According to the document issued by the Ministry of Public Security, from June 1 this year, the whole country will launch the "One Helmet Belt" campaign, that is, all riders should wear helmets, and passengers in the car should wear seat belts even when sitting in the back row. The Regulations of Zhejiang Province on the Handling of Electric Bicycles reviewed on May 15 made it clear that the regulations would be formally implemented on July 1, and whether electric bicycles should be worn Helmet There are also clear rules for the question. For a while, the price of helmets rose sharply, triggering a nationwide discussion.
Yesterday, the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security announced that the scale of legal punishment is limited to illegal traffic behaviors such as riding a motorcycle without wearing a safety helmet and driving a car without using a seat belt. How will the successive policies affect the helmet market after all? This week, the reporter visited Xintang Industrial Zone, Chengdong Street, Yueqing City, Wenzhou, where a group of helmet manufacturing enterprises have gathered, and in recent days, it has become a "punch in" point for merchants across the country. Upstream and downstream manufacturers' orders "blowout" On May 18, the reporter came to Xintang Industrial Zone located in Chengdong Street, Yueqing City, where there are 40 or 50 electric helmet manufacturers Electric vehicle helmet One of the production bases.
The reporter saw at the scene that the vehicles waiting to buy helmets were lined up on the 104 National Highway. "We have been here for several days in succession. Yesterday we were lucky enough to get 1000, and today we just bought 600." Miss Zang, a famous WeChat merchant from Puqi, shared her good fortune for the past two days, and said, "Next we will be out of stock. Now all the goods in each factory have been robbed. There is no need to come again."
At the gate of some companies, in just five or six minutes of interview time, the reporter met seven or eight groups of businessmen from Xinjiang, Zhengzhou, Taizhou, or local customers asking about helmets. "Nine out of ten people came to ask if they had helmets." The company's guard complained. "Someone knocked at the door at four or five o'clock in the morning. If they didn't open the door, they would pull the iron door hard and couldn't sleep at all." He admitted that the company has transformed into a motorcycle toolbox for many years, but the practice of "asking every factory" made them busy. In the eyes of the merchants who come to purchase, the manufacturer is the best choice. If the manufacturer is out of stock, it is also a good choice to buy from the "profiteer". On the road outside the industrial zone, there were many people around the vendors who set up stalls in groups. Some of them were placed in full boxes on the sidewalk, while others simply sold them in the trunk.
"How many colors are there in this helmet? How many goods are there?" "I want 2000 helmets!" "I want all the helmets you have here, and I want 180000 helmets in total." Beside the road, Mr. Ye from Yiwu is busy dealing with guests' inquiries. He said that his "olfactory sensitivity" has been sold for a week in a row. When business is good, tens of thousands of products can be sold one day. These days, the number of goods is less and the sales are also lower. But the wholesale price was 22 yuan five days ago, and now it has been sold for 45 yuan each.
Helmets have been sold "wildly", and suppliers supporting helmet enterprises in various chains, such as foam bonded flannelette, drying bucket, suction machine, injection molding machine, machine tool (mold opening), loading and unloading, have also been busy. During the interview, the reporter found that there were still some people who were happy to "just look, not buy". After careful inquiry, they knew that they were suppliers for helmet enterprises. "We make plastic machines. Recently, the machines have been on for 24 hours, and we have been making samples all night long." Mr. Wu, from the Yueqing Hongqiao plastic mold manufacturing enterprise, sighed. He said that he could not come to the east of Hongqiao City to send molds back and forth every day. In addition to receiving orders, he had no rest for several days now.
Helmets are hard to buy! But there are also some delicacies
The reporter walked up and down the industrial zone for several times. At the door of some electric vehicle helmet manufacturers, there was a message saying: "The order has been placed for one month, and we will not receive you. Please forgive me!"! Some enterprises only do foreign trade, not domestic sales. After a lot of selection, we finally selected three manufacturers that were "cold in front of the door". It was difficult to buy "helmets" to try them out. Unexpectedly, every one of them turned us off.
The person in charge of a large-scale fitting enterprise never forgets to remind us that although helmets are difficult to buy, we should not just place an order for a helmet, and we should be "careful".
The reporter visited the mold shaping, active spraying, polishing and carving and other production processes produced by the enterprise, and figured out the way. At present, there are two kinds of raw materials for ordinary helmets sold on the market: ABS and polypropylene PP, and most of the helmets now being hyped wildly are made of polypropylene PP. The production cost of ABS raw material helmets is mostly between 40-50 yuan. From the factory to consumers, the price has risen to 80 yuan or even more than 100 yuan, and the "safety helmet" of PP raw material has risen from about 8 yuan to tens of yuan.
The reporter learned from the market supervision department of Yueqing that it is necessary for qualified motorcycle passenger helmets to pass the certification test of the mandatory national standard Motorcycle Passenger Helmets (GB 811-2010) and the corresponding factory quality assurance capability audit before they can pass the mandatory product certification (CCC certification). Although the price of PP raw materials is affordable, considering the safety factor, the electric bicycle drivers should choose the motorcycle crew helmets mainly made of ABS raw materials.
"Helmets are not consumables. Now they can only be regarded as' bullets flying on the road '. If you join in blindly, you may become an unfortunate' catcher '." An industry insider who has been engaged in helmet business for 27 years analyzed that from the perspective of a game of chess, the supply and demand relationship of helmets has entered the "confrontation stage", and the driving force of helmet price rise will gradually weaken, In the future, the price of helmets will show a downward trend.
In view of the recent rush to buy "helmets", Yueqing City has organized some joint laws of municipal supervision, emergency and fire control. Since May 18, various departments have carried out supervision guidance and surprise inspection on several helmet manufacturers through the "white+black" action, focusing on product quality, safe production and fire control management.
In order to further standardize the helmet industry, in recent years, Yueqing Market Supervision and Management Department has rectified and improved the helmet industry for many times, unified the electric vehicle helmet manufacturers into the industrial park for management, and improved and transformed the industry standardization and environmental cleaning. On September 16 last year, Yueqing led the country in releasing the first group specification for electric bicycle helmets, providing data specifications for the development of industry specifications.
