China's mold industry supports upstream and downstream product upgrading

In recent years, labor costs in industrialized countries have increased, and they are being transferred to developing countries, especially Southeast Asian countries. Their domestic production is mainly based on the production of high-quality, precision molds. Molds with a large amount of artificial labor are relied on imports.

During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the overall trend of China's mold market was stable. At present, the domestic market has a large demand for medium-to-high-end home appliances, automobiles, and plastic products. However, domestic molds must meet the needs of users in terms of quality and delivery time. After China's accession to the WTO, along with the wave of integration of the world economy, it has become a general trend for global manufacturing to accelerate its transfer to mainland China, and China will gradually develop into a world-class manufacturing base. According to Luo Baihui, head of the International Die & Metals and Plastics Industry Suppliers Association, the international market potential of middle and low molds is huge. As long as the quality of domestic molds can be improved, the delivery date can be guaranteed and the outlook for mold exports is very optimistic. Luo Baihui pointed out that the Pearl River Delta and Red Triangle regions with obvious advantages will develop into the world mold production center within 10 years. At the same time, due to the fact that China has used nearly 1 billion US dollars in imports of molds every year in recent years, among which precision, large-scale, complex, long-life molds account for the majority, so from the perspective of reducing imports, the proportion of such high-grade molds in the market will gradually increase. . Shenzhen, as a modern mold, features high-tech, talent-intensive and process-intensive industries under high-tech background. It is a leading industry in the path of new industrialization. Mold is an important manufacturing equipment industry serving all walks of life. At the same time, it also directly serves the high-tech industry. The unique importance of molds in the R&D, innovation and production of manufacturing products has made the level of mold manufacturing capabilities and levels an important indicator of national innovation capability.

In 2010, the economy gradually stabilized, and mold, as a key support for the growth mode of manufacturing industry transformation and industrial structure adjustment, undoubtedly plays a decisive role. Communicating the upstream and downstream industries of the manufacturing industry and jointly promoting the development of the mold manufacturing industry has become an international mold and hardware and plastics industry supplier. The important mission of the association.

The mold industry supports product upgrading and upgrading of the automotive industry: In 2009, the number of passenger vehicles in China was changed to 221 models (including 175 cars), which was 114 more than in 2008. 120 models of independent models, while the full range of mid-range Passat die more than 250 million yuan, about 35 million to 40 million large plastic mold; from the heart of the car's heart generator die castings to the body of white automotive stamping parts, from accelerating energy saving in China The research and development of environmentally-friendly cars (such as automotive engine intake manifolds accounted for 80% of foreign countries, the realization of injection molds), to the new material super steel plate hot forming mold, all need mold to drive the auto industry's core components of the localization , Middle and high-end car cover molds, automotive lightweight new material forming molds and multi-position progressive molds are to promote the development of automotive self-brand protection, mold equipment is an important part of automotive equipment.

Household Appliance Industry: The formation of home appliance parts depends on various types of molds such as sheet metal stamping, plastics, foaming, and adsorption, etc., one refrigerator 150-200 mold, one air-conditioner about 50 mold, one washing machine 60 mold, and also There are a large number of small household appliances... Haier’s annual purchase of about 6,000 molds amounted to more than 5 billion. In December 2009, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology printed the “Guidelines on Accelerating the Transformation and Upgrading of China's Household Appliance Industry” for the important tasks of product upgrades and technology upgrades, and accelerated the transformation and upgrading of home appliances in China (such as low noise, energy and water saving, multiple rooms, and) The level of manufacturing is also achieved through the upgrading of technical products for home appliance parts manufacturing processes.

Aviation Equipment Industry:

1, sheet metal equipment: As an important basis for aviation manufacturing technology, aviation sheet metal equipment technology mold to provide the main equipment for molding is in the superplastic forming equipment, thermoforming equipment, spinning forming equipment, bending and forming equipment, etc. A product forming mold for a large-scale plate three-dimensional surface often requires dozens or even hundreds of sets. The plate is formed by the mold surface. In the multi-point forming, the mold manufacturing disperses the entire mold into a series of regularly arranged, height-adjustable basic bodies. The envelope surface is completed, and then multi-point forming technology has developed multi-point forming machines, and so on.

