Hardware mold industry is in urgent need of transformation to find a way out

Recently, the Advanced Technical School and Zhejiang University’s Institute of Modern Manufacturing Engineering recently formally married each other and both parties will build a rapid digital design and precision inspection center for molds to serve the local mold industry.

At present, metal molds already have strong competitiveness. The greatest advantages and strengths lie in both private and traditional industries. In order to enter the high-end market, it is inseparable from high technology.

With the development of the domestic hardware mold industry, the competition from various provinces has become increasingly fierce. The situation of disorderly competition in the hardware mold industry has begun to appear, and the disadvantages such as the low cost of hardware, the level of product structure, and the low level of technology are increasingly exposed.

In the 1960s, the hardware mold industry began to rise in the South China Sea and peaked in the late 1980s.

At that time, the threshold of the hardware mold industry was very low, and there was no need for any technology. With 30,000 yuan to buy some old equipment, it was possible to open a home-workshop-style metal mold processing plant. After more than 40 years of development, all types of hardware and mold processing companies have passed 10,000, the vast majority of which are labor-intensive small enterprises.

At present, domestic private mold enterprises generally have advanced equipment resources and relatively advanced technology applications. New technologies can be applied widely and quickly in the industry, from design and manufacturing to related materials production, heat treatment, etc., to form an industrial chain, and the advantages of integration are outstanding.

However, due to lack of funds and lack of own brands, hardware mold enterprises will increase management and technological transformation investment, expand the proportion of high-end products, and establish domestic sales departments, and actively expand the domestic market. It is necessary to promote the circular economy pilot of the hardware and mold industry, with principles of reduction, reuse, and recycling, focusing on the reduction of resource consumption and waste emissions, actively implementing the preferential policies for the comprehensive utilization of national resources, and developing waste batteries and waste. Recycling of home appliances and old furniture, recycling of bamboo and wood processing residues, mine waste, sludge from sewage treatment plants, and recycling of stainless steel processing residues. Vigorously developing industrial recycling economy to promote cleaner production is an important manifestation of a low-carbon economy. Vigorously developing industrial recycling economy to promote cleaner production is an important manifestation of a low-carbon economy.

The mold industry will change from an extensive development model that mainly relied on the expansion of scale and an increase in quantity to a lean development model that mainly relies on scientific and technological progress and improvement of product quality and level, and will focus on the development of absorbing and absorbing international advanced technologies. The model shifts to the introduction of digestion and absorption and improvement of independent innovation capabilities.

From the characteristics of the industry based on skill-based technology to the characteristics of the industry based on technology-based and modern enterprise management, the Company will vigorously promote innovation-driven development and actively nurture and develop new growth points.

It is necessary to vigorously develop modern manufacturing service industry, actively and steadily extend and develop the upstream and downstream industrial chains with mold manufacturing as the core, support the construction of mold industry gathering centers, pay attention to the rational distribution in coordination with the mold manufacturing industry, and gradually form complementary and coordinated development. Industrial pattern.