Industry News Update - Mar 23, 2026 New National Standards Drive Industry Upgrade, Intelligent Technology Empowers Comprehensive Safety Prevention
2026-03-24
In recent years, with the rapid development of industries including industrial manufacturing, gas operation, chemical production, semiconductor and hydrogen energy, gas safety monitoring has become a core link for overall safe production and livelihood security. The technical standards, performance accuracy and intelligent level of gas detection equipment have been continuously upgraded. Recently, the domestic gas detection industry has witnessed a series of key developments, ranging from the update of mandatory national standards and cutting-edge technological breakthroughs to market development trends, which comprehensively promote the standardized and intelligent transformation of the industry and build the first line of defense for gas safety.
1. New National Standards for Combustible Gas Detectors Issued, to Be Fully Implemented in August 2027
On January 28, 2026, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Standardization Administration of China officially approved and issued two mandatory national standards: GB 15322.1-2026 Combustible Gas Detectors - Part 1: Point-type Combustible Gas Detectors for Industrial and Commercial Use and GB 15322.2-2026 Combustible Gas Detectors - Part 2: Household Combustible Gas Detectors. The new standards will be officially implemented on August 1, 2027, fully replacing the old versions, and will serve as the core basis for the production, inspection, acceptance and application of gas detection products in China.
Compared with the old standards, the new versions have significantly improved product performance and safety requirements with prominent core optimization highlights. A number of stringent test items have been added, including cooking oil fume interference resistance, outer shell flame retardancy, sulfur dioxide corrosion resistance, salt spray tolerance and aging resistance, to adapt to more complex application scenarios. The standards clarify product classifications for industrial, commercial, pipe shaft and other segmented scenarios, and refine the alarm response time standards (15-60 seconds). In addition, they strengthen functions such as equipment historical data recording, remote communication linkage and multi-level alarm, further improving equipment reliability and emergency response efficiency. This national standard upgrade will comprehensively force the iteration of industry products, eliminate low-end and backward production capacity, and push industrial, commercial and household gas detection equipment into a new stage of high-quality compliance, fully ensuring the safety of production and domestic gas use.
2. Intelligent Technology Accelerates Application, AI and Cloud Platforms Reconstruct Gas Detection Models
At present, the gas detection industry is accelerating its transformation towards digitalization and intelligence. Cutting-edge technologies such as AI algorithms, laser sensing and cloud platform management are deeply integrated, breaking the limitations of traditional detection equipment that only provides single early warning, and realizing full-process, traceable and intelligent gas leakage monitoring and risk control, which has become the mainstream direction of industry technology development.
Recently, leading international enterprises and domestic specialized and sophisticated enterprises have launched blockbuster new products. ABB Group has launched the EmissionVision Cloud Platform, which relies on OA-ICOS laser detection technology to realize automatic methane leakage detection, closed-loop on-site investigation, data visualization analysis and compliance audit in the natural gas industry, helping energy enterprises efficiently control greenhouse gas leakage risks. Domestic enterprise Raythink has launched an AI handheld optical gas imaging thermal imager, equipped with a high-sensitivity detector and intelligent recognition algorithm, which can quickly achieve accurate gas identification, concentration inversion, dynamic visual display and real-time risk alarm, greatly improving on-site inspection efficiency and hidden danger detection accuracy. Meanwhile, a number of industry players are preparing to launch ultra-trace gas detection equipment at the 2026 China International Gas Industry Exhibition, focusing on high-end manufacturing fields such as semiconductors, hydrogen energy and air separation, to meet the stringent requirements of ultra-low concentration gas detection and fill the technical gap in high-end detection scenarios.
3. Steady Market Growth Driven by Safety Compliance and Industrial Upgrading
According to the latest data from global authoritative market research institutions, the global gas detector market scale reached 2.99 billion US dollars in 2025, and is expected to increase to 3.14 billion US dollars in 2026, with a compound annual growth rate of 5.01% from 2026 to 2031, showing a steady development trend. The core driving forces for industry growth mainly come from three aspects: first, the continuous tightening of global safety production compliance requirements, with all countries constantly improving relevant regulations on gas safety monitoring, promoting the replacement of existing equipment; second, the rising demand for high-precision and high-stability gas detection equipment driven by the upgrading of emerging industries such as hydrogen energy, semiconductors, chemicals, oil and gas and traditional industries; third, the popularization of Internet of Things, big data and artificial intelligence technologies, promoting the upgrading of gas detection equipment towards intelligence, networking and remote control, and expanding application scenarios and value of equipment.
4. Safety Accidents Sound the Alarm, Compliance Operation and Maintenance of Gas Detection Equipment Urgent
Recent industrial safety accidents in China have also sounded the alarm for the industry. In the nitration workshop explosion accident of a technology company in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, preliminary investigation results show that the failure of the workshop gas detection system, which failed to monitor the leakage of toxic and harmful gases such as hydrogen and nitrogen oxides in a timely manner, was one of the key triggers of the accident. This accident fully proves that as a core early warning device for safe production, the product quality, installation specifications, daily operation and maintenance and regular calibration of gas detection equipment are crucial. Enterprises must strictly abide by national standards, select qualified and compliant detection equipment, and establish a normalized operation and maintenance control mechanism to eliminate potential safety hazards caused by equipment failure and detection failure.
Company Message
As a professional manufacturer deeply engaged in the field of gas safety equipment, we always keep up with industry policies and technological trends, strictly align with the requirements of the new national standards, and continuously optimize the whole process of product research and development, production and testing. We are equipped with a professional sales and service team speaking Russian and other languages, accurately meeting the project needs of domestic and overseas customers, and providing global customers with compliant, efficient and tailored gas safety detection solutions. In the future, we will continue to focus on the gas safety field, and help all industries build a solid safety line with high-standard products and professional services, promoting the high-quality development of the industry.
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