At present, China's daily hardware industry has entered the forefront of the world. It has established 14 technical development centers such as zippers, electric shavers, stainless steel vessels, iron pans, blades, and bicycle locks, and 16 product centers such as pressure cookers, electric shavers, and lighters. The vast majority of these centers have now developed into the vanguard of the industry, and some have become the vanguard of the world and have achieved good economic returns. It is understood that at least 70% of China's hardware industry is a private enterprise, which is the main force for the development of China's hardware industry. China has gradually become a major metal processing country and a big exporter in the world, and it has become one of the world's major hardware manufacturers with a vast market and consumption potential.
Hardware Industry Market Overview and Trends Hand Tool Market: Increasingly Intelligent and Humanized In the international hardware market, developed countries in Europe and North America, due to the rapid development of production technology and rising labor costs, will transfer universal products to developing countries for production. High value-added products, but China has a strong market potential, so it is more conducive to the development of metal processing and export countries.
The hand tool market in China is mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Guangdong, Shandong, and Taiwan, among which Zhejiang and Guangdong are the most prominent. Zhejiang Yongkang has always been known as the “hometown of hand toolsâ€, and the Zhejiang people’s awareness of market operations is very strong. From the original hot pot products, stainless steel insulation cups to the popular scooters last year, it brought them a lot of money. Guangdong is also about to become the world's hardware tool mold center. At present, more than 6,000 mold enterprises have gathered in the surrounding areas of Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta, and employ more than 200,000 people. It has held five consecutive South China International Die & Mould Exhibitions in Shenzhen, attracting more than 1,000 companies from 25 countries and regions. It is the most professional and internationally-standard mold industry exhibition in China today.
DIY products have become the new darling of the hardware-related industry market. In recent years, in Europe and the United States, as the architectural hardware products of developed countries are designed for easy installation and maintenance, self-assembled products and tools are greatly welcomed by the market. According to analysis, in the next two years, the domestic architectural hardware products will also move toward the development of intelligence and humanity.
Taiwan's hand tool industry has adjusted its product structure. Taiwan's hand tools industry has certain advantages in the world by virtue of its stable product quality, timely delivery, and complete product range, which can meet customer needs. Moreover, Taiwan’s hand tool sales are dominated by the off-island market. At present, there are about 5,000 local manufacturers, which are mostly located in the central area of ​​Taiwan Island. According to relevant survey data, with regard to the category of individual hand tools, the sleeves are the bulk of exports, followed by hand tools, the third is garden tools, the wrenches are ranked fourth, and the clamps are ranked fifth.
Tool Market: Increasing Market Competitiveness According to reports, the demand for cutting tools in the world continues to grow. Among them, European and North American countries have maintained stable growth, especially in Eastern Europe. The Asian market has seen a slight recovery. The market has great potential. The Latin American market has grown significantly, especially Mexico. At present, the world sales of cutting tools exceed US$10 billion, and the industrially developed markets of Europe, North America, Japan and Australia account for 75% to 80%.
In Asia, China is also an important market. According to the forecast, the demand for cutting tools in China is between RMB 700-80 billion, among which the high-precision, high-efficiency, and high-reliability modern cutting tools, such as cemented carbide and ceramics, etc. It was RMB 1.2 billion, of which 80% to 85% depended on imports, and tooling used for tool making accounted for more than 90% of imports. In the past year, the slow growth in demand for the tool market has been mainly due to the increase in tool life and the need for users to request the entire manufacturing process instead of many machine tools and tools. And the use of multi-purpose tools has increased, replacing many simple tools that used to be single-function. In the future, users will place greater emphasis on the research and development of cutting tools in production plants, not only in the field of materials and surface coating technology, but also in the production of cutting tools and their production processes, and to increase the number of tool manufacturers in areas they are familiar with. In the market competitiveness.
From the perspective of tooling technology, Japan's DIJET, BIG, OSG, and Japan's Sumitomo Electric, Hitachi Tools' newly developed high-speed and high-hardness tool can be processed to the hardness of HRC70. Toshiba Tashiro's high-quality products TAC quick-cutting tool series carbide cutting tools Gradually replace high-speed steel tools, especially circular tools. The application of coated knives such as Kenneth Tool USA, Sweden SANDVIK, Seco Tools SECO Company, SPINNER Company, etc. is more and more common. Zhuzhou Diamond Tools, a well-known Chinese tool and gauge manufacturer, and Guilin Guanglu Digital Measurement & Control Co., Ltd. also provided newly developed products to participate in international competition. The market for new cutting tools for high-speed machining continues to grow.
Judging from the cooperation mode of tool manufacturers, many large companies will emerge in the high-tech market.
