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Polycarbonate Sheet Industry Improves Quality and Efficiency, Accelerating Green and High-end Transformation
Time : 2026-02-12
Recently, with the deepening of green building material policies and the upgrading of high-end manufacturing demand, China's polycarbonate (PC) sheet industry has shown a steady development trend. As a high-performance engineering plastic sheet, it has formed a complete industrial system by virtue of its advantages such as good light transmittance, strong impact resistance and light weight. At the same time, driven by policies and technological innovation, it is accelerating its transformation towards greenization, high-endization and diversification.
At present, the characteristics of the polycarbonate sheet industry are prominent. The market scale continues to expand. In 2025, China's market scale reached 42.86 billion yuan. Building lighting, automobile manufacturing and electronic appliances are the core application fields, accounting for 35%, 22% and 18% respectively . The industrial chain is becoming increasingly improved. The self-sufficiency rate of upstream bisphenol A reaches 87.5%, there are about 180 midstream production enterprises, and the industry concentration is steadily increasing, with CR4 reaching 34.6% . At the same time, remarkable achievements have been made in green transformation. The energy consumption per unit product has decreased by 18.3% compared with 2020, the wastewater recycling rate exceeds 85%, and most enterprises have completed environmental compliance transformation .
Looking forward to the future, the industry faces both opportunities and challenges. It is expected that the output value will exceed 50 billion yuan in 2026, with an average annual growth rate of 8%-12% in the next five years. Technological innovation will become the core driving force. High-end modification, co-extrusion compounding and other processes will continue to upgrade, and bio-based PC and recycling technologies will be gradually promoted . Emerging application fields will continue to expand, and the demand in new energy vehicles, 5G communications, medical equipment and other fields will become new growth engines .
Insiders said that facing overseas barriers such as the EU carbon footprint requirements and the challenge of homogeneous competition, enterprises need to increase R&D investment, improve the supply capacity of high-end products, align with international green standards, and expand market space relying on emerging application scenarios to promote the high-quality development of the polycarbonate sheet industry.