The financial crisis triggered by the American subprime mortgage crisis is coming. It has not only been transmitted to the financial field as expected, but also to the real economy inexorably. Under the financial crisis, consumption expectations are lowered, people naturally tighten their spending, trade protection is on the rise, and the import and export volume of commodities is reduced. Fastener industry is hard to be immune. The output of fastener users in toys, electrical appliances, electromechanical and other industries has decreased, that is, the demand has decreased greatly. Of course, the demand for fasteners has also decreased, so this increase is gone. The most obvious is that the impact after August is very obvious. The bosses of many fastener manufacturers say that the sales volume has dropped greatly, which is very obvious! The unexpected increment in expectation suddenly disappeared! However, the current domestic demand is not enough to support the healthy development of the fastener industry, and it is inevitable that the fastener industry will be hit hard! According to Wenzhou Business Daily, due to the financial crisis, the production scale of fastener enterprises in Wenzhou has been reduced by more than two thirds.

Mention the current situation of Wenzhou fastener industry and lament that "Wenzhou fastener business is too difficult to do ...". Since May 2009, the author has opened the screw machine sales market in Wenzhou, Haiyan and other places, and saw that the fastener industry is not optimistic. In June, I visited a large number of customers of Haiyan, and they warned me, "Don't expect too much from the market here in the near future. We sell second-hand machines everywhere, many of which have been used for several months and are very cheap. Nobody wants them yet ... ". Why? It turned out that it was easy to export fasteners two years ago, which attracted a large number of investors to follow up. Even many operating taxis were sold to taxi cars to buy screw machines to make screws. As a result, the anti-dumping and subprime mortgage crisis in 2009 made it difficult for those who had been fasteners for many years to survive, let alone these newcomers.

Although Wenzhou is mainly sold domestically, it is not much better there. Due to the decline in the incremental demand of upstream users, a large number of enterprises have stopped production or stopped production. The author visited many customers and said that there is a serious shortage of construction now and the future situation is unknown. The impulse to expand production and investment is bound to be suppressed. Many companies' investment projects have begun to stop. Mr. Pan of Wenzhou Tiangong Fastener Co., Ltd. said, "Now the ordinary screws in Wenzhou market used to sell for more than 500 yuan, and now they are sold for more than 200 yuan. How to do this business? I have started half the work now. " Zhejiang Youli Standard Parts Co., Ltd. is the largest import and export enterprise in Wenzhou, accounting for 60% of Wenzhou's total exports to the EU. The company has stopped production. Mr. Ji, the person in charge, said, "There is not much time left in 2009, so let's have a holiday and rest until the Spring Festival." Li Guangqing, the production director of Wenzhou Huawei Standard Parts Co., Ltd., also said that his company also sent half of the people home for the New Year. In the survey, Wenzhou Ruibiao, Mingtai and other fastener leading enterprises are still the same even if they are large enterprises, and the situation of many small and medium-sized enterprises is even worse.

Since August 2009, among more than 4,500 private fastener enterprises in Zhejiang, the profitability of some enterprises has obviously decreased, the liquidity is relatively tight, and the production suspension is also obvious. At first, they thought it was just "growing pains", but the situation was far more serious than expected. Some spare parts enterprises that entered the market earlier and accumulated assets of more than 5 million yuan saw that the wind was wrong, and many chose to close down.

5438+1In mid-October, when reporters interviewed in Wenzhou and Haiyan County, some fastener factories with closed doors could be seen everywhere. Through the railing, the reporter could hardly see a figure in the factory building, only the machine stood alone in the workshop. During the interview, many interviewees repeatedly told reporters that it is best not to disclose the names of relevant enterprises, because once banks know that they are in trouble, they may stop lending, aggravate the survival difficulties of these enterprises, or end their lives prematurely.

Haiyan International Fastener Hardware City, known as the "aircraft carrier" of the fastener hardware market, is the largest fastener hardware market in China at present. It was originally scheduled to be grandly opened on June 5438+February 18, 2009, but faced with the current economic situation and the opposition of the owners, it had to be stopped.

In 2009, the situation of Wenzhou fastener industry was grim. He sent people to Wenzhou fastener market, which can best reflect the prosperity of Wenzhou fasteners, to investigate and found that its turnover last year was only 1/3, but recently 1 month declined, and many enterprises stopped production or semi-stopped production, which is consistent with the author's follow-up observation of Wenzhou fastener market for several months and the feedback from various freight companies in the market. Mr. Yang Junfeng thinks that the financial crisis will have a greater impact on the real economy next year, and now it is just the beginning.

Xu Deren, vice president of Haiyan Federation of Industry and Commerce (General Chamber of Commerce) and deputy secretary-general of Jiaxing Fastener Import and Export Enterprise Association, told the reporter that as early as April 2009, the fastener industry experienced its first general loss in the year, and now the situation is even worse. On February 3, 65438, the anti-dumping department of the European Commission voted to impose an anti-dumping duty of up to 87% on fasteners from carbon steel. This decision will take effect after being approved by EU member states within 1 month, which means that the door of EU market will no longer be opened to steel fasteners made in China, which will have a great impact on Ningbo, Haiyan, Jiaxing, Wenzhou and the fastener industry that has developed rapidly in recent years, especially 000.

Wenzhou's fasteners are mainly sold in the domestic market. Compared with Ningbo Haiyan Jiaxing, Wenzhou's export proportion is not too large, but in recent years, Wenzhou's fastener exports are also developing rapidly. Huang Enhua, chairman of Wenzhou Pioneer Standard Parts Co., Ltd. said that before China joined the EU, the tariff was only 5%. With such an increase, China's products are basically not competitive. Originally, the products in Taiwan Province Province were more expensive than ours, and the climate in emerging countries such as Viet Nam has not yet formed. Now European businessmen will definitely move to these areas. We will not only lose the market, but also face more and more powerful competitors. According to Wenzhou Customs statistics, in 2007, Wenzhou's carbon steel fasteners were exported to US$ 286,765,438+300,000, of which US$ 9,757,900 was exported to the European Union, accounting for 34.03%. In the first ten months of 2009, the export of carbon steel fasteners was US$ 40,465,438+750,000, including US$ 65,438+US$ 84,596,5438+0,000, accounting for 450,000. Due to the double blow of EU anti-dumping and financial crisis, it is a foregone conclusion that Wenzhou firmware exports will shrink in the next few years.

Fasteners, as the "rice of industry", are an important part of parts. Wenzhou, Ningbo and Haiyan are the three major fastener bases in China, and Zhejiang accounts for nearly half of the fastener industry in China. The "urgency" of Zhejiang fastener industry is a microcosm of the danger of China fastener industry and even China hardware accessories industry.