window glass

Along with the ascent of industrial profit since 2003, the window glass industry became more attractive, surging up a new-round of investment from 2003 to 2005. Since the construction cycle of glass production line is around one year, newly-added production capacity would emerge between 2004 and 2006. This expansion of production capacity is mainly in South China and East China; most of production lines in the East China were constructed and started operations in 2004 while the release of production capacity in South China mainly happened in 2005. Guangdong is the province that gathered the most newly-added production capacity in South China. China imported glass of 26.389 million square meters in 2005 with import value up to 334.7849 million US dollars at average cost of 12.69 US dollars per square meter. Compared to 2004, the import amount decreased by 37.40％, import value increased by 68.37％ and average import price rose by 2.97 US dollars per square meter. China exported window glass of 185.394 million square meters in 2005 with export value reaching 454.7432 million US dollars at average cost of 2.45 US dollars per square meter. Compared to 2004, export amount increased by 38.45％, import value grew by 38.54％ and average export price remained the same.