2. Research and development and industrialization of complete sets of technology for aircraft interior parts and molds: supporting the development of mold manufacturing technology for commercial aircrafts in China, selecting high-strength, flame-retardant, anti-smoke and heat-dissipating engineering plastics, combined with technical standards and requirements in the aviation field. , Research and development of the entire selection of materials for aircraft interior parts, product structure analysis and design, mold design and manufacturing and final product assembly technology, to achieve the industrial application of complete sets of aircraft interior parts technology. In the area of ​​aircraft interior trims, the increased use of plastics will help reduce the aircraft's weight, save fuel, and reduce costs. According to incomplete statistics, the aircraft interior parts are about 200 sets of molds, and the output value is one hundred million yuan, which drives the production value of the parts to be about 3 billion yuan.

IT Tooling: In the "Adjustment and Revitalization Plan for the Equipment Manufacturing Industry", in the content of "grasping the nine key industrial projects and implementing equipment autonomy", the 8th "Electronic Information Industry" will include "electronic equipment and tools. Molds and other important areas, and promote information technology equipment autonomy.

Large-scale, ultra-large-scale integrated circuit lead frame precision multi-position progressive die, integrated circuit precision package molds, precision components for electronic components and precision connectors, precision stamping die for chips, automotive electronic die forefront, computer peripherals Moulds, media digital product molds, optoelectronic communication product molds, network product molds, watch gift molds, etc. With the development of IT and information technology, the demand will increase. China is already a major producer of OA equipment and consumables (photocopiers, fax machines, printers, etc.), more than 60% of copying equipment, and more than 40% of image printing equipment are manufactured in China, and at the same time major manufacturers of OA equipment in the world have purchased a large number of zero in China. Parts also make OA equipment plastic molds develop rapidly.

Emerging industry:

1. The medical device is estimated to have 10,000 kinds of products, 34 categories and 4,000 enterprises. Such as health care equipment, polymer plastic products are also part of it. Almost all parts involve molds, large to hyperbaric oxygen chambers, small hearing aids, cardiac pacemakers... Precision, ultra-precision molds for polymer composite molding, bio-life engineering, and medical device equipment parts manufacturing will be used in medical device manufacturing It plays a decisive role.

2. Rail Transit: In 2009, the direct investment of rail transit in the country’s RMB 40,000 million investment was 7,000 billion yuan, while the EMU’s core components were ultra-high speed (more than 300 km/h) precision bearing mold core technology and the speed of 200-350 km/h. EMUs, high-power AC drive electric power/compressor locomotives, bearings and gear transmissions for heavy-duty trucks and urban rail transit vehicles with 100-ton railroad load capacity, gear box precision casting molds for high-speed EMUs, heavy-duty 25T axle heavy hot forging dies, Cold pier molds and so on will serve the emerging industries.

The mold industry provides high-precision equipment industry development molds for single-piece production, has dependence on specific users, makes its process characteristics for each mold product complex, high unit price, product according to the order to provide, in accordance with user requirements for innovation and modification of the combination The design, installation and commissioning to the user. In the entire process of modification and adjustment, at any time its timely monitoring is even more important, which requires mold processing equipment, measuring equipment, has its own special requirements. Luo Baihui said that the current key development direction of mold processing is no map production, single-piece high-precision parallel processing, less humanized unmanned processing, CNC machine tools to meet the high speed, high dynamic accuracy, high rigidity, thermal stability, high reliability Sex, networking and its associated control system, all kinds of advanced software for the integrity of the machine, the most important thing is that the three-dimensional mold surface machining special attention to the dynamic performance of the machine.

