Analysis: Now and Future of Mold Manufacturing in Guangdong Province

Mold is a tool product that forms a product into a product in a specific way through a certain structure. It is a basic process equipment for industrial production. The high precision, high degree of complexity, high consistency, high production efficiency, and the high degree of production performance are represented by the production of parts. Low-consumption and energy-consuming materials are increasingly attracting attention from governments at all levels and from various industries in the national economy, especially in light industry, electronics, machinery, communications, transportation, automobile, and military industries. If there is no mold, it is difficult to produce and develop products. If the mold cannot be supplied in time, it will affect the development of production; if the mold accuracy is low, the product quality is poor; if the mold life is short, the production efficiency is low and the cost is high. Developed countries in Europe and the United States have compared molds to “magnetic industry”, “golden key”, “emperor for metal processing” and “the driving force for entering an affluent society”. In our country, the mold is called "the mother of industry", "the industry that never dies," and "unsurpassed benefit amplifier."

Since the reform and opening up, Guangdong’s geographical advantages adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao and the numerous cultural advantages of overseas Chinese and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwanese have been fully utilized. The original industries with weak foundations have continued to develop rapidly for more than two decades, especially for a large number of molds. Industries, such as household appliances, electronic communications, information industry, plastics and packaging products, building materials, toys and hardware products, have been nurtured as important industries in the province’s industrial economy. It is urgent for the mold manufacturing industry to accelerate the pace of development and produce more products. Many and better molds meet the needs of industrial development. At the same time, they provide a good business opportunity and a vast space for the rapid development of the mold manufacturing industry. As the mold industry in our province's industrial production of important basic process equipment, it is precisely in this kind of good conditions and vast space, in the effort to adapt to the needs of the province's industrial development, has been rapid development and improvement, the entire industry The economic scale and economic comprehensive strength have been expanding year by year. The mold manufacturing types have been gradually completed, the technical equipment level of mold companies and mold quality have been continuously improved, and the ability to adapt to market demand and foreign exchange earning has gradually increased, and its position in the same industry across the country has been rising year by year. The leaders of the Die and Mould Industry Association called it “the largest mold province in China today, whether it is production or usage is the largest in the country.”

The main features of Guangdong mold 1, a variety of molds complete, can basically meet the needs of the development of our province's industrial industry Guangdong mold industry started late, until the mid-eighties of the 20th century, basically no real independent mold factory, all The mold manufacturing is attached as a technology to the repair workshop of the product factory. The sales market of the mold is also limited to meet the needs of the factory. The rapid development of the province’s industrial economy has enabled various types of economic mold enterprises to leapfrog in this fertile land, and there have been booming state-owned, private-owned, foreign-invested, and joint-venture die-casting companies that thrive and promote each other. Many of the original mold manufacturing as a technology behind the company separated from the product plant and embarked on a separate society, has become the founder and the main force of the mold industry in our province, and made great contributions to the development of the province's mold industry and the province's industry. Individual mold enterprises with joint ownership, shareholding, and joint-stock system also flourished like bamboo shoots, and quickly became the most dynamic new force in the mold industry in our province. A group of Hong Kong, Taiwanese, Japanese-invested mold enterprises and Chinese-foreign joint venture mold enterprises that have advanced technology, equipment and management skills have entered Guangdong actively, participating in the competition of the Guangdong mold market, and playing an important role in promoting the scale and quality of the Guangdong mold industry. In 1996, the Guangdong Provincial Mold Association organized a relatively comprehensive survey. At that time, the province had owned more than 4,000 mold manufacturing factories with state-owned, private, foreign, and joint ventures. The number of employees reached 103,000, and the total industrial output value reached 5 billion yuan. By the year 2000, all types of mold manufacturing enterprises in the province had increased to more than 6,000, employing 160,000 yuan, and the industrial output value had reached 12 billion yuan, more than doubled in four years. By the end of 2004, the province's mold industry output value reached 23 billion yuan, and it nearly doubled in four years. At present, the Guangdong mold industry ranks first in the country in terms of the number of enterprises, the scale of enterprises, the total industrial output value, and the average speed of development. According to the statistical analysis of the China Model Association Management and Management Committee, of the 50 companies with a national mold output value of over 30 million yuan in 2004, 11 were from Guangdong, including Heyuan Longji Metal Products Co., Ltd., Guangdong Julun Mould Co., Ltd., and Guangdong Shengdu Mould. Five companies, including Jieyang Tianyang Mould Co., Ltd., were ranked in the top ten.

