Development characteristics of automobile stamping mold enterprises and markets
In recent years, the level of stainless steel stamping molds in China has greatly improved. Large stamping molds can now produce a single set of molds weighing more than 50 tons, and cover molds for mid-range cars can also be produced domestically. China's aluminum alloy stamping dies have made great progress in terms of quantity, quality, technology, and capability, but there is still a significant gap compared to the demand of the national economy and the world level. Some large, complex, and long-life molds are still in large quantities every year, especially for the cover part molds of mid size cars, which are still mainly relied on.
China's automotive hardware stamping parts; Mold production capacity has advantages in the world, but due to slow technological improvement and insufficient capabilities and application capabilities of domestic automotive mold enterprises, the ability of domestic molds cannot meet the supporting needs of the domestic automotive industry, and a large part of automotive molds still need to rely on them. So, the domestic automotive mold industry needs to make up for this shortcoming as soon as possible in order to make up for a major deficiency in China's automotive mold industry. In recent years, the policies on the characteristics of complete vehicles have also increased the opportunities for domestic mold companies to produce car exterior panel molds. Industry experts point out that in this industry context, how to seize opportunities and respond to the market depends on which company excels in technology, product quality, and competitiveness. In the future, the automotive market will still be the driving force for the development of the domestic mold industry. With the gradual increase of China's automobile production year by year, domestic and foreign automobile mold enterprises have shown their talents in the Chinese automobile market, meeting the hot domestic and export demands to a certain extent, and also creating a good opportunity for the upgrading and replacement of China's automobile mold industry. It can be seen that the prospects of China's automotive mold industry are broad.
Development characteristics of automobile stamping mold enterprises and markets
(1) Mold is considered as the basic process equipment for industrial production, and the development of the mold industry is required to adapt to the pillar industries of the national economy such as machinery, electronics, automobiles, petrochemicals, and construction. The development of China's mold industry has gone through more than half a century since its inception. The mold processing industry has become increasingly mature, with constantly improving technological levels. The number and quality of mold enterprises have been increasing year by year, and their influence and competitiveness on the world stage have also been expanding year by year. With the institutional reform of the mold industry and the adoption of new technologies, China's mold production has made great progress. Regarding data, in 2015, the annual sales revenue of China's die-casting mold industry reached about 174 billion yuan, of which export die-casting molds accounted for about 15% of the total sales volume. The automotive, home appliance, motorcycle and other industries are the largest markets for molds in China, accounting for over 80% of the entire mold market share. Chinese molds are increasingly receiving attention and importance from countries around the world. The rapid development of the manufacturing industry essentially represents the high-speed progress of an industrialization process and the rising stage of comprehensive national strength. The development of the manufacturing industry is a preparation for entering the advanced stage; The development of human resources is an inevitable result of the highly developed manufacturing industry.
(2) With the introduction of new models, the replacement of old models, and the continuous expansion of the production scale of complete vehicles and components, the demand for automotive stamping parts is also increasing. Around obtaining new supply channels, both world stamping parts manufacturers with technology and domestic manufacturers with cost competitiveness are accelerating the construction of stamping parts production systems in their respective businesses. Due to the development and significant technological progress of domestic stamping molds, coupled with the low cost of domestic stamping molds, many stamping parts of some joint venture cars in China have shifted from the past to domestic procurement in recent years.
(3) In recent years, with the development of industry, the production of middle and low-end molds has been continuously transferred to the development of China, and more and more molds are being purchased from these countries to reduce their automobile production costs. Nevertheless, it should be soberly recognized that the industrially developed automotive mold industry still maintains its core competitiveness and has obvious advantages in the design and manufacturing technology of large, complex molds, especially in the field of automotive mold technology.
(4) The data volume of the entire car body is large, and the coordination workload of various components and parts often leads to repeated changes in the data. This is a normal phenomenon in the process, which is unconditionally accepted by the mold factory and must be implemented in the mold process. This causes mold changes, involving mold planning changes, design changes, manufacturing changes, etc. But automobile manufacturers generally do not change the construction period and require mold factories to meet quality requirements for the construction period, which puts strict demands on mold factories. With the improvement of China's automobile manufacturing level, the requirements for overall vehicle quality are also increasing. For mold factories, the requirements for part size tolerances, surface quality, material utilization, mold structure complexity, mold automation level, and mold life are getting closer and closer to the level.
(5) In recent years, some enterprises in China's automotive mold industry have not only developed their own production capacity, but also strengthened the cooperation, coordination, and collaboration among enterprises. The domestic automotive mold industry has reached a consensus on forming strategic alliances and jointly facing the market, and various forms of cooperation have already begun. After undertaking the task of whole vehicle molds, mold companies not only complete overall coordination and key molds themselves, but also entrust some molds to multiple companies for manufacturing according to the complexity, difficulty, division of labor, and capabilities and strengths of the enterprise. Due to the fact that this type of alliance between enterprises can enable them to complement each other, have complementary advantages, allocate resources reasonably, and leverage the advantages of the group to achieve mutual benefit, win-win cooperation, and common development, cooperation, alliance, or partnership among automotive mold enterprises has become an important trend in the development of China's automotive mold industry.
