At present, at least 70% of China's hardware industry is a private enterprise, which is the main force for 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 producing countries in the world, with broad market and consumption potential.
The market demand for cutting tools is increasing all over the world. Among them, the growth of European and North American countries is stable, especially the Eastern European countries. The Asian market has rebounded slightly, with great market potential. The markets of Latin American countries have grown significantly, especially Mexico. For this reason, in the past year, the slow growth of tool market demand is mainly due to the increase of tool life. Moreover, users put forward requirements for the entire manufacturing process, replacing many machines and tools. As well as the application of multi-functional tools increased, many simple tools with single function were replaced.
In the future, users will pay more attention to the research and development of cutting tools by manufacturers, not only in the field of materials and surface coating technology, but also in the field of cutting tool products and production process, focusing on production practice will help tool manufacturers increase their market competitiveness in the areas they are familiar with.
In terms of technology updating, cemented carbide tools gradually replace high-speed steel tools, especially circular ones. The application of coated cutting tools is becoming more and more popular. In Europe, the market share of new cutting tools for high-speed machining is increasing. Developments in vendors. From the perspective of tool manufacturer cooperation, there will be many strong alliances in the high-tech market.
At present, there is a large demand for medium and high-grade moulds in the domestic market. According to the forecast, during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the overall trend of the moulds market is steadily upward, but domestic moulds are required to meet the needs of users in terms of quality and delivery time. Moreover, the industries of household appliances, automobiles and plastic products have the greatest demand for moulds. In the international market, in recent years, the labor costs of industrialized developed countries have increased, and they are transferring to developing countries, especially to Southeast Asian countries. It mainly produces high and precise moulds in China, and the moulds with large labor input rely on imports to solve the problem.
Therefore, the international market potential of medium and low-grade moulds is huge. As long as the quality of domestic mould can be improved and delivery time can be guaranteed, the prospect of export of mould is very optimistic. In addition, there is a great demand for standard parts of mould in the international market. At present, China has only a small amount of exports.
In the new wave of world economic integration, accelerating the transfer of global manufacturing industry to the mainland of China is the general trend, and China will gradually develop into a world-class manufacturing base. Guangdong, with obvious advantages, especially in the Pearl River Delta region, will become the world mould production center within ten years. At the same time, in recent years, nearly US$1 billion has been used to import molds annually in China, of which precision, large, complex and long-life molds account for the majority. Therefore, from the point of view of reducing imports, the proportion of such high-grade molds and hardware tools in the market will gradually increase. In the future, China's die and metal tools industry will also rank among the top in the world.