Judging from the new products launched by major brands at the Ceramics Expo, "no slate, no brand" has become a common trend. At the same time, the overall trend of slate is gradually developing into the field of home customization, and is widely used in slate bathroom cabinets, slate bar counters, slate dining table tops, and even tea trays and handicrafts.
Such cross-border applications of rock slabs require more professional processing services. In order to meet the personalized and flexible customization needs in the large home furnishing field, construction and ceramics companies are overcoming new problems while exploring new hopes.
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Stone slab processing center established
Safeguard your entry into the field of home customization
When interviewing Huang Haiyu, general manager of Gold Medal Asia's Guizhou branch, the reporter learned that Gold Medal Asia has established its own slate processing center to provide customized services for slate home furnishings across the country. Huang Haiyu said that slate home furnishings require one-stop supporting services such as design, transportation, processing and installation, and the company headquarters established slate The processing center can better radiate the national market and meet the needs of higher-end home customization. He believes that this is a brand new track, and there may be “dark horse” companies emerging in the future.
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This is also true. The emergence of slate processing centers has further upgraded the building ceramics manufacturers that only produce plates into service providers with the ability to implement finished products, laying a solid foundation for them to enter the field of home customization.
On September 6, Xinyansu Home Furnishing's deep processing service center with a scale of 30,000 square meters in Xiqiao, Foshan officially started construction, with the first phase of 12,000 square meters. During the Foshan Autumn Ceramics Expo, the deep processing of this rock slab was demonstratedFan base is open to the media for the first time. According to its factory director Zhou Shi, the company introduced ultra-high-pressure CNC AC five-axis universal water jet cutting machine, CNC fully automatic computer numerical control stone processing center (automatic tool change), five-axis four-linkage CNC bridge cutting machine, and fully automatic linear special-shaped cutting machine. The edge polishing production line, straight edge bevel polishing machine and other processing equipment are currently the most advanced equipment in the country, and the technology will not be surpassed in a short time.
New rock element deep processing demonstration base
At present, Jiangjun Enterprise is also laying out a rock slab processing center. Zhong Jing, general manager of the General Slate Business Department, previously said in an interview with the media that In the initial stage of slate development, companies may strive for production capacity, but in the second stage they need to fight for production capacity. It is the ability to deliver finished products to the market. In order to build a complete supply and service system, Jiangjun Enterprise has built a slate deep processing center in Zhaoqing, which can realize flexible customization of whole-house smart wardrobe systems and cabinet products. It is understood that Jiangjun Enterprise will next open slate deep processing centers in 12 central cities across the country. These 12 outlets will use the slate deep processing center at the headquarters as a benchmark, continue its processing technology and technology, and radiate the national market.
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The field of deep processing is immature
Has the stone industry robbed rock slabs across borders?
Before the emergence of slate deep processing centers, the first companies to sell slates from the headquarters of construction and ceramics companies to the home furnishing field were furniture factories and whole-house customization companies, relying on years of channel accumulation; while in the terminal market, slates were sold Most of the people who make customized homes are stone dealers, relying on a complete sales, processing, and after-sales service team.
What hardware should go with the cabinets, how should the sink be designed and drained, and what other materials should be combined with the slate island? These are all unfamiliar areas that ceramic construction companies have never been involved in before. All of a sudden, doubtful voices such as “Stone slab manufacturers only need to produce slabs”, “Stone slabs do not need a brand”, “Tile dealers cannot make slabs”, etc. emerged one after another. on the contrary, looking at the national stone market, stone dealers have made slate very popular, and more than 20 slate merchants have emerged in Shuitou, Fujian alone.
2020 China (Shuitou) Global Stone and Rock Slab Machinery and Accessories Expo
Because ceramic tiles and stone have had many years of "grievances", some people may have a mentality that "the ceramics industry wants to use slate to cross-border the home furnishing field, but is robbed by the stone industry." Who knows, reaching out to you may not necessarily be a "dark devil's claw", but it may also be a "divine assist".
With the participation of the stone industry, the processing technology, equipment, technology, accessories and installation of rock slabs have been greatly improved. Taking equipment as an example, Yongda, Yongtao, etc., the well-known slate deep processing equipment companies in the industry, are crossovers from the field of stone deep processing. In terms of talents, the product designers, CNC programming elites, and operating experts of various automated CNC equipment currently engaged in the deep processing and production of rock slabs are basically from the stone industry.
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From this perspective, Stone not only did not rob rock slabs, but instead catalyzed the iterative upgrade in the field of deep processing of rock slabs.
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From selling materials to selling finished products
The most difficult threshold to cross the border
From this year's Construction Expo, Tanzhou Exhibition, and Ceramics Expo, we can see that the number of exhibitors of slate-related processing equipment and auxiliary materials has increased significantly, and the maturity of technology is changing rapidly compared with the beginning of the year. In this way, everything seems to be ready for the cross-border home customization industry of slate slabs. All it needs is ""Invest"? However, the final step is often not as simple as we imagine.
When visiting the Guiyang market, the reporter learned that the local Western Building Materials City has a stone processing + warehouse cluster covering an area of several hundred acres. The scale is large and it is representative of the local area. However, people familiar with the matter revealed that most of the stone processors in the area are from Fujian, and some of them have gradually withdrawn from the stone market in recent years. High labor costs are one of the reasons. It is reported that working in a dusty working environment for a long time will have an impact on human lung health, so it is not easy to recruit stone processing operators. Rock slab processing also faces the same problem.
Source: Internet
“There are very few workers who are willing to engage in processing positions, and there are even fewer skilled workers who can perform fine processing of rock slabs." Local ceramic tile dealers in Guiyang also had great doubts about labor when they planned to establish a slate processing factory. The reporter learned that the average salary of a waterjet and bridge cutting machine operator is in the range of 5,000 to 6,000 yuan. A worker who can independently start the machine and knows how to read the machine can earn more than 8,000 yuan a month. Edge grinding, water grinding, dry grinding and The basic salary of bonded assembly workers is slightly higher than that of waterjet workers.
Source: Internet
To establish a slate processing plant, four major elements, including site, equipment, auxiliary materials, and workers, are indispensable, which also means that a large amount of capital is required. A dealer revealed that it would cost no less than 1 million yuan to build a slate processing plant. The reporter also learned that more than 30 million yuan has been invested in purchasing equipment for the slate processing center at the headquarters of a certain company in the early stage, and the investment in the entire processing center project is expected to be around 100 million yuan.
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If rock slabs are born for the cross-border home customization industry, then the difference between ceramic construction companies has never been the intelligent CNC five-axis water jet, but The overall home customization service system. Although the system does not improve overnight, as long as the thinking does not slip, there are always more methods than difficulties. As Mr. Lu Xun said: In fact, the ground There is no road, but when there are more people walking, it becomes a road.
Author: Hong Xiaochun