Mold Market Development Overview and Trends Looking forward to the increase in labor costs in industrialized countries in recent years, it is shifting to developing countries, especially Southeast Asian countries. Its domestic production is mainly in the form of high-quality and precision molds. Molds with a large amount of artificial labor are imported to solve the problem. .
During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the general trend of China's mold market was steady upward. 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, the global manufacturing industry has accelerated its shift to mainland China, and China will gradually develop into a world-class manufacturing base. The potential of the middle and low-grade mold international market is very large. As long as the quality of domestic molds can be improved, the delivery date can be guaranteed, and the prospects of mold exports are very optimistic. The obvious advantages of Guangdong, especially the Pearl River Delta region, will develop into a global 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. . The features of modern dies, which are high-tech, talent-intensive, and process-intensive in the context of high-tech, are the industries that are on the road to new industrialization. Moulds, as an important manufacturing equipment industry, serve all industries, Directly for high-tech industries, the unique position of molds in R&D, innovation, and production of manufacturing products has made mold manufacturing capabilities and levels a key indicator of a nation’s ability to innovate.
In 2010, the economy gradually stabilized. As a key support for the growth mode of manufacturing industry transformation and industrial restructuring, mold has undoubtedly played 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 important task of the Shenzhen Mould Technology Society.
The mold industry supports the upgrading of the automotive industry. It is reported that in 2009 China's passenger car modelling reached 221 models (of which 175 cars), more than 114 models in 2008. 120 models of self-owned models, while the value of a full set of punches like the mid-range Passat is more than 250 million yuan***, the value of large-scale plastic molds is about 35 to 40 million; from the die casting of the car's heart generator to the white body stamping of automobiles, From accelerating the R&D process of China's energy-saving and environment-friendly vehicles (such as 80% of the foreign intake manifold of automobile engines, injection molds), to new material super-high-pressure steel forming molds, all need mold to drive the automotive industry core zero The localization of components, mid-to-high-end sedan cover molds, lightweight new material forming molds for automobiles and multi-position progressive molds are all guarantees for promoting the development of auto brands. Mold equipment is an important part of auto equipment.
Home Appliance Industry: Forming of home appliance parts depends on various types of molds such as sheet metal stamping, plastics, foaming, and adsorption. One refrigerator needs 150 to 200 molds, one air conditioner needs about 50 molds, and one washing machine needs 60 or so. Die, there are a large number of small appliances...... Haier purchases about 6,000 molds a year, the amount reached more than 5 billion. In December 2009, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Transformation and Upgrading of the Household Appliance Industry in China", aiming at the important tasks of product upgrading and technology upgrading and accelerating the transformation and upgrading of home appliances in China. (such as low noise, energy saving, multiple rooms, etc.) The level of mold manufacturing is also a reflection of the improvement in the level of manufacturing technology for home appliance parts.
According to statistics, in 2009 China's plastic industry sales of 600 billion, driven by 1:100, has been supported by 6 billion mold.
Aeronautical equipment technology and mold manufacturing sheet metal equipment: As an important basis for aerospace manufacturing technology, the main equipment for the forming of aviation sheet metal equipment technology molds is superplastic forming equipment, thermoforming equipment, spinning and forming equipment, and 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 of plates, the plate is formed by the mold surface; in the multi-point forming, the mold manufacturing disperses the entire mold into a series of regular arrangement, height adjustable The basic body to complete the envelope, and then the development of multi-point forming a multi-point forming machine and so on.
The research and development and industrialization of complete sets of aircraft interior molds and molds technology: supporting the development of mold manufacturing technology for commercial aircrafts in China, selecting high-strength, flame-retardant, anti-smoke, and heat-dissipating engineering plastics, combining the technical standards and requirements of the aviation industry. The selection of materials for aircraft interior parts, product structure analysis and design, mold design and manufacturing, and final product assembly technology are used for research and development to achieve the industrial application of aircraft interior components. 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, aircraft interior parts are about 200 sets of molds, with a production value of 100 million yuan, which drives the production value of the parts to be around 3 billion yuan.
In the “Equipment Manufacturing Industry Adjustment and Revitalization Plan†for electronic special equipment and emerging industry supporting fields, in the “Seizing the Nine Major Industrial Key Projects, Implementing Equipment Autonomyâ€, the eighth item of “Electronic Information Industry†will include electronic Equipment and instrumentation, as well as tools and molds, are the key points, and self-informatization of information equipment is being promoted.
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, multimedia 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, while 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.
Medical devices are estimated to have 10,000 products, 34 categories, and 4,000 companies. 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.
