The "Great Development" era of the mold industry is coming

China's auto molds are mainly imported today, and China will usher in the fastest-growing era in the history of auto industry molds.

The quality of the mold is reflected in the automotive products. It can give consumers a direct impression of how good the work is. The point of insiders is the pros and cons of "craft." The increasing number of domestic auto inventories is an indisputable fact. The auto mold industry has a tendency of “wholesale”. In Fang Fang's words, "The auto industry is reshuffled, but the mold industry is developing rapidly."

Compared with the development of the automotive industry, the development history of China's mold industry is not short, but it is slow to walk. From the production of the first-generation trucks in China in the 1950s, we had our own mold manufacturing. However, the traditional manual mode-moulding and copying and copy-type mold production methods have allowed our molds to remain at the rough “will-be” level. Fang Fang explained that the "will be" type mold is a place where machinery can't be punctuated by a preset, by artificially tapping and pulling, to tie up a pair of "couples", short-term improvisation is possible, a long time, hidden The "crack" has exposed the low quality of our products. Therefore, from our own red flag cars to many brands of domestic cars, the main mold is still imported. The price for importing a foreign car mold is several times that of the domestic mold. We can even build satellites. Why can't automotive molds be made domestic?

Our difference is in "accuracy." This "accuracy" is not only technical but also conceptual. For example, how to make a piece of steel after press-stretch molding, the product's dimensional accuracy, material deformation, rebound, rigidity, etc. can achieve very good quality, which is technically difficult to achieve. Companies such as Shanghai General Motors and Volkswagen are able to recognise their competitors at a glance compared to some of the auto parts that we locally manufacture. This is accuracy. The Chinese traditional concept that only "will be" not "exquisite" production technology, in the modern automobile manufacturing industry is facing great challenges. The red flag cars produced in China in the 1950s had to rely on putties to make up for many parts of their shells. Our manufacturing industry relied on strength rather than wisdom. With such a large gap, where does China talk about the “mold era”?

Since the start of the production of Chinese cars and commercial vehicles in the 1980s, especially since 2000, the rapid development of China's automobile industry, especially small cars, has driven the vigorous development of the automotive mold industry. The development of mold manufacturers from small to large, from less to more, mold technology from coarse to fine. Last year, China’s number of imported CNC machines was ranked highest in the world. In addition, the country’s new automotive industry policy has placed the mold at the forefront and will become a key industry in the next few years. Fang Hao said that if we compare this as a booster, then there is also a strong boost, that is, the entry of a large number of foreign auto manufacturers, in order to reduce costs and to purchase in the local. The cost reduction of domestic cars and the localization of molds are their primary guarantees. This has brought unprecedented opportunities for the development of China's automotive mold industry.

With the development of lightweight products such as vehicles and motors, the proportion of die casting molds will continue to increase. At the same time, the life and complexity of die-casting molds will also put forward higher and higher requirements; in order to further accelerate the process of plastic substitute steel and plastic substitute wood, the proportion of plastic molds will continue to increase.