Die and mold industry will face another opportunity to take off during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period

From the start to the present, China's mold industry has come more than half a century. Since the 20th century, China has begun to attach importance to the development of the mold industry, and proposed that the government should support the development of the mold industry to promote the vigorous development of the manufacturing industry. Luo Baihui, a mold specialist, stated that China's processing costs are relatively low, the mold processing industry is maturing, the technical level is continuously improving, the quality of personnel is greatly improved, the domestic investment environment is getting better and better, and various favorable factors make more and more foreign companies choose China. As a mold processing base.

National mold output growth rate of 44% in 2011

In the "Tenth Five-Year Plan", the mold is considered to be "basic process equipment for industrial production" and the five pillar industries of the national economy: machinery, electronics, automobiles, petrochemicals, and construction all require the development of the mold industry to be commensurate with it.

According to Luo Baihui, the main types of molds include: dies, forging dies, plastic dies, die casting dies, powder metallurgy dies, glass dies, and rubber dies. With the exception of some sheet metal stamping, the various molds described above belong to cavity molds because they generally rely on three-dimensional mold cavities to shape the material. Obviously, in the past few years, China's mold and mold industry has reached a level of internationalization at a high speed, and has achieved world-renowned achievements. The strength of the mold industry and international status have been significantly improved. In particular, since the beginning of the new century, the industry’s remarkable, sustained and rapid development has accelerated the process. The mold industry is undergoing "historical changes" and the industry has entered the "critical stage" of industrial upgrading.

Since 2002, China's mold industry has achieved more than 20% growth for many years. The data shows that during the “Tenth Five-Year Plan” period, the economic indicators of China's mold industry rose sharply. The average output value of the mold industry grew by an average of 23.71%. In 2005, the total output value of the mold industry was 2.9 times that of 2000, and the profit was 4.05 times that of 2000. In 2006 and 2007, various economic indicators even performed gratifyingly, up more than 30% from the previous year, making the total value of the mold industry increased by 5.06 times in 2000 compared to 2000, and the profit increased by 7.5 times.

In 2011, the growth rate of the mold industry continued to increase, and the growth rate of the total mold output in the country still reached 44%, ranking first in all industries. In the past, the mold industry had experienced rapid growth for a short period of two or three years, but it was often accompanied by a saddle shape. This round of high-speed growth since the beginning of the new century has been sustained, coordinated, and balanced development, and it has accumulated tremendous energy for the upgrading of the mold and die industry, from quantitative change to qualitative change. Luo Baihui, secretary-general of the International Model Association, said that the benefits of the mold industry grew faster than the growth in production and sales. In many cases, the increase in production and sales did not coincide with the benefits. The growth since the new century has been accompanied by the renewal of varieties, the improvement of efficiency, the improvement of labor productivity, and the emergence of new products and high-level products.

Industry driven ratio up to 1:100

In fact, the mold belongs to the edge science and it involves many disciplines, fields such as mechanical design and manufacturing, plastic processing, casting, metal materials and heat treatment, polymer materials, metal physics, solidification theory, powder metallurgy, plastics, rubber, glass and so on. industry.

According to Luo Baihui, the proportion of molds that can drive its related industries is about 1:100, that is, mold development is 100 million yuan, which can drive related industries to 10 billion yuan. Through mold processing products, production efficiency can be greatly improved, raw materials can be saved, energy consumption and costs can be reduced, and high product consistency can be maintained. Today, molds are used in all walks of life because of their high production efficiency, good product quality, low material consumption, and low production cost, and they directly serve high-tech industries; especially in the manufacturing industry, they play other industries. The desirable supporting role will play a radiating role in the development of the regional economy.

The modern mold industry is a technology and capital-intensive industry. At present, there are about 30,000 mold manufacturing factories in China and more than 1 million employees. In recent years, the pace of structural adjustment in the mold industry has accelerated, mainly manifested in the development speed of large-scale, sophisticated, complex, long-life molds and mold standard parts that exceed the overall development speed of the industry; the proportion of plastic molds and die-casting molds has increased; market-oriented professional molds The number of manufacturers and their capacity increase rapidly. With the continuous deepening of the reform of the economic system, the “three foreign capitals” and private enterprises have developed rapidly.

China's mold manufacturing major countries are undergoing a new round of industrial adjustment. Some mold manufacturing has gradually shifted to developing countries, and China is becoming a big mold country in the world. In recent years, foreign investment in China’s mold industry has increased, and the industrialized countries have further promoted the shift of molds to China. This represents a new round of development opportunities for China’s mold industry, and it also represents the emergence of advanced foreign technologies and technologies. The challenge of high quality products.

According to statistics, China's automobile, motorcycle, and home appliance industries are the largest market for molds, accounting for more than 80% of the total mold market share. Taking the automobile industry as an example, a car model of a car needs a total of about 4,000 sets of molds, valued at 200 million to 300 million yuan; a single refrigerator requires about 150 mold-produced parts, and a total of about 350 molds are needed, worth about 400 Ten thousand yuan. According to authoritative reports, China has become the largest manufacturing country.

As the most important mold market in China, China's largest mold export and import province, Guangdong is forming a “three pillars” trend with Chongqing and Zhejiang. At present, Shenzhen's surrounding areas and the Pearl River Delta region have become China's most advanced mold industry with the highest technological content.

