The tool industry needs self-improvement and development

As the world's largest producer and consumer of machine tool tools, industry insiders estimate that China's tool market is about 40 billion yuan, of which the high-end tool market is about 15 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 the past 10 years, the level of China's mechanical processing has been increasing at a rate of 20% or even higher. However, in 2012, it was not a winter in China's machinery processing industry. Some of the tool companies have been affected, even if many of the world's top cutting tool companies have also been affected to varying degrees, which is still the first time in China's mechanical processing industry." For the development of the status of the tool industry in China these years, senior practitioners Tang Xinkang gave such comments and exclamation.

According to reports, the Chinese market for cutting tools 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.

Hu Hongbing, secretary general of the China Machine Tool Industry Association’s tool branch, told reporters that 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, and many small companies set up several lathes to start production. At the time when the industry was booming, the products in the low-end market were in short supply, which also objectively accelerated the decentralization of the industry. The situation of the industry 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 domestic tool market currently accounts for about two-thirds of the number of domestic tools and 1/3 of imported tools. At the same time, there are also a small number of domestic export of cutting tools, but mainly based on OEM. 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%.

The research report of the Beijing Institute of Industrial Information also believes that in the past 10 years, the tool industry in China 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 them. Enterprises at the expense of the environment, based on cheap labor, production of low-quality products to obtain huge profits.

Shen Zhuangxing, chairman of the Honorary Chairman of the China National Machine Tool Industry Association Tool Association, has said that in the tool consumer market, which was ranked first in the world and reached 33 billion yuan last year, domestic tools accounted for 2/3 of the market share in China's tool. The consumer market is dominant, but the high-end domestic tools represented by modern high-efficiency 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.

It is understood that in recent years, the development of many high-end manufacturing technologies in China has brought new demands to the tool. 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.

“It should be said that even though some companies are chasing even domestic high-end cutting tool products, the overall gap is still very obvious, especially in terms of research and development capabilities. There is still a lot of high-end products in China and foreign countries. Gap, which also led to China's many high-end cutting tool products, does not have the ability to research and development, production.The next step, the whole industry must adjust the structure and work toward high-end products in order to be more market competitiveness."Hu Hongbing said.

There are even more to be quality Chinese Deputy Secretary-General Tang Qiuxiu knife association told reporters that domestic tools in the high-end products, from technology, technology, etc., and foreign products there is a gap. 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 demand for key manufacturing equipment such as high-speed, high-definition, composite CNC machine tools and five-axis machining centers, has brought new challenges to the tool. 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; five is to fully enhance the quality of tool products.