In the national investment of RMB 40,000,000 in 2009, the direct investment in rail transit 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, high-speed EMUs with speeds of 200-350 km/h, and large Power AC Drives Electric Locomotives, Diesel Locomotives, Bearings, Gear Transmissions for Heavy-Duty Trucks and Urban Mass Transit Vehicles, Heavy Duty Trucks, Heavy Duty 25T Axle Heavy Duty Hot Forging Dies, Cold Pier Moulds, etc. Support services for emerging industries.
Hardware Industry Market Overview and Trends Hand Tool Market: Increasingly Intelligent and Humanized In the international hardware market, developed countries in Europe and North America, due to the rapid development of production technology and rising labor costs, will transfer universal products to developing countries for production. High value-added products, but China has a strong market potential, so it is more conducive to the development of metal processing and export countries.
The hand tool market in China is mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Guangdong, Shandong, and Taiwan, among which Zhejiang and Guangdong are the most prominent. Zhejiang Yongkang has always been known as the “hometown of hand toolsâ€, and the Zhejiang people’s awareness of market operations is very strong. From the original hot pot products, stainless steel insulation cups to the popular scooters last year, it brought them a lot of money. Guangdong is also about to become the world's hardware tool mold center. At present, more than 6,000 mold enterprises have gathered in the surrounding areas of Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta, and employ more than 200,000 people. It has held five consecutive South China International Die & Mould Exhibitions in Shenzhen, attracting more than 1,000 companies from 25 countries and regions. It is the most professional and internationally-standard mold industry exhibition in China today.
DIY products have become the new darling of the hardware-related industry market. In recent years, in Europe and the United States, as the architectural hardware products of developed countries are designed for easy installation and maintenance, self-assembled products and tools are greatly welcomed by the market. According to analysis, in the next two years, the domestic architectural hardware products will also move toward the development of intelligence and humanity.
Taiwan's hand tool industry has adjusted its product structure. Taiwan's hand tools industry has certain advantages in the world by virtue of its stable product quality, timely delivery, and complete product range, which can meet customer needs. Moreover, Taiwan’s hand tool sales are dominated by the off-island market. At present, there are about 5,000 local manufacturers, which are mostly located in the central area of ​​Taiwan Island. According to relevant survey data, with regard to the category of individual hand tools, the sleeves are the bulk of exports, followed by hand tools, the third is garden tools, the wrenches are ranked fourth, and the clamps are ranked fifth.
Tool Market: Increasing Market Competitiveness According to reports, the demand for cutting tools in the world continues to grow. Among them, European and North American countries have maintained stable growth, especially in Eastern Europe. The Asian market has seen a slight recovery. The market has great potential. The Latin American market has grown significantly, especially Mexico. At present, the world sales of cutting tools exceed US$10 billion, and the industrially developed markets of Europe, North America, Japan and Australia account for 75% to 80%.
In Asia, China is also an important market. According to the forecast, the demand for cutting tools in China is between RMB 700-80 billion, among which the high-precision, high-efficiency, and high-reliability modern cutting tools, such as cemented carbide and ceramics, etc. It was RMB 1.2 billion, of which 80% to 85% depended on imports, and tooling used for tool making accounted for more than 90% of imports. In the past year, the slow growth in demand for the tool market has been mainly due to the increase in tool life and the need for users to request the entire manufacturing process instead of many machine tools and tools. And the use of multi-purpose tools has increased, replacing many simple tools that used to be single-function. In the future, users will place greater emphasis on the research and development of cutting tools in production plants, not only in the field of materials and surface coating technology, but also in the production of cutting tools and their production processes, and to increase the number of tool manufacturers in areas they are familiar with. In the market competitiveness.
From the perspective of tooling technology, Japan's DIJET, BIG, OSG, and Japan's Sumitomo Electric, Hitachi Tools' newly developed high-speed and high-hardness tool can be processed to the hardness of HRC70. Toshiba Tashiro's high-quality products TAC quick-cutting tool series carbide cutting tools Gradually replace high-speed steel tools, especially circular tools. The application of coated knives such as Kenneth Tool USA, Sweden SANDVIK, Seco Tools SECO Company, SPINNER Company, etc. is more and more common. Zhuzhou Diamond Tools, a well-known Chinese tool and gauge manufacturer, and Guilin Guanglu Digital Measurement & Control Co., Ltd. also provided newly developed products to participate in international competition. The market for new cutting tools for high-speed machining continues to grow.
Judging from the cooperation mode of tool manufacturers, many large companies will emerge in the high-tech market.
Mold Market Development Overview and Trends Looking forward to the increase in labor costs in industrialized countries in recent years, it is shifting to developing countries, especially Southeast Asian countries. Its domestic production is mainly in the form of high-quality and precision molds. Molds with a large amount of artificial labor are imported to solve the problem. .
