The prospects for China's mold export are very optimistic

The international market potential for medium and low-end molds is enormous. As long as the quality of domestically produced molds can be improved and the delivery time can be guaranteed, the prospects for mold exports are very optimistic. In addition, there is also a high demand for standard mold parts in the international market. Customs data shows that China only exports a small amount. It is a general trend for the global manufacturing industry to accelerate its transfer to Chinese Mainland, and China will gradually develop into a world-class manufacturing base. With obvious advantages, Guangdong, especially the the Pearl River Delta, will become the world mold production center within ten years. Meanwhile, due to China's annual import of nearly 1 billion US dollars in molds in recent years, with precision, large, complex, and long-life molds accounting for the majority, from the perspective of reducing imports, the market share of these high-end molds and hardware tools will gradually increase. In the future, China's mold and hardware tool industry will also rank among the top in the world. At least 70% of China's hardware industry chain is composed of private or micro enterprises, which are the main force in the development of China's hardware industry. China has gradually become a major hardware processing and exporting country in the world, and has become one of the major hardware production countries with broad market and consumption potential. There is a high demand for mid to high end molds in the domestic market. According to predictions, the overall trend of the mold market will remain stable and upward during the 12th Five Year Plan period. However, it is required that domestic molds must meet the needs of users in terms of quality, delivery time, and other aspects. Moreover, the home appliance, automotive, and plastic product industries have the greatest demand for molds. In the international market, in recent years, labor costs in industrialized countries have increased, and they are shifting towards developing countries, especially Southeast Asian countries. Its domestic production mainly focuses on high precision molds, and molds with high labor input rely on imports to solve the problem. The application of CNC technology in the casting machine tool industry has become the trend of the times. With the development of the times, casting production enterprises have made great progress in following the trend, and many enterprises have already prepared for the digitization of machine tools. Due to the limitations of the original production level, many casting enterprises have a large number of ordinary machine tools. If ordinary machine tools are dismantled and new CNC machine tools are purchased, it will cost a lot of operating funds, which brings new problems to the CNC transformation of machine tools in casting enterprises. Due to the fact that CNC has become an irreversible trend in modern large-scale machine production, it has caused a hurricane in the casting industry with its many advantages. The casting industry must undergo CNC transformation. The advantages of CNC transformation of casting machine tools are as follows: CNC transformation of casting machine tools can process complex castings such as curves and surfaces that cannot be processed by traditional machine tools. It can achieve automation in processing, and it is flexible automation, which can improve efficiency by 3-7 times compared to traditional machine tools. The processed castings have high precision and small size dispersion, making assembly easy and eliminating the need for workers to "repair". It can achieve the concentration of multiple processes and reduce the frequent handling of castings between machine tools. Equipped with various self-discipline functions such as automatic alarm, automatic monitoring, and automatic compensation, it can achieve long-term unmanned processing. Reduced the labor intensity of workers, saved labor (one person can manage multiple machine tools), reduced tooling, shortened the trial and production cycles of new products, and can respond quickly to market demand, etc. The application of CNC technology plays an important role in the casting machine tool industry, and traditional manufacturing has also undergone significant changes. The application of CNC technology has driven the trend of the times.