At present, China's mold industry from the quantitative change into the qualitative transformation period, the majority of the mold industry's key product output has leapt to the forefront of the world. Motorcycles, power tools, cameras, photocopiers, containers, motors, transformers, etc. Mould industry More and more product output has leapt to the top of the world. Moreover, we already have a number of companies' products that are hitting the world's advanced level. China's mold industry's foreign trade import and export situation began to reverse, the export growth is particularly eye-catching, showing that the international competitiveness of China's mold industry products has improved. China has now entered the stage of accelerated industrialization, providing very rare market conditions for the development of the mold industry. In the past, the service object of the mold industry itself was in a difficult climbing stage, which was insufficient to support the further development of the mold industry. The process of urbanization also provides a rare opportunity for the development of the mold industry. In addition to providing a wide range of market demand for consumer machinery such as automobiles, the urbanization process has also brought about a change in that many machinery companies have moved out of cities and transferred to development zones and industrial parks so that new planning can be carried out in the plant area to make the process More reasonable, more efficient processes, and provide conditions for industrial upgrading. The rapid development that has lasted for many years has not only made China's mold and die industry leap into the ranks of the world’s die-molding industry, but it has also made most of the industry’s backbone enterprises shake off their historical burdens, and some of the most competitive enterprises have achieved the potential to achieve leapfrog development. The sustained and rapid volume change is rapidly accumulating energy for the industry to upgrade.

We must implement the scientific development concept and promote the mold industry to accelerate industrial upgrading.

At present, all localities are in accordance with the requirements of the scientific concept of development to achieve the transformation of economic development methods. The service targets of the mold industry also put forward higher requirements, requiring that the mold industry can not be satisfied with the growth of the extension type, extensive type, but must pay attention to the improvement of quality, can provide users with more environmentally friendly, more efficient various types of equipment. Similarly, the mold industry itself is also facing the requirements of energy-saving and emission reduction, requiring the machinery enterprises to adapt to the national requirements for energy-saving and emission-reduction during product design and manufacturing. All of these require companies to speed up industrial upgrading.

In addition, a variety of external factors require companies to rely more on the improvement of the quality of workers, rely more on the role of technological progress, and rely more on the improvement of management to achieve development. Through its own optimization and upgrading, it will resolve the upward pressure on costs from the upstream.

Luo Baihui pointed out that since the beginning of this year, the raw material prices for the mold industry have remained high and continue to rise, with prices for raw materials and fuels rising by more than 10% year-on-year. The European debt crisis and the US debt crisis have increased the uncertainty of the world economy. The foreign trade environment of Chinese enterprises has become tighter. All of these require that machinery enterprises must accelerate industrial upgrading. As the growth rate of the physical product demand for the mold industry tends to drop, and the continuous high-speed expansion of the industry's production capacity, the competition between the mold industry enterprises has intensified, and the contradiction between the industry's oversupply and demand has once again intensified, and companies are also required to accelerate industrial upgrading.

Product quality improvement, industrial upgrading has taken a new step In recent years, more and more mold industry products to the world's highest level of impact phenomenon, indicating that an industry accelerated upgrading and the new phase of qualitative change approaching. The main signs of upgrading the mold industry should include: the level of products approaching or entering the world's advanced ranks, customer satisfaction and market reputation greatly improved, the competitiveness in the domestic and foreign markets has increased significantly. This requires the mold industry to emerge a number of world-renowned strong companies, forming a business model with Chinese characteristics, independent innovation capabilities, overall quality has also been significantly improved. According to Luo Baihui's inspection, the mold industry has undergone a new trend of transformation and upgrading, and more and more products have hit the highest level in the world. Taking power generation equipment as an example, its output has leapt to the top in the world, its product structure tends to be optimized, it quickly approaches the highest level in the world, and the credibility of domestic users has been established, and the influence of the international market has expanded rapidly. In addition, the development of high-voltage power transmission and transformation equipment has accelerated significantly in recent years. The product voltage level and production scale have entered the world's highest level. The situation is very similar to the power generation equipment manufacturing industry eight years ago and is approaching a turning point of rapid growth. In the same way, the mold and die industry has also made gratifying achievements in basic equipment. In addition, a number of world-class basic equipment made a breakthrough: The heavy-duty CNC-developed CWT-type digital heavy-duty cyclone cutting center solved the processing problems of China's marine low-speed diesel engine crankshafts; the CKX5680 CNC seven-axis five-link mill-turning developed by Wuhan Heavy Machine Tool Company. The composite processing machine greatly improves the processing quality and efficiency of the propeller.

Another significant change is the historic change in the foreign trade import and export situation of China's mold industry. The competitiveness of mechanical products in the domestic and foreign markets has increased significantly. The foreign trade structure of the mould and mold industry has also been optimized and upgraded. The added value of products has gradually increased and the market has been diversified. The general trade has grown at a faster rate and proportion than the processing trade, and private enterprises have seen strong growth in their external exports.

It is worth noting that the M&A and restructuring between domestic companies in the mold industry have also become increasingly active. The investment in fixed assets of the mold industry has shown explosive growth and the rapid rise of industrial agglomeration under the influence of various factors. It also shows that the major turning point in the development of the mold industry is approaching. Enterprises in the industry should calmly face the achievements they have made, face up to the conditions under which the industry accelerates and upgrade, guard against arrogance and arrogance and make scientific progress, and further accelerate the pace of becoming stronger and bigger.