In 2009, the world's total production value of machine tools dropped by 32%. China's machine tool output ranks first in the world, China's machine tool consumption reached 19.8 billion U.S. dollars, more than one-third of the world's machine tool market share, accounting for 35.7% of the world's machine tool output value, and imported machine tools approaching 60 Billion U.S. dollar, which has fallen by nearly 20%, is still the top five in Germany, Japan, Italy, Taiwan, and Switzerland. The equipment based on high-speed, high-efficiency, precision, compound, flexible, green, and all-manufacturing measurement units is still our country’s equipment. The purchasing direction of the technical upgrade of the mold industry, the heavy load planting in the mold processing, the design of the large-volume program, the work table structure, and the detection and control technology, the high programming resolution of the CNC system, and the high-scheduled servo control hardware and software environment The key to ensuring precision mold manufacturing. Ultra-precision mirror milling machines, nano-milling compound centers, ultra-precision CNC lathes, etc. have also been used for mold making. The tool market continued to flourish, and the import amount of cutting tools and tools increased by 4.59% year-on-year in 2009. In the machine tool industry, the import amount was the only positive number. The high-precision cutting tools for five-sided machining and complex movements still use overseas products as the mold industry. The main purchase target.

Japan, Europe and the United States in the high-end tooling manufacturing equipment, measuring equipment, monopoly position, of course, is due to the high quality and their products can not be separated, but also with their strategy for the Chinese mold market. Their demand for the mold market is an active service. They cooperate with the mold users to develop the mold-specific functions of the machine tools and to customize the functions.

The mold industry purchases foreign medium and high-grade machining centers, measuring equipment, precision electric processing equipment, and precision grinding machines to account for a large proportion. Japan's Mori Seiki Co., Ltd. quickly entered the Chinese market. The first institute they established in China was to study mold manufacturing technology. High-strength and high-precision large-scale gantry machining centers of Japan Otsuka Co., Ltd., MAZAK Co., Ltd., German DMG rigid cast iron structure with reinforced ribs, and a unique cross-slip table structure provide the basis for improving machining accuracy; Faru has introduced the most advanced laser technology. Tracker, Renishaw's online measurement system in the United Kingdom, and Archie's high-precision wire-cutting electric processing machine.

EROWA's robotic loading system realizes unmanned high-end automation solutions; Korean machine tools and Taiwanese machine tools are very cost-effective in mid-range models, and they are also attractive to domestic mold and die companies. The H Series' latest high-speed processing technology, a new generation of machining centers, and the Korean EDM double-headed super-large electric processing and forming machine are suitable for processing large electronic automotive molds.

In the recent years, the demand for steel products in China has grown at a rate of 20%. In 2010, the demand for mold steel production in China is expected to reach 1 million tons. However, the production of China's mold steel has not increased significantly. With the continued development of the mold industry in China, the import volume of steel for high-grade molds continues to increase, and it is expected that the steel imports for mold steel will also increase significantly. The steel imports for moulds mainly come from Japan's Tatung Company, Hitachi Ltd., ThyssenKrupp AG, Sweden, a win-one-hundred company, Austrian Lekavin, South Korea and other countries. The die steel ADC3, SMV4S for hot die-casting in Auduwer, France, is the designated steel for the North American Die Casting Society. The plastic die steel is the preferred steel grade for European household appliances and automotive die users. According to the state of use, China's die steel is mainly divided into plastic die steel about 50%, cold work die steel about 28%, cold work die steel about 20%, and special performance steel about 2%. The demand for these types of steel is expected. Will grow in sync.

Mould CAD/CAE/CAM has developed into a more mature and common technology. The price of hardware and software has also been reduced to the level acceptable to small and medium-sized enterprises, coupled with the popularity and application of microcomputers and the introduction of microcomputer software, Germany HEIDENHAIN, FANUC CNC system, U.S. UG software, Belgium Mattreales, UK DELCOM, Israel's CIMATRON, etc. and China's Huazhong Science and Technology Software, Digital CAD/CAM are widely used in the mold industry, future mold CAD The integration of CAE/CAM and software will be in the direction of being pleasant, integrated, intelligent, and networked.