China is the world's largest battery production and exporting countries, only the Zhejiang area in the first half of this year exports of all kinds of primary batteries and battery amount of more than US $650 million With the continuous improvement of global environmental protection and consumer safety requirements, since 2016, countries have introduced a series of new technologies and safety regulations for batteries and related products.
Environmental protection and safety regulation continues to upgrade
The traditional nickel cadmium and nickel metal hydride battery technology is mature, widely used, but such cells usually contain harmful to the environment and health of lead and cadmium, mercury and other heavy metals, has been subjected to national strict control, especially with the lithium battery technology matures, the traditional battery environmental regulation escalating. Such as the EU version of the battery directive stipulates that from December 31, 2016, the European market for the sale and use of wireless power tools portable battery and storage battery cadmium content shall not exceed 0.002%. Italy will begin in January 2018 to strengthen the control of mercury containing products, in addition to the zinc air battery mercury content of less than 1% of the zinc silver oxide battery and mercury content of less than 2%, other mercury battery products will be limited production and imports, nor as accessories for other products.
As for the lithium battery industry in recent years due to the special risk A new force suddenly rises., its explosive, national safety supervision is becoming more and more severe. Since January 1, 2016 the implementation of the International Air Transport Association, "dangerous goods regulations fifty-seventh edition of the revised version of the different types of lithium battery packaging materials, such as the operation of the label made more stringent requirements. The international civil aviation organization also issued a ban on February, requiring a comprehensive ban on passenger aircraft from April 2016 to check lithium-ion batteries, until the establishment of a new standard for lithium battery fire packaging in 2018. At present, the United States, South Korea has implemented the new regulations on air transport, is expected to be implemented in other countries.
Exports of electronic and electrical industry has been hit
In February 2016, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission emergency notice, due to the frequent lithium battery fire accident, all in the balance of the car beauty sales shall be in accordance with the UL certification, the lithium batteries also need to comply with the UN38.3 certification, or they will be detained or recall. Due to the new regulations do not set a transitional period, more than 200 enterprises in Zhejiang suffered an impact, export disruption.
The full implementation of the new version of the EU battery directive, the impact of Zhejiang's exports of billions of dollars of electric tools industry continues. In addition, emerging market countries have also increased supervision, as of October 2016, Vietnam will enforce the battery technology standard, then in addition to lithium battery exports alone, all mobile phone, tablet and other communications products to meet the certification at the same time, the built-in lithium battery must be tested in local institutions.
Rising costs exacerbate trade risks
China's annual output of lithium battery is only next to Japan and South korea. In the first half of this year, exports of lithium batteries in Zhejiang reached $95 million, an increase of 88%. According to industry estimates, after the implementation of the new regulations on transportation safety, the transportation costs of lithium batteries and related electronic equipment manufacturers will increase by 20%. The cost of the battery certification is as high as tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars, such as lithium battery UL2054 certification costs up to 80 thousand yuan, and the core needs additional certification.
Technical trade measures become more stringent trade risks triggered by the corresponding increase, according to statistics, in the first 5 months of 2016, China's export battery quality problems due to foreign shipping on more than one hundred, an increase of nearly 40%. Europe and the United States and other countries are frequently involved in the implementation of the battery product recall notification, involving laptops, balance car, charging treasure and other commodities. As early as 2016, the United Kingdom to the battery fire hazards confiscated by the balance of the car, the United States, Canada, in July this year, the total amount of more than 700 thousand of the balance of the production of Chinese cars to implement the recall of 15 thousand.
The inspection and quarantine departments to remind the export enterprises: one is to pay close attention to the latest foreign battery safety and environmental protection technical measures to trade, strengthen information exchange with professional organizations and departments, to grasp market opportunities; two is the corresponding strict testing and certification. In addition to the battery companies to strengthen the certification, the use of power tools, balancing vehicles and other battery accessories companies must also strengthen the checks, to avoid disputes due to battery accessories do not meet the requirements of quality and safety requirements. Three is to accelerate the upgrading of technology. Green environmental protection is a global trend, the battery enterprises should increase R & D efforts to develop more new battery safety and environmental protection, electric appliance enterprises should gradually replace the traditional battery using lithium batteries, and take effective protection to reduce the occurrence of lithium battery fire risk.
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