There are still 14 Guangdong mold companies that have not included the statistics of the China Association for Model Management and Management and whose output value is above this standard. With the expansion of the size of the mold industry, the largest variety of plastic molds will continue to be ranked first. Rubber molds, metal molds, automobiles, motorcycle molds, aluminum molds, and various types of ceramic molds have also been developed in succession. Basically, it can meet the needs of the industrial structure of our province. At present, most of the molds needed by the industries such as household appliances, electronic communications, information industry, transportation equipment, plastics and rubber products, packaging materials and building materials in the province can be produced and supplied by the mold factory in the province. The number of molds processed has also increased year by year.

2. With a group of leading enterprises with advanced equipment, technology and management faced with fierce market competition and the promotion of a large number of foreign capital and joint ventures, the mold enterprises in our province have increased investment, introduced advanced foreign technology and equipment, and improved their own Technical equipment and product quality. At the end of 2000, we investigated 10 professional mold factories that can basically represent the technical level of the mold industry in our province. When the funds invested in purchasing high-tech equipment exceeded 300 million yuan, they purchased vertical machining centers and vertical rapid machining centers. EDM machine and high-speed high-precision EDM machine, walking wire cutting machine, three-dimensional laser digital scanners, CNC three-coordinate measuring machine, school die machine and other high-tech equipment 330 sets, more than the province before the 1996 mold industry The total value and total quantity of high-tech equipment. Since then, each mold company has paid more attention to increasing investment, adding high-tech equipment and advanced technology, maintaining its leading position in technology and equipment, and creating a solid material foundation for enterprises to grow in the competition. With the advanced equipment and the wide application of CAD/CAE/CAM technology and the improvement of management level, a number of leading companies in the mold industry have emerged in our province. These enterprises have excellent technical and equipment, high quality of managers and workers, relatively standardized production and management, and comprehensive economic strength. They have received unanimous recognition from their counterparts both inside and outside the province, and some in Asia and the world enjoy a high reputation. They are: Guangdong Kelon Mould Co., Ltd., Shunde Century Technology Development Co., Ltd., Dongguan Konka Mould & Plastics Co., Ltd., Zhuhai Gree Electric Appliance Co., Ltd., Liansheng (Panyu) Plastic Hardware Mould Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Guangdian Linshihao Mould Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Guangdong Kelun Mould Co., Ltd., Guangdong Jieyang Tianyang Rubber Machinery Co., Ltd., Heyuan Longji Metal Products Co., Ltd., Dongguan Longji Hardware Products Co., Ltd., Dongguan Desheng Steel Products Co., Ltd., Dongguan Dongguan Huike Mould Plastic Products Co., Ltd. Zhongxin Moldmaking (Dongguan) Co., Ltd., Hongfeng Hardware (Huizhou) Co., Ltd., Zhongshan Zhihe Home Appliances Co., Ltd., Nanhai Huada Takagi Mold Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Qundaxing Precision Mould Co., Ltd., Guangdong Shengdu Mould Co., Ltd., etc. Wait. After reviewing the leaders of the China Model Association, they fully affirmed the progress of these companies and praised “the large number of key enterprises not only played a key role in South China mold manufacturing, but also played an exemplary role in the national mold industry”. The leaders of China Mould Association also gave a high rating to the technical level and product quality of the Guangdong mold industry. Its evaluation is: "The technical level of the Guangdong mold manufacturing industry, especially in the field of plastic molds, has entered the ranks of the country's advanced level. Now, most of the mold manufacturing enterprises in Guangdong, especially the "funded" mold enterprises, CAD The CAE/CAM technology has been widely adopted, and its penetration rate is the highest in the country.The CNC processing rate of mold processing equipment and the performance of the equipment are also leading in the country.Overall, the overall technical level of the mold manufacturing industry in Guangdong is ahead of The overall level of the country is about 5 years. Some molds produce key enterprises, and their technical level is close to the international level. The management of mold companies, mold processing technology, mold production professionalization level and standardization degree also lead the rest of the country, the quality and life of molds. It is also advanced in the country."

