Recently, the spiral steel pipe industry, while seizing opportunities from green infrastructure projects, is also facing severe cost pressures and market challenges. The frequent and wide fluctuations in steel prices, especially hot-rolled coils, pose a significant challenge to cost control for spiral pipe manufacturers that rely on them as their main raw material, continuously squeezing their profit margins.

At the same time, downstream markets are demanding increasingly higher product quality. Large-scale engineering projects generally implement higher quality standards and a full lifecycle management approach, requiring spiral steel pipes to meet comprehensive criteria in low-temperature toughness, dimensional accuracy, welding quality, and environmentally friendly coatings. This has accelerated industry differentiation: large enterprises with stable raw material channels, advanced production lines, and strict quality control systems are gaining a clear advantage and can take on national key engineering orders; meanwhile, some small and medium-sized enterprises with outdated equipment and processes, mainly producing lower-standard products, face shrinking orders and survival pressures.

Industry experts point out that the current stage represents a profound supply-side structural adjustment in the spiral steel pipe industry. In the future, enhancing industry concentration through mergers and acquisitions and increasing technological investment to reduce costs and improve quality will be key for companies to navigate cycles and win in competition.