China's cutting hardware industry to high-end

Speaking of the impending 2012, Zhao Zhengqiang, general manager of Chengdu Daqin CNC Tool Co., Ltd. felt a deep impression. He also thought about the future development of the cutting tool industry: “In the future, as customers’ understanding of cutting tools continues to mature, It is no longer just focusing on low-price competitive products, but more on the quality of products. On the other hand, as the market becomes more subdivided, tool companies are more focused on strong cooperation and complementary advantages."

“Zhao Zhengqiang's feelings represent a microcosm of the development of China's cutting tool industry in 2012.” As the world's largest producer and consumer of machine tool tools, Luo Baihui, chief analyst of Jinmo Tool Network predicts that China's tool market will have approximately 48.5 billion yuan in 2012. The high-end tool market is about 18 billion yuan, which is basically occupied by imported tools. Now, on this huge cake, foreign cutters and Chinese local tools are fiercely competing. After the quantity competition, quality is becoming the most dazzling "blade" in the next competition.

"In recent years, the level of China's mechanical processing has been growing at a rate of 20% or more. However, in 2012, China's mechanical processing industry was not a 'cold winter'. "Cold current" has for most cutting tool companies. The impact, even if many of the world's cutting-edge tool companies have received different degrees of influence, this is still the first time in China's mechanical processing industry." For the current status of the development of the tool industry in China, senior practitioner Tang Xinkang gave Such evaluation and exclamation.

China's cutting tool market is a rare market that can truly be called "globalization." Do not say that the small and well-known tool companies in the industry have set up offices or agents in China for sales. Even German small companies with only 20 or 30 employees have sold their knives to China. In the market, tool products from Germany, Japan, the United States and other countries can be seen everywhere. “The industry concentration of the tool market in China is not very high. This is mainly due to the fact that the threshold of the tool industry itself is not high. Many small companies start production with a few lathes, and when the whole industry booms, the low-end market Once the supply of products was in short supply, it also objectively accelerated the decentralization of the industry. According to Luo Baihui, the industry situation has changed this year, and the days of many low-end and mid-tier companies have begun to deteriorate. But on the whole, the tools are consumables. Even if there are no new machine tools required to put new tools into the production line, the old machine tools also need tool products. The biggest feature of this year is the large consumption of inventory.

According to the statistics of the tool branch of the China Machine Tool Industry Association, the number of domestic tools currently accounts for about two-thirds of the total number of domestic tools and imports account for 1/3. At the same time, domestic tool products also have a small amount of exports, but mainly rely on OEMs. According to the "2012-2016 China Tool Industry Operation Trend and Investment Strategy Decision-making Advisory Report" released by the Beijing Institute of Industrial Information, China consumes 40% of the world's tool materials, but its sales revenue only accounts for 12% of the world's tools. 15%.

Luo Baihui believes that in the past 10 years, China's cutting tool industry has continued to grow at a rapid rate. Behind the rapid development, companies are also soberly aware that the high growth rate of the domestic tool industry is not high in gold, and a considerable portion of these companies have sacrificed the cost of the environment. Based on cheap labor, producing poor quality products for profit.

Shen Zhuangxing, Honorary Chairman of the China Machine Tool Industry Association Tool Branch once stated that in the tool consumer market ranking first in the world and reaching as high as 33 billion yuan last year, China’s tool consumption accounted for a leading position in the tool consumption market in China despite a 2/3 market share. However, among them, the high-end domestic tools represented by modern and efficient tools are only 2 billion yuan, while most of the 11 billion yuan imported tools are high-end tools. This should cause the importance of domestic cutting tool companies.

In recent years, the technological development in many high-end manufacturing fields in China has brought new demands to the tools. For example, automotive tools must have high efficiency, high stability, and specialization. With the continuous development of the automotive industry, new requirements have emerged. From a technical point of view, there are mainly heavy-duty, composite, and specializations. The trend of standardization, high speed, and variety of varieties. In the field of aerospace manufacturing, with the wide application of difficult-to-machine materials such as titanium alloys and high-temperature alloys, how to properly select and use cutting tools for efficient and high-quality cutting has become a very important topic in the industry.

The imported tools basically occupy the high-end users of the machining industry. The domestic tools should have the advantages of time, place, and person to provide tool services for the above-mentioned manufacturing fields. However, in practice, especially in the automotive engine manufacturing plant, aircraft engine manufacturing enterprise machining workshop or steam turbine manufacturing plant, high-efficiency, high-precision machining tools are almost monopolized by imported tools, and it is difficult to see traces of domestic tools. Domestic tools are mostly used in medium and low-demand customer groups such as agricultural Machinery, motorcycles, agricultural vehicles, general machinery, and middle and low-end machinery manufacturing industries.

Domestic tools Although some companies are chasing and even have high-end cutting tool products, the overall gap is still very obvious, especially in research and development capabilities, there is still a big gap between China and foreign high-end products. Leading our country in many high-end tool products, do not have the ability to research and development, production. In the next step, the entire industry must adjust its structure and work toward high-end products in order to be more competitive in the market.

Tang Qixiu, deputy secretary-general of the China Cutting Tools Association, said that domestically produced cutting tools have a gap with foreign products in terms of technology and craftsmanship in high-end products. For homemade knives, after undergoing “labor pains” in 2012, the next step in development must shift from increasing weight to quality-oriented competition. Shanghai Hashen Tools Co., Ltd. general manager Huang Yunfu believes that the market environment for each Businesses are all the same, there is a decline in growth, there are peaks there is a trough. I believe that through this year's baptism of the market crisis, we can eliminate a group of cutting-edge tool companies that do not have sufficient quality and services. Those that can stand the test must be those companies with high technological content, innovation and quality service.

"The development of high-end manufacturing fields such as aerospace, electric power industry and urban rail transportation, which have rigid demands for key manufacturing equipment such as high-speed, high-definition, composite CNC machine tools and five-axis machining centers, has brought new challenges to tools. Hao Ming, chairman of the China Tool Association, suggested that tool companies should: First, strengthen the research and formulation of tool standardization; Second, continuously upgrade the tool manufacturing technology and equipment standards; Third, strengthen the design and development of composite tools; Fourth, strengthen Cooperation, to provide users with a complete solution to meet the requirements of cutting solutions; Fifth, to fully enhance the quality of tool products.