Die giant set off investment in China's hot indigenous mold industry crisis
A few days ago at the China Mould Base Industry Upgrading Forum held in Huangyan, Zhejiang Province, relevant experts reminded that the new round of battles for the foreign mold giants to accelerate their entry into the Chinese market have been launched, and the local mold industry has been exposed to the crisis due to “congenitally insufficientâ€. In the "close competition" with foreign molds, it is imperative for the local mold industry to accelerate the upgrading of technology brands.
Statistics from related departments show that since last year, the transfer of mold enterprises from developed countries to China has accelerated. In May of last year, Mitsui Fuji Automobile Mold Co., Ltd., jointly established by Japan's No. 1 auto mold maker Fujitsu Kogyo Co., Ltd. and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., formally signed an agreement in Yantai, Shandong Province; the US company Cole Asia and China Dongfeng Automobile Mould Co., Ltd. The joint venture established "Dongfeng Cole Mold Standard Parts Co., Ltd.", and Kohl Asia Company holds 63% of the shares. In July last year, Japan's AB company engaged in mold manufacturing for the first time and China's Taiwanese personal computer peripheral equipment manufacturers went to Shanghai to set up factories to produce mouse and mobile phone mold products.
Mold companies from the European Union, South Korea and Singapore have also organized groups to visit China and seek to enter the region and partners. “Mold manufacturing is the first of all manufacturing, and is hailed as the 'mother of industry'. In electronics, automobiles, motors, appliances, instruments, meters, home appliances, and communications products, 60% to 80% of parts rely on molds. Forming,†said Dr. Wang Qin of the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, during an exclusive interview with the reporter, said that the current manufacturing production base in the world is accelerating its transfer to China and that China’s manufacturing industry is now entering the high-end upgrade development stage, demanding high-quality precision molds. Will continue to rise. The giants of the developed countries followed the investment boom after the foreign molds entered China in the mid-1990s. The purpose was to seize the opportunities and to make our country's domestic mold industry face the "close-up challenge" of advanced foreign technologies and high-quality products. The living space will be squeezed.
According to expert analysis, the “four bottlenecks†have been highlighted during the development of the local mold industry:
The first is the low end of the product, mainly in the middle and low, and the homogeneity is serious. Large-scale, sophisticated, complex, long-life high-grade mold manufacturing capacity is seriously deficient. Every year, China needs a lot of imports from abroad. According to customs statistics, in 2004 China imported molds worth 1.8 billion U.S. dollars, mainly high-grade molds.
The second is the backwardness of technology and the shortage of skilled personnel. According to statistics, the average value of mold production per worker of a local mold and die enterprise is about 1 US dollar per year, while the average value of a mold worker in a developed country is about 200,000 US dollars. In foreign countries, the proportion of technical personnel in mold enterprises is between 25% and 50%, while the proportion of local mold companies is less than 5%.
The third is the management of rough. Most of the local mold enterprises are small and medium-sized enterprises. Many mold companies still use it as an extensive business management model. Problems arise in mold delivery time, cost, and quality control.
Fourth, the standard is low, and the level of standard mold parts is low. At present, the coverage rate of mold standard parts in developed countries is generally about 80%, while that of local mold companies is only about 30%. Developed molds in developed countries generally implement "paperless", mold division by computer design, product processing is to enter data into the computer, mold development.
Experts here reminded that the current mold industry highlights new trends in the direction of high speed, high precision and high performance. Under the "close competition" of mold enterprises in developed countries, the local mold industry must accelerate the pace of upgrading its technology brands. Professor Han Xiaoming from the School of Economics at Renmin University of China proposed that the professional and technical content is increasingly becoming an important part of the core competitiveness of the mold industry. The local mold industry should speed up the development of professionals, enter the high-end mold market, and improve the design of large-scale, sophisticated, complex, long-life molds. Manufacturing level, vigorously develop rapid manufacturing and rapid manufacturing mold technology. Cui Xinjian, deputy dean of the Business School of Central University of Finance and Economics, believes that realizing information and digital management is an important link that local mold companies must make up and strengthen. Enterprises should actively establish their own network information systems to respond to market demands most promptly. . Gu Qiang, Director of the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises of the National Development and Reform Commission analyzed that Shenzhen mold companies are mainly located in Songgang, Gongming, Shiyan, Longhua, Pingshan and other towns and villages. There is a lack of collaboration among enterprises, and resources in the industry chain are difficult to find. Reasonable configuration. The government should guide the mold industry to accelerate the integration, from the individual industry competition to the industrial cluster competition, and promote the enterprises in the mold industry cluster to “collectively produce and sell†under the common brand and standard, and create the mold regional brand.