Since the United States imposed "reciprocal tariffs" on its trading partners in February 2025, the global trade pattern has been disturbed. On April 2, Trump took further action and announced a "minimum benchmark tariff" of 10% for trading partners and higher tariffs on some trading partners. Among them, a 34% reciprocal tariff is imposed on China and a 20% reciprocal tariff is imposed on the European Union. This policy has dealt a heavy blow to the originally stable multilateral trading system, and the global supply chain is full of uncertainty. Many companies are facing the problem of sharply rising costs and a shrinking market.
However, under such a severe situation, the wood-plastic equipment trade between China and Europe has shown strong resilience and has developed very vigorously. China's wood-plastic equipment companies are actively trying to find ways to break the deadlock, and Qingdao Yongte Plastic Machinery has performed particularly well.
Qingdao Yongte focuses on the field of plastic equipment, and can handle everything from design, production to installation. It has a professional technical team that can provide customers with high-quality formula design and optimization services. The product range is rich, including wood-plastic WPC machinery, plastic pipe production lines, plastic profile production lines, plastic sheet production lines, and plastic recycling granulation equipment.
In terms of wood-plastic WPC machinery, Yongte Plastic Machinery demonstrates product characteristics that integrate strong technical strength and environmental protection concepts. Many of its developed equipment have unique waste conversion functions, which can efficiently transform film waste into green building materials. These equipment are equipped with advanced material mixing systems, which can accurately control the mixing ratio of wood powder and plastic particles to ensure the stability of the finished product quality. Taking its WPC floor production machine as an example, the special extrusion molding technology is used to produce WPC floors with clear surface texture and realistic texture, and has excellent wear resistance and anti-slip properties, far exceeding industry standards. The wood-plastic WPC door production line uses highly automated CNC processing technology, from board cutting to assembly, which greatly improves production efficiency while ensuring that the dimensional accuracy of each door is controlled within a very small error range. It is worth mentioning that these equipments all provide a 5-year warranty, which fully demonstrates the company's high confidence in the quality of its products. In the current complex trade environment, a stable and high-quality equipment supply can effectively reduce the additional costs incurred by European companies due to equipment failures and effectively improve production efficiency.
In the field of plastic pipe equipment, Yongte Plastic Machinery has also achieved remarkable results. The 90-315mm PVC drainage pipe extrusion line is one of its star products. The production line is equipped with a high-power, high-performance extruder. The screw design is optimized to achieve high-speed and stable material extrusion, ensuring uniform pipe wall thickness, while meeting the demand for the number of PVC drainage pipes in large-scale construction projects in Europe, while ensuring high product quality. In the face of rising raw material costs caused by increased tariffs, this equipment can significantly increase production through an efficient production model, thereby diluting unit product costs. Actual data shows that the PVC pipe making machine using Yongte Plastic Machinery can produce 20%-30% more pipes than some European local equipment in the same time, significantly improving the economic benefits of the enterprise. For example, the 50-160mm PVC pipe making machine adopts an energy-saving heating system. While ensuring the plasticization quality of the pipe, it reduces energy consumption by more than 20%. The equipment operation interface is simple and easy to understand, and maintenance is convenient, which greatly reduces the operation and maintenance costs of the enterprise. The 90-250mm PE pipe extrusion production line uses advanced vacuum sizing technology to make the produced PE pipes have better roundness and higher strength. At the same time, it has good chemical corrosion resistance and is suitable for a variety of complex environments. It is deeply welcomed by European customers for its energy-saving, environmental protection, and easy maintenance. In the European market with increasingly stringent environmental protection requirements, these equipment can not only help companies reduce operating costs, but also fully conform to the local sustainable development concept.
Against the background of Trump's tariff increase, Europe's imports of Chinese wood-plastic equipment, especially Yongte Plastic Machinery's products, have many positive significance. From an economic point of view, the cost-effectiveness of Chinese equipment is more obvious. European companies importing Yongte Plastic Machinery's equipment can offset the cost increase caused by tariffs to a certain extent. For example, the cost of purchasing a WPC machine from Yongte Plastics can be reduced by 30%-40% compared with similar equipment from other regions that are less affected by tariffs but more expensive, which gives European companies a price advantage in the fierce market competition.
From a technical perspective, Yongte Plastics' advanced technology has injected new vitality into the European WPC industry. Its equipment's advantages in automation control and production efficiency can help European companies improve product quality and production efficiency. During the production process, Yongte Plastics' automation control system can accurately control production parameters, reducing the defective rate of products by 15%-20%, and greatly reducing the company's production losses.
The continuous development of China-Europe WPC equipment trade has not only brought tangible benefits to companies on both sides, but also opened up a new path in the difficult global trade environment. As the cooperation between the two sides deepens, it is expected to create more value in the field of WPC equipment and promote the global WPC industry to develop in a more efficient and environmentally friendly direction.
