optimize the structure of process flow, promote technological revolution, promote intelligent upgrading, accelerate the coordination of multiple industries, promote environmental protection governance, deepen the concept of the whole life cycle of products, and help the industry to achieve low carbon standardization.

From the perspective of challenges, our iron and steel industry low carbon transition time is tight, the task is heavy, we must achieve the peak in the short time and reduce carbon work; Most steel pipe manufacturers are in the primary stage of low-carbon development, with weak basic capabilities such as technology and human resources. Different enterprises have different levels of development, different levels of low-carbon development, and different Spaces for carbon reduction. The cost competitiveness of electric furnace steel is weak and the optimization of process structure is still faced with obstacles. And the coverage of green design products is insufficient.

Discussion on low-carbon development path of steel industry
The implementation of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in the steel industry is neither urgent nor slow. It should be scientifically planned and carried out in a reasonable and orderly manner in stages. Corresponding to the national “double carbon” working node, our iron and steel industry must experience four stages of carbon emission peak, steady decline, substantial decline and deep decarbonization. Focusing on key areas and key tasks, carbon peak and carbon reduction path of our iron and steel industry should focus on six aspects: first, promoting green layout; Second, energy conservation and efficiency improvement; Third, optimize energy use and process structure of round steel pipe; Fourth, build the industrial chain of circular economy; Fifth, the application of breakthrough low-carbon technology; Sixth, we strengthened institutional development and policy support.