3. High mold quality and strong market competitiveness Due to the improvement of management, processing technology, specialization, and standardization level in the Guangdong mold manufacturing industry, the quality and life of the molds produced are also advanced throughout the country, especially in plastics. Mold aspects. Die casting molds, precision dies and rubber molds, ceramic molds also have certain characteristics. Guangdong mold manufacturing industry has the following characteristics compared with other regions in China:

(1) Plastic molds dominate. In the rapid development of about 20% per year in the last four years of Guangdong molds, plastic molds have always dominated. In the total mold output, plastic molds account for more than 60%, which is much higher than the national average.

(2) High mold quality. The mold quality of Guangdong has been continuously improved. Some molds that used to depend on imports in the past can now be produced in the province, and have reached the domestic leading level and are close to the international level; a number of molds have been exported to industrially developed countries such as Japan, the US, Germany and Italy. Since Guangdong Kelon Mould Co., Ltd.'s air conditioning fins, panel molds, and outer box body molds have all been evaluated as state-level new products in 2000, the number of products that our country has received from the national mold industry has increased significantly year by year. In 2004, the experts of the China Die and Mould Industry Association technical committee organized experts to assess: The province has reached the international level, Foshan Shunde 100 years Technology Development Co., Ltd., Guangdong Kelon Mould Co., Ltd., Guangzhou cavity mold manufacturing Co., Ltd., Nanhai Huada Takagi Mould Co., Ltd. , Guangdong Kelun Mold Co., Ltd., Foshan Keer Technology Development Co., Ltd. and other 9 mold products reached the domestic advanced level of 17 mold products of six companies, respectively accounting for the total number of the above-mentioned two award-winning products in the same industry in the country. % and 28%. In the same year, 11 new state-level products were recommended through the review, which accounted for 29% of the total number of national recommendations. In 2006, 20 products that were recommended as national-level new products passed the review, which accounted for 74% of the total number of products sent by the province, which greatly exceeded Over the past years, the national recommendation rate for this review was 30% to 50%, accounting for 41% of the total number of recommendations in the country that year, fully demonstrating the brand and level of Guangdong molds.

(3) The degree of specialization and standardization is higher than the national level. Because of the short history of mold development in our province, it is more affected by overseas, so the specialization and standardization are closer to the international, so that the degree of mold professional production and standardization is significantly higher than the national level, of which the use of mold standard parts coverage of 80% , far higher than the national level of 55%. The high degree of specialization and standardization has a great effect on shortening the production cycle of the mold and improving the quality of the mold, which also makes the mold industry win the time and space for faster development in adapting to the needs of the market economy.

Due to the rapid development of molds in our province, the specialization, high degree of standardization, and high mold quality, Guangdong Die has strong market adaptability and export earning capacity. The number of imported molds in our province has been decreasing year by year; however, export molds have grown from $20 million to $30 million a year in the mid-1990s to more than $100 million in 2000 and $315 million in 2005, and exports have accounted for the same industry for five years in a row. For more than 40%, the first half of 2006 reached 190 million U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to the total export value of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shanghai in the same period.

The prospects for the development of the mold manufacturing industry in Guangdong are good due to the strong demand for molds in domestic industries such as automobiles, motorcycles, electrical appliances, electronic communications, information industries, instrumentation, plastics, office equipment, and building materials, as well as the mold manufacturing industry in developed countries to China. Continuing the shift, the national demand for molds that exceeds the production volume during the “10th Five-Year Plan” period will continue during the “11th Five-Year Plan” period, and the development speed of the national mold industry will maintain or exceed the average growth of 12% during the “Tenth Five-Year Plan” period. The level reached 15%. The demand for the sustained and rapid development of the national economy in Guangdong, as well as the continuous improvement of the processing capacity of the mold manufacturing industry in the province in the last 20 years, the development of the mold manufacturing industry in Guangdong is likely to be higher than the national average, reaching about 20%. Such a large market demand and development space, as well as a solid foundation provides a good opportunity for continued rapid growth. The future of the Guangdong mold industry will be infinitely bright.

The features and development advantages of Guangdong's mold manufacturing industry are:

Die and mold manufacturing will increasingly apply high technology and advanced and applicable technologies. CAD/CAE/CAM technology, high-speed cutting technology, hot runner technology, rapid prototyping technology, reverse engineering, agile manufacturing, network technology, virtual technology, laser technology, composite processing technology, superfinishing technology and new material technology are among them a part of.