As an essential basic industry in automobile, aerospace, petrochemical and metallurgical industries, China's forging industry is in urgent need of suitable equipment support
As an essential basic industry in automobile, aerospace, petrochemical metallurgy and other industries, the market demand and output of forging industry in 2006 are on the rise. In the specific analysis of the industry situation in 2006, Zhang Jin, the secretary general of China Forging and Stamping Association, summarized several reasons: one is the mechanical industry, especially the host machine, continues to maintain rapid development, the demand for forgings appears an upward trend, such as the demand for agricultural machinery, agricultural transport vehicles to drive the increase in the demand for forgings. The rise in oil prices has stimulated some vehicle replacement demand, and the relaxation of restrictions on small displacement vehicles has increased the demand for small displacement vehicles, thus providing a favorable market for forgings. But Zhang Jin also pointed out that in 2006, while the sales and exports of forgings were rising rapidly, the profits of the industry did not increase significantly, and some profit margins declined compared with the same period last year, which deserves our attention. Forging and pressing industry in 2006 market demand and output is on the rise. In the specific analysis of the industry situation in 2006, Zhang Jin, the secretary general of China Forging and Stamping Association, summarized several reasons: one is the mechanical industry, especially the host machine, continues to maintain rapid development, the demand for forgings appears an upward trend, such as the demand for agricultural machinery, agricultural transport vehicles to drive the increase in the demand for forgings. The rise in oil prices has stimulated some vehicle replacement demand, and the relaxation of restrictions on small displacement vehicles has increased the demand for small displacement vehicles, thus providing a favorable market for forgings. But Zhang Jin also pointed out that in 2006, while the sales and exports of forgings were rising rapidly, the profits of the industry did not increase significantly, and some profit margins declined compared with the same period last year, which deserves our attention.
By domestic demand expansion machine tools, machine tool industry, especially the lower class demand, petrochemical equipment industry developing rapidly, coal mine safety concerns to ｕｐｄａｔｅ equipment requirements, the influence of such factors as market demand in 2005, 2006, large forgings, the enterprise also follow the market, take measures to deal with, make large forgings production has a certain scale, the class ring forgings production has reached the industrialization level, annual capacity of 2 million tons, actually provide 500000 tons, head also realized the industrialization production. But at the same time, Secretary-General Zhang Jin pointed out that some problems have also come to light.
Under the stimulation of market demand, in order to improve production capacity and expand market share, many enterprises have increased their investment and bought equipment, making large forging equipment grow rapidly in the past two years. At present, there are about 147 sets of 10MN hydraulic forging presses in our country. Free forging is developing very fast in our country. More than 700 sets of forging hammers have been transformed. However, Zhang Jin pointed out that many enterprises due to the lack of medium and long-term market analysis, blind development of large and medium-sized free forging press, some enterprises will be damaged in the future. In fact, in 2005, some people in the industry have warned enterprises to beware of overheated investment behavior, but did not work, now the enterprise is still increasing investment, the purchase of large equipment, but ignored the supporting machinery, its production level is low, especially the forging heat treatment furnace configuration is less, seriously affected the stability of the quality of supply. This is why although the production of large forgings has a certain scale, there is still a gap between the stable supply of large forgings, including quality and delivery stability. Zhang Jin said that China's large forgings market is still under the dual pressure of "excess" and "shortage", that is, although there is excess capacity, there is still a shortage of high-quality forgings. It is investment overheating, rising costs, so that enterprises face the booming market, life is not comfortable. Mr. Zhang estimates that production of large forgings increased by more than 20 percent in 2006, but that profit margins have declined.
Mr Zhang is particularly concerned that the shortage of talent in the industry has reached such a critical level that he estimates there are no more than 2,000 practical technical workers and they are ageing. Many young people are affected by ideas, not willing to enter the field of forging, and configuration of education is unreasonable, most university have not set up special forging course, to be the experienced technical personnel, and need to be more than five years of accumulation of work, so there will be less and less technical personnel in the field of forging, the problem is not solved, will influence the development of industry.
Forging equipment can not meet the needs of the industry
In recent years, with the rapid development of China's forging industry, there is an urgent need for a large number of suitable forging equipment. Gold secretary-general, forging technology is moving in precision forming, shaping and processing intelligence, compound forming, hydraulic forming, laser forming, new materials development direction, such as forming, be badly in need of electricity, liquid, gas in the integration of new active, mechanical press, the new type of screw press, forging equipment and forging auxiliary equipment, low forging die manufacturing equipment, automation system, etc.
Domestic market rapid growth while forging, he thought, for the development of China's forging equipment provides a good opportunity, but at present, China is seriously insufficient, forging equipment manufacturing enterprises of forging equipment production enterprise, production capacity is insufficient, the development of new product development ability is weak, compared with the developed the technology and service gap is huge. In particular, he pointed out that the manufacturing cycle of some enterprises is too long to supply goods in time, which seriously affects the normal production of forging enterprises. Therefore, he suggested that equipment manufacturing enterprises in deepening development ability and service content, strengthen exchanges and cooperation between members and related industries, with competition instead of the members of pure competition, continuously improve the grade of the product, to strengthen after-sales service, the relationship between product price and quality, improve market competitiveness.