During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the general trend of China's mold market was steady upward. 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, the global manufacturing industry has accelerated its shift to mainland China, and China will gradually develop into a world-class manufacturing base. The potential of the middle and low-grade mold international market is very large. As long as the quality of domestic molds can be improved, the delivery date can be guaranteed, and the prospects of mold exports are very optimistic. The obvious advantages of Guangdong, especially the Pearl River Delta region, will develop into a global 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. . The features of modern dies, which are high-tech, talent-intensive, and process-intensive in the context of high-tech, are the industries that are on the road to new industrialization. Moulds, as an important manufacturing equipment industry, serve all industries, Directly for high-tech industries, the unique position of molds in R&D, innovation, and production of manufacturing products has made mold manufacturing capabilities and levels a key indicator of a nation’s ability to innovate.
In 2010, the economy gradually stabilized. As a key support for the growth mode of manufacturing industry transformation and industrial restructuring, mold has undoubtedly played 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 important task of the Shenzhen Mould Technology Society.
The mold industry supports the upgrading of the automotive industry. It is reported that in 2009 China's passenger car modelling reached 221 models (of which 175 cars), more than 114 models in 2008. 120 models of self-owned models, while the value of a full set of punches like the mid-range Passat is more than 250 million yuan***, the value of large-scale plastic molds is about 35 to 40 million; from the die casting of the car's heart generator to the white body stamping of automobiles, From accelerating the R&D process of China's energy-saving and environment-friendly vehicles (such as 80% of the foreign intake manifold of automobile engines, injection molds), to new material super-high-pressure steel forming molds, all need mold to drive the automotive industry core zero The localization of components, mid-to-high-end sedan cover molds, lightweight new material forming molds for automobiles and multi-position progressive molds are all guarantees for promoting the development of auto brands. Mold equipment is an important part of auto equipment.
Home Appliance Industry: Forming of home appliance parts depends on various types of molds such as sheet metal stamping, plastics, foaming, and adsorption. One refrigerator needs 150 to 200 molds, one air conditioner needs about 50 molds, and one washing machine needs 60 or so. Die, there are a large number of small appliances...... Haier purchases about 6,000 molds a year, the amount reached more than 5 billion. In December 2009, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Transformation and Upgrading of the Household Appliance Industry in China", aiming at the important tasks of product upgrading and technology upgrading and accelerating the transformation and upgrading of home appliances in China. (such as low noise, energy saving, multiple rooms, etc.) The level of mold manufacturing is also a reflection of the improvement in the level of manufacturing technology for home appliance parts.
According to statistics, in 2009 China's plastic industry sales of 600 billion, driven by 1:100, has been supported by 6 billion mold.
Aeronautical equipment technology and mold manufacturing sheet metal equipment: As an important basis for aerospace manufacturing technology, the main equipment for the forming of aviation sheet metal equipment technology molds is superplastic forming equipment, thermoforming equipment, spinning and forming equipment, and 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 of plates, the plate is formed by the mold surface; in the multi-point forming, the mold manufacturing disperses the entire mold into a series of regular arrangement, height adjustable The basic body to complete the envelope, and then the development of multi-point forming a multi-point forming machine and so on.
The research and development and industrialization of complete sets of aircraft interior molds and molds technology: supporting the development of mold manufacturing technology for commercial aircrafts in China, selecting high-strength, flame-retardant, anti-smoke, and heat-dissipating engineering plastics, combining the technical standards and requirements of the aviation industry. The selection of materials for aircraft interior parts, product structure analysis and design, mold design and manufacturing, and final product assembly technology are used for research and development to achieve the industrial application of aircraft interior components. 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, aircraft interior parts are about 200 sets of molds, with a production value of 100 million yuan, which drives the production value of the parts to be around 3 billion yuan.
In the “Equipment Manufacturing Industry Adjustment and Revitalization Plan†for electronic special equipment and emerging industry supporting fields, in the “Seizing the Nine Major Industrial Key Projects, Implementing Equipment Autonomyâ€, the eighth item of “Electronic Information Industry†will include electronic Equipment and instrumentation, as well as tools and molds, are the key points, and self-informatization of information equipment is being promoted.
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, multimedia 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, while 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.
Medical devices are estimated to have 10,000 products, 34 categories, and 4,000 companies. 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.
In the national investment of RMB 40,000,000 in 2009, the direct investment in rail transit 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, high-speed EMUs with speeds of 200-350 km/h, and large Power AC Drives Electric Locomotives, Diesel Locomotives, Bearings, Gear Transmissions for Heavy-Duty Trucks and Urban Mass Transit Vehicles, Heavy Duty Trucks, Heavy Duty 25T Axle Heavy Duty Hot Forging Dies, Cold Pier Moulds, etc. Support services